wenchbarwer wrote:PatowalongaPirate wrote:Looking forward to seeing what the new coach brings, and hopefully a season where the best forward over the last few seasons is left up forward and not played in the Ruck.
Surely that's a recruitment issue, and not a coaching issue? Hannath was beyond horrible, what other option did Hand have? McBean's strength is his aerobic capacity and agility, which means playing him as a ruck/extra midfielder is hardly the worst idea I've ever heard
Cole, Minchin and Matthais (who I admit is more raw than a yearling at an abbatoirs stock yards)
Hands refusal to play Cole before rd 14 was staggering. We knew what we were going to get with Hannath in 2021. We started with Minchin in 2022 who was raw but had a crack at ground level.
When Minchin got injured in rd 6 it should've been Cole in not Hannath, with an eye to developing him for finals.
lack of game time in Cole cost us in finals time, as with more game time experience it would have meant we could have plaid McBean forward more.
However that would've counted for naught with our over possessive GWS style game plan as opposed to quicker delivery into the most potent forward line in the competition (Reynolds, Hosie, McBean)
Let that be a lesson to you Port, no one beats the Bays five times in a row in a GF and gets away with it!!!