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Hey
Official Cats just wondering if you could answer a simple question: Has Simon Lloyd had or does he have significant input in to the GFC's new game plan, set ups, and tactics?
That's a very broad and not simple question Blighty!
What we can say is that all the coaches (senior, director of coaching, assistants) regularly meet among themselves and with the playing group around the areas you discussed. None of those areas fall to one coach in particular.
The important thing to note is that
all the coaches have input.
Despite the claims, nowhere in that reply or in the oft-cited Magic Bullet Interview is there any statement or implication that Lloyd has more input than anyone else.
In particular, there is absolutely b/all justification in that interview or anywhere else for the delusional claim that "Lloyd at the very least has pretty much driven the way we set up on the field".
Lloyd in "The Interview" makes it clear that his jobs are
- to set up off-field systems in conjunction with Scott and Hocking
- in his own words, to "coach the coaches"
- in the match-day box, assume Balme's old role of making sure that each individual coach sticks to his own area of responsibility and doesn't gob off about or interfere in the larger scheme of things.