Rumour Future of the club (Bevo, board, assistant coaches, football department)

[Lex22]

Can anyone please assist me in reminding me of an incident where former port players organised flights, accom and tickets to Perth for the GF prior to the 2021 Prelim where the dogs had done laps of Australia and Port were slightly cocky and believed they were already in the Granny?

 

[Lex22]

All I'll say is Port managed to make a Prelim with a bottom 6 as bad as ours.

Maybe time to throw that excuse out the window.

The commentary around our bottom 4-6 is well overplayed.

We lost vs the Hawks because just about all of our best players didn’t turn it up.

VDM shits me as much as the next Dogs fan, but putting that on him, McNeil etc is foolish.

VDM was actually not bad early in that game too.

 

[SweatOnMySkin]

All I'll say is Port managed to make a Prelim with a bottom 6 as bad as ours.

Maybe time to throw that excuse out the window.

amazing what not choking your chance at top 4 every year can do for you

 

[threenewpadlocks]

There’s an argument that we’re in a similar position - looks like a great list but an aging midfield coupled with a great (or potentially great) KPP group.

Difficult to marry them up tbf, but regardless I’d rather be coached by Kingsley than Bevo right now. The lack of opposition research and/or coaching is significant.

I wouldn't. Giant's H&A position got them to a much better position than their raw form suggested. Lots of narrow wins against bad teams kicking inaccurately. We beat them comfortably before finals in a way that nobody thought was us playing a level above or them playing a level below their form heading into it.

 

[TiAn_]

There’s an excuse every single year, we’ve heard them all, some multiple times. At the end of the day it’s not unrealistic to expect a side with the talent we have at our disposal to actually play consistent enough footy to scrape into the top 4, or at least win an EF when favourite. Choking or no-showing in multiple key games and finals every single year shouldn’t be acceptable.

Given how 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 played out (and even the last three games of 2021), I just don’t have faith any more that Bev can extract the consistency of performance needed to win a flag. I will be delighted if he corrects that in 2025 and we fall short swinging in a PF or a GF, but I just have seen too much contradictory evidence over the last 5-6-7-8 years to honestly believe it’ll happen at this point. It then becomes a question of what is good enough. I wonder how the decision makers at the club feel.

 

[threenewpadlocks]

There’s an excuse every single year, we’ve heard them all, some multiple times. At the end of the day it’s not unrealistic to expect a side with the talent we have at our disposal to actually play consistent enough footy to scrape into the top 4, or at least win an EF when favourite. Choking or no-showing in multiple key games and finals every single year shouldn’t be acceptable.

Given how 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024 played out (and even the last three games of 2021), I just don’t have faith any more that Bev can extract the consistency of performance needed to win a flag. I will be delighted if he corrects that in 2025 and we fall short swinging in a PF or a GF, but I just have seen too much contradictory evidence over the last 5-6-7-8 years to honestly believe it’ll happen at this point. It then becomes a question of what is good enough. I wonder how the decision makers at the club feel.

This is a genuine question and not meant to be an attack/me being belligerent (which I suppose I often am).

If you're not confident that Bevo can do it, are there other coaches, that you can be confident, that it is true of? If you're not naming specific names, what chance would you give our new hire generally (say an untested coach) to reach the levels you speak of?