papabear wrote: ↑July 5, 2021, 4:04 pm
I actually liked his press conference it was honest.
players have to play well and coaches have to coach well.
He can see we dont look well coached. He isnt going to sack himself - thus we might see some necessary changes in the coaches box over the off season. It might be the end of betty white and mcfadden and that can only be good to give us a fresh approach.
He also can see that the players look average out there and will be starting on a necessary rebuild.
Honestly - a better head coach would make it easier to overhaul our systems but ricky has shown he can have successful systems in place. Thus if he overhauls them then I have more confidence in him then some random scrub the club picks up from the furner family to coach us.
2 new assistants would be a good start. As well as a player cleanout they need a couple of fresh voices and someone right in tune with modern footy and preferably no Raiders old boy status- actual genuine fresh ideas. I really doubt Ricky will get two new in though, maybe one and it'll be an old boy. Someone matey who he can fob off easily.
Because whoever the hell has been in charge our attack since 2017... it's been awful. Even the years we could play well on the back of defence we only had 2 scoring plays- Jack running it past 3 blokes and the left side sweep. I believe that's Ricky's department.
If you watch how we line up in attack vs most teams... these days most teams have gone back to using depth, so players have time to run onto the ball at speed, set up bodies in motion and create those hard decisions. There's a bit more room to adjust your runs and timing too with the depth.
We line up completely flat, on the right especially. It's like the old flat attack from the Kimmorley days (was that Ricky's coaching heyday)- which was needed because defences were so smothering teams just tried to get over the advantage line and barge up the field. It doesn't make much sense now.
And if that leaves Cappy and Betty in charge of the defence and forward development... well the defence speaks for itself and two of our best young forwards have gone backwards at a rate of knots (Hors and Young) and Guler is not come on either this year.
Even IF Ricky recognises he needs genuine guidance, he'd still have to listen to it and it would have to come from someone who would actually challenge his thinking. Reckon that's what we'll get?