Pretty sure that’s what Brad Scott coaching is and look at how well that is going.
Too soon
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The reason I bring this up.
2 weeks ago I was listening to a fan podcast for a Premier League club, and they were interviewing an assistant coach.
One of the fans was talking about a player and described a performance as ‘excellent’. The assistant coach made a very big point of pulling them up.
He said “No, that players wasn’t excellent. That player was ‘good’. Describing the performance as excellent implies that they had an excellent game and have nothing to improve upon, and that is far from the truth”.
The coach went on to talk about how people need to be mindful of how they perceive performances, because the players drink their own bath water when things are going well.
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I’m old enough to have enjoyed 4 premierships in 17 years between 1984 and 2000. Many if not most have seen nothing in the last 25 years but middle of the road automatic elimination from finals, while other sides win flags, fall, then get up again. We’ve been mediocre and occasionally OK, We have 4 or 5 good players, a couple of generational prospects and not much else. I see no direction. We’re further from success than both imaginary clubs GWS and Gold Coast. Zac M is a champion, but no torch carrier. We are rudderless. Tassie team will salute before we do. We kid ourselves we’re powerhouse.
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id say its worse than it seems, our % indicates we should be 5th last, the fact the clubs saying were rebuilding and not bottoming out is concerning. clubs been run by snake oil sales people.
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Ha, well yeah the ladder position is worse than it seems, agree on that.
Not just players, administrators and directors can certainly also be guilty of it.
A few wins and some people don’t want to hear anything critical, a few losses and they’re all ears to the exact same info. In my experience anyway.
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The way Stringer was treated as a marquee player by the club sums this up the most. He’d rock up unfit every year and kick goals against crap teams. Yet Essendon would almost celebrate it.
I don’t mean this to pot Tsatas, but even the way our media team posts a video his “VFL highlights”, yet half the clips are of him missing targets
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Maybe it’s wishful thinking, but I’m hoping is that Brad’s decisions—like picking Setterfield over Tsatas and playing Jones on the wing—reflect a shift away from valuing empty stats.
For too long, players like Stringer and Parish were judged on numbers: 42 goals or 35 disposals, even if they didn’t defend or use the ball well. Trading Stringer despite his goal tally and sidelining Tsatas might suggest Brad’s trying to change that culture in the club
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don’t follow your logic sorry
Prioritising defensive running over disposal stats
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Yeah tend to agree.
Just off topic regarding Jones on the Wing. I just assumed that Scott really likes the height of Cox on the wing. Because he’s been unavailable, he’s just forced Jones to fill the role.
That’s just my opinion.
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I think I heard King mention a few clubs are playing a forward-wing role these days to exploit matchups. Dempsey plays it for Geelong, and Weddle for Hawks.
I imagine we’re trying a similar thing with Jones
I’m surprised there isn’t an obvious Breach of Contract clause in players contracts. You don’t perform, then there is an onus on the player to ‘please explain’. Save for injuries, the player needs to justify their employment. If it was the case, half these blokes would be long gone.
A lot of players, staff, money, have changed since then. Have not seen any positives or improvement. Could have saved a small fortune with memberships since 2000
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Seven?
It’s at least 15. That is why Essendon got Dank and the Weapon to bulk the players up like they had done at Geelong etc. We all know what happened after that.
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Well it works because whoever plays on Jones gets themselves a matchup to exploit.
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“I don’t think we can come up with any excuses for tonight, it just wasn’t good enough.
“I know we are going to bounce back next week, as that’s not what we stand for.”
It’s only MAY.
LMFAO.
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i’d have more respect if they finally admitted it is what they stand for
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Remember last year when Mitchell came out and baked his players publicly - “I thought we were past this”
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