- Oct 9, 2014
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- Melbourne
Firstly, I hate seeing any team not live up to it's potential, and I love watching Sydney, such a pressure team and so hard at the ball. But this year they just don't excite me, and they seem stuck in second gear.
My random thoughts...
The coaching group really need to commit to Nankervis, he has shown enough to gamble on him. Let him be the number 1 ruck.
Tippet is an out and out champion, but he is more of a band aid at the moment let him shine as a true full forward and take the forward ruck duties and be a distraction to the defense so that another big name forward can get more space. That being of course Franklin.
Sydney has an awesome midfield, but so do a lot of teams now, so you have to be consistent and Sydney are not. There is something totally wrong with the mix this year. And that is with players like Mitchell and Heeney coming in as well. There is heavy competition for midfield duties in this team, but that level of competition is not making players step up. Maybe a fresh coaching approach to the midfield for 2016 ? Maybe some players need to be dropped...
And on new players coming in, and I suppose with the current players. The biggest problem I think Sydney has is that the collective brains trust (on field) has slowly been diminishing from that club. For example players like O'keefe had football brains, or at least the bits I saw him play . They just don't seem to be replacing these types of players (or have them at a high enough standard).
My random thoughts...
The coaching group really need to commit to Nankervis, he has shown enough to gamble on him. Let him be the number 1 ruck.
Tippet is an out and out champion, but he is more of a band aid at the moment let him shine as a true full forward and take the forward ruck duties and be a distraction to the defense so that another big name forward can get more space. That being of course Franklin.
Sydney has an awesome midfield, but so do a lot of teams now, so you have to be consistent and Sydney are not. There is something totally wrong with the mix this year. And that is with players like Mitchell and Heeney coming in as well. There is heavy competition for midfield duties in this team, but that level of competition is not making players step up. Maybe a fresh coaching approach to the midfield for 2016 ? Maybe some players need to be dropped...
And on new players coming in, and I suppose with the current players. The biggest problem I think Sydney has is that the collective brains trust (on field) has slowly been diminishing from that club. For example players like O'keefe had football brains, or at least the bits I saw him play . They just don't seem to be replacing these types of players (or have them at a high enough standard).