Adem Yze

[Smoking Aces]

Maybe, but turnovers from a positive position make everything look horrible. Everyone steps on the attack and then whoosh the ball goes the other way and you are meters behind.

Hopper, Ross and Taranto have no burst so when the ball falls to their advantage and they have a small gap players react on the offensive but the gap gets swallowed up by the time the disposal is made. Unfortunately, they just do not have the physical abilities to maintain space in the middle. All of them need to play the distributor role in center clearances but when you play 2, let alone 3 of them together it does them and the team a disservice.

Great call.

And this is where Yze needs to bite the bullet and change it up.

 

[Redford]

Maybe, but turnovers from a positive position make everything look horrible. Everyone steps on the attack and then whoosh the ball goes the other way and you are meters behind.

Hopper, Ross and Taranto have no burst so when the ball falls to their advantage and they have a small gap players react on the offensive but the gap gets swallowed up by the time the disposal is made. Unfortunately, they just do not have the physical abilities to maintain space in the middle. All of them need to play the distributor role in center clearances but when you play 2, let alone 3 of them together it does them and the team a disservice

Some of that is true but this side has the ability to put up better performances than what we've seen the last 16 months. There's a distinct lack of energy. I'm not talking about winning more games or anything, but just our intent. We can be more competitive than this.

I've never seen Vlaus look so flat and uninterested. Taranto looks it as well. Some of Ryan's efforts (or lack of) are terrible. Others also eg Miller. Many just want to do the easy things eg Banks and Sonsie.

Like last year, this group is off on a genuine motivation and energy front.

He's not in our top 10, but if we had a 22 with Mansell's desperate outlook, we'd be a mile better off. But we don't. We've got a lot of guys just sorta playing and not much more.

 

[craig]

Yze really needs to fire the blokes up the club needs energy and vigour and effort and effervescence.

Our 3-4-5 -6 year players on the whole aren't rerally any good so Yzes had a hand tied behind his back there.

Dow, Ralphsmith, Ross, Banks, Miller, Ryan ..........................really are not really very good and shown not much all and are deficient players and some of these guys are 5-6 6 seasons in.

Question marks on Browns intensity and vigor also.

McAuliffe, ,Campbell, Gibcus Blight and this years crop are the start of the future team, theres not many above them that are long termers most of em are fairly poor.

 

[Carter]

Hardwick’s first ten games were shizen and he already had the pillars in place.

Perspective, people.

Godwick was still coaching poorly six seasons later.

Six.

 

[mad_tiggy911]

There's a heap that worries me about Yze but number 1 is the lack of energy and interest that many of our players display - especially when we don't have the ball or it's a fight in a contest.

I'm not sure he's a motivator that gets max effort from players, regardless of talent levels, speed or whatever else it is we're lacking.

Bingo. Been saying this from day dot.

 

[Ridley]

I'm sure Dow won't be there round 1 if Smillie & Lalor are fit.

I’ll believe it when I see it. He somehow garnered another contract this year and Yze seems to love him.

 

[Ghost of 29]

Yze is going to be treading a fine line between setting high standards and enforcing them with a level of ruthlessness AND trying to keep their spirits up with the floggings that are guaranteed to come.
A broken sports team is a sad sight

 

[TigerForce]

Great call.

And this is where Yze needs to bite the bullet and change it up.

23 games to go.

 

[thegdog]

I think our backline is the yardstick of how we are going and team morale. In the glory days, the high fives and back slaps happened after every contest and there was always a 3rd man up to spoil a contest. Paid attention tonight, and everything was absent. Trainor has the spark the backline need. Can’t play both Miller and Blight, no bloody way

 

[DjJazzyPete]

We just havnt got the list to be any good atm, the Clarke years are killing us now .. Going to take a few years to get going . Dont think any coach could do much atm with our list apart from getting games into the young players . We just don't have enough good players or players mature enough to execute a coach's plan

 

[thegdog]

Where is any pace in our team?????? I mean sustained speed and endurance. Who ??? I can our worst losses coming against Gold Coast and Hawthorn. Speed kills

 

[Ridley]

Where is any pace in our team?????? I mean sustained speed and endurance. Who ??? I can our worst losses coming against Gold Coast and Hawthorn. Speed kills

There is no doubt we are very slow when the ball hits the deck. Really really slow.

 

[Ndts]

Hardwick’s first ten games were shizen and he already had the pillars in place.

Perspective, people.

Godwick was still coaching poorly six seasons later.

Six.

Completely agree. A fwd line of Ryan, Mansell, Bauer, MJ, Green and Campbell. Give me a break. None of them would get a game at another club at the moment. That would have been our VFL fwd line 2 years ago.

Tonight we had 10 players that have played between 3 to 24 games and another 5 that have played Zero AFL games.

Missing from tonight was Lynch, Balta, Dion, Gibcus, Ralph-Smith, Lefau plus Lalor and Smilie. They are some serious players. Still a bottom four side but much more competitive.

 

[Dev Tiger]

The Matt Clarke years will hurt for a fair while. We are so slow and vanilla in our small stocks it's hard to implement a game plan that will be competitive.

Trainior looked good tonight. Just get as many games into last year's draftees as possible once they are ready to play AFL. No point leaving them in the VFL if they are anywhere near the level.

 

[DavidSSS]

I just don't get why they would play Tarranto and Hopper together in the same midfield rotation. They are both a bit slow so you play one at a time with some quicker players. It has never made sense to me.

DS

 

[Feeling Tigerish]

Wont be doing himself any favours with uncompetitive thrashings, regardless of how inexperienced or young the side is. The media wolves will come for blood and the pressure will mount, and coaches generally dont survive that. Needs to find a way to make them more competitive, or he'll end up on the scrap heap, like many before him.

Im still hopefull that he can, but this year will test us all

 

[Coburgtiger]

I've said it before, but if you need to have 22 A grade gun players to be a good coach, then you're not a good coach.

A good coach maximises what they have, and minimises what they don't.

We are not playing to our strengths, and we are exposing our weaknesses.

I don't necessarily buy that what he's trying to do will only work with better players. But even if that is true, it's a stupid way to coach.

Nobody is expecting a premiership. But you absolutely can expect competitiveness.

On the flip side, I thought we held the ball in their forward line okay tonight. That is some semblance of structure.

But the same structural issues arose as they did all of last year, most obviously when we have the ball. We do not take the simple avenue to goal, while offering it up to the opposition. I've never seen any side, of any quality, so completely give away the corridor with zero protection.

 

[tha8ball]

Does he have that streak in him that demands a certain performance and drives non negotiable standards from his players?

 

[Rfc4Ever]

I think Yze is untouchable this year at least

 

[Tenacious]

I think Yze is untouchable this year at least

And that’s as it should be