Not into specifics, except to say that if Brad wasn’t the coach he probably wouldn’t have taken the job…for context he said Brad was a big reason he took the job and if Brad wasn’t there he would only have taken the job if he could have picked the coach ( I assume he meant be involved in selecting the coach)
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He would be perfect. The single handed transformation of my local club North Launceston is astounding……since he took over as North coach in 2012, they have played in every GF except 1 and won 5
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It certainly does matter that the vast majority of them have absolutely no accountability.
Exactly!
I let my 7 year old control my tips on AFL.com and when he went to put in his tips for the finals. When he couldn’t he asked me if everyone got logged out, or is it just because he barracks for Essendon and we aren’t allowed to play finals.
At least his expectations are managed from an early stage.
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I will let Rustydon answer it, however given Craig indicated Culture and leadership were the two biggest focus areas, I’d say this is why he rates Scott. Scott undoubtably has appears as well placed as anyone to rectify these two areas of the club…
I think he is our best chance in a while and the team of him and Vozzo is a good mix
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Culture, maybe. Leadership? I don’t think so. Based on what he said over and over again at pressers and interviews, he was deluding himself for the whole of the second half of the year. He spoke as if we were playing just the same as we had in the first half, and the losses were blamed on the other teams being really good, or bad luck, or (occasionally) poor goalkicking, when Blind Freddy could see that we had lost our intensity, our pressure, our speed, our willingness to take on the game, that we had too many players in the team who stopped ball movement rather than created it. Selection of the same old players, young players left in the twos – culminating in the selection of Weideman, who’d been proved inadequate more times than you could count.
I don’t think he has a vision of what sort of team he can create, and if you don’t know where to go, you can’t lead people there.
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Bring in Darren Burgess!
Its actually quite interesting hearing all these different views on how Brad Scott coached this year, playing senior listed players over youth etc.
Making comments about the eveness of the competition etc.
Maybe it was part of the plan all along while dodo was still there. (Waiting for it to go south to prove a point)
Reading what rustydon has posted in regards to what craig vozzo has said tells me that Dodo has been in the cross heirs for a while.
Maybe just maybe the plan was to play all the senior players that dodo has recruited to prove the point that they dont have what it takes, the list builld is uneven and that the eventual end of year fade out which happens every year would be the nail in Dodo’s coffin.
Due to the fact that the players he has brought in dont have what it takes.
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I find this plausible, but I really want it to be true
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I really think that’s quite fanciful. Nobody selects players to show they’re no good.
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I’m on the record here (I think) that I wasn’t a fan of hiring B Scott.
But I’m also of the view that he and his team get carte blanche to turn this thing around. I couldn’t care less if they draw lines through any player on the list, or reset, or go backwards if there is a clear plan in place.
Until Scott, vozzo or whomever prove to be inept, I’m going to assume that they are better than the “Essendon institution folk” who have demonstrated they know SFA about running a football program
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I think Scott was sucked in by our easy pre-bye draw and deceptive ladder position and took the conservative route of only playing tried and tested players. Hopefully he’s learnt that doesn’t work at Essendon.
If he took that position, why didnt it work in year 1.
I think Dodo was earmarked for removal way before people think but it was more about getting the required people in place to do so.
Which would mean playing the senior that he had relationships with at the detriment to the club advancement.
Im not saying i know that has happened, what i am saying is it would not suprise me in the least.
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BS has mnore than proved himself inept.
Send him back to the AFL where he will be in excellent company.
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Well, if we send him back to the AFL, we are pretty much turfing Vozzo as well.
As Brad Scott is the reason he took the job.
This means nothing will ever change, and we might as well get Xavier, Brasher, and Dodoro back as well, and Royally shaft the club some more.
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So senior leadership are hitching their wagon to an unproven, never successful coach?
If that’s Vozzo’s level of judgement then he won’t be missed.
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it’s easy, because the club still don’t have a major emphasis on defending and defensive actions.
Half our players can’t tackle properly, the other half don’t do it enough. team defence is half the players jogging to mark a piece of grass while the ball gets pinged down through them running back to mark said grass. defenders are rarely near their opponents, they are either 15 meters behind or 15 meters in front trying to get a cheapie on the attack, and way to many players ball watch, and simply follow the ball.
There is no sustained or continued hunger to hunt the opposition and do all the defensive stuff. again look at this year it’s oh we aren’t kicking enough goals, whilst true, when you can’t defend for the whole game and restrict opposition having easy shots at goal, it’s kinda poinitless how many chances you creat to kick goals, because it ends up being so easy for the opposition to score anyway.