Coach Fages and the coaching group

[LongLion]

Just bring in Ross Lyon, bring in luke hodge as a full time assistant …. Pay out fagan and move on.

I would cancel my 25+ years game membership. I don't go to games to watch stagnant boring sh*t

 

[Tom14]

Just bring in Ross Lyon, bring in luke hodge as a full time assistant …. Pay out fagan and move on.

Yep let's bring in the guy who has made footy unwatcheable and there was so much toxic background (staffer paid out for harassment at freo) that even Carlton wouldn't touch him last year!!!

 

[Jeremiah001]

I am not sure replacing one particular player like a Gardner or an Answerth is going to fix much done back. We have gone chips in on building the back half around Andrews and for whatever reason (injury, system) he hasn't been playing anywhere near the standard he set a couple of years ago.

Both Gardner and Andrews look like they need six months off to try and get themselves right (no chance of that happening). We didn't have the luxury of gradually introducing these two through the reserves. They have shouldered a mountain of work right from the get go and I think we are seeing the results of that now.

The midfield looks fixable with regeneration via a youth injection, the forward line is stacked but I cant see an easy solution to our back half problems. A fresh set of eyes would be a start.

Fagan has been around long enough to know that we have gone as far as we can with this particular set up and i suspect we will see changes on field and with the coaching make up going into next season.

 

[ItsRaynerGoals]

It’s the lack of new voices and different approach for me within the assistant coach group. Adcock, Davis,Hudson and Hahn in the twos have all been around for a very long time. Great servants but now is the time for change.

 

[Morbidly_Obese]

The Club has to to choose it's either me or Fagan.

 

[SizeMatters]

The coaching group needs a complete rebuild. They are bog average. We've gotten to where we are based on on-field talent alone IMO. You get posters quoting our forward efficiency and high scoring etc but was it due to coaching or talent? IMO if we had a decent forwards coach our team would be locking the ball inside our front half a lot more and probably score 3 or 4 more goals a game on average. IMO.

The defensive pressure of our forwards are ****ing pathetic. Sick of seeing oppo defenders running around freely on the rebound. **** this club.

 

[Squizz89]

Look at this a different way. Say we were Geelong/Sydney etc instead of us prior to 2016, ie had been entrenched in the 8 competing for top 4 etc most years.

Now then consider we have had the year we’ve had this year on the back of the previous 4 where we have gone to water in just about every big game we’ve played including finals.

Would there be more demand for change, not just on Fages but on the whole joint if our base prior to Fages and co coming in wasn’t so crap? Does he and the club continue to escape scrutiny for the continued lack of results in big games just because of where we came from?

When you think about it that way some opinions might change.

 

[Flossie32]

Won’t be surprised to see a lot of ex hawthorn people like hodgey end up at north
Maybe eventually Fagan as well with the tassie links.

 

[davemc_lions]

Will be interesting to see if he does stick with the solid core of favourites or whether he does change things around a little given it’s a contract year for him.

we will beat some bottom 10 sides start of the year and he get re-signed.
Honestly have us most likely to drop out of the 8 and do a Port of 2022 so maybe not

 

[davemc_lions]

with the assistants be nice to know if they do not have a plan B
Or if Fagan says no to a Plan B

We never try anything out of the box. Even 60 points down games over.
Lets see how Starc go in the middle.
Maybe Harris might be better up forward or Payne as Joe, Hippy etc getting out marked.
McStay going anyway put him down back. Maybe play Hipwood for a half of the wing etc etc

nope just the same same.

 

[Lionwest]

Attracting talented assistants to Brisbane is easier said than done. Most of the talent reside in VIC so convincing them to uproot their family and head north narrows the possibilities down significantly. Heck Deemons have two former senior coaches alone (Choco and Richardson), can’t see the lions ever being in that position. *Granted Richardson is their GM of Footy

 

[Voss the boss]

I think we should have a quiet chat to Longmire - contract up at end of 2023. He has the ability to get the best out of teams, team oriented, makes tough calls and doesn’t take any crap.

 

[mpal6]

I think we should have a quiet chat to Longmire - contract up at end of 2023. He has the ability to get the best out of teams, team oriented, makes tough calls and doesn’t take any crap.

Sydney are flying and they've rebuilt pretty quickly. Game style tweaked with lot of speed and good kicking added in rebound like Blakey, Gulden, Warner etc. One of their supposed weakness is in the middle which is being addressed with Mills moved there from defense (cough cough Starce.. c'mon Fagan)

Why would he leave and come to us anyway ?

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Sydney are flying and they've rebuilt pretty quickly. Game style tweaked with lot of speed and good kicking added in rebound like Blakey, Gulden, Warner etc. One of their supposed weakness is in the middle which is being addressed with Mills moved there from defense (cough cough Starce.. c'mon Fagan)

Why would he leave and come to us anyway ?

I envy the Sydney system. Good young camp, strong coaching. If we can't win, I want it to be them

 

[Voss the boss]

Great question - he probably wouldn’t but If you don’t enquire you dont know! Maybe a change, a new challenge and environment or to be the one that took us to a higher place. He had been at the swans so long - it might be time.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

Horse will not be leaving what he just rebuilt. They'll be challenging hard for a few years, we will bottom out

 

[BRAB]

Horse will not be leaving what he just rebuilt. They'll be challenging hard for a few years, we will bottom out

I really don’t think we’ll bottom out though? Still plenty of talent on the list with more to come.

 

[Tom14]

I really don’t think we’ll bottom out though? Still plenty of talent on the list with more to come.

We've really got nothing out of Lyons, Zorko and Rich this year and still won 15 games. Can't see anyone else dropping off massively in just 12-24 months.

 

[Cockliff38]

At the very least we need to bring in a strong senior assistant. Look at Melbourne last night with Mark Williams, Alan Richardson and Adam Yze.

 

[Big Sauce 21]

I really don’t think we’ll bottom out though? Still plenty of talent on the list with more to come.

I'm not as confident. Bottom out maybe not. But we wont contend for a bit. Think we missed the chance with this squad for now.

 

[Tom14]

I'm not as confident. Bottom out maybe not. But we wont contend for a bit. Think we missed the chance with this squad for now.

Would be different if we weren't getting a massive draft gift and a couple of smaller gifts (Fletcher, Levi Ashcroft) over the next few years. Don't think we need to bottom out to restock the talent pool but need to make some adjustments.

 

[martinson]

I think we should have a quiet chat to Longmire - contract up at end of 2023. He has the ability to get the best out of teams, team oriented, makes tough calls and doesn’t take any crap.

Been in the back of my mind.

He'd be perfect. Still young enough to have the passion. Doesn't get involved in any games with media or the team but can be ruthless if he has to be.

 

[BRAB]

We've really got nothing out of Lyons, Zorko and Rich this year and still won 15 games. Can't see anyone else dropping off massively in just 12-24 months.

I think we’re in a pretty good spot to avoid bottoming out.

I'm not as confident. Bottom out maybe not. But we wont contend for a bit. Think we missed the chance with this squad for now.

That’s a completely different scenario and I might even agree with you there. There’s a huge difference between bottoming out and not contending.

 

[mpal6]

I really don’t think we’ll bottom out though? Still plenty of talent on the list with more to come.

We are going to end up with an age profile gap shortly if we don't play the next group on a consistent basis. If that happens and we lose say Dev, Prior, TBerry, Payne and so on - then the seniors will exit without replacements which will cause a drop for us.

 

[BRAB]

We are going to end up with an age profile gap shortly if we don't play the next group on a consistent basis. If that happens and we lose say Dev, Prior, TBerry, Payne and so on - then the seniors will exit without replacements which will cause a drop for us.

I agree if we lost those players in a particular age group we’d probably have an age gap in that group. In the event that we have a player exodus yeah unfortunately that means we drop down.