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This is not a new thing - it's happened repeatedly - will Shaw react? - will he make a statement that Bard couldn't and drop one of these blokes?
The problem is who will you replace them with?
Our major problem is Plan Aitis, when it doesn't work then it is pretty much not going to work for the entire game and the better teams are better at changing things up and turning games before they get too far out of hand.
That being said, teams have s**t games, our s**t games on the road to Perth and Adelaide are far too common though.
I think the new coach, whomever it may be, needs to address the consistency of effort and pressure. Teams will always have bad games, the difference between good and bad teams is the frequency and severity of the drop between the good and bad footy. Under Brad our bad games were too common and the variance too wide.
Some of our mids have very exploitable weaknesses, like the lack of speed and endurance. It is part of the reason we have such a s**t record against GC despite them being largely dog s**t for so long, too fast, too much run. This kind of weakness is hard to fix without changing personnel.