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Damien Hardwick
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Both those rules were setbacks to our preferred style but the reality is the most talented teams should still prevail.
Ummmm. Leppa was a *smile* senior coach at Brisvegas, yet a triple premiership assistant coach with us. Whatsisface the Doofus from Carlscum might yet end up a successful assistant coach one day.
We don't win clearances, so start each passage of play on the back foot.
We don't flick the ball outside to utilise our non exsistent precision skills, we try to force through congestion with chaos n mayhem.
We no longer control the elite pressure factor of previous years.
We've been worked out and improved upon and our response to this on field has been a *smile*, petulant attitude that's getting worse.
We are still acting like hero's but our football has gone backwards.
Fox or Footyshitified showed that we have won 2 drawn 1 lost 7 or 8 since the bye 2021.
That's bottom 4 form.
Our backline was set, you wouldve been able to coach Astbury Grimes Houli Broad BiGV and Rance
That's a top class backline.
This for me is the most succinct and accurate diagnosis of where the Tiger are at.
And a cohort of champions past their prime which will be finished before we have the right balance of talented kids that can have a sustained influence on a season.
This is why 2018 will always hurt so much.
this is part of the reason I'm confused as to why last year when we were clearly below par with injury and form that we didn't play more of the kids. it's like there was a weird 'if we make finals we're a chance' mentality within the club, but i don't think we were anywhere near it. playing the kids may have introduced new energy and to maybe try new systems. this is where i think our dimensions are limited.
Ultimately we've had an exceptional core group of talented players for a decade that are aging.
Dimma is only as good as the players at his disposal. He's said as much himself.
There will come a time in the not too distant future where our 3 time Premiership coach moves on too.
Dimma is only as good as the players at his disposal. He's said as much himself.
There will come a time in the not too distant future where our 3 time Premiership coach moves on too.
He did play kids.
Sampson against Melbourne didn't touch it.
Collier dawkins played against Collingwood but left at half time.
Dow got games
Ralphsmith got games
Are our kids any good? should be the question?
Yes. Teague became senior coach at Carlscum because he was a highly rated and successful assistant. As was Leppa before he went to Brisbane and some others.
Just because Teague was not a success as a senior coach doesn’t mean that he has suddenly lost his ability to be a successful assistant.
The most devo I have ever been at a game of footy was halftime of the 2018 prelim and halfway through the last qtr of the 2013 elimination final.
What made it worse was that one was against Lollingwood and the other Carlscum
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Promoting people until they reach their level of incompetence happens in all industries. It's very common.
sure Zig. playing Sampson was dumb. RCD not played enough. Dow and Hugo got a couple, but pretty sure Hugo got dropped after playing a decent game? are they good enough? give them some consistency and they might become better, and that's the point i was making about last year ..
Of the youngsters n fringies at the club only Biggie n the Cummerbund didn't get senior game time. Obviously if the club had been able to get it's regular seniors onto the park and match fit, then everyone would have believed we could have been genuine contenders, unfortunately *smile* happened all year long instead.
The magoos had barely any football for two years running so it would have been extremely difficult for any of them to be able to establish themselves at senior level, especially when there were so many filling holes at the same time. It's usually one or two up n coming at a time who get plenty of coverage from the established seniors, it was often four or five at a time trying to cover n play senior roles.
Ross, Aarts, RCD, Dow, Mansell, Ryan, CCJ, Chol, Martyn, Stack, Ralphsmith, Miller all got a look at senior footy, some only one or two games n a few got a good look.
Personally I would have loved to see the Cummerbund strut his stuff for a couple of games, but I'm not sure what else the club could have done to get games into players while still trying to field a competitive side each week.
