Nachie Neale won't be improving any teams efficiency. One of the few Freo players to be overrated outside of the club. We made out like bandits in that deal IMO.
The feeling when a comrade betrays you when all he had to do was search my post history about Fremantle
That counts if I'm insulting my own team? I mean they don't even have accounts on bigfooty...
Apologies comrade, I see you have some correct opinions on the Purps.The feeling when a comrade betrays you when all he had to do was search my post history about Fremantle
As if Marc Murphy doesn't have an account to name search on here...
“C” “U” “C” “K” are four simple letters.
And that's not including my faint praise of Fyfe:
Back on topic though, Peterson epitomises the Carlton Football Club. His outdated, anachronistic beliefs sit well with Carlton's approach to the modern game.
That would be true if we were still under the Malthouse Reign of Terror, or as I refer to it, the recession we had to have. He, like Peterson is to the left, is the best thing that could happen for our club. Made us sit up and realise we weren't going to get anywhere going down the same path we had been trying.
I do wonder about that. He managed to make 3 clubs very successful (Footscray in a relative sense) and failed with one club. Is it the coach or the club?
On a serious note, it was the club management that ruined it and Malthouse's appointment was a symptom rather than the disease.
A pretty good comparison although more that they're both fraudulently rosy about the world around them. It's mildly amusing that we can see something similar about them from different perspectives.
If they're extremely lucky they can be around the game just long enough for their ideas to be relevant again but you're right, few coaches have multiple "ideas" of how to play and know how to coach it.
The lost potential of Anthony Morabito keeps me awake at night.
Surely it's a function of the way the AFL operates with salary caps and the draft.
2013 still stings more than 2015. At least 2015 was over halfway through the first quarter.
The salary cap incentives innovation in coaching more than other sports?
It is to a point. Someone like Alex Ferguson was lauded as a manager, but the reality is Manchester United was the biggest club and every decent player wanted to play for a club that would increase their prestige. Ferguson ran out of steam 10 years before he retired, but no one noticed because they kept winning.
Yeah, I'll concede that.
I'll take this at face value because I don't follow soccer at all.
I suppose the numbers of players per team can make it harder on one hand for coaches, and easier on the other. If you have a team full of duds, it will take far longer to replenish your list than say NBA. However, if your team is solid, the loss of a single player should impact less.
Agree with everything in this post apart from a small thing with Ferguson in that tactically he was cooked and being left behind in big European games, his teams were trading on past glories generally but he had one final trick/idea up his sleeve to win his final title with what now looked like an exceptionally poor squad and that was to squeeze an extra 10% out of the squad using set pieces - corners mostly - that weren't a big focus of coaching at the time. Not sure if there's anything applicable to AFL in that, it's just something the soccer analytics people use as an example of as finding "an edge."
Nah, probably the opposite. I'm just working on something that means I have time to post at the moment.
