howlinwolf wrote: ↑Sat 30 Jun 2018 2:31pm
So coming to our situation. Why can't we play a similar brand ?
One reason and one of the most important reasons is that Richo doesn't come across as an aggressive, ruthless, demanding head coach.
Watching Luke Beveridge at press conferences you can smell the fear from some of those journos. He wants his players to play an aggressive style and be aggressive with their pressure, so he leads by example with his demeanour.
With Luke Beveridge or Hardwick ( or Al Clarkson ) you get the feeling that you better not get on the wrong side of them as a player. Bevo and these other successful coaches instill belief first but I believe that they don't forget that one of the best motivators for anything in life is fear. I'm sure that Bulldogs players are under no illusions and genuinely fear for their positions at the club. Bevo uses this as a tactic and would be aware of when to give the team and certain players a spray but it isn't an act....They have seen how fair dinkum he is with players like Libba, and Stringer being dropped and also Stringer being shown the door because he did not display behaviours that the coach demanded
The classical legendary coaches that we grew up listening to in Barassi, Jeans, Kennedy and in recent times Pagan, Lethal and Sheedy also exuded this style in various ways. Ross Lyon probably took a leaf out of their book but thye fact is that it suits his personality.
Not saying that Saints need an old school type of ranting and aggro coach, but unless the board and management of St. Kilda think that all of a sudden Richo's going to become a hard=ass I don't think we are climbimg the ladder to become finalists under his coaching