Post Game Pondering: AFL 2020 Rd 9: Carlton vs Hawthorn

[LoveNavy]

One of the things that Teague does as a coach is one of the bad habits Ratts had when he was our coach: he is not willing to make position changes very quickly.
It is one thing to have a plan A and to trust it, to put faith in the players who have the jobs. But it is another not to make a change to alter the flow of the game.
When we have a few guys down, one of the best things for them to have a positional change. Barassi and Parkin were good enough at that: they were not dissing the guys who were moved and the players knew it. We haven't had a coach to really do that this century.

Good point Crash. A few others commented as much. We've heard DT say he prefers backing the players in. Whilst that's good for certain aspects, it has limitations. An experienced coach imo educates the players about when, why, and how variation to that ethos occur. The leaders on field are then responsible to execute change. Not sure we've got either coach or leadership practices to pull that off at this stage.
Hopefully it's identified in the "learnings" taken from the game. It will take time to amend and master. We know time is one of the game's most precocious commodities, so the heat remains.