Coach Welcome to West Coast: Andrew McQualter

[Astro7]

Further to this Peter Bell (ABC Sports Talk 9th Aug) made interesting observation.

A small forward is very reliant on big forwards bringing ball to ground, contest and occasionally getting cheapies when unmarked. Our entry into F50, tackling pressure, leading lines etc are all dysfunctional at the moment and this will make Owies job even harder.

Now, not defending the guy and before you do the big pile on - I'm just passing on an outsider's comment for consideration.

For sure, the forward's lot - but after you factor that in, he's still woeful...

 

[thebutterflyeffect]

Yep. Think peak Rioli-Ryan wouldn’t be looking too flash either.

Basically what you're conceding is that it doesn't matter who is selected, it is not going to make a difference on team performance. In that case what is the benefit of playing Owies over a young player like Long or Champion?

 

[BSD]

Depends on what Gepp says.

He's putrid and should be pissed off. What does he offer the club that they keep him on.

 

[bzparkes]

 

[Priddis Is Done]

He's the man.

He's got it.

When you know you know. It's obvious.

 

[Cainozz]

Just hope he gets a decent crack at it next year with a fairly healthy list, a contracted Harley and some new mature recruits and new kids. He definitely has buy in from the lads. Just shit luck.

 

[eaglevision]

Looked absolutely bereft of ideas today, even without key cattle. I know many are fawning over him saying he’s a great people person and man manager but has he measured up to the KPIs he sold to the club when he was appointed?

Any chance of an end of season poll Biggie?

 

[bzparkes]

Looked absolutely bereft of ideas today, even without key cattle. I know many are fawning over him saying he’s a great people person and man manager but has he measured up to the KPIs he sold to the club when he was appointed?

Any chance of an end of season poll Biggie?

What's he supposed to do? Our list is awful.

 

[bombard]

What's he supposed to do? Our list is awful.

God bless your profile image. Peak shitness, that was.

And I agree - honestly think Mini has done all that could be expected with the dogshit hand he has been dealt.

 

[eaglevision]

What's he supposed to do? Our list is awful.

We don’t have the cattle to be competitive week in week out I agree but you can move some pieces to stop 94 point blow outs. This is about tactical nous. If that’s Chris Scott with exactly the same team the score doesn’t look like that.

 

[Bender_]

We don’t have the cattle to be competitive week in week out I agree but you can move some pieces to stop 94 point blow outs. This is about tactical nous. If that’s Chris Scott with exactly the same team the score doesn’t look like that.

Is Chris Scott trying to limit the scoreline or develop a gameplan to win?

 

[eaglevision]

Is Chris Scott trying to limit the scoreline or develop a gameplan to win?

Develop a game plan that stops momentum. Which results in wins.

 

[bzparkes]

We don’t have the cattle to be competitive week in week out I agree but you can move some pieces to stop 94 point blow outs. This is about tactical nous. If that’s Chris Scott with exactly the same team the score doesn’t look like that.

Remind me again how long Chris Scott has been an AFL head coach for compared to McQualter?

 

[eaglevision]

Remind me again how long Chris Scott has been an AFL head coach for compared to McQualter?

I’m not expecting him to win the game but McQualter spent a lot of time as an assistant at a triple flag winning club. Should have had more answers than he has on plenty of occasions this year. Today was unacceptable.

 

[bzparkes]

I’m not expecting him to win the game but McQualter spent a lot of time as an assistant at a triple flag winning club. Should have had more answers than he has on plenty of occasions this year. Today was unacceptable.

Sometimes there's not much you can do when you're that far outclassed. He tried a lot of moves and none of them worked. Just have to train it more really.

 

[Byron_Clanger]

I’m not expecting him to win the game but McQualter spent a lot of time as an assistant at a triple flag winning club. Should have had more answers than he has on plenty of occasions this year. Today was unacceptable.

The team as currently constructed is absolutely cooked. Everyone who we couldn't afford to lose we lost very early in the season and it exposed all the young blokes. We also got the worst group of experienced players I've ever seen.

Personally, I expected like 3/4 wins tops for us this year...then came the injuries to Sheed, Yeo, Waterman, McGovern retirement, Allen carrying his mentally fragile corpse through games making zero impact besides that one game against the Cats, Harley's fat ass showing up to day one of pre-season and being a complete non factor until his final few games of the season before he got injured. I'm surprised we even got one win.

Words cannot express how much I hate the Tim Kelly extension, however.

 

[Bender_]

The team as currently constructed is absolutely cooked. Everyone who we couldn't afford to lose we lost very early in the season and it exposed all the young blokes. We also got the worst group of experienced players I've ever seen.

Personally, I expected like 3/4 wins tops for us this year...then came the injuries to Sheed, Yeo, Waterman, McGovern retirement, Allen carrying his mentally fragile corpse through games making zero impact besides that one game against the Cats, Harley's fat ass showing up to day one of pre-season and being a complete non factor until his final few games of the season before he got injured. I'm surprised we even got one win.

Words cannot express how much I hate the Tim Kelly extension, however.

Should we expect you back come finals then?

 

[Monsterdarlz]

Looked absolutely bereft of ideas today, even without key cattle. I know many are fawning over him saying he’s a great people person and man manager but has he measured up to the KPIs he sold to the club when he was appointed?

Any chance of an end of season poll Biggie?

I was a critical of the hire thought he was the wrong hire over skipworth. And I don't rate the game style that's been implemented.

However I've been really impressed with his demour and footballing intelligence thats showcased in pressers and clips. Given the tools I think he will thrive. And has been handed an absolute lemon playing list and garbage support.

Feel he will be a Ken judge for our next hire however I hope not I've really come around to mini

 

[HoneyBadger35]

We came into the season with five hand on heart good players who would play in every 22 in the league.

Gov, Waterman, as the reigning AA’s.
Harley, as the Harley.
Add Yeo and Allen in there.

Not only did we not have them today, we haven’t had them for some/most/all of McQualter’s tenure.

And now, at this late stage in the season, we’re down to the who’s left in the WAFL behind the blokes getting picked. Two mid season draftees out there today.

Hewett, Hall, Hutch* all blown up from a year of playing as direct matchups to the Bont’s of the world.

He’ll be fine.

 

[Ochre]

I’m not expecting him to win the game but McQualter spent a lot of time as an assistant at a triple flag winning club.

A four time premiership coach lost by more a few weeks ago.

We don’t have the cattle to be competitive week in week out I agree

This is a very funny way to begin when we ran 1st very close a week ago.

 

[Keys]

R6 - Bulldogs 127 def St Kilda 56 (71 points)
R8 - Bulldogs 131 def Port Adelaide 41 (90 points)
R10 - Bulldogs 127 def Essendon 36 (91 points)
R14 - Bulldogs 132 def St Kilda 60 (72 points)
R15 - Bulldogs 135 def Richmond 56 (79 points)
R17 - Bulldogs 135 def North Melbourne 85 (49 points)
R20 Bulldogs 143 def Essendon 50 (93 points)
R21 Bulldogs 132 def GWS 44 (88 points)
R23 Bulldogs 126 def West Coast 32 (94 points)

With the exception of the Port game in Ballarat all of the above 9 wins came at Marvel and with the exception of GWS all those wins have come against bottom 8 sides. Only the win over North (49 points) was by less than 71 points

The Bulldogs are 10-2 at Marvel losing only to Hawthorn (22 points) and Adelaide (11 points). The only two close wins they had were 16 points over North in R1 and 8 points over Carlton in R3

They are 4-6 away from Marvel

All of the above is to point out that today’s result, while far from ideal, is entirely consistent with how bottom sides have fared against the kings of the flat track at Marvel

They needed a win to stay in the finals race and have proven themselves near unstoppable when they get on a roll like they did today

We were the youngest, most inexperienced side of this round missing 1st to 4th of our 2024 B&F (McGovern, Yeo, Waterman and Duggan), our other co-captain (Allen), our best young player Reid, our best KPD after Gov (Edwards)

McQualter was always going to be up against it today

 

[Ochre]

We were the youngest, most inexperienced side of this round missing 1st to 4th of our 2024 B&F (McGovern, Yeo, Waterman and Duggan), our other co-captain (Allen), our best young player Reid, our best KPD after Gov (Edwards)

McQualter was always going to be up against it today

Essendon are apparently historically low on availability, record debuts this year, lost 500 games of experience this week on top of it all, and we still easily had them covered on lack of experience. Puts it in a bit of perspective

 

[Mr Q]

With the exception of the Port game in Ballarat all of the above 9 wins came at Marvel and with the exception of GWS all those wins have come against bottom 8 sides. Only the win over North (49 points) was by less than 71 points

You only have to look at their percentage against their ladder position to realise that they have to be flat track Bullies.

[And there's few flatter tracks than our boys this year]

 

[King LeBron]

And this is our average age over the entire season. Coming into the year I recall all the talk being how unbelievably young the Tigers were going to be. Despite the rhetoric on some of Minis selections, those numbers show how unafraid he has been to give the young players a crack.

 

[stallon]

And this is our average age over the entire season. Coming into the year I recall all the talk being how unbelievably young the Tigers were going to be. Despite the rhetoric on some of Minis selections, those numbers show how unafraid he has been to give the young players a crack.View attachment 2398522

That Tigers talk was all rubbish. Theyve still got half their team being experienced players in their mid 20s or older, including a heap of premiership players.