Again I disagree, Suker.
If you look at what you posted, you state 'if fully understanding and committed to a style of play". Are you suggesting the playing group isn't committed or understanding? If so, there is a disconnect between the players and coaches.
We also do not work on skills like other clubs do. Making a big deal out of '20 minutes' of skills coaching might be a bit of a giveaway when others teams including Hawthorn make skills the primary focus of their training.
I don't care how understanding and committed you are, if you can't get the ball to a team mate downfield then you can expect your opponents to get it to theirs as it goes back past you. Its not that hard to work out.
Even Olympic athletes train their basics skills over and over and over. Its not just fitness that gets you to a medal, its your skills. What you don't practice, you lose. Players that we know have ability to hits targets are now missing with regularity. Watch Fyfe, Neale, HillB, Mundy etc all miss passes under no pressure. There is a reason for that and that reason just isn't they don't need to train skills.
Roly, eventually is going to have to admit to himself he's got it wrong and change or his replacement will do that.
we can keep going over this each and every year and the Roly supporters will continue to dismiss our poor skills as not important or not the reason we lose so many games or whatever the excuse will be next week but the facts won't change.
We are one dimensional, limited and easy to coach against. Even Cameron could get through our press when GWS were easybeats but they never had the skills to maintain it. They do now and Cameron isn't a genius coach. Of course, he didn't invents the tactics, he just copied Hawthorn. We tried that but didn't have the skills to make it work, so now we are copying what he thinks Richmond did last year. Thats not working so well either.
