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Of course he keeps his job, can't believe this is even being discussed.
Can Chris Scott keep his job beyond 2018
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I may have done this earlier in the thread. It’s been going so long I really don’t know.
In the months before season 2011, there were two AFL powers, and a couple of quasi-power sides behind them.
Collingwood and St Kilda were in the former group, Geelong and to a lesser extent Hawthorn in the latter.
Geelong lost their coach. They lost only their best player, they lost the league’s best player.
Soon enough they’d lose two dual (one triple actually but one flag was almost unfairly earned) flag players who simply were not good enough. One of the two powers had basically an identical age profile but didn’t lose their best player. The other had a much younger age profile and were coming off a flag. They were peaking so well that they did not drop a single game to 15 other sides in 2011. Somehow they dropped 3 to Geelong, though.
St Kilda disappeared despite having no real excuse.
We didn’t. We hammered Collingwood the week before the finals, then ultimately hammered them again in the second half of the grand final.
Within the next 12 months, we would lose a handful of other champions. Collingwood would annoint a new coach to look after their much younger squad.
7 seasons on, and that same Pies coach is being lauded for making a finals series.
The same Cats coach has missed one.
And HE is the one under the pump.
In the months before season 2011, there were two AFL powers, and a couple of quasi-power sides behind them.
Collingwood and St Kilda were in the former group, Geelong and to a lesser extent Hawthorn in the latter.
Geelong lost their coach. They lost only their best player, they lost the league’s best player.
Soon enough they’d lose two dual (one triple actually but one flag was almost unfairly earned) flag players who simply were not good enough. One of the two powers had basically an identical age profile but didn’t lose their best player. The other had a much younger age profile and were coming off a flag. They were peaking so well that they did not drop a single game to 15 other sides in 2011. Somehow they dropped 3 to Geelong, though.
St Kilda disappeared despite having no real excuse.
We didn’t. We hammered Collingwood the week before the finals, then ultimately hammered them again in the second half of the grand final.
Within the next 12 months, we would lose a handful of other champions. Collingwood would annoint a new coach to look after their much younger squad.
7 seasons on, and that same Pies coach is being lauded for making a finals series.
The same Cats coach has missed one.
And HE is the one under the pump.
Yep the coach definitely has nothing to do with scoring zero goals in finals first quarters, year after year. Nothing a coach could do there. Nope. Zip.. nada.
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Yeah, we think alot about that game 5 years ago, oh wait, no we don’t.......
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A wonderful contract extension by Geelong. I didn’t think it was for long enough. Would of liked to see Scott get extended to 2025.
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A 4 year extention gives Scott a chance to keep rebuilding this list with 30 year old players
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Has anyone used the "mission accomplished" meme yet?
He’s proven he can coach
After a first round finals exit there is always that stare at the coach mentality
But really they are a good side just not a great one anymore
They usually recruit well .....need some midfield pace and despite having Selwoods and danger they need contested ball winners
They have been up for a long time .,.since 2007 .....geez people give them credit
After a first round finals exit there is always that stare at the coach mentality
But really they are a good side just not a great one anymore
They usually recruit well .....need some midfield pace and despite having Selwoods and danger they need contested ball winners
They have been up for a long time .,.since 2007 .....geez people give them credit
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Let's hit the f*ken road!
He parks the bus and tries to score on the counter. It's a bit of an antiquated gamestyle and doesn't work if you have a lot of plodders.
that would be the same for almost all 18 clubs so either you are trolling or you don't understand that winning more than 50% of your away matches is bloody difficulty.
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Cats have recently joined St Kilda and Port as the clubs who are most kidding themselves.
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He has an excellent record of maintaining a good team and winning. But it hasn't translated into a flag since 2011.
This is the Chris Scott modus operandi - top up with senior established AFL players every year (doing it yet again with Dahlhaus) to remain 'competitive' thus guaranteeing him a long term job without ever looking like being a contender. Rely on banking 7 wins a season due to the radically different long/skinny ground configurations of Kardinia Park (not to mention the extraordinary $100m generosity of the Australian taxpayer simply for being based in a marginal electorate) so he only needs to snag 4-6 wins elsewhere to make top 8 every year. Rinse and repeat. He just got a 4 year contract extension too, so job done on that score.
He's won 3 and lost 9 finals since 2012 (would have been 2 and 10 if Isaac Smith didn't fluff his lines after the siren in 2016). The last 3 teams to be goalless at qtr time in a final have all been Chris Scott coached Geelong teams.
They made prelims the last 2 years and doubled down on getting Gary Ablett Jnr this year (after having Dangerfield handed to them on a platter and also bringing in Henderson, Zac Smith, Tuohy in the last couple of years). And yet they finish a miserable 8th with 13 wins and 10 losses, with minimal injuries to their stars. They have many high profile media friends who never ask the tough questions, not to mention a number of powerful allies at City Hall (no other team has 2 representatives in the competition committee, not including Steve Hocking and Gerard 2.4 Whateley).
He is the biggest fraud since Keyser Soze.
He's won 3 and lost 9 finals since 2012 (would have been 2 and 10 if Isaac Smith didn't fluff his lines after the siren in 2016). The last 3 teams to be goalless at qtr time in a final have all been Chris Scott coached Geelong teams.
They made prelims the last 2 years and doubled down on getting Gary Ablett Jnr this year (after having Dangerfield handed to them on a platter and also bringing in Henderson, Zac Smith, Tuohy in the last couple of years). And yet they finish a miserable 8th with 13 wins and 10 losses, with minimal injuries to their stars. They have many high profile media friends who never ask the tough questions, not to mention a number of powerful allies at City Hall (no other team has 2 representatives in the competition committee, not including Steve Hocking and Gerard 2.4 Whateley).
He is the biggest fraud since Keyser Soze.
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Chris Scott isn’t the issue. There’s a guy down there who surfs in a suit who gets paid about a million bucks a year who had a 52% disposal efficiency return last night and who won’t run both ways. Not to mention the great chasm between the top 4-5 players and the rest of that list.
I don’t buy Scott being the issue, I’d be looking at 6-8 players who just didn’t respond when Melbourne hit them between the eyes last night. There is a lot of soft players wearing the Cats jumper and one of them isn’t Selwood.
Massive massive mental issues.
I don’t buy Scott being the issue, I’d be looking at 6-8 players who just didn’t respond when Melbourne hit them between the eyes last night. There is a lot of soft players wearing the Cats jumper and one of them isn’t Selwood.
Massive massive mental issues.
The 6-8 players you alluded to (and Danger) are by-products of the coaching group. They enable the behaviour you talk about as it has been consistently on display for a number of years, and these players continue to be rewarded with selection. They bring in Ablett, who has never been a defensively-oriented player, into a team already highly suspect in that area.
Scott has that unmistakable level of arrogance and hubris that leads him to think he is above everyone else cerebrally, and that he is beyond questioning. He is a massive part of their problems - not the only problem by any stretch but a very big part.
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Lol that premiditated “Melbourne were better than us... just wanted to say that in case I didn’t get a chance to later” speech was the most fabricated, fake, phoney, embarrassing press conference by a coach since Chris Scott, around 20.
You'll need to explain that one.
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On the other side of the coin is that we have taken 2 top 20 picks since 2004. We have a strong best 5 or so, but the list is missing a CHF, two decent small forwards, and a ruckman. Consider the number of late picks and rookies on the field. Some of our best players last night were Sam Menegola, Jack Henry, Tom Stewart and they were all players that no other side wanted. Our ruckman was a 4th gamer we picked up from local footy in geelong. The problem the cats have is that the list has been outperforming for a while now and cats fans have huge expectations on a list that had a few stars but it's best described as a patchwork quilt. I think a good comparison is Carlton where they probably have a similar number of elite players and a similar number of "non-elite" players. I'm not happy with the outcome this year, but blanking the senior coach for the cumulative effect of a decade of equalization measures is premature
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It is a failure when both club and player are on record for stating the motivation for the move was to win a premiership
Name a single player in history to say they're not motivated to win a premiership. Consider what else he could say to the media when asked
4 more years. Enjoy
