We’re we outcoached?

[shanegrambeau]

Please say yes..,

I need to blame someone for this!

How else?

Fitness?

[Waltzing St Kilda]

Ratten really should go.

Will not win a premierhsip.

No poiint persisting, Richo-like.

[B.M]

Out played for three quarters

Can’t win if that happens

I don’t rate Ratten at all, just waffles and is soft on the players and acts like their mate.

Prefer leaders

[avid]

I don't like any of this blame the coaches stuff.
But for the first time, I'm feeling like this could be a coaching problem.

[Enrico_Misso]

He needs to make some big changes at selection.
Lonie
Butler.
to name a few

Stop rewarding mediocrity.

[B.M]

Wow they are massive changes

2 forward pockets

And replace them with who?
Alabakis

[ROLS-LEE]

Not hard enough at the contest for long enough. They wanted it more and when they got a sniff, their confidence grew.

[desertsaint]

been thinking we made a mistake way back when he first took the reigns. surprised me last year by instilling some self belief in the lads, but teams have worked us out, the lads have lost the belief, and he has nowhere to go.

[Banger9798]

Sam Mitchell will win a premiership as coach

[The_Dud]

Couldn’t move the ball at all in the last, yet Adelaide seemed to with easy.

The one time we did fumble it down towards our end the quick kick went inside 50 and no one was there…

[Waltzing St Kilda]

Sam Mitchell will win a premiership as coach

I agree. Looks a sharp operator with a bit of c*** in him. Much like Clarkson and Hardwick.

And not like the doofuses we keep appointing.

[nw7]

Rattens game plan is really bad. I'm not sure what he changed from last year to this year. We couldn't win a contest in the last quarter..

[markp]

No the scoreboard was under-nourished.

[Enrico_Misso]

What pathetic excuse will they trot out this week?
What are we doing about our pathetic kicking?

[skeptic]

IMO we were always going to struggle later in the game given our injuries

Lots of players playing tonight that really shouldn’t be

Clark’s injury was one too many

[BadRossco]

The fitness staff have more to answer for the Ratts but any coach would have found it difficult to get a team with so many passengers across the line

[The Barometer]

Such a lack of composure coming out of our backline. Hacked kicks when not heaps of pressure and those kick ins in the last were so woefully predictable. I think we lack leadership on the ground. Steele leads by example but can’t be everywhere. Who is our defensive general who takes the heat off. Who is the guy telling them to slow down and take there time for the kick at goal.
But re topic, clear out the assistants and let Ratts hire his team.

[Toy Saint]

Reckon our list management is the #1 problem.

Hannabury, Hill, McCartin,..++...

We've got way too many rejects from other clubs and not enough kids with potential.

[shanegrambeau]

I saw Steele and Paddy sitting on the bench in the last quarter and my head nearly exploded.

[SaintDippa]

We have the best tap ruckman going. How we don't have set clearance strategies and structures is a blight on the coach (no pun). With Paddy under the ball up we should be clearing at 95%.
What has Ratts done the last 6 months?

[shanegrambeau]

We have the best tap ruckman going. How we don't have set clearance strategies and structures is a blight on the coach (no pun). With Paddy under the ball up we should be clearing at 95%.
What has Ratts done the last 6 months?

Yes, I saw Paddy serve it up on a spoon, and our boys couldn’t grab it, in fact sometimes I saw them in numbers taking it away as if Paddy had the wrong guernsey on.