The emotive stuff rallies fans, but just like a Trumpism it can also damage clubs if it becomes too popular, because reality is it offers now substantive solutions.
While I like the the enthusiasm for our club, most of the Youtube stuff is ball watching hysteria, and a bit naivé.
Aussie Rules at AFL level is quite formulaic, like a chess game, clubs have reflex moves that unroll if A does B we do C, and often the "obvious" solution to our problems aren't really solutions at all!
I can't say we ever had a better coaching panel in the last 20 years than we have right now, I have to trust them to find their way through the mire. It's a puzzle that has to be solved whenever a club builds expectation, because with expectation comes opposition focus.
At the weekend I watched a VAFA game, thank-you AFL for buggering off and giving me a reason to get to grass roots footy. I saw a team win the the bulk of the contests, outplay the opposition, and still be 8 goals down at 3/4 time, all because of one simple flaw in the game plan. At 3/4-time the coach made a move, just shifted one player, and that team stormed home to win by 9 pts in the last quarter, that is Aussie Rules, a puzzle. If that coach had panicked and started shuffling the cards, he probably would not have got the result.
Fans often emotively call for scorched earth policy but often that just sets the club and the team back!
While I like the the enthusiasm for our club, most of the Youtube stuff is ball watching hysteria, and a bit naivé.
Aussie Rules at AFL level is quite formulaic, like a chess game, clubs have reflex moves that unroll if A does B we do C, and often the "obvious" solution to our problems aren't really solutions at all!
I can't say we ever had a better coaching panel in the last 20 years than we have right now, I have to trust them to find their way through the mire. It's a puzzle that has to be solved whenever a club builds expectation, because with expectation comes opposition focus.
At the weekend I watched a VAFA game, thank-you AFL for buggering off and giving me a reason to get to grass roots footy. I saw a team win the the bulk of the contests, outplay the opposition, and still be 8 goals down at 3/4 time, all because of one simple flaw in the game plan. At 3/4-time the coach made a move, just shifted one player, and that team stormed home to win by 9 pts in the last quarter, that is Aussie Rules, a puzzle. If that coach had panicked and started shuffling the cards, he probably would not have got the result.
Fans often emotively call for scorched earth policy but often that just sets the club and the team back!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"