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Ballas has a pretty fair record in Melbourne the MCG final against Geelong to name one
Clarke had a shocker in the GF and leaving him on would have given the Hawks an extra runner in the last and would have caused us more problems
De Boers mental state
dont know what your'e talking about Coulda
Clarke had a shocker in the GF and leaving him on would have given the Hawks an extra runner in the last and would have caused us more problems
De Boers mental state
He's a nice guy but it was showing the strain in the Sydney game that he was struggling with the tempo \pressure.
I'm not blaming De boer ,Im looking at the Coaches and saying that he needed help and someone
IE :Sumich let us down IF he didn't talk to \ act on what was happening before the Grand Final or after the Sydney game , now I wasn't there and I assume somebody must have talked to him during the review of the game .
If there were any doubts then he should have been dropped or used as the sub .
Neales performance in the last quarter of the Sydney game showed his class and shone through line a beacon on the hill.
Ballas doesn't have a good record on the ROAD , have a look at his stats .
His performances at Subiaco are far better so again when it was going wrong for him Sumich as the forward coach should have read the signs that everyone else saw in the Grand Final could see and got in his ear and got him to settle .
If that meant sitting on the bench for 10 or 15 minutes and talking to him One on One then Suma or should have done it .
Clarke was struggling as well no argument .
With his role change to second ruck he was back to not knowing his role for the team IMHO so he just didn't fire , he will learn from that game .
Once again I'll repeat Pav in the last quarter was being double teamed and being the only tall in the forward line he needed help in the form of a big man to act as a block \buffer to create space for him to be able to take a mark and the only players available were Sandi and Clarke .
RTB had Sandi in the ruck and chose to sub Clarke for Neale to come on .
That decision meant that with Sandi doing the rucking Johnson, Mcpharlin or Dawson where the only players available to do that roll and we did nothing despite the fact that Lake was cutting out Pav and rebounding the ball back to hawthorns forward line .
De boer was struggling and so we needed to make a change sooner than later and Neale who was the sub should have come on and De boer should have gone off IMO .
In previous home and away game RBT subbed Suban when he wasn't playing well so as I say if you do it in a home and away game you can do it in Finals and just the week before he did it to De boer so why not again .
This is why I'm calling it a mistake by the coaching panel

