I heard Simpson said that he is going to interrogate the players about the last quarter fade outs to find out whether it's fitness or attitude etc.
What a joke. Is this guy taking the piss? Does he have such a shocking lack of self awareness that he cannot see that his comments are a damning indictment of his own coaching ability?
After five or six last quarter fade outs, how can he NOT KNOW whether or not it is a fitness issue, an attitude issue, complacency or whatever? Surely after the second fade out, he should have been demanding answers!
And if it's not fitness, but it's complacency, why the **** couldn't he see that weeks ago? He's the freaking coach!
Again, if it's a deliberate tactic to slow the game down and go defensive in the last quarter, well that has failed miserably. If this is a contributing factor, whose decision was it? Simpson? The players?
I was convinced weeks ago that there is something seriously wrong with Simpson as a coach. My opinion is that Simpson should go at the end of the year.
Hire Peter Sumich with Nathan Buckley as assistant. I know Bucks had made some not so great calls, but my strong feeling is that he is a smart coach with really good intuition for football. I'm keen to hear opinions from others here on who should be the assistant if we do go with Sumich.
Have a thorough top to bottom club inquiry over the offseason, with particular attention to the abysmal recruiting. Hire the best recruiters in the land. Rawlings seems to have done ok so keep him. Also look at our conditioning coaches.
Stop being so soft on the players. Get them out of their comfort zone.