JustaBattler
Everyone Looks Better In Blue
- May 31, 2012
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- Carlton
The team should have been 6:6 if not better - instead, it has struggled to beat teams like Hawthorn - with the only 'saving grace' being no blowout losses. True injuries have played their part - no reason why Teague can't get 7 wins out of the next 10 games.
Also, I am not a believer in assistant coaches making the head coach better - it should work the other way around eg if we are expecting some brains trust moments from a noobie in Stanton as midfield transition coach to enlighten Teague - there will be no improvement.
I put it at the start of the year that our between the arc weakness will be wing(s) - and it has been a consistent blight - all year. Teague has put blokes like Setterfield and Kennedy on a wing who can't run or blokes like Cottrell on a wing who can run and cant do anything else.
Meanwhile, blokes like SPS or Fisher who have some skill have been played as a defender or a small forward or in Lob's case two consecutive errors in one game have seen him dumped as some sort of scapegoat or Dow being played as a HFF - a bloke that can run is a horrible field kick and a natural on baller...Stocker had to 'force his way in to a back pocket position playing as a back pocket in VFL - when he was drafted as a gun on-baller who can kick of both sides and is a natural contested player - and his entree into the side has been to take on the games best small forwards week after week - leaving Saad and Williams to do what exactly? Meanwhile Docherty has been pushed forward to a wing - because his form as a defender and Captain was abysmal.
Teague's selection policies have been an absolute joke and he has compromised positional integrity to manufacture weird matchups and mismatches between skill and execution requirements that weren't required. A lot of favoritism/bias/nonsense on display week in week out to keep this impossible rational going week in week out- with same results.
I think Teague is on a massive learning curve - and supporters are going to have to ride the journey with him - because replacing Teague and Llyod and all the assistants is pretty much an unpalatable indictment on LaGoduce and Liddle - the architects of the current state of affairs.
This week (at least) he has improved team selection by including a genuine defender in Parks in, suggesting that Walsh goes back to a wing, and including Kennedy in the forward on ball rotations - whilst also suggesting Dow gets a go at playing on-ball - where he was drafted to play.
Inexplicable treatment of SPS a natural attacking mid/forward or Lob a natural wingman - being ignored.
I'm hopeful but not confident - hopeful Teague can get the side playing with some sort of joy and sustainable vigour instead of a collection of individuals - which will be good enough to win quite a few games - if he cant do that - he has written his own story. Hopefully the Club is considering Plan B.
Also, I am not a believer in assistant coaches making the head coach better - it should work the other way around eg if we are expecting some brains trust moments from a noobie in Stanton as midfield transition coach to enlighten Teague - there will be no improvement.
I put it at the start of the year that our between the arc weakness will be wing(s) - and it has been a consistent blight - all year. Teague has put blokes like Setterfield and Kennedy on a wing who can't run or blokes like Cottrell on a wing who can run and cant do anything else.
Meanwhile, blokes like SPS or Fisher who have some skill have been played as a defender or a small forward or in Lob's case two consecutive errors in one game have seen him dumped as some sort of scapegoat or Dow being played as a HFF - a bloke that can run is a horrible field kick and a natural on baller...Stocker had to 'force his way in to a back pocket position playing as a back pocket in VFL - when he was drafted as a gun on-baller who can kick of both sides and is a natural contested player - and his entree into the side has been to take on the games best small forwards week after week - leaving Saad and Williams to do what exactly? Meanwhile Docherty has been pushed forward to a wing - because his form as a defender and Captain was abysmal.
Teague's selection policies have been an absolute joke and he has compromised positional integrity to manufacture weird matchups and mismatches between skill and execution requirements that weren't required. A lot of favoritism/bias/nonsense on display week in week out to keep this impossible rational going week in week out- with same results.
I think Teague is on a massive learning curve - and supporters are going to have to ride the journey with him - because replacing Teague and Llyod and all the assistants is pretty much an unpalatable indictment on LaGoduce and Liddle - the architects of the current state of affairs.
This week (at least) he has improved team selection by including a genuine defender in Parks in, suggesting that Walsh goes back to a wing, and including Kennedy in the forward on ball rotations - whilst also suggesting Dow gets a go at playing on-ball - where he was drafted to play.
Inexplicable treatment of SPS a natural attacking mid/forward or Lob a natural wingman - being ignored.
I'm hopeful but not confident - hopeful Teague can get the side playing with some sort of joy and sustainable vigour instead of a collection of individuals - which will be good enough to win quite a few games - if he cant do that - he has written his own story. Hopefully the Club is considering Plan B.
