It's a valid point, derby12 about letting players, play football.
The problem with your argument is Roly does not delegate. He is the one in the controller's chair and it is done his way and only his way.....and guess what, his way doesn't work and he doesn't know how to adapt.
He listed by some as some kind of coaching genius because the game plan that he inherited from Paul Roos was partially successful with 2 mature, already developed lists. Each of those lists was blessed with very rare players in Reiwoldt and Pavlich, who were able to perform at such a high level that Roly could afford to have that extra man in defence.
Now he cannot but he does drop extra back anyway, with the foreseeable result of a structural inability to kick a winning score. But he has to keep persisting because it's the only approach that he knows how to coach.
The real difference between the Suns and North games was that against North we could get the ball out of the centre very quickly and before the forwards had time to leave the forward 50. So, under those conditions, we kicked straight down the middle to a target. We couldn't do that against the Suns, so when we did finally get clear air around the ball carrier, there wasn't the same forwards to kick to and we were forced around the boundary or backwards.
If St Kilda do the same thing and congest the ball in the centre and not allow us to clear it while we still have people forward, then next weekends's result could well be the same.
Let's just hope that St Kilda are as poorly organised and poorly skilled at Norths