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

[Lods]

While in perception it may be true, in reality Teague is still just a beginner for a variety of reasons, he needs to be judged in his 3rd year.

Why do I think this;

• Firstly, he is a newbie with new tricks, opposition coaches are yet to see or learn them, it takes a few games before they are prepared for coaching against Teague so in the short term he has an advantage in this area. The Dawks are probably his worst case, as BB has all the inside guff so Teague's advantage is minimised!
  
  
  
• Secondly, he is yet to be exposed to all the tricks of opposition coaches so he has to learn them, this is his big disadvantage. It's easy to learn about opposition players, even your own players, you have so much video available on them. But it is too hard to tell from video what was a coaches move and what was a player acting with initiative.
  
  
  
• Thirdly, our team still has relatively little experience of Teague's style and what works and what doesn't. So the players will do stuff outside the plan, acting with initiative or in the old ways that they think might help, it might help but it can also unravel Teague's plans. It takes a season or two to get this right.
  
  
  
• Finally, Teague has to demonstrate that once opposition coaches get a handle on his style that he can do something outside the box. Something that sets his team free of opposition countermeasures. It's not something you can learn overnight, and I doubt you can ever learn it as 2IC no matter how long you've been there. It's a big chair thing, and is as much about player management as it is about team tactics.
  

Teague isn't  in any immediate  strife....and two years+ is probably about the time frame before any serious  moves come.
I probably should have added a few smiley emoticons with my 'honeymoon over' comments.
It was a bit of 'self-forum depreciation'
I was thinking more  in terms of the way the forums/facebook pages tend to work.

Any new coach gets a bit of a honeymoon period  but then slowly the criticisms come....just a trickle at the  start but if there is lack of success that criticism grows.
The 'taller the poppy' the quicker the criticism.
That's the very core of these places...we all see things a little differently. We sometimes don't consider aspects before others point them out.

A coach's demise is not usually a sudden thing. It's a trickle effect and very much result driven.
That's why the "We have to give them time!" argument for officials, admin, coaches and players doesn't really fit the discussion/ forum model.
It's an ongoing evaluation process.
Teague certainly has a few years to prove himself but as he works to create success his performance will continue to attract scrutiny...and that will be very much based on performance and results.
That's the nature of his job.