Pedro
Brownlow Medallist
Has there been a year in the last 8 or 9 when we haven't said that?That’s certainly possible. I would like to see a change in Assistant Coach or two. I feel like we need some fresh eyes, that and a decent run with injury.
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Has there been a year in the last 8 or 9 when we haven't said that?That’s certainly possible. I would like to see a change in Assistant Coach or two. I feel like we need some fresh eyes, that and a decent run with injury.
Not had a defensive mindset? Are you kidding...I agree. The Experiment has not worked. He has never had a defensive mindset. It's been all about midfield and running all the time in both directions.
He should of started his career elsewhere and move to us after experience as a nobody.
If Sier goes to the Bombers, we may as well pack up shop for the next 5 years. He is one of the few bright hopes we have who also strengthens an obvious weakness i.e. big skilled midfielders.
id love to see sidey as a 70% time forwardWe have a few deficiencies that's for sure.
But I lost count last night at how many times I yelled "where is the crumber???"
For all our problems, this might be our biggest...even worse than our need for a key forward.
That said, surely it has to be more structural than anything else. I mean how hard is it to tell a player to be at the feet of a forward. Surely any half decent footballer can be taught basic positioning for a crumb. The big issue is that its not even poor positioning, there is literally no one there!
Tells me our smalls are getting sucked too far in or just have no idea where to be or who to crumb to.
This needs to be sharpened up. Maybe you need to sacrifice Treloar or Elliott in the midfield...or tell Stephenson to simply stay at Cox's feet. Maybe Daicos is the one. Thomas, Varcoe and Brown are never there and don't kick goals.
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Too harsh imo. He’s being measured and not publicly hanging his players. Club is an inner sanctum nowadays, outside of genetic snippets and feel good vision, that fans have demanded.. and got. Tough ask 10 mins after the siren. Our comments in this forum show that most wouldn’t be able to do that.I’m not gonna lie. That presser was his worst for the year. Some of the comments were just putrid. We have the same issues every single week and never even remotely acknowledges them
Maybe was a little harsh.. only a little thoughToo harsh imo. He’s being measured and not publicly hanging his players. Club is an inner sanctum nowadays, outside of genetic snippets and feel good vision, that fans have demanded.. and got. Tough ask 10 mins after the siren. Our comments in this forum show that most wouldn’t be able to do that.
I don’t care what he says to media, but do care what he does. If the right messages and actual coaching doesnt get through to the players, then we have a problem...

Every club in the comp seems to do this except us. We actually sit off the mark 2m - 3m metres instead. Shits me to no end...
tell him not to tap the ball into the corridor 15 metres out from our own goal tooCan Nathan tell grundy to take the bloody ball out of the ruck
I like to think losing to the first & second teams ( after traveling and short breaks in between) by a couple of goals + beating Geelong & Drawing with Richmond, means something still.
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I gave up as well same issues every week. Same presser every week. I believe bucks relaxed a bit in 2018 as he Needed to try a new approach( he actually said this) but I feel like he has got his grip on the team again as we have had the same issues every year except 2018
Yeah centre clearances were dreadful have to agree there. Not sure what's going on with our stoppage coachingMate, not 1 centre clearance in the 2nd half. What an embarrassing effort by the mids.
I’d like to see some hard players in the centre and make sure we win the ball. Would love to see degoey and Maynard smash some bodies in thereYeah centre clearances were dreadful have to agree there. Not sure what's going on with our stoppage coaching
Not had a defensive mindset? Are you kidding...
We are the best defensive team in the comp, and he has kept some of our v best players back there as he believes even “attack is driven from defence”. Not to mention defensive efforts all around the ground.
It’s his obsession with handball that has partly come unstuck, which wastes time and allows teams to set up quickly, which then exposes our other problem - F50 entries and strategy. But the biggest issue for me is still our substandard skills and decision making - outside of our back line kicks. Years ago he said that he isn’t going to teach a league footballer how to kick, which is either an insight into what is still hurting us now, or we just have too many poorly skilled and low IQ footballers, which other teams continue to expose. Or we do it voluntarily! I really want to know the answer to this, as development has gone backwards, with Grundy doing the simplest of skills poorly - jump timing and tap work... kicks and handballs to players feet time and time again... and only a handful of our stars being trusted to make the right decision 80% of the time. Either he is livid himself at some of these things, has tried but just can’t do the job for them - and won’t crucify them in interviews, or he hasn’t paid enough attention to it, and it’s still his Achilles heel. Honestly don’t know the full answer to this, but the continued selection of certain players, the failure to fix Grundy, and the higher level skills and decision making of The league’s top 5 teams, is damning vs what we have served up lately. Always like hearing unbiased opinions on this, as it wasn’t long ago that we smacked the dogs in rd 1... but the future success of our club depends on it imo.