Trader wrote:In 2014 we took the game on and kicked the ball into space, ran onto it and kicked goals.
Teams took a while but learnt if you leave one out the back of the press, that stopped us right then and there.
Ken was forced to move away from the attacking game plan because teams had worked out that's what we were doing.
We don't have the skills to pick our way through a web like the hawks of 2012, so instead we only have one option, negative footy.
Our Disposal Efficiency stats put us middle of the pack, and that's playing a negative game which in reality should move us higher.
As Booney said, over half our side had 3 clangers or more.
We don't have the skills on our list (that stand up under pressure) to play a winning brand of footy.
While it is simple to say we should go back to old footy and plonk a bloke at CHF and another at FF and leave them there, unfortunately we will get eaten alive the other way as sides pick through our web that is missing two blokes.
You are right.
But...
Since then we've replaced
Lobbe with Ryder
Schulz with Dixon
Carlile with Howard
White with Motlop
Cornes with Rockliff
O'Shea with Houston
Monfries with Watts
Broadbent with Bonner
Other than perhaps the last two, which would be breaking even ... That's a demonstrable improvement.
Plus, Jonas, Wines, Hartlett, Westhoff, Polec are better now than then. Gray is still a superstar
Hombsch, Wingard and Boak the only ones that have gone backwards.
Let's try an attacking game plan with this list and see how we go. If it fails, then rebuild. I'd rather that than the monotony of the current status quo.