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AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
YesDo we think Corey Enright stays?
Yes, our back line did extremely well with how often the ball came in with little to no pressure from the mids.Do we think Corey Enright stays?
Surprised it’s only three tbh. Thought at least 4, but I suppose they’re being prudent.Looks like club has sealed the deal for 3 years with Ross over the weekend, probably hear about it tomorrow (Monday 24th). After accepting the change and moving on from the past, I am now quite excited to see he can do with us. It would be a tastament to Ross, club, admin and supporters if we could reclaim some of the success we last had with Ross. I hope he, and we as a club succeed. Anyway I'm sticking around to find out!
On the football front. Just go back and read game day threads. Even when we won. A couple of wins I know I just couldn’t believe we did win. We just seemed to have no structure and other teams with one just swallowed up anything we did effortlessly.
We were always expending huge effort and the opposition would just absorb it and sweep the ball away. So many fruitless efforts just wear down teams. Not to mention supporters.
Go back and read Matchday threads and the Autopsies. Week after week. We had some great wins, no doubt. But as i said earlier in some games we never looked like it. Then suddenly a burst would see us home.
I got used to us being 2,3,4 goals down before we fired a shot. And we seemed to be trying. I got sick of it.
Ratts looked down and stressed at the B&F. He wasn’t giving off anything positive towards the end of the season. Looked very flat. Even anger would have been something. Very uninspiring. Unfortunately.A number of wins this year, I can clearly remember the matchday thread ending with phrases like "A win's a win" and "why are you complaining?"
It's great that we were able find a way to get over the line, but I craved a more assured performance. It just didn't feel like we saw any progress with the team itself under Ratts and Rath.
I wonder if he had stagnated. He looked terrible, didn't look like he'd enjoyed much this season and he must have felt frustrated, especially if he agreed with Lade's assessment that just the players were at fault. It is a brutal industry but he'd probably reached his limit as a coach. His finest hour was probably in the hub and he was probably the coach those players needed in such trying circumstances.
I will concede that communication isn't Bassatt's strong point. He seems to routinely say things that don't fit the Saints narrative, or put the club in awkward positions. I mean he's not a Kennett or an Elliott, but his 2021 comments about the club being top 4 the following year iirc and maybe other stuff - sorry, hazy memory.He told him his job was safe before the review had determined it, lol. He waited a month to tell him what he had found out and then gave him 4 days to present a case he knew he'd lose. Doesn't seem very professional to me.
They are all good points and definitely food for thought. At the end of the day anything other than what the club has told us publicly is all guesswork so I prefer to judge them based on what they've told us. Bassat gave us a good timeline of events in last weeks presser, but for me it's raised some questions and criticisms that I feel are warranted. I don't want to get into this last bit but many on here have criticised Bassat in the past for his flip flopping. Ultimately I think he needs to do better at effectively communicating the happenings of the club to the clubs supporters. They need to show us they've got a handle on things, and for anyone that lines up what happened between July to now, and what was said about it from the club, it looks unprofessional and needs to improve IMO.
Heard similar from another sourceI heard yesterday that Ross will be announced tomorrow, the main point of negotiation was how much input certain members of the board had in to the football department. Thought that was interesting.
Sounds like we are appointing Marcelo BielsaI heard yesterday that Ross will be announced tomorrow, the main point of negotiation was how much input certain members of the board had in to the football department. Thought that was interesting.
So is George on media release watch tomorrow morning?
No current season stats available
But defence coach Corey Enright’s future at the club is unclear
Thought the fitness and conditioning was pretty good this year.But defence coach Corey Enright’s future at the club is unclear, with Lyon predicted to want to make the call on his assistants.
There’s reports Lyon is negotiating on some key off-field positions, currently held by Ben Jacobs (development coach), Jarryd Roughead (football operations assistant), Damian Carroll (head of development and learning) and Nick Walsh (head of performance and conditioning).
Mental weakness + Flawed game plan with no plan B. Basically once the opposition can beat our high press/pressure, we melted like butter.. Defence tried hard but cannot withstand the constant forward entries (we can’t get the ball out of D50 to save our lives)
There was no Our midfield looked plenty stacked compared to lots of finalists. Geelong, Sydney and Collingwood ran very spartan set ups. Crisp was Collingwoods number one mid. Probably more our wings and outside spread that suffered without DMac and Hill back. Forward structure killed us too.
Unfortunately you decide midfields by stats and not structure. Our midfield this year was so same same. Yep plenty of the ball but lacking plenty in certain areas. Media aren’t making it up gringo when they say our list is average and the midfield is the main reason. We need the guys a said to improve so we can have a different type of midfield. Surely you can see what most media are seeing and that is in hindsight so they usually get hindsight right.Our midfield looked plenty stacked compared to lots of finalists. Geelong, Sydney and Collingwood ran very spartan set ups. Crisp was Collingwoods number one mid. Probably more our wings and outside spread that suffered without DMac and Hill back. Forward structure killed us too.
Ratts looked down and stressed at the B&F. He wasn’t giving off anything positive towards the end of the season. Looked very flat. Even anger would have been something. Very uninspiring. Unfortunately.
Unfortunately you decide midfields by stats and not structure. Our midfield this year was so same same. Yep plenty of the ball but lacking plenty in certain areas. Media aren’t making it up gringo when they say our list is average and the midfield is the main reason. We need the guys a said to improve so we can have a different type of midfield. Surely you can see what most media are seeing and that is in hindsight so they usually get hindsight right.
Couldn't agree more. This is why we need to really try and develop players like Windy and evej Clark through the middle.Unfortunately you decide midfields by stats and not structure. Our midfield this year was so same same. Yep plenty of the ball but lacking plenty in certain areas. Media aren’t making it up gringo when they say our list is average and the midfield is the main reason. We need the guys a said to improve so we can have a different type of midfield. Surely you can see what most media are seeing and that is in hindsight so they usually get hindsight right.
Where is this from ?But defence coach Corey Enright’s future at the club is unclear, with Lyon predicted to want to make the call on his assistants.
There’s reports Lyon is negotiating on some key off-field positions, currently held by Ben Jacobs (development coach), Jarryd Roughead (football operations assistant), Damian Carroll (head of development and learning) and Nick Walsh (head of performance and conditioning).