He shouldn't have got anywhere near a flag after the Gubby fiasco, years later we are still finding out the real cost. Kills me that Wells and Mayne were the big cherries on the premiership pie taking up so much money and so many years it stopped us recruiting any players that would put us over the top. They lost that flag at list management.
Who recruited those with poor skills....
Forgot Phillips.
Frank?
Hine, Walsh, Eddie, the board, Buckley. The point of my post is that Buckley is and was a great coach. He did a lot with a defective list.
And Simpson was outcoached by Harvey the week before. As many say, Harvey can't stop players from fumbling and dropping simple marks nor can he prevent the terrible turnovers. We lost by 19 points. Hawks deserved their win but the Clarkson hype is ridiculous. He is not the messiah. His boys have copped more floggings than we have this year.
He created the defective list. The defective list was a minute away from a flag. One could argue he failed to get the best out of a good list with his negative, dour, robotic, defensive mindset.
Incorrect. He did a tremendous job extracting the maximum out of a defective list however.
I think the issue with Grundy is we have so much money parked in one of the least impactful positions. He is a unicorn and a great player, but I feel as long as we are carrying his wage we will never contend.
Drives me nuts. Our "leaders" in Adams and Sidebottom totally failed to step up, yet very little criticism is leveled at them. Adams and Sidebottom are both on pretty expensive deals too
sorry to interrupt your conversation but we were 5 goals up in that GF, he choked in the box and went defensive. no matter what is said about umpiring by many, IMHO you don't lose a GF after being 5 up, you do whatever it takes to win.
We kicked the first 2 or was it 3 goals in the last quarter, that doesn’t happen if you’re playing defensive. We were knackered and run off our feet, the players can also make the call on whether they play direct or keepings off. That was the play from what was recorded in the box.
i respect your opinion as it is a good one, just don't agree with you.
Bombay?
True. When a team gets flogged by over ten goals, particularly by a team many rungs below them, then the media roasting is warranted. However this has become a weekly trend. I agree that it is over the top and used far too often by media heads trying to get attention. I thought our efforts to halftime were poor. The team remedied this to some degree and actually got into a winnable situation with ten minutes remaining when they could have thrown in the towel and copped a 12 goal drubbing as many sides have done this year. Funnily enough, most of the sides above us have copped at least one ( the Tigers, Gold Coast and saints have had multiple floggings) embarrassing flogging this year. We are yet to register one.
How is the statement about him being responsible for our list incorrect? I suppose he had nothing to do with the cutting of a number of premiership players early in his tenure?
I agree Grundy doesn’t have any forward smarts. I’d play him as a roaming CHF that gets up the field and marks the ball around the ground rather than a stay at home forward.
How is the new coach responsible for Nobles contract extension? Buckley came out and said he was unaware that Mayne was approved to be signed. He contributes to the conversation of course but he doesn’t decide.
Sidebottom has been trashed all year and there’s literally a thread detailing why Adams shouldn’t be the next captain, it’s not like they’re not copping it.
