If memory serves me correctly GT got Blight sacked after a similarly woeful streak of rubbish football with a very young list.

MC Gusto wrote:We are the third worst team in the league

Only Carlton and the bears behind is

Possibly being optimistic here

I am with Mollie Meldrum - Lennie Hayes for coach - bring back Harves and Rooey and make it a Saints players coaching dept for a change!

The game plan is a failure but the skill execution is absolutely appalling!

Endeavour from the midfield shown but 22 inside 50s count for didley squat if you can't take a mark or kick a goal - and that's everyone!

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Joffa Burns wrote:Sorry to see them both go, I enjoy reading their input.
Hopefully they return when their ban is complete!!!!!

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(No idea why anyone gets banned here - it gives the site its flavour - otherwise it will become a ghost-town - so many others never came back!)

I personally believe that a really great coach - like a Leigh Matthews - would know how to draw players to his vision, have them play to his style, fight for every point of percentage and have a strategy forward and back to make the correct decisions. He would be firm when a player shows no fiercene...

Billings is currently a borderline B grader - like B- He may get better with some help, advice and time. Dal Santo even took time. The problem is that leadership in the team and coaching panel appears to be completely absent - it is so hard to watch them fail. Delivery to the forwards is as bad as t...

Everything since three quarter time in the 1971 GF has been a bad dream. :D :D :D :D .LOL I can relate to that. Actually it was just before TQT. We were up by 28 and they clawed one back to give them a chance. What a shocking sliding door 40 minute period that was. The truth of the matter of the 71...

Yes! For 71,97,2009,2010 and ALL the years we showed potential and got to finals ... but now because EVEN IN THE MID-EIGHTIES and 90s WE HAD PLAYERS WHO OBVIOUSLY CARED, they tried and they fought no matter what! I do not believe these guys do not have the skills required. They need to look inside t...

I want to see desperation, energy, tackling, clearances and running in numbers in midfield. I want to see an attack on a talented opposition so that they then fumble and look uncertain. I want to see constant forward pressure and an attack on goals and turn overs as the opposition try to clear, due ...

Sacking Coaches is never, ever a good look. Then you have the two and a half years worth of salary we would be paying out. Then you have that being added to the ridiculous debt situation. Then you have the lack of sponsorship Lack of membership. Another rebuild Media circle like sharks and everythi...

Did he try and put trout under the bus again? I’m beginning to think we should cut our losses and give Richo the arse now. I think you might be onto something there.. Agreed! There seems to be NO EVIDENCE that we are going to go anywhere but backwards under Richo. Why not bring in someone with some...

So many times there is sheer panic when a player has the ball .. quick get rid of it, like Billings then .. and the Tigers milk it .. Gresh the only light today.

Who is supposed to be on Dusty anyway? Last time I am pretty sure there was a tag.

Leadership!!

At least we are trying to lay a tackle now .. ffs our goal kicking is just hopeless.

Nice movement and goal .. Baroose

I was a little surprised Billings has kicked 21/34 this year. Even 50/50 ratio and we might be in these finals. Some serious work is needed here, as he is the most inaccurate AFL forward .. all between the eyes apparently. He was a beautiful kick for goal in the juniors Yeah hope he can turn it aro...

I was a little surprised Billings has kicked 21/34 this year. Even 50/50 ratio and we might be in these finals. Some serious work is needed here, as he is the most inaccurate AFL forward ..

29 tackles in a half of wet weather footy just shows how lame we are today. Until the coaches address our pathetic inaccuracy and lake of endeavour in tackles, we are going nowhere but backwards from here, not to mention our complete failure to have a defensive strategy... I blame the senior coach f...

Clearly no one in our club bother with this one ...

This is looking like payback, I am starting to feel cheerful that Freo lost. Mmmm

I have no opinion either way, I am not convinced he is a good coach. But would probably wait until mid year '18 to decide.

I Agree with most of this commentary - coaching has been generally poor! Little or no defence or setups, no capacity to get the ball cleared from the opposition goal line after a point, little forward pressure. Some genuinely good performances by the likes of Steele have kept us in some games but lo...