yandb said:
You mean the attacking style that most clubs embraced this year?
The attacking style that many of the teams in the top eightuse.
The attacking style that Hardwick refused to embrace and persist with his ugly handbreak style that turned the fans off.
The attacking style that wins games
Now why would we want our club to play that fan friendly attacking style when we can watch our club loose with Hardwick's handbreak style.
Everyone wants to watch open fast fan friendly attacking footy, it's fun and exciting even if you don't win because your side is usually always within striking distance of winning the game.
Probably a dumb question but I'll run with it anyway.
How much of the ugly handbrake footy is Dimma n how much is simply the players confusion and inability to execute under pressure?
We've seen them play fast attacking footy over the years, sometimes win, sometimes lose n other times cough up strong leads n control of the game.
We've seen them play tempo footy with similar results.
We've seen them play hard in your face contested footy again with similar results.
We've seen them execute more skill errors n poor decision making when under minimal pressure than most sides for often horrible results.
We've now come to the point where the players seem more in self preservation mode taking the cheap n easy safe sideways or backwards option, they often lose discipline n structure during a game with a bunch of players hovering around a contest n then all plodding in a group through midfield as the opposition scythes the ball wide into space n tears holes through us.
Perhaps the simplest answer is that we're simply not as good as we'd like to think we are, at our best we're a fairly handy side n when not at our best we can deteriorate to rabble very quickly. There's been plenty of variations to the way we try n play footy over the last four years n maybe we just aren't quite good enough at any of them to be considered a genuine top team.
