Not sure why you have a problem with last nights game plan - it was 45sec from getting the chocolates.
We outplayed one of the flag favorites for large parts of the game, and apart from Cameron we had a strategy to control their huge contingent of stars.
It's a game plan that is hard to criticise after last night.
I'm not disagreeing that our best is competitive with any team in the competition - even our results this year (as inconsistent as we have been) make that clear. Having said that a game plan doesn't just have to work in a particular game, it has to work over an entire season and then be able to evolve to be successful across multiple seasons in order for a club to have a genuine tilt at a premiership.
When you look at our club it's pretty clear that any game plan we might have goes out the window virtually every other week.
For whatever reason Buckley just hasn't been able to get any consistent sort of game plan rolling for the past 4-5 years, because we've been doing the exact same thing every year since 2013 (some good performances against quality sides mixed in by some absolute stinkers even against lesser sides).
Can you honestly say even to yourself that you think we'll produce something close to what we put up on Saturday arvo next week, based on how we've performed this year (or in the past several years)?
I'll remind you again - this is the fifth year that he has been in full control of the team and game plan, so it is not unreasonable to think that there should be at least some signs of consistency (not to mention a certain degree of mental / intestinal fortitude) now, as opposed to looking good one week and jogging around like depressed lazy headless chooks the next, even if we're not expecting our boys to produce at the same level as the elite of the competition at this stage.