Executing a plan is not a binary outcome. There are degrees of how well the plan is implemented. It's 18 people on the ground trying to coordinate and combine in ways that have become more and more sophisticated year-to-year as each team tries to gain an advantage. I believe your looking at this...
That's a very simplistic answer you have put forward. There could be many reasons why players have trouble implementing the directions of the coach. In life we often talk about things which we have had no direct life experience with, and quite often it's not until we have then had firsthand...
Sure, the AFL wants to be profitable, and so it should be. However, it is abundantly clear that this is not the AFL's sole driving force.
I think it is plainly evident that the AFL has been a true custodian of the game. They have sunk hundreds of millions of unprofitable dollars into the new...
What are you talking about. Of course it will add to preparation. Both in terms of fitness, skills honing, practising fast ball movement under pressure, and lots of contests.
I'm surprised that so many people are anti-innovation. If we only ever stayed with Test Cricket, then cricket would...
I think you are in for some great disappointment. I have heard Dangerfield talk about it, and the players prefer a real game as a means of training rather than simulated game-play. Your views are at odds with the actual players themselves. Rethink it fella.
Geelong is universally recognised as an extremely well-run club. The people in charge are astute and have a track record of making good decisions. Only those persons who made these decisions had the full detail of information in front of them in order to arrive at the conclusions they reached. I...