The players don’t give a *smile*? Maybe the case and if so that is on them. But it’s also on him for not being able to get any buy in. If is the case he has lost them and that is a bad sign.
We are a terrible team to watch at the moment. Extremely boring and unimaginative. Just kick short to the pocket then down the line so the opposition can force a turnover. Extremely predictable and very boring. He would want to show us something different year.
I think you're too pissed off to see the reality. Compare our first 5-6 weeks to now. Players were completely bought in. Everyone was saying how well he was doing in his first season, even when the injuries were high.
I know for a fact the older players were hanging round to have one last run at finals. There were several senior players getting lots of work into their bodies during pre-season, and there was a high degree of confidence about several players expected output.
Since round 1 (2nd week) stuff has slowly fallen away. The players gave up hope of finals a long time ago, now they've given up hope of a Sydney/ Geelong style rebuild. Hence the jumping ship. Older guys don't want to finish their careers like that.
Taranto is challenging folks to lift, but some others are just marking time. Ideally Yze would drop them for lack of effort, but there's literally no one to replace them. The guys who've come back from injury they are making do multiple weeks at VFL level if they can, to build the work in their legs.
But if folks want to be traded, there's some selfishness coming in. Not putting themselves in a risky place. Not working hard enough to chase. You don't want to do an ACL and not get traded do you? Do we demote someone and ruin trade value?
This is a complete sham. Kevin Sheedy or Jock McHale would damage their reputations trying to manage this *smile* show, let alone a first year head coach - who no doubt is getting some stuff wrong, but has been asked to try steer the titanic away from the iceberg about 30 yards away from it.
Next year will likely be the same sort of win loss, but I expect he'll have more of his list working for him, so we should see more structure and effort. It won't be consistent though when the young guys run out of legs.
It'll take 2 years to flush out the muck, then we've gotta wait for the kids to grow...tough times.
. I agree with most of this and am looking forward to the off season to see what talent we can get in as the cupboard is bare. Not sure on the Bolton and Rioli situation although I feel it is probably more player than club driven. Regardless if it is true we need to make the most of it.
