Post Game Analysis: AFL 2021 Rd 5: Carlton vs Port Adelaide

[kruddler]

Tell me one coaching change over the last twenty years you didn't agree with Kruddler.
I'll give you Brittain...but no others.
Their time had come.

I actually have no problems with the off-field admin stuff, we're going  OK.

Their time HAD come.....but why.....because the external pressure had become too great.

TBH, Pagan was the only one i was pushing for to get the flick.
I conceded that the time had come for Ratten, Malthouse and Bolton to go, but i was in their corner right up until the end.
From memory, i was on board with Ratten until we lost the GC game. He was sacked that week.
I was on board with Bolton until the bombers game. He was sacked that week.
I can't recall the exact week i jumped off Malthouse, but i'm still a defender of his today because he was (again) used as a scape goat and inevitably had to go when he did. NOT because he couldn't coach, but because he didn't have the support....of the club (including its 'supporters').

I think this site has all the above from me in writing on here if anyone wants to dig through it, so this is not hindsight talking.

But....coaches had to go because of the pressure...Not because of ability.

This is why i had an argument with you about the pressure on Teague "already" because i could see the same pattern forming.
Pressure builds too soon, and it has a snowballing effect, a self fulfilling prophecy, which has no other way to end than with a sacking. I want to stop the pressure building at the start in the hope that it gives enough time for the coach to actually perform, rather than that time being brought forward due to impatience.

...and yes here is where the supporters will say...."but i've been patient for 20+ years...." blah blah. No, you haven't been patient. You've sat through 20+ years, but like everyone else, you've been b!tching that whole time. As i said, i get it. People need to b!tch, but once thats out of your system, look at it through unbiased glasses and assess the situation on its merits, without using past history as justification for current trends.