Coach Fages and the coaching group

[Lazza16]

It’s such a lazy argument, unless there are clear positional changes people assume the coach isn’t doing anything.

Moving Zorko on the ball and getting McKenna on were match winning moves but really I think Fages attitude has always been about getting the game on our terms and sometimes that means backing the players in to get it together during games rather than making wholesale changes. I mean GWS went into ‘plan B’ mode and it cost them the game

I don't think Fages moved Zorks on the ball...he said in his interview with Robbo that Zorks just moved forward with wingers covering for him.

 

[martinson]

I don't think Fages moved Zorks on the ball...he said in his interview with Robbo that Zorks just moved forward with wingers covering for him.

He does it reasonably often if the game allows it's just that this week he kicked a couple of goals. We saw Berry sweeping across the back of the main bunch regularly during the game and then Ah Chee in the last quarter.

 

[Happy_Neale]

I don't think Fages moved Zorks on the ball...he said in his interview with Robbo that Zorks just moved forward with wingers covering for him.

Yeah that makes sense. He looked like he was following the ball a bit. Whatever they did it worked brilliantly

 

[dlanod]

Just wondering what has happened to Daniel Rich....is he still involved in the club? I haven't seen his head in any videos for ages?

Pretty sure he moved on earlier in the year.

 

[Elixuh]

Whatever happens this season, I hope the coaches are in a position to manage choc throughout the season next year. We couldn’t do it this year for obvious reasons but feels like choc has almost hobbled into the last two finals series due to the workload. I get the Brownlow angle last season and maybe even this. But I think that’s what we need to turn our eye to next year.

 

[Squizz89]

Whatever happens this season, I hope the coaches are in a position to manage choc throughout the season next year. We couldn’t do it this year for obvious reasons but feels like choc has almost hobbled into the last two finals series due to the workload. I get the Brownlow angle last season and maybe even this. But I think that’s what we need to turn our eye to next year.

Yep at his age we need to start being a bit smarter with how we manage him otherwise the end will come quicker than we want. Obviously this year our hands were tied a bit, but given the depth have in the midfield now and with the young guys coming through the draft, hopefully we put ourselves in a better position next year of not having to play catch up so we can rest a few more of the older guys.

That's my main concern for Saturday night. The win last week can go one of two ways, we can ride the momentum OR we have that many sore guys we are carrying now off the back of a huge season just to catch up, that we run out of legs again at the prelim final stage.

 

[martinson]

Yep at his age we need to start being a bit smarter with how we manage him otherwise the end will come quicker than we want. Obviously this year our hands were tied a bit, but given the depth have in the midfield now and with the young guys coming through the draft, hopefully we put ourselves in a better position next year of not having to play catch up so we can rest a few more of the older guys.

That's my main concern for Saturday night. The win last week can go one of two ways, we can ride the momentum OR we have that many sore guys we are carrying now off the back of a huge season just to catch up, that we run out of legs again at the prelim final stage.

A fully fit and rearing to go Neale is as good a player as there is in the game.

So if we're good enough to be contending it makes sense that we want him like that in the final 3 games.

 

[MacMum]

Hope you enjoyed the celebrations like everyone . Was thinking of you when I was pacing the house in that last quarter , because that’s what you do too .
This preliminary will be bittersweet for you too .
Take care

Thanks heaps....and yes it will be bittersweet too. At least I will have a team to cheer in the GF either way. For those that don't know, my son was a life long Cats supporter.

Not sure I will get to watch this game actually. My granddaughter and her family are flying overseas, daughter driving them down to the airport so we are all going out for a meal before they leave.....all right on game time.

It's probably just as well, I'd be a nervous wreck anyway, pacing at the first bounce..

 

[Johnny Bananas]

Just wondering what has happened to Daniel Rich....is he still involved in the club? I haven't seen his head in any videos for ages?

Plays for Noosa now. Assuming he lives there too, little bit of a hike to come down to Springfield, especially when you consider how awful traffic on the Bruce usually is.

 

[Tom14]

Kingy getting annoyed at Robbo on 360 for 'saying that I think that Chris Fagan is tactically inept'. "DON'T insinuate I've said something that I haven't said."

 

[BlackBrownWhite]

King not liking being called out and back pedalling ..


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[youtwo]

Well done by Robbo for calling King out. He has some sort of personal axe to grind with Fagan it seems.

King is the king of painting a narrative that can’t be wrong - i.e Brisbane wins - so they should as they have the best list - if they don’t it will be due to coaching.

 

[Grasshopper17]

All sounds very juicy. Can't wait to watch when I get home from the women's.

 

[rye]

im convinced king is an android controlled by the laptop he carries around everywhere

 

[Tom14]

im convinced king is an android controlled by the laptop he carries around everywhere

Heard from someone the other week that Kingy has a clause in his contract ensuring he gets the laptop on tv every week lol.

 

[Schache_off]

King references Geelong's last 6 weeks of the season and that they are the no.1 stoppage team.

Smashed by the Dogs.
Smashed North
Close win over Crows at home
Good win over Freo in Perth
Lost to Saints
Flogged the Eagles at home

Not the best stat to cherry pick. They played 2 of the worst teams for the year and it was hardly convincing form heading into finals, hence why the result against Port was such a surprise. He really thinks they are God like.

 

[Squizz89]

The **** are we watching here? This is so cringe.

 

[T Rick]

So Robbo thinks that King has a vendetta against Fages...has Robbo caught on at last!

 

[Nathan Barley]

The **** are we watching here? This is so cringe.

Someone needs to put a compilation together each week of the stupid shit he says and then pose a nonsensical question in his own style

Will be hard to limit the lowlights package to under an hour though

 

[ZoBlitz]

Someone needs to put a compilation together each week of the stupid shit he says and then pose a nonsensical question in his own style

Will be hard to limit the lowlights package to under an hour though

Reminds me of that fan-made montage that's sadly been deleted of Kingy writing off Geelong over multiple weeks from 2011.

 

[Grasshopper17]

The **** are we watching here? This is so cringe.

Good on Robbo. Never thought I'd say that

The really weird thing is I'm up to the halfway point of the 3rd quarter, we're 6 goals down and I STILL don't think we're playing that badly! (Which supports my original perception watching live at the ground) We've had a couple of skill errors, a couple of decision making errors, a couple of unlucky bounces and the Giants have been good enough to make us pay. To that stage that's pretty much the difference in the game.

It really feels like I'm watching a completely different game to all the "experts" who claimed they'd never seen a more limp exit from a season, that we were playing as tho we'd given up, etc etc etc.

But yeah something something bad coaching something something

 

[Elixuh]

a few days ago I saw an image of kingy at the commentators desk at a game and someone has photoshopped the laptop to be giant and all you can see is the top of his head behind it.

Bloke is an absolute fraud and a *******. Can’t wait to watch it when I get home from the womens.

 

[Elixuh]

lmaooooooo

 

[Tom14]

Good on Robbo. Never thought I'd say that

The really weird thing is I'm up to the halfway point of the 3rd quarter, we're 6 goals down and I STILL don't think we're playing that badly! (Which supports my original perception watching live at the ground) We've had a couple of skill errors, a couple of decision making errors, a couple of unlucky bounces and the Giants have been good enough to make us pay. To that stage that's pretty much the difference in the game.

It really feels like I'm watching a completely different game to all the "experts" who claimed they'd never seen a more limp exit from a season, that we were playing as tho we'd given up, etc etc etc.

But yeah something something bad coaching something something

The shots they showed of poor coaching were us committing horrendous turnovers for the most part.

Like Rayner winning the ball at half forward, hand balling backwards into the centre square to 4 giants half forwards - of course that presents a problem?

I don’t get how we have the best list but they are also all flaky who can’t be trusted. Because that’s the consensus view I see from the media.

The previews and coverage have been kinda unbelievable. This is a cats team that lost to St Kilda about a month ago to lose second spot, not the 2022 team which was all conquering. They faced an easier schedule, and took advantage of it.

I think the cats are the favourites definitely, and a large part of that is coaching, but the media chat this week has been very very weird.

 

[Tom14]

lmaooooooo

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