To be honest Maynefan, at that point it doesn't really matter if it's the game plan, it's the coaches responsibility to have players disposing into the forwardline the correct way. Whether the plan was to get it in long and fast to a contest and let our talls do the work, or to lower the eyes and hit a target on a lead (which they didn't do). Either RL left the forwardline to their own devices and didn't coach them on where and how to move as well as not coaching the players on what to do when they get the ball and have to deliver it forward from midfield or he did coach them to do that and it proved a horrible tactic.
There was no change in the game plan as we kept performing the same broken routine of going long to a big pack we were always at best a 40% chance of winning given we were outnumbered and it wasn't to our advantage. At no point did RL ask them to do anything different and if he did, they didn't listen or care what he said.
It's silly to write off preseason games as being worth nothing, they are a good indicator of the season ahead. The result is not the focus but you gather a lot about the systems and players season ahead and ours was not promising.
As for Colyer, he was rubbish for most of the game. He struggled to get in the play and when RL tried to throw him on the ball he coughed the ball up repeatedly and made poor choices. He was a fringe player at Essendon and I wouldn't expect much from him here. He averaged 13 touches last year and in his best season in the past 8 years, averaged 16 touches. I wouldn't be picking him unless we had a lot of injuries. We should have a mountain of kids with more potential who get a gig first.
