I don’t know whether Bev can change but he damn well needs to and fast.
The selections are pigheaded - in the side and the positions on the ground.
And whether it’s the selections or something else, I don’t know, but the spirit and desire to win is also not there.
We lack both height, speed and aggression and we refuse to play the players who could at least help alleviate the glaring problem with height.
God we are soft
Aside from liberatore the team has no Aggression.
Also one of Campbell or Roughy has to be retained. At this rate English is going be cooked in a few weeks. It makes me think that Bev is not coaching for the now -and never intended to - which is a dangerous threat to the culture of the group. And will destroy it.
Either that or Bev’s lost his mind.
We are not a happy team.
It’s not only a problem with the lack of talks or a spare Ruck.
Where we are playing certain players is bewildering.
Last year McLean was providing near A grade mid-field results and as his youngish there was every reason to expect he had another 10% improvement - placing him amongst the elite midfielders in the comp. We are now playing him in a forward pocket. Of our midfielders he is the cleanest, the least likely to cause a turnover - he may not have the risk reward of Liber and Bont but he is less error prone.
Now I mention this because during this season we have been killed from turnovers - absolutely destroyed. Pretty sure the hawks score was like 99% from our turnovers.
So why is our cleanest mid sitting in a forward pocket whilst Wallis Gowers, Dunkley and others fumble, kick poorly, panic and make silly decisions causing repeated turnovers and handing goals to the opposition in the hope McLean might get one back.
It’s past insane.
But Bev is not going to change
He might get them up emotionally for the Freo game but I doubt it
We were lucky against the swans and hawks - and make no mistake Bev didn’t out coach Bucks - Bucks just gave us too much respect and didn’t want to take any risks - which flattered us .