Brendan McCartney - murmurings Getting louder
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Knowing something and implementing what you know can sometimes be miles apart.
Man-managing is not an easy task and you can't be the only one in the chain of what goes out to the players in order to get the best out of them.
Good coaches have the right people around them.
threenewpadlocks
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I'm not in the same vein as a lot of other Bulldogs supporters.
He might be a good bloke, but he's got zero tactical nous for a game (which may or nay not be attributed to his lack of playing at the highest level), whatever culture or game style he's implementing, it's way too slow, two clubs with first-year coaches in GWS and Brisbane have moved past us, and I would put money on us finishing bottom two.
This is before you get into the players quitting the club like Tutt and Jones which who may not be superstars but the fact that people are walking out due to differences with the coach - whether it be the captain or the waterboy - isn't a good sign for the coach.
Poor start to the year and I reckon we won't be discussing it any more.
He might be a good bloke, but he's got zero tactical nous for a game (which may or nay not be attributed to his lack of playing at the highest level), whatever culture or game style he's implementing, it's way too slow, two clubs with first-year coaches in GWS and Brisbane have moved past us, and I would put money on us finishing bottom two.
This is before you get into the players quitting the club like Tutt and Jones which who may not be superstars but the fact that people are walking out due to differences with the coach - whether it be the captain or the waterboy - isn't a good sign for the coach.
Poor start to the year and I reckon we won't be discussing it any more.
Might as well throw it away then.
threenewpadlocks
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Good list management and drafting, taking players like Bonts, Hrovat, Stringer, Macrae, Honeychurch in the last couple of years, and then Wallis, Talia, Liber, Dahl, JJ with good value-for-money picks in the years before it might paper over the cracks of a bad coach, and improvement from them might win a few games off their own boot next year just with raw footballing ability in spite of a poor coach.
But tactically speaking, and in aspects like team selection, I doubt there's a worse coach. Look no further than the very last game we played, lost to GWS with 20 players in their injury list, at a stadium at to that point that they had not won a game at yet, because we were so comprehensively, tactically outcoached. We had +15 inside 50's from that game from memory, yet the way that our forward line and delivery was structured and done - tactical aspects of the game, not the ability of the players, I'm talking about the aspects of the game the coach can control - was so, so much worse than a bloody first year coach in Leon Cameron.
threenewpadlocks
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Let me see
- No support for Minson carrying an injury
- No tall players in our lineup
- Playing Stringer and Crameri to be taller than they actually are
- Early part of the season, before Austin came in, we were well short in Key Defenders to the point that Tom Young was getting games as a key tall. Case in point was round 1 when West Coast played 2 key forward, 2 ruckman and a ruck/forward and we had all 190cm of Dale Morris as the second tall defender
- Playing players out of position, like Wallis on the wing last year, when he's not a wingman
- Players like Mark Austin getting 11 games
- Irrespective of their "development" in the VFL, at the end of the day Talia and Roberts did not play enough games
- Dropping players like Tutt and Roberts when they played well in the AFL, but not dropping players like Cooney
You guys don't have a dominant power forward to kick down the line to.
It's really been the problem from 2006/7 when r murph had to play chf....
Compromised drafts have killed the dogs. This year good chance you guys will get a good one though.
If not, trust the dogs to make a play for Boyd
It's really been the problem from 2006/7 when r murph had to play chf....
Compromised drafts have killed the dogs. This year good chance you guys will get a good one though.
If not, trust the dogs to make a play for Boyd
Collingwood 4 eternity
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Tony Sheahan was on the money with Buddy going to Sydney
Will he be right about Mc Cartney being sacked ?
Will he be right about Mc Cartney being sacked ?
TheHoneyBadger
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They'll be moved on, regardless.
That's what makes this McCartney resignation so disappointing. He needed to see this through, for the good of the club.
We need a coach who unites the players. Unfortunately Brendan divided them, and his postion had become untenable.
He is great at developing young players, but not so good at pampering the fragile psyches of veterans who see the young bucks as threatening their jobs.
He is great at developing young players, but not so good at pampering the fragile psyches of veterans who see the young bucks as threatening their jobs.
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They haven't done this for about 25 years. In a decade, Macrae and Bont will be the ones making the calls and holding the gun. It's a bizarre culture and one obviously curated by example. It's pretty rotten and it cannot exist, and if someone like Aker calls it out, you know there's fundamental flaws; questions that must be asked.
There has to be a top to toe clean out at the Bullies. Same with Richmond, same with Carlton. Freo still have one or two lingering turds in the toilet who just wouldn't flush, and they're the ones that'll annoy you
