I'm sure that Clarkson has lost none of his coaching skills but has proved this year with Hawthorn that a coach can only do so much with a list containing too many below average players.
If players do not have the skills and/or mental ability to carry out instructions then a coach has no choice but to dumb down the game plan.
Our rebuild has been a failure. The list is overloaded with below average players caused by poor draft choices and failure to plan for the future.
Teague may or may not be a good coach, but how will we ever know considering the list he has to choose from? The cupboard is bare - he was handed a poisoned chalice.
For those of us old enough to remember - Carlton of today reminds me of the sides in the past that strong Carlton teams would blow away in one quarter of good football.
I wonder whether our fade outs towards the end of so many quarters is due to players giving 100 per cent concentration trying to play to instruction, not being good enough, and mental fatigue setting in.
If players do not have the skills and/or mental ability to carry out instructions then a coach has no choice but to dumb down the game plan.
Our rebuild has been a failure. The list is overloaded with below average players caused by poor draft choices and failure to plan for the future.
Teague may or may not be a good coach, but how will we ever know considering the list he has to choose from? The cupboard is bare - he was handed a poisoned chalice.
For those of us old enough to remember - Carlton of today reminds me of the sides in the past that strong Carlton teams would blow away in one quarter of good football.
I wonder whether our fade outs towards the end of so many quarters is due to players giving 100 per cent concentration trying to play to instruction, not being good enough, and mental fatigue setting in.