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TheBrownDog
We can because I’m definitely of the opinion they’re a factor just in other ways, but I’d highlight three matches where injuries were irrelevant and if we were a finals quality team we’d have won.
- Rd 3 against St Kilda only McStay was missing,
- Rd 16 against GC only McStay, Mitchell, Elliott and Cox were missing and
- Rd 17 against Essendon the same 4 were missing.
Those three flip to wins, which by ladder position a top 8 team should win with 19 of their best 23 available, and we’re currently outside the top 4 on %…
My view is that results are currently so unpredictable because the coaches box is having a bigger influence than ever before with styles getting exposed and exploited.
And we've haven't had a good year in the box.
The preseason changes didn't work and we got torn apart through the midfield - there's 3 games down.
After the bye some quality coaching saw that you could exploit the way we were defending and we were allowing chip kicks and back pedalling too hard,so we got locked into defence. Took too long to adjust. Another 3 games done.
Nil all draws to close out games was found out and we didn't adjust. The Sydney loss and the two draws. We were lucky that we didn't lose a few others with teams missing chances to hit the lead late.
Excellent work though to get us through the injury period.
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