Jezza,
Can't agree with any of that. All of that IS Roly''s doing. ALL OF IT.
Roly teaches effort. He has never addressed our skills deficiencies in his entire time at Freo. He selects the players with those skill deficiencies. If you cannot hold the coach responsible for you know, coachy things like basic skills, what do you hold him responsible for?
If he isn't responsible for things like skills, game plan, forward structure or lack thereof, then he's getting money under false pretences because we clearly have no need to pay a million a year to bloke who is responsible for after game pressers.
Sod him off and I'll do them for 200k and give the difference to Fyfe's new contract.
I'll tell you this for free, his game plan - kicking it backwards to our defensive 50, no forward structure, missed development on younger players, lack of attention to basic football skills like kicking to a target 30 meters away, handballing to a target 5 meters away and decision making are all down to the coach. ALL.
Our first game this year should have given you all the clues you needed. Geelong got their first 3 goals from 0 count them 0 forward 50m entries. Why? Well we won all three clearances went backwards every time and turned it over in their forward 50. They didn't need to make any forward 50 entries, they just needed us to do it for them.
You didn't learn from that and neither did our genius coach. Guess what? That was what cost us the game again yesterday. Maggots aside, we handed that game to St Kilda. Lucky they're s*** side or it would have been a 10 goal loss.
We are not rebuilding. We are playing kids because we are forced to and they are outperforming are older players because they haven't had the football trained out of them like most have.
Yes, thats the coach as well. The game has gone past him and he's having a rebuild to cover his lack of clue.