The main thing I've been saying all along is that Scott hasn't adapted to the new trends and tactics of footy since 2011. He is just trying to give us exactly the same structure as we had then - he's obsessed with a tall forward line when all the top teams have mid/small forward lines that are dynamic fast and put huge amounts of forward line pressure on. He's also obsessed with a slow tall back line when again all the top teams have fast athletic rebounding defences and he hasn't got us a single decent ruckman in 3 years. Our performance against StKilda was absolutely dismal especially considering they had Armitage and Dempster out, it was just another case of Scott being outcoached which is becoming too regular an occurrence in big important games. It doesn't matter who we get in the trade period we'll never get close to having the ultimate success again until we wake up to ourselves as a club and get a new direction and new coach.
Mate there are a number of things that are just wrong with this post.
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."Scott hasn't adapted to the new trends and tactics of footy since 2011" The 2 big differences between 2011 and 2015 are that in 2015 more scores come from turnovers than clearances and sides are trying to keep possession of the ball via short kicking .With regards to scoring from turnovers Scott not only has adapted to this but he was the architect of this and lead the way . With the short kicking its something we don't do well , were very much a side that either runs and carries the ball or we bomb it long , however I don't believe this is the game plan I think its more a case of our players not being capable of effectively pulling of short passes often enough.
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."he's obsessed with a tall forward line when all the top teams have mid/small forward lines" - 100% false , with the exception of 1 game this year we have only played 2 tall forwards which is what almost every other side does. Hawthorn often play 3 tall forwards .
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He's also obsessed with a slow tall back line when again all the top teams have fast athletic rebounding defences" our defence is no taller than Hawthorns , they play 3 tall defenders almost every week .We do have a slow defence but that's not by choice , we just don't have 6 good fast defenders on our list.
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."he hasn't got us a single decent ruckman in 3 years" I suggest you point your figure at wells with regards to this one , why cant he find a good ruckman in the draft ? the only way we can get a good ruckman via a trade is to give up our 1st round pick and another good player , the club hasn't been willing to do this and instead have taken risks with our 2nd round pick on injury prone players.
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it was just another case of Scott being outcoached" seems that every time we lose its because Scott was outcoached , does this apply to other coaches as well ? surely when other coaches lose its because they are being outcoached as well .Given that Scott has the best win/loss record of any coach in the AFL than he must of been outcoached less often than any other coach right ???
The simple fact is that we are a side on the rebuild/transition who doesn't have enough good players in the midfield .As soon as we lose one of our better midfielders we are in massive trouble .If Geelong doesn't have Caddy and Duncan playing than we are in trouble no matter who is coaching us.