The Afl gave us this shit team. She can only do what she can, with what she has got. She deserves to be given some time with better players available. We have improved. Which considering our list and major loses to personnel this season, is a bloody good effort
Losing to a bottom 4 team has got nothing to do with players selected 6 years ago.
No need. Very few teams have had the expansion teams damage them as much as we have. He may have had just as much trouble as Lisa. Who knows.
Edit: missed the Hawks game too... obviously d'uh. So yes 2 + games.Just looking at the numbers East had 10 tackles in each of her last two full games in rounds 3 & 4 so there's a bit to search with there. That's approaching on Bowers territory... almost.
She actually only missed 1.5 weeks in the end though, getting concussed in r5.
And she only debuted in '22, so it's a little harsh putting strong judgements on that year especially.
Would love them to give some time to Tuhakaraina. She's worth a spot IMO.
I've been impressed with Webb's coaching chops. She's got something.
Bowers still shits all over our bottom 10 players
and we are missing Stannett and Bowers
I'm a bit confused. We have lack talent and no plan/bad coaching. We must be the luckiest side around with the outcomes we've been getting...
Our forward line had 30 players in it pretty much the whole game theirs didn't. Who is responsible for that?I'm a bit confused. We have lack talent and no plan/bad coaching. We must be the luckiest side around with the outcomes we've been getting...
Generally it seems we look to get extra numbers around the contest and then look to outnumber around the inside contest, while still having numbers outside to release it to and then get it into the corridor if we can.
Daniel Harford, when he commentated our game a few weeks back was contrasting the game plans nicely.
Unfortunately we tend to fall into a comfort game where we look for whatever space seems safer. This can push us more boundary side (eg those slow wheeling around to the preferred kicking boot actions), rather than taking more direct attacking angles.
The forward play is a bit of a mess (were not lone rangers there though). Me, I'd ban all set shots outside of 30m. We'd be much better off trying to pepper that 30m hotspot. And maybe ensure we have someone in the attacking goal square more often and more numbers streaming back into the forward line with those entries to crumb the loose ball.
The same Daniel Harford who got sacked as Carlton's AFLW coach?
Getting sacked is an occupational hazard as a coach (the club includes Leigh Matthews and Malcolm Blight). Are you saying sacked coaches are incapable of good analysis?
No i just don't know what a commentators "expert" opinion a few weeks back has anything to do what happened yesterday. If you can't see that both teams went about it differently yesterday, particularly in each forward line and if you can't see we are a much better team than Carlton, yet we lost at home it's pointless discussing it further.
Players across the league can fall into ball watching and being reactive. Normally we quite good at paying with less reactivity. Especially after breaks and half time. I'd give that credit to Webb getting to refresh that message to players.
You were saying essentially there is no evidence of a game plan...were you not?
I said they were big losses, I've never said we don't have the talent.
So you think we were coached well?
Yesterday was very disappointing, no doubt. It's hard in such a short season to be losing games like that and it starts to undo the big advantage we had with the away wins (the hub giveth and the hub taketh away
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Yes, but that's a different argument. Mine is about the now and our coaching yesterday. Anyway, I've said what I needed, I like you as a poster, so let's leave it at that.
Not sure how the coaching went, not being in the inside. Sometimes the players are just off.
