Schulzenfest
TheBrownDog
I fully agree with Bassett's assessment.
Shocker.
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I fully agree with Bassett's assessment.
This **** trade forced a name change. Blessing in disguise- Everytime I post you are reminded of 3 GOATS.
Should be used to it by now but still infuriating.
The we are right and it's not our fault talk from coaches. No one wants to take responsibility.
Especially when we put Dougal in the position to fall.
Billy GruffYou could have just taken the name '3 GOATS' to simplify it even further
I legit read this as "Time to move on Peps".Time to move on Peeps, Howard was pretty good but losing him is not really the end of the world.
I legit read this as "Time to move on Peps".
he's lazy as fu**. I fully agree with Bassett's assessment.
He was going OK in the back line, but just OK. So we signed him to a four year deal. He'd lost his spot to Jack Watts in theopening roundsfirst two rounds. If Jack didn't get injured, who knows if he ever would've regained that spot down back or if Watts would have faded to traditional form even as a defender in time to come. It's hard to tell having seen Jack play a game and three quarters in that position.
He's worse.Bassett is just a younger Hinkley.
I was told by someone with good contacts today that the problem with Dougal was not just that he demanded to be played at CHB but he also only wanted to play his way (I.e playing the back shoulder and fisting the ball away).
It seems by the time he got to his end of season review he and already spoken to a club that had promised him that role and style.
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You'll believe this story as it suits your narrative but nothing about ex PAFC footballers and staff stating Hinkley is a joke.I told you - he's lazy as fu**.
Do you see Andrews playing that way? Rance? McGovern? The best defenders in the competition are proactive and hunt the incoming ball for an intercept mark.
You'll believe this story as it suits your narrative but nothing about ex PAFC footballers and staff stating Hinkley is a joke.
"Lazy" is a symptom of poor coaching & poor culture
"Lazy" is a symptom of poor coaching & poor culture
Blaming your employees for (insert shortcoming here) is the calling card of a s**t organisation.
Employees who try to dictate the direction of the organisation when all the other employees have bought in need to find another job.
But they haven't, Janus. It's not just 1 or 2 employees, it's the entire playing list, football department, and administration. If everyone but Howard has bought in, we'd be reigning premiers right now.
I don't think lazy is the right word for what you're trying to say. He's not doing it because he can't be bothered. He's been a model professional for his entire career, but he clearly doesn't agree with what the coaches are doing and voiced his concerns. Rumours were that either did Lycett prior to his dropping late in the season.
If one or two players don't buy in, move them on. If most of your list clearly isn't buying in, maybe you're selling garbage.
The game that Howard actually played defence properly was against West Coast - he was given 12 votes against the Eagles. We won that game by a comfortable margin. He played in our best win for the year and played well, and yet he decided that doing it his way was better?
If I've got five defenders playing in front of their man, and one player playing behind his man, it looks like this:
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The defenders in blue playing in front can get to the incoming ball faster than their opponents because they are in an advanced position. However, if one player (Howard) in the top left plays behind instead, all his opponent needs to do is bring the ball to ground for player on the half forward flank to run onto it. It's not like he was a super one on one defender that would kill any contest.
It also creates a hole in the defensive zone, because in order to provide support to the half backs, Howard needs to get around his opponent first, which makes it look like an unstructured mess., because all the opponent needs to do is to drop the ball in front of Howard's opponent and there are three players who can get there to lock the ball inside our defensive 50 and force us on the back foot.
The best defenders push up the ground in front of their opponents to intercept. If the midfield is doing their job and the half backs are doing theirs by pushing up the ground, the full backs won't ever have to worry about the ball getting over the back because the kicks coming in will always be under pressure loopy hospital passes that can be intercepted easily.
Despite all this, in his 8 games playing in defence he averaged 6.75 intercept possessions a game, good for 3rd highest average for our team behind Hartlett and DBJ. Must have been doing something right.
Also forward lines and defences don't set up in a grid formation.
But i'm not talking about what he was doing, i'm talking about the message it sends. He clearly didn't buy in. Given the inconsistent performance of just about everyone on the list, clearly they all have days where they just aren't that keen on what we're doing. Ken Hinkley's job is to make them believe, and they just don't.