BedrockLP
Team Captain
- Jul 10, 2009
- 329
- 333
- AFL Club
- Richmond
- Other Teams
- Liverpool, Yankees, Jazz, Dolphins
Anyone catch Dimma on the Coaches box on SEN last night? Made an interesting point about list management being the domain of Blair and Dan. Also made good point that the contested possession differential was -33 and any game plan goes out the window when you get smashed getting hands to the ball.
Final lost because we had only one player on the day, Miles, able to get consistent hard balls and choices/execution of players not up to par at key moments. Grigg's poor 15m kick to Dusty, Chaplin taking on Nahas, missed goal when ball should have gone over top, Deledio stopping in centre square with options streaming fwd....etc etc. On top of all that, with more than half of our best players playing terribly, and we should have been having a shot for goal to go in front late in the game anyway.
Putting Rance in the centre of the ground is a coaching mistake, Lennon in hindsight should have played and again mistake. These can be put on Dimma and team. But the reason we lost was because Cotch, Ellis, Deledio, Edwards, Chaplin, Grigg all had poor days, maybe worst games all year, against a legitimately good team that have recruited for short term success. Any one or two of those players have an even average game by their standards and we probably are playing in a prelim.
Its too easy to just blame Dimma and not the players, but it wasn't Dimma on the ground watching the opposition want the ball more or poorly executing at key times.
Final lost because we had only one player on the day, Miles, able to get consistent hard balls and choices/execution of players not up to par at key moments. Grigg's poor 15m kick to Dusty, Chaplin taking on Nahas, missed goal when ball should have gone over top, Deledio stopping in centre square with options streaming fwd....etc etc. On top of all that, with more than half of our best players playing terribly, and we should have been having a shot for goal to go in front late in the game anyway.
Putting Rance in the centre of the ground is a coaching mistake, Lennon in hindsight should have played and again mistake. These can be put on Dimma and team. But the reason we lost was because Cotch, Ellis, Deledio, Edwards, Chaplin, Grigg all had poor days, maybe worst games all year, against a legitimately good team that have recruited for short term success. Any one or two of those players have an even average game by their standards and we probably are playing in a prelim.
Its too easy to just blame Dimma and not the players, but it wasn't Dimma on the ground watching the opposition want the ball more or poorly executing at key times.