Casboult to CHB

[Thryleon]

I'm yet to see a game plan that can make best use of our playing list, I can't help but feel in recent times we are trading heavily to find "players who fit the plan" rather than "building a plan to fit the players." In this regard I now believe coaching is our weakest link.

That's a chicken and egg argument.

What came first the game plan or the players to play it?

The problem we have had, is having too many different types of player, which resulted in having to change the game plan to suit the players.  This results in sub optimal performance by a team over a longer period of time, due to having to adjust everything and having players have to change the process to get results.

Everyone knows that the definition of madness is to repeat the same process expecting different results.

Therefore, implement a process (a game plan) and then recruit to suit it, and you will then get repeatable results.

The problem you are therefore seeing is, that we have yet to identify a game plan that we believe can work for us to recruit for.




Stripping it right back, the AFL have created this problem, because they implement rule changes to fix symptom A, which result in symptoms of problem B, C, D, which means that the game keeps changing meaning that clubs have to then change things up to suit new rules.


Moving forward, we need to identify a method of playing football, that is repeatable by the majority of different types of player, in order to come up with a game plan, that is going to be succesful irrespective of what the current rules are, in order to achieve anything.  What that means is choosing whom you recruit to suit your game plan and playing group, rather than simply recruiting the best talent available, which is where we have failed in the past.

We put together a group of talented players, that have been lacking in some facets.