Again, about what was expected.
People are just on board the "Longmire is chip chip crap" sack the coach and get Clarkson (or a Clarkson apprentice) bandwagon.
The funny thing is, the team that played (and still plays) the "chip chip" style is Hawthorn. It won them a bunch of flags. We've gone from "slingshot footy" to trying this "short kick - mark" style. We're not there yet, but we're showing signs of getting it. Still turning it over, but I have faith we'll get better at running into space, timing leads and picking the targets the more we do it. In recent seasons we seem to be trying to recruit for it with quick kids with good footskills which is what is required for the leading and precision kicking to make that gameplan work. And before someone mentions it, yes we got Clarke, but we needed another hard inside extractor. Clarke may not be that guy, but we needed
someone, and he was available. Other than him, we've been going for pacy inside/outside players with good footskills (Ling, Stoddart, Florent, Macinerny , Rowbottom).
What i find hilarious though is that everyone wanted Clarkson to improve us. Yet we're trying to use a game style similar to Clarkson's that worked so well at Hawthorn. So while they're bagging Longmire for trying a chip-chip game style, they are full of praise for Clarkson and his chip-chip game style.
Bottom line, people don't know what they want. They want us to play fast exciting footy, while simultaneously wanting Longmire to be like Clarkson, who instilled a slow, methodical kick-mark gamestyle.