Watching 360 for the first time in months. Richo praising the start & finish to the game. He literally has no idea.
Did I really hear him say on there that 7-2 scoring shots in our favour in the 4th quarter indicates that his message at 3 quarter time got through to the players?!
F*** off Richo. Bloke has been totally exposed this year as a fraud of a senior coach.
Look at what has happened every time he's moved Carlisle either up forward or as was the case on the weekend into the ruck, our defence goes to complete shit. Essentially an elite 200cm intercept marking defender with great skills for the rebound is the only thing stopping his defensive system from being a complete disaster.
In his post game presser Saturday night he bashed the midfield for getting smashed in the 3rd quarter which lost us the game. Meanwhile Seb Ross had I think 20 disposals and 3 goals from the midfield at half time, and then Richo stuck him behind the ball in the 3rd when they got a run on. So you're not happy with the midfield but you move the midfielder who was BOG up till then into defence, yeah righto that makes heaps of sense. And while I think Armo is pretty close to cooked, Richo has completely stuffed him around this year. Either play him as an inside mid or leave him in the two's FFS, it's so obvious. Richo put him up forward for a couple weeks where he had consecutive 8 disposal games, dud move. Drops him for a few then he comes back in as a mid and plays 4 straight quality games (we won 3/4) then has a quieter one, gets dropped, doesn't play VFL, gets recalled the week after and gets stuck on a HBF. Armo with no speed/agility and average skills playing HBF, bloody hell. Don't even get me started on Newnes, who has been disgustingly bad in all facets and gets a gig every week. Team selection has been awful nearly every single week, no integrity whatsoever.
I don't know if they reckon Geary needs to have a bigger role now that he's captain or what, but you can't turn a Corolla into a Ferrari. As the back pocket who locks down on the best small forwards, cracks in hard, and gives his all he was damn good despite his average skills. Now we look to be getting the ball in his hands as much as possible, why on earth is he running passed blokes who have taken the mark for the handball receive? He's averaging 21 disposals a game this year, last two years he's averaged 15-16. Either we've bizarrely identified him as a key ball user for us, or oppo coaches are happy to leave him free to get the ball because they know he isn't going to hurt them with it and Richo hasn't clued on.
Our key forwards haven't been put into a position to succeed all year, every week in our games one of the commentators (Brown on the weekend) will say they'd hate to be a key forward for St Kilda. MG mentioned the Cats game earlier, that was the real eye opener for me at how inept this guy is. I felt so sorry for Paddy that game getting the ball sat on his head in a 1 v 2 or 3 all day while his coach does nothing about it, he actually played really well that day considering the circumstances and got no credit for it.
I could rant for hours on some of this stuff, starting to get pretty fed up now tbh and I'm more patient than most. I am one of the (perhaps delusional) ones that is still quite buoyant about this playing list and think that with the right tweaking, recruitment and development we are going to be good down the line. But I fear that Richo and his ways is doing irreparable damage to some of these players and if he stays for another year or two then it's just going to get worse. Of course it's not all his fault, but as senior coach the buck stops with him and if we keep him on beyond this year we're just accepting mediocrity.