Coach Adam Simpson Megathread est. 2017 - Staying for 2024, Lyon’s Cryin’
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And a year after he signed his massive extension.
Interesting snippet at around the 15 minute mark acknowledging that there has been about 10-12 changes before this season new dietitian, GM, Development coach, Head of development and strength coach. Basically irrespective of whether he is there or not the pathway to getting back to being a powerhouse has started.
Except we have the same D grade GM we had last year (Bell). The guy must be the most lacking out of any in the league.
Well he went from Football Manager to General Manager Football replacing Vozzo? I personally have no idea if that's the same role in a different name or what. Not sure if Sherman is still their in a football operations role and what if anything that has to do with the on-field performance. Anyway at least some changes are being made.
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We could have been had we ditched the "corale and intercept" game plan that was evidently past it's used by date one third of the way through 2020.
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There's only 2 big ones (albeit, they are really big):
1. Didn't change the game plan
2. Allow players to have skinfolds and be unfit.
To a lesser degree, the CITB scheme probably hurt us - but that's assumes Simmo should have gone harder to get the players to execute his "have to be perfect or it's a bust" game plan. So it's sort of an alternate option to Point 1.
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he pretty much started the rebuild in 2022. So it's one season after you suggest. I've seen teams carry on in denial for 5-6 seasons before they realised a rebuild was needed. That was us after 1994. Richmond are possibly heading that way now.
Jesus Christ mate. Since 2022 we are among the worst football teams to ever play AFL. This isn't a planned rebuild it's imposed. There's been zero strategy to this "rebuild". We will scape up draftees like beggers for no other reason than we suck.
In Fitzpatrick's letter yesterday(most people either missed it, or didn't mention it) he stated along the lines of they'll be hitting the draft hard for the next couple of years. For me, that takes us through tot he end of 2025, which coincidentally, is also the end of Simmo's contract.
Perhaps they actually did plan this whole thing out, hence the contract length, to determine whether he's the best person moving forward, or to give someone else a shot.
Either way, they do indeed have a strategy. I don't think supporters are going to like it very much in the short-term though.
Exactly.
It’s equivalent to criticising Melbourne for not commencing their rebuild at end of 2022. Ship pretty much everyone out. It’s insane.
That's an interesting theoretical, but not remotely what Simpson said.
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Well all I’m going off is the club’s tweet. I haven’t seen the presser.
“We could have everyone available and we wouldn’t be dropping him.” “He is one game away from turning it around.”
How else am I supposed to take it?
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I agree its not a great comment given backing in of senior non-performing players in the past, but I guess his comment could have been meant for this week/ right at the moment. They don't think his form has been bad enough, long enough to drop him and being our leading goal kicker over his career of current players, they will back him in a bit longer to turn it around. I would prefer if he said that though but I didn't hear the full comments so the tweet may sound worse than it is.
or just use snipping tool
It's been a combination of us rebuilding, but not going hard enough by holding onto a few players that we should have gotten rid of and the horror injury run (could be the clubs fault, could just be luck).
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There was a clear plan which has gone completely belly up because of injuries/everyone having Covid early last year. You could argue it was a stupid plan (possibly successfully), but there was a clear plan.
If anything, the total failure of the plan will speed up our rebuild by giving us much better draft picks.
Probably not by imposing elite form on a WAFL player why has never demonstrated it and implying that, in that scenario, said player would not be selected on merit by Simpson and the selection committee.
Simpson's comment merely implied that Darling is one of the three tall forwards selected at this time from our entire seniors squad (should there be no injuries).
I don't think it is reasonable to hold Simpson to this statement should another player's form justify selection as a key forward as I don't read Simpson as giving Darling preference over a player who is in better form, that is to say, he is dealing with the here and now, not with future scenarios.
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If I was Simmo I'd sack myself so I wouldn't have to couch these plodders anymore.
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