I think the major issue is RoLy's lack of willingness to change. Think that's what everyone is calling for.
Yep, he's got young kids in,
yep, everyone is playing with 36 players around the ball,
yep, RoLy' has had us in finals more often than not, yep,
RoLy got us to the grandfinal.
Yep, we are in the first year of a damned long rebuild.
There are plenty of excuses for what we are currently seeing.
But what we aren't seeing is any change of 'style' except of the odd game where it seems the players 'are let free' ...ie Rd 3 and Rd 4, and maybe last week. And we certainly aren't seeing improvement of skill level.
To me, the large loss games are indicative of player's 'not buying in' to RoLy's high energy, high effort game plan.
Are they being recalcitrant?, are they buggered?, have they "had enough"?....we'll never know. ?
But what we do know, is that we've seen nothing new from RoLy for 6 odd years now....and, well, things that don't change, don't get far.....they get swamped by the competition...and that is what we are seeing right now....