So what of the future? To look at the future, I think one needs only to look at the way the master coached this year and his attitudes expressed during the year.
What was he confronted with? An almost full list in the last praccy game and a 10 goal win over Ninthmond. Fast forward to the opening round 2 weeks later and we were about 8 down including Hird and co with bloody soft tisues, shoulders etc. Still we won easy.....against Love Child #1 and reigning Premier. It went all down hill from there especially with Lloyd out for the year and almost a full team out for the year, by R22.
So what was Sheeds reaction? Did he flood to stop the potential of blow out losses? Did he play up to 18 guys in front of the opposition like we saw at the weekend? No.
He played attacking footy no matter what and despite the injury's we lost 13 by 4 goals or less. Even putting aside frustrating skill errors, it was good to see the guys going for it and at least trying things. The skill errors will go with the sacking of certain individuals and the hopeful recruiting of better personal to replace them.
Sorry for taking so long to get to my point but I think if you see the way he coached against the Doggies in R22, that will be a mirror image of what he proposes going forward with some tweeking. Giving them a 46 point start we headed them but couldn't finish them off, just going down by 3. View our performance with all those injury's vs a full list Scum side on the weekend against the same team, only a week later.
Sheeds needs to succeed next year or its curtains, and he knows that. With his back to the wall, he always rises to the occaison....given some long overdue luck with injury. He will not flood. He will try and emulate the Doggies speed game to overcome the crap flooding we have seen but I am sure having watched him all these years there will be some tricks up his sleeve, to have a game plan based on attack, attack, attack & speed to the Lloyds and so on and a rebounding defensive wall. This will be made easier with the return of the speed of Licha and Lovey (missing most of the year), our 2 quickest players with your Stants, Dysons, Gus's and so on.
I for one, Aka or not, am looking forward to seeing our renaissance. We do NOT stay down long.
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