Horse playing him out of position you think?we haven’t played a final with him as CEO
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Horse playing him out of position you think?we haven’t played a final with him as CEO
He is our second best & most consistent defender after Rampe.I like Longmire, I am glad he is our coach. I am also not someone who think Mills can't be a perfectly good (or great) half back flanker.
But this quote from today really drives me up the wall.
He's a very good defender and he could be a very good midfielder – I'm sure of it – but when you're looking at the balance of the team … (you've) got to replace him with a player you know can do the same thing in that previous role
We are being absolutely slaughtered in the midfield every week, and have been for 3 years, it is depressing to think we are holding potentially good players out of the midfield because we think it might weaken our defence.
Our defence will never be good if our midfield continues to be sh*t. They open the defenders up to absolute carnage on a weekly basis.
I think this is obvious and true. But part of the obvious nature of it is that everything has coincided with the absence of competitive ruckmen. The inside game relies on a ruck that either wins or can do damage. mummy, tippett, nankervis all did this one way or another. we have been unable to effectively recruit that big body to complete the midfield for all of sinclairs lion heartedness
so i think the coaching since 2017 has been trying to nullify opposition dominance around the ball but we dont have the ben matthews jared crouch type players so we are constantly punished on the inside.
one thing which is also affecting us is that longmire tends to defend from the back - its man on man with usually a spare. we usually have tried to move the ball forwards by having speedy half backs. modern footy involves zones of defenders all trying to swarm forwards to create a turnover in the front half - we really arent set up to do that. so our ability to move the ball from half back forwards goes against the modern trend and really requires super precise kicking from half back absent speed to break through zones. there is no ahmed saad on our list so we are relying on rampe and dawson and mills hitting a precise kick to a small forward - which if it fails causes us trouble because we are then losing the stoppage
we could be lucky though - clarko's comments might just suit our side by making it less congested because we arent really suited by congestion anymore...
When you lose your 2 main tall forwards, your main ruck, your new backman who looked promising, it would be tough for anyoneLet’s be real between a few injuries age and talent horse is shuffling deck chairs around with this list at the moment
Doesn’t matter who the coach is really
Let’s be real between a few injuries age and talent horse is shuffling deck chairs around with this list at the moment
Doesn’t matter who the coach is really
I like Longmire, I am glad he is our coach. I am also not someone who think Mills can't be a perfectly good (or great) half back flanker.
But this quote from today really drives me up the wall.
He's a very good defender and he could be a very good midfielder – I'm sure of it – but when you're looking at the balance of the team … (you've) got to replace him with a player you know can do the same thing in that previous role
We are being absolutely slaughtered in the midfield every week, and have been for 3 years, it is depressing to think we are holding potentially good players out of the midfield because we think it might weaken our defence.
Yes, yes & yes!Let’s be real between a few injuries age and talent horse is shuffling deck chairs around with this list at the moment
Doesn’t matter who the coach is really
Yeah thats true, organisational culture though 100% is.Harley was commentating in 2014 and wasn’t CEO in 16
Wether he has done a good job or not, he hasn’t been CEO for 2 Tilts at a flag , we haven’t played a final with him as CEO
But wether CEO performance is linked to finals is questionable
Good point. He came to us at the end of 2014 as GM when we got the trade ban and we went to the GF and multiple final series after. That's good general managing.Harley was commentating in 2014 and wasn’t CEO in 16
Wether he has done a good job or not, he hasn’t been CEO for 2 Tilts at a flag , we haven’t played a final with him as CEO
If we're going on current positions, they've both been in their jobs for less than two years. What ARE they being judged on?But wether CEO performance is linked to finals is questionable
I think being constantly belted from turnovers in dangerous spots last year proves that one wrongand the problem here is is goes to Longmire's mindset. The best form of defence is to be attacking
Good point. He came to us at the end of 2014 as GM when we got the trade ban and we went to the GF and multiple final series after. That's good general managing.
If we're going on current positions, they've both been in their jobs for less than two years. What ARE they being judged on?
Yeah thats true, organisational culture though 100% is.
Anyone else's background on these forums gone totally black? Annoying as hell, anyway to get rid of it. White background was way easier to read with.
Fully agree. I get baffled when I read about back office stuff being shat on. I don't think anyone would even know what the responsibilities are yet there are really strong opinions on them.But judging the CEO, imo we may as well discuss the swans accounting team from the outside and the man who mows the lawns, how can we know
Thank you!!!Push the lightning bolt or lightbulb up the top
aahhhhh except when the opposition throw a loose man back in defence....we then have 6 on 7.As the commentators have pointed out a number of times over the last few weeks, we have basically never been playing a loose man behind the ball or any sort of zonal defence, we have been pretty consistently six backs on six forwards with six forwards up against six backs all year.
So... yeah, you are wrong.
I don't know if I'm part of the solution or problem now. Its all very difficult, I just knocked over my garden gnome statue though just in case.Black Backgrounds Matter