07-07-2018, 11:10 AM
(07-07-2018, 10:56 AM)PaulP link Wrote:If we don't have the talent, why sack the coach ? Won't the next coach have the same problems ? Since 2000, we've had Parkin, Brittain, Pagan, Ratten, Malthouse, Barker and Bolton. That must be close to an AFL/VFL record, even if you take Barker out. And look where we are. And yet people think we should sack Bolton.We continue to pick the wrong coaches. Brittain, who had never played the game, took us from PF to the spoon in two years, we took Pagan and Malthouse on reputation as hopeful messiahs, old coaches way past their best, game had passed them by, and Bolton, the other extreme, young coach who, like Brittain had never played AFL, never a great idea with a zero success rate with Victorian clubs, who's not up to the task of a big rebuild.
The one that did improve us against the odds was Ratten and we sacked him with an 11-10 record just to show what a decent coach can do. We'd kill for that. He took us from the pits of shite to finalists in two years with a pretty average side hampered by poor recruiting. Cream at the top, shite at the bottom.
No, a good coach will improve things. Beveridge being a good example. Dogs were below us when he took over and they were premiers within two years. We are going backwards at a million miles an hour, can't go on like this.