05-06-2015, 02:17 PM
(05-06-2015, 01:36 PM)Thryleon link Wrote:You can't compare a footy team to soccer.
Chelsea have the biggest budget in European football. They buy the most expensive attacking players and then play a defensive system.
By even mentioning them you miss the point.
They can buy a new team like we used to back with form 4's
In afl not everyone is on the market, and you can't rotate your squad as quickly in the off season. It takes time or you go backwards.
In Afl things are cyclical. We cut our up short anticipating the up wouldn't get high enough. Maybe too early or not.
Be honest can you see us improving in Port Adelaide fashion, if we change coach and if so why?
Is it the amazing key position talent?
The United board pursuing excellence?
Do we have a home ground advantage?
An abundance of talent stifled by our game plan so that they can no longer hit targets, Hunt the footy, or defend in any capacity?
I'm dying to hear why, the cause for such optimistic expectation under a new coach when carrots, Simpson and Judd are looking a bit tired and the rest below fail to fire weekly.
Bang on. It is inconceivable that a change of coach will suddenly see a bunch of average players become world beaters. So many disfunctional organisations think in the terms of change the top dog and it will turn things around. It has rarely, if ever been a good ploy, and i have worked in some places with such a mentality. In the artificial environment of league footy with salary caps et al it is even less likely to work.
What a sudden change of top dog usually does is either nothing, or chaos as they attempt a whole raft of changes.
I hope Malthouse sticks on and is given a couple of years to keep going. I have no fondness for the guy, he is cantankerous and presents poorly in the media. But, he is not doing the job he was hired to do by a delusional board. The role has changed into a longer term construction of a competitive club from the board down, not just a team that runs out each week. This has ben rocky but appears to have settled.
What is in our favour is that Malthouse is one of the very few I imagine that could front the board and not pull punches about where we are at as an organisation. I cannot see many others sitting with that goulish mob and telling them they have wrecked the joint and it is time to shut up and listen. Something must have got through because we are changing some things. New staff have come in, some poor performers have left, and our drafting for the past two years has direction. Malthouse also knows and has experienced what is required to turn a club and a team around.
There is alot of heavy lifting to come, but the job has started. Flicking the coach for either another old hand or a newbie is not going to get the job done any better, and most likely it would stall.