This is one of my main gripes right now. Like yes, it's an interrupted season. But every other team's going through the same s**t. Yes, we have injuries, but that doesn't mean we're putting a VFL team on the park every week like Adelaide are. There's a bit of talent in this team. More talent than Freo, Hawthorn and Sydney I would argue. But there's no gameplan, no conviction from the players about where they're gonna move the ball, no genuine intent in terms of actual ball movement. It's just bomb it long to the bloke with 4 defenders on him, turn it over and defend. We're getting there at the contest, but there's no one outside the contest, and then we get killed on the spread. The only good periods we've had this year have been when opposition pressure has completely dropped off. 2nd half against the Saints, last week, last bit of the 4th quarter against the Hawks. You can't be an AFL side and be so utterly s**t at dealing with pressure. It's gonna come. Find a gameplan to work around it, try something new, just do something different, for Christ's sake.Shaw is completely out of his depth.
Structure and gameplan are completely f’ed.
I honestly thought Shaw was the man for the job after seeing us at the back end of last season. Even the shitshow at the Cattery I dismissed as an off night from a coach and a team going in the right direction. But I'm really second guessing that call now.