08-07-2022, 11:24 PM
(08-07-2022, 11:14 PM)Lods link Wrote:The thing with the injuries is that they have a cumulative effect.
Players are asked to lift to cover them, and they can do it for a while, but as the season drags on that becomes harder and takes it's toll.
We have a few players who desperatley need 'managing' (either on or off field) but as we accumulate more injuries we don't have that luxury.
We also assume that as injured players return they'll slot striaght back in as good as they were when they left.
The majority just don't.
Fair post Lods. I'm also wondering if this is a year of learning, not just for the players, but for Voss as well. If you listen to his pressers regularly, his focus on contest is beyond any coach I've ever heard. The whole "contest" thing is ubiquitous among coaches, almost to the point that it justifies its own meme. But with Voss it seems at a whole other level. I'm just speculating, but I wonder if he has no Plan B (another footy cliche) and that his belief that you will struggle if you don't win the contest (or break even) seems to be rubbing off on the players ? Our transition game from D50 is not great, and it's been noted so often that it will lose the contest we look pretty ordinary. Just some random musings on my part.