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I said Scott was the architect of an increase in scores from turnovers and a decrease in scores from clearances during 2011 and 2015.
With regards to scoring from turnovers Scott not only has adapted to this but he was the architect of this and lead the way .
My argument about Scott tactically is that he hasn't adapted since 2011, and while we aren't using the same gameplan exactly as we did in 2011 we are basically combining the gameplan we had then with Collingwood's/Malthouse's hard forward press, both of which are archaic tactics from 4 years ago now. Meanwhile teams like Richmond have developed a kicking based zone that moves in unison down the ground much like in Soccer, based on the Hawks game-plan somewhat, the Eagles have also adapted and tinkered with The Hawks zones and tactics to improve markedly with their whole defence basically torn to shreds, and meanwhile Scott and co. down at the Cattery are desperately falling behind tactically because we don't have anybody with any semblance of the IP of Hawthorn down at our club. Now you were right to say we couldn't play Hawthorns game plan but either could West Coast or Richmond they're simply adapting it to suit their team, as are the Bulldogs under Beveridge. There's no doubt that The Bulldogs and West Coast are more advanced on the ladder than they should be due to talent alone, it's because of their respective coaches tactical nous and we simply don't have that down at Geelong. You mentioned some rubbish about me being confused why we're not top 4? I've never said anywhere I expected us to be top 4 or even top 8 really, I think I predicted us to finish 11 and 11 at seasons end. I'm more frustrated about our complete lack of a cohesive game plan or direction and our players intensity levels which rise and fall by the week , for example when the Bullies lose you can see what they're trying to do but when we play it's a different bloody mélange of those two 2011 game plans every week, we either attempt to institute a hard forward press (circa Collingwood 2011) for most of the game or we play a sitting back stoppage based defensive/counter attacking game plan modelled on our 2011 one. Time for some actual structure and clarity around how we're trying to play.
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