If Worsfold and the same coaching panel are still here at the beginning of next season, we have wasted the list. Strong decisions must be made in the second half of this year.
I think we are going to get done by Fremantle & Richmond, and I can make a case for us losing to Carlton. If we go into the bye at 3-8 or 4-7, he needs to be sacked.
Spend the rest of the season talking to the likes of Caracella, Solomon, Goddard and Roughead to come and join our new coaching panel for next season. And just play as many of the kids as you can, to see who we should persevere with.
Jackson had some poor qualities but when he first came into the role he was ruthless and worked to ensure we were setup to win. Unfortunately as time evolved his focus became far too off-field centric.
Or get a proper panel together to work out what the club needs in a coach and who they see as likely to fill that particular set of criteria. Rather than just picking someone. It might just be someone else might be better for the club.
What a silly question… of course we like to be liked, I agree with Lloydy and most of all the AFL to like us again. It ain’t 'gonna happen in our life time.
Its always been a workrate & midfield issue. We still have a midfield that regularly gets outclassed & outspread. How often do we see opposition mids cruising towards 50 with time to put a pass on their forwards tit - now how often do we see our mids with the same time & space let alone the finishing skills to then hit a lead. The trade off is that we so often see all our forwards dragged out of the 50 up the ground to try to win back possession & when we do get it back its only the smaller guys with leg speed that are able to get back to provide an option. Again the flipside is that a lot of teams simply play a lose defender against us to rebound those “fastbreak” scenarios. This is when you get Alwyn/Green/Tippa in a marking contest they have next to zero chance of winning.
What Clarkson did to Roughy would never happen at EFC…tough love. It did once, when this club was relevant. Sheedy sent Madden and T Daniher to the Reserves. A year later, the Baby Bombers won the flag