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Easily(who should have easily had 3 premierships with the amount of A grade talent).
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Easily(who should have easily had 3 premierships with the amount of A grade talent).
What years are you referring to?Easily
That famously ruthless move of giving people farewell games.Simmo is just too soft.
Schoey (and maybe Jetta??) not getting a farewell!.
2014-2020 we shouldve won all of. 2013 I'll cut him a little slack because I guess we technically only hired him in OctoberWhat years are you referring to?
- Some truly appalling team selection at times. Eg multiple Brander appearances while Waterman was overlooked.
focus on BRANDER & CAMERON development.
Let's summarise...
In an 18 team comp Simpson has taken us to 28% of the available Grand Finals.
He is one of only 4 premiership winning coaches during his time.
The highest draft pick the club has had access to in the past decade is pick #4, where we selected Gaffy. We have had no top 10 picks since then.
I understand that it is frustrating watching our guys seemingly averse to the contest but there are plenty of teams that look fierce at the contest who suck balls *coughDeesFreocough*
Let me preface with I like Adam Simpson a lot. Honestly, I do.
However...
Simmo is just too soft
But remember when Sam Mitchell threw a Gatorade bottle and single handedly won us the flag?
This is 1000% correct. I have said it repeatedly, on occasion, those boys need a bake at points during the season when they are playing like crap or a game is on the line.
Simpson, for whatever reason cannot or absolutely refuses to do it. Thus, one of two things need to happen:
-Simpson stops trying to play guidance counsellor and starts getting mean on occasion (highly unlikely)
Or
-He gets himself an absolute head kicker of an assistant coach to "outsource" a spray when those boys need it.
When we made the grand final in 2015 and 2018 its no accident: in 2015 we had Pike, and in 2018 we had Mitchell as chief assistant coaches. Its not the tactical part Simpson needs help with, he has that capacity in spades. The reason he needed the aforementioned assistants is that they weren't afraid to kick heads on occasion when Simpson refused to do it when needed.
As an example: Cue to 3 quarter time in the 2018 qualifying final against Collingwood: we are down with the game on the line. What happened? Sam Mitchell took the midfield boys aside and gave, from all account's, one of the all time great bakes they had ever had.
We duly won the game.
Simpson needs to either harden up, or, get himself an assistant coach with some real mongrel again.
The later scenario is infinitely more probable.
Jesus christ we lost by 1 point. The dancing on our grave has been unbelievable.
Brander was chosen multiple times initially before Waterman was injured, so yeah. He didn’t just come in when Waterman was injured.Jake Waterman played 10 games this year from 17. He missed four with the broken hand, so assuming he was fully healthy that means there were three times Simpson could have picked Waterman and didn’t.
Brander, having played once in 2018 and twice in 2019, this season finally got selected in back to back games for the first time in his life. Eight games in total, three while Waterman was injured, and dropped before finals.
Waterman has played 39 games in the time that Brander has played 11.
Now let’s turn our attention to your post from the “changes you’d like in 2021” thread.
But you really do like Adam Simpson, honestly.
If we won by a point, we still wouldn’t have managed Queensland. So writing was always on the wall.IF we won by a point would people still be melting?
erm... no need for hostility. I love Simpson, and I was listing reasons why we won’t be winning another flag under him...Let me preface this by saying I like Adam Simpson a lot. Anyway, here are all the reasons why I don’t like Adam Simpson.
Yawn.
Brander was chosen multiple times initially before Waterman was injured, so yeah. He didn’t just come in when Waterman was injured.
All those games we could have used Waterman rather than Brander. Maybe look back at the post game threads form the early painful hub games...
For 2021, need to focus development on Brander and Cameron, especially Brander. Otherwise trade him.
And yes, I LOVE Simmo. But we’ve reached our peak with him.
I haven’t called for him to be sacked. A handy tough assistant would be nice though... as others have said, Don Pyke and Sam Mitchell may have been the difference...2 grand finals, including a flag, in his last 6 years with. Reinvented the game plan numerous times proving he's not a one trick pony.
He's been more successful over the last 6 years than Freo, St Kilda, GWS, GC, Bulldogs, Norf, Dees or Blues have been in the last 20 years.
Yeah sack the flog!