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There is absolutely no discernible direction or strategy associated with how me move the ball. None. We don't even try to move it quickly or deliberately. I would accept some trial and error but there is no trial. I haven't been able to identify any improvement or growth.
We have a core of good senior players - arguably to the equal of Essendon and probably better than Hawthorn. We should have performed better this year. The expectations would have been to perform better.
I certainly think we started the season better than we finished it. Although we lost the first couple of games we had more system in these games and they were watchable. We reached our peak in the game against Sydney and from then on it was downhill. The Showdown was an embarrassment, that game against Hawthorn was the worst I have ever seen and today's game was only marginally better.
I appreciate that we were behind the eight ball in terms of preparation but you are right there was little system and many of our players lack basic skills. As I have posted previously there are reasons for the low skill levels and ways of fixing the problem.
I did a scan through our list and I reckon half are keeps and the rest are expendable. We probably won't cull half the squad in the off season but we could. On top of that I am not entirely convinced that the Coach is the right person for the job but I guess she deserves another crack at it. In any case given Koch's record Lauren is probably only one year into a ten year tenure!!!