If Not BB, Who?

[Thryleon]

Is Fisher achieving the same efficiency in addition to the same number of possessions?

If I made a subject assessment I'd think he's getting the footy as much as ever but he's not using it as well as last season, he's under more pressure this year. At least that is how it appears to me! :o

Accurate.  The stats show his clangers are up, but by the same token last season he was getting it more uncontested and this year he is more contested.

It shows he is working more inside than outside as well as wearing more pressure whilst in the process of taking posession.

Hence the decrease in efficiency.

Its all anecdotal anyway.  He is not as bad as advertised, and is playing as well as he can.

We play well in patches because we seem to do the team thing, playing the roles each player has been given. Then for some reason the team goes into shock or sleep and goes through the motions only to snap out of it to play well again to unluckily fall short.
Like Harford said with the girls, if they all follow the team plan for 4q then the reults will come and they did (except for the last game).
Play your role, follow the team game.
This is all being said hoping BB knows the Team's Plan first.  :o

I think this is a symptom of what our opposition are doing too. We are on top when we have our more experienced players doing the heavy lifting (Say Cripps and Murphy with SPS in tow) whilst in other rotations, (where its walsh, dow and Cripps) we might be facing our oppositions strongest on ball division.  Hence why our competitiveness drops off.  Its that transition.  When we can start taking one out, and bringing one in, with little effect our competitiveness will remarkably improve.

This is one way you know our issues are not coaching related.  Under Malthouse, by his third year, it was glaringly apparent that the only time we were competitive was when our opposition wasnt.  At the moment, our opposition is competitive, but we are simply being outgunned by more experienced players because we field a team who are simply less battle hardened and rely on older players that simply cannot stand up week in and week out.

Its also why Brisbane are "further ahead".  Their youth isnt as young and inexperienced as ours and their older players are 24/7 contributers as opposed to our lot that dont show up every week.