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MaxiBont
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In which those losses probably dropped us to about being the 11th best team in the league, while accepting that was isolating us at our worse and there's natural fluctuation.
Isolating one game (or two games), in my opinion doesn't prove anything - because if it did, it would be reflective of a truly bad team that keeping much of the same players wouldn't be in the position it is now.
Keep in mind as a smaller, Melbourne club, I would expect us over the long run or stripped of all people and just the institution of our size to be about the 11th best team anyway.
People were acting as if we were a bottom 6 team, or that Bevo wasn't a good or at least average or better coach, or that we were playing worse than about the 11th best team in the league at the time that we lost the game (sometimes the 18th best team in football beats the 11th best team in football.
It's revisionist history to claim that people saying Bevo should be sacked is itself revisionist history imo.
I really can’t agree with this mentality.
We came off a GF final loss and didn’t make finals at all in the next two years after that. This was an objective failure.
People were right to feel like Bevo wasn’t the right person, people were right to feel like the list wasn’t good enough, people were right to feel however they wanted.
In a result based league isolated games definitely should and do weigh more due a to a variety of factors.
The size of the team shouldn’t impact expectations, especially in a salary capped domestic league.
Anyway, this doesn’t matter now. Bevo has got the boys firing and hopefully we can finish the season strong.
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