Would have thought he would have had a program set out for him, and who supervised it? Put it with his forward coach, starting behind the 8 ball already
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Nicks said Fog won't get games until his defensive efforts improve, which then got turned into Fog isn't fit. Like Tex in his early days I imagine it's partly a mindset thing with him.
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Like Tex now... as he has no agility & his opponents just run off him.
The difference is Fog will improve with match fitness whereas Tex is unfortunately cooked.
Match day coaching would help
If Fog isn't fit this far into a season who is more likely at fault? Fog or the fitness guys?
We wouldn't be fielding a side if that was a requirement from all our players....
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Anyone know what Neil Craig is doing these days? Love him or hate him, the one thing you never questioned with a Neil Craig team was fitness!
I don't think he'd be interested in running the fitness department, but perhaps there is a role he may be interested that helps to oversee team fitness...
I don't think he'd be interested in running the fitness department, but perhaps there is a role he may be interested that helps to oversee team fitness...
Thinking about our fitness, I think we've got things wrong in team structure. Given we get slaughtered in the midfield week on week, the ball is in our backline for the majority of games. I think this may be one reason we're falling away in the second halves of games, because we've actually tried to keep a fairly stable back 6 whereas we're constantly juggling the mids / fwds. All the more reason to bring in the likes of Butts and Worrell, as they may actually inject some youth and run into the back half. Note: it doesn't explain why other teams forwards can continue to run all day, when our defenders tire, but there just may be something in it.
Port and Bulldogs both +11.
Thats the trifecta of clubs that the AFL tend to look after to a bizarre degree, same as usual.
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Wow, so he's doing alright for himself!
fitness affects quality movement and quality decision making. If we are running in empty, we can have the best game plan in the league and we will still be shown up!
if fitness is the issue, that is actually a positive. Fitness can be fixed!
A player knows when they can’t run out a full game. Nicks will know if fitness is one of the issues. It’s hard to turn that one around mid season I’d guess
The problem is that Nicks then needs to convince the powers that be that they ****ed up and we need a complete rebuild of the "High performance team"
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On par IMO....all must go.....and I'm not generally a club basher.
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A bigger deal out west.
Bringing back Neil would be as bad of a move as bringing back Trigg. We still revert to his brand of football.
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Yeah, we were looking like a super fit combo until Fatty Fog came back in
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Would we though? I’m not sure that we would. And simply because we literally have an exact precedent.
The Craig team didn’t play like the Blight team, but Craig was an integral part of that coaching panel.
Blight benefitted massively from Craig’s ability to get elite fitness levels trained into his squad, but nothing about the Blight teams was ‘Crowbotic’
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Unlike Blight/Craig, the suggestion would be an ex-head coach and one that still has too much sway of this club's ideologies would be on the panel with a 2nd year coach and an ideally brand new team. All that would inevitably lead to is the coach being undermined, even if it was unintentional.
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I don’t think so, as I didn’t suggest he be on the panel in the first post. More in a role that specifically oversees the fitness department so we benefit from his strengths.
So he would be even further removed from any game day decisions regarding game style.
But even if he was on a coaching panel (which he probably wouldn’t want anyway) I doubt at 64/65 he’s looking to usurp a Head Coaching gig.
The other thing that the Crows seem to be ‘worst in comp’ in is tackling. Our technique is terrible (just look at the Bulldogs.) Lack of fitness also contributes to the ability to tackle. Add the 2 together to get game losing performances.
Who is our tackling coach? Do we have one?
Who is our tackling coach? Do we have one?
What do you mean?
I'd be flattered if we could play Neil Craig brand football at the moment.
I'm not saying we SHOULD bring him back, but he's inarguably an upgrade on most of our staff at the moment. He'd be a better head coach, a better director of football, a better football manager, a better high performance manager.
Hell he'd probaly be a better CEO or chairman too.
He had his flaws and limitations, but he was at his core a competent person.
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