This is the most interesting thread on the current situation at the club that I have read for a while.
There seem to be two main schools of thought
1. the players are too slow, execute poorly, the game has passed them by, they don't try hard enough, aren't skilled enough, never were up to AFL standard, etc., etc.
2. It's the coach and the game plan.
IMO the problem confronting those who keep wanting to choose explanation 1 over explanation 2 is that the reason the Board sacked GT and his coaching staff and replaced them with Lyon and his crew in 2006 was because they believed explanation 2 was the reason we hadn't "gone to the next level".
At half time on the telly yesterday, we were treated to the sight of Archie Fraser - a man with a soccer background, but who has longstanding connections to Paul Roos and the Sydney Swans - telling us time and again that the club had full faith in "Ross Lyon and his game plan".
In 2006, the Board, with active encouragement from Fraser, was persuaded that the reason we lost the 2005 PF was because the Swans were playing "modern football" and we weren't.
Like Butterss and the Board in 2006, many posters on this forum bought that idea lock, stock and barrel, and it's a source of great amusement for me to watch them backpedalling away from it at a rapid rate of knots.
"It's not about the game plan, we can see that the game plan worked ok in the first quarter, the game plan doesn't make players miss their targets, etc, etc."
"It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into."
- Jonathan Swift
