03-11-2018, 11:51 PM
(03-11-2018, 11:10 PM)LP link Wrote:Yet after 2010 they didn't win a flag, and Malthouse got the kibosh in 2012!
Dane Swan, Scott Pendlebury, Dale Thomas, Luke Ball, Dayne Beams, Travis Cloke, Heath Shaw, Leon Davis, Steele Sidebottom were all at the top of their game, supported by Didak, Brown, Krakour and Jolly. It wasn't a bad list!
They probably should have won 2011 and 2012 as well, it not unreasonable to think the ridiculously heavy workload game plan was the reason they didn't!
Malthouse didn't coach anywhere in 2012 - he finished up at the Pies at the end of 2011.
I think the Pies lost the 2011 GF partly because Mick had a bad hair day in the coaches box, and partly because of all the emotions regarding the handover to Buckley. I doubt it had anything to do with the players being tired.