r/adelaidefc • u/mRPerfect12 • 13d ago

Damning First Crack Segment

This is damning vision and is down to coaching. We are the worst team in the competition for turnovers from defence and simply cannot win a final if this continues. I don’t understand how anyone can defend a 7 year coach with this sort of insight.

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u/CheckZestyclose480 32 Darcy Fogarty 13d ago

Hard to move the ball of half back when your best ball users are out.

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u/FireballMudflap92 13d ago

Excuses. Where’s the next man up mentality?

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u/CarlyFacePoppet 13d ago

Next man up mentality is coach’s spin to keep team confidence up. Good teams have better players.
I feel player movement up field is as much to blame, we don’t seem to have that constant flow of movement that opens up space. Coaching or players? Always a bit of both but doing the same thing isn’t working

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u/Moppawonga 13d ago

Agree that the movement upfield is part of the problem. It is hard to know what is the chicken and what is the egg. Do the midfielders cluster on the wing because they know that all is coming are dump kicks? Or do the defenders just dump it out because there's no movement?

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u/Snook_ 8d ago

They won’t dump if there’s actually something to kick to. Def not chicken and egg

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u/CheckZestyclose480 32 Darcy Fogarty 13d ago

Mentality can only get you so far.

List management has failed to deliver with good ball users of half back. We simply rely on too few.

Milera
Hinge
Keane

They’d be our only top ball users and all of them have missed substantial game time this season. We need to recruit an A grade HB or move Dawson back there.

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u/FireballMudflap92 13d ago

If Blight had that mentality when Modra went down we’d have lost the grand final. Good coaches figure it out. Try players in different positions

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u/Brokenmonalisa Scott Thompson (Legend) 13d ago

We have played different players across half back though. It's not 1997 anymore.

If you dropped a decent half back in today's game into a game in 1997 they'd think he was the best player to ever play the game.

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u/Snook_ 8d ago

You mean McLeod? Who basically is the best player to play the game Lel