The Nathan Buckley Debate - Back Bucks or Sack Bucks?

[HAL]

Do you think I am going to get _exactly_ what we deserve too?

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

[Jezza]

I'll keep saying it for the next four weeks until the season ends as I just said last week, which I have nothing to say about Nathan apart from saying that I will analyse his coaching performance at the end of the season when all is said and done.

[Piesnchess]

[piedys]

[HAL]

I have no idea what to say.

[Mugwump]

Well, our rubbish coach has now piloted the team to three victories over top eight sides since the bye. Today his young team were so motivated that they withstood an onslaught from a team with everything to play for, when we had nothing to play for but pride, and we soaked it up and rolled past them. We did it without our two most creative forwards in Fasolo and Elliott, and without our best runner off half-back in Sinclair. This is the coach that cannot motivate a side, according to some posters.

The skills were often horrible, but that is what happens with a young and inexperienced side who have not played together much, and who are learning about their teammates in a high pressure game. There is a lot that can and will improve, from defending kickouts to providing an option when a player is on the burst, but Nathan Buckley's young team is coming along nicely and improving week-by-week. In the past few years we have been front-runners and compounded in the second half of the season as youngsters ran out of legs. This year our first half was crucified by injury but we are running the season out better. All very good signs for the future.

[Albert Parker]

[think positive]

Man up man up man up

That's what got the win last night

Where did that come from?

Our skills were still shit, what is the plan to fix that?

What is the plan to try and prevent injuries?

That win means nothing unless we get some answers.

It was magnificent, the last ten minutes were just so exciting, but really, who wasn't wondering which silly mistake would cost us?

Clokes miss from 20 was pathetic, and maybe career killing, but he wasn't the only one with a bad miss. Aish and greenwood kicked a couple of absolute crackers you just don't see from Collingwood players, please god don't stuff them up.

I'm still not convinced

[Culprit]

[Pies4shaw]

Looking at the stats, I see that we won the contested possessions 150 to 116, the disposals 412 to 322 (including winning the kicks 199 to 162), the hit-outs 53 to 29, the clearances 47 to 28 and the tackles 118 to 89.

All of that dominance at the coal-face translated into the same number of inside 50s and a game that was in the balance until very late. The Wiggles were quite dreadful and we showed some good signs. Nevertheless, apart from not having to listen to the Coach saying "We were nutted in the clearances" this week, I'm not sure what it means. It still seems that we have to get much more of the ball - and much more first-use of the ball - than the opposition in order to be competitive. That's not a good thing. It is good that we won but I remain extremely concerned that the up and down results are, in part, a result of the manic style of play our boys have to bring to bear in order to win - it's almost impossible to replicate that week after week.

[Krakouer Magic]

[Culprit]

[think positive]

Game day thread some one commented 'and they made it look so easy"

We never ever ever ever do that!

So yeah the comment above, spot on, we can't keep the manic pressure up.

We need to learn to kick straight, handball accurately, and read the play (ie don't handball to a player with 4 bearing down on him) oh and when you in traffic and get a free, don't hand pass in the traffic, surely it's better to roost it long as possible over the top and towards our end! Oh and for gods sake don't piss around with it in their 50 when you don't have the skills to follow it through!

Just where did those preseason skills go? They were there, I saw them!


Edit sorry culprit great minds it seems, but u type faster!

[Pies4shaw]