Football Department Review

[kruddler]

Possibly, but Murphy has played a different role in the reserves; one that suits his skillset and one that he is used to.

...and maybe that is the role they want him to play in the 1's from here. Heaven forbid, play a player to their strengths?!

[ElwoodBlues1]

Forget about Murphy.  The question is whether our players understand their roles.  Several posters have remarked on how our players seem confused.  If a bloke who is approaching his 300th game has to have his role clarified by the reserves coach (who seems to know what he is doing), is there a communication problem that is hampering our ability to execute the gameplan?

Jones, Weitering, Walsh dont seem confused.....think we are confusing laziness with confusion.
The coach deserves better than what the players are delivering in terms of workrate, every week you look at analysis from different experts and its a lot of the same players just not working hard enough and letting down the team.

[Thryleon]

How we have players that aren't confused is a mini miracle.

Murphys on his 6th Senior afl coach.

He's also been relegated to roles he's never played before because he was straight into the number one mid role.

[Gointocarlton]

Typo, was meant to say 40+.
All the data I've looked at has been comparing 40 games.

A likely story

[Gointocarlton]

I actually think it is quite unfair to compare BB and The TT. Each had very different briefs. One was to rebuild and teach the fundamentals, the other to play finals.

Agree, but ones brief changed mid shag.

[madbluboy]

The review starts Monday apparently, I thought they started 2 weeks ago.

[ElwoodBlues1]

The review starts Monday apparently, I thought they started 2 weeks ago.

Ross Lyon intimated 4 weeks ago......

[LoveNavy]

Ross Lyon intimated 4 weeks ago......

Ross Lyon says a lot of things. I have zip confidence that any more than 7/8 of 4.2% is accurate. The rest, twaddle ?

[Baggers]

Agree, but ones brief changed mid shag.

Yep, I mentioned previously that BBs brief altered in year 3.

[DJC]

Jones, Weitering, Walsh dont seem confused.....think we are confusing laziness with confusion.
The coach deserves better than what the players are delivering in terms of workrate, every week you look at analysis from different experts and its a lot of the same players just not working hard enough and letting down the team.

The whole team is confused EB. 

I don’t accept that our list is rubbish or that there’s a cultural problem.  We’re not challenging for the eight because our selectors are influenced more by what’s good for boosting membership numbers and protecting reputations than winning games.  How else does Jack Martin get games?

The coach needs to lift his game at pressers, admit that his gameplan isn’t working, tweak it where possible, and insist that team selection is based on merit.

The coach deserves nothing more than what he and his assistants put into the team and I think that Teague has a way to go before he can expect his team to match it with the better sides.

Take last week’s game; our best player was subjected to a hard tag and had no influence at all until he was moved to the wing for the last quarter.  It’s not the players’ fault that the coaches haven’t anticipated the hard tag and come up with tactics to defeat it.

The coach gets what he deserves and he needs to lift his game.