No...the argument against RoLy IS real, and is well past being an issue.
Yesterday was, quite simply, a joke!
The skills and the effort - on such a dodgy day - were actually quite good, and, - I think it was mentioned by one of the "experts" yesterday (worst commentary team ever BTW) that for a while we were running at 80+% kicking efficiency compared to the GWS 60%. and that was why we were more than competitive.
What the problem was, was that we were simply ' out coached'. It's becoming a regular occurance.
And it's not hard to do when one of the coaches is simply unprepared to change "his style". It is simply ridiculous!!
Time and time again, - and this has been going on for some years now and deeply discussed on this website for a similar period - we get the ball from the backline, to the center line, and we have to hold it up, while we wait for our "forward structure" to get back and set up.
IT ISN'T WORKING ROSCO!!!
1) your game plan can be read like a book, and every opposition is "all over it"
and,
2) it is simply unsustainable and unworkable and 'crazy' that you could expect it to be workable.
For the latter point, can the RoLy supporters, please give evidence of where it ever has given a team success.??? I'm assuming they'll retort with Sydney 2005...even though Barry Hall was a stay at home forward. ...
The issue is - and this can be viewed from a ' many seasons level ' or a 'game day' level (such as yesterday...) - WHY DOES HE PERSIST WITH IT..????!!!!
It does not work, and it can not work.
No, all the other teams DO NOT play like us.
No, all the opposition teams ARE NOT doing what we are doing and 'just doing it better'.
For any supporter of RoLy, please tell me why - at some point yesterday - could he have not just left a couple of blokes down in the forward line, awaiting a kick out of the backline/center line???? The opposition is never going to leave 2 blokes unmanned, plonked in the forward line. And if they did, then all the better for us when the kicker comes through the midfield looking for someone to kick to.
There'll still be equal numbers around the ball, there is absolutely no need to have 18 vs 18 around around the ball. It is a RoLy-ism and it is outdated, never brought real, sustainable success, and it is simply carp!!
In my humble view, yesterday is all about the coach. He's not up to it.
As for his forward line coach, David Hale, well...there's a bloke that has the easiest job in the world, because Fremantle simply don't have a forward line, and he's got absolutely nothing to do...
The only thing that is going to change all this is bums on seats. Unfortnately, the novelty of the new stadium will mean crowd numbers will not accurately reflect our displeasure with our 'out of tune' coach.