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

[Fossie 32]

AFL Piggies?

Bev would be the Maharishi, Spangher Magic Alex ….. Who are you - Paul McCartney? Ian Collins for Bungalow Bill with Granty the Tiger

I will be Peter Best

 

[stefoid]

weirdly, Naughton was very accurate this season.

 

[Mojorisin]

It'd be just like our club to create an entirely new position out off whole cloth just to get a former player back to the club. When in fact we should be looking for more outside influence and ideas. This is yet another sop to the power hungry megalomania of Beveridge and the cult like administration that the club has allowed to be built around him.

Why we would approach Jordan Roughead when Nathan Buckley is sitting right there just boggles the mind.

Am I doing Bigfooty right?

Im never sure we stand on these things.

Roughead is twice the person Buckley is and he also has runs on the board at another club, if it were any other ex-dog I'd also likely be against it but rougheads character, professionalism and the fact he isnt a Bevo-boy/yes man all work well for him.

 

[Freshwater]

From the outside looking in Jordan Roughead

23

Jordan Roughead

Age

33

Ht

200cm

Wt

100kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.0

3star

K

5.7

2star

HB

5.2

4star

M

4.1

4star

T

2.7

4star

MG

132.4

2star

D

7.6

2star

K

4.5

2star

HB

3.1

2star

M

3.5

3star

T

1.1

2star

MG

82.0

1star

D

12.4

4star

K

4.4

2star

HB

8.0

5star

M

4.2

4star

T

2.0

4star

, more than any other player, held the club together through October 2014. Hopefully he will be remembered for this.
Why not Buckley and Roughy?

 

[Mojorisin]

From the outside looking in Jordan Roughead, more than any other player, held the club together through October 2014. Hopefully he will be remembered for this.
Why not Buckley and Roughy?

Did you want to keep treloar?
Buckley is keen to bury the hatchet but I don't believe Treloar is there yet.

 

[VitalDread]

Hmmmmm Luke Darcy has walked away from Channel 7 & Triple M

Hmmmmm

 

[54Bulldog16]

Hmmmmm Luke Darcy has walked away from Channel 7 & Triple M

Hmmmmm

You think he is looking to take a bigger role at the club?

 

[Dogs_r_barking]

El Presidente?

 

[geoffjennings79]

Clearly wants to play with Sam and mentor our rucks, expect him to nominate and us to rookie him.

 

[dergert]

Yay. Bevos best mate as club pres.

 

[F6Typhoon]

Yay. Bevos best mate as club pres.

Wouldn’t actually mind him as el-presidente!
Especially if his first order of business is showing Grant the door…

 

[yebach]

Hmmmmm Luke Darcy has walked away from Channel 7 & Triple M

Hmmmmm

Say that again

 

[Bulldogs85]

 

[Golden_6]

Well deserved for Pratt. Our defence has been a debacle for a while and we finished the regular season as a the number 1 defence. This included a lot of moving parts at times and cast offs as well.

 

[bobs head soup]

Aside from our defence collectively ranking at #1, there are a number of individuals who have excelled under Pratt's watch too;

• Freijah playing like a 200 gamer in the back half of his first season,
• Bramble coming in with zero fanfare, yet playing every game, becoming super reliable and winning several coaches votes, probable top 10 in CSM,
• Lobb becoming a star kpd from nowhere off minimal prep,
• Dale going from a slow start to returning to an elite, AA level contributor,
• Duryea being rock solid all year despite some questions on whether he had reached his time last year,
• Getting 17 games into Khamis, who had gone 0-0-1-8-1 in his previous 5 years,

Can't all be down to Pratt, but that is a lot of wins under his tutelage.

 

[Freshwater]

Daniel Pratt

Daniel Pratt

Age

41

Ht

185cm

Wt

89kg

Pos.

Def

Career

Season

Last 5

D

15.6

4star

K

10.3

4star

HB

5.3

4star

M

5.1

5star

T

1.8

4star

No current season stats available

D

8.6

3star

K

6.4

3star

HB

2.2

2star

M

4.0

4star

T

1.8

4star

doing to our backline shows how important these roles are.
We have so much talent in the midfield and forward but don’t seem to invest in coaching the best out of them.

 

[stefoid]

Our defence is more than just the 6 defenders, it starts in the forward line, as we all know by now - even bevo

We are still behind in that area. While we have been playing catchup this year, transitioning from our outdated zone and press defence, Hawks have been looking at the next evolution -> ways to counter the systems we are still struggling to put in place!

Its progress for the bulldogs - we are now only 12 months out of date rather than 4 or 5.

Dogs defence overall might have been great this season at stopping opposition score because we better defended the entire ground, including the central corridor much better than we have in the past, but it also rested on some good individual performances as noted above - jones, lobb, duryea etc...

but the hawks claim to fame was denying the opposition F50 entries at all - the best at this. (Once you got it into their F50, you could score OK because their defence is undersized and undermanned. something they are trying to trade their way out of this off season.)

the point is there is plenty of improvement to wring out of the 2024 side still to come from bedding down the gameplan and adapting to the next phase of evolution of AFL. And this next phase seems to rest on the ability to run fast all day all across the ground. Our midfield and other smalls need to step up.

 

[Libbaaaa]

Our defence is more than just the 6 defenders, it starts in the forward line, as we all know by now - even bevo

We are still behind in that area. While we have been playing catchup this year, transitioning from our outdated zone and press defence, Hawks have been looking at the next evolution -> ways to counter the newer systems we are still struggling to put in place!

Its progress for the bulldogs - we are now only 12 months out of date rather than 4 or 5.

And protecting turnover when that ball is given away on the edge of our forward 50, that has been our achillies heel. I know our numbers were off the charts in the backend of the year, we were still turning it over at a regular rate but we just weren't getting scored against.

 

[Unorth]

Shocked, I thought Spangher was a lock for the award

 

[threenewpadlocks]

Our defence is more than just the 6 defenders, it starts in the forward line, as we all know by now - even bevo

We are still behind in that area. While we have been playing catchup this year, transitioning from our outdated zone and press defence, Hawks have been looking at the next evolution -> ways to counter the systems we are still struggling to put in place!

Its progress for the bulldogs - we are now only 12 months out of date rather than 4 or 5.

Dogs defence overall might have been great this season at stopping opposition score because we better defended the entire ground, including the central corridor much better than we have in the past, but it also rested on some good individual performances as noted above - jones, lobb, duryea etc...

but the hawks claim to fame was denying the opposition F50 entries at all - the best at this. (Once you got it into their F50, you could score OK because their defence is undersized and undermanned. something they are trying to trade their way out of this off season.)

the point is there is plenty of improvement to wring out of the 2024 side still to come from bedding down the gameplan and adapting to the next phase of evolution of AFL. And this next phase seems to rest on the ability to run fast all day all across the ground. Our midfield and other smalls need to step up.

Yep this gets lost in the shuffle a bit in terms of the discussion.

We were rank 1 for opposition inside 50's a game 47.2. Though the defence naturally has some responsibility for this, but this is largely due to our midfield and forward line's possession winning and turnover forcing ability, up the ground.

We were ranked 10th for opposition scores per inside 50. Better than league average but only because WCE, North and Richmond dragged the league average down so much. Obviously some of this is to do with our midfield, but at the end of the day, our defenders were not necessarily outstanding at preventing opposition forwards from taking shots, once the ball was in a position of the ground for it to happen, inside 50 (irrespective of who had possession at the time). The main reason for this was that opposition teams took marks from 24.6% of their forward entries - worst in the league other than those three teams, and quite a bit of a jump to the fifth-worst, Melbourne, which was 23.9% (a lot of the way closer to the league average of 22.2%).

Of course there's always give and take and naturally we would have done this tactically by design (ie, we press up the ground more, you can allow for more inside 50's but have them be shots less often if you permanently camp a loose player in defence, for example). But even accepting that - assuming that the statistics represent who was good in contributing to the overall defensive rating - it's essentially entirely due to I50 prevention in the first place, which is as you say, because we defended the entire ground well.

In the case of Pratt we don't know what his responsibilities are and whether he coaches the defenders as a unit, or the concept of defensive transition more generally (ie he also coaches the structures for the full-ground team defence), so I'm not going to comment specifcially on him winning the award here.

 

[stefoid]

(ie he also coaches the structures for the full-ground team defence), so I'm not going to comment specifcially on him winning the award here.

does he? well...kudos to pratt then

 

[threenewpadlocks]

does he? well...kudos to pratt then

I'm saying I don't know if he does or doesn't!

 

[stefoid]

Never thought Id say this, but we need more Pratts and less Spanghers

 

[Northernsoul74]

Any links to new coaches?