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daniher/ our new game-plan

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one thing has to be handed to daniher.

He knows Melbourne needs to win a premiership in the next 2 years. He saw a West Coast style (running-handballing out of defence) as the way to do and implemented this strategy over the pre-season. that takes guts because if it backfires, he loses his job.

problem with this strategy:

A few years ago Melbourne's over use of the ball was there main weakness. Daniher designed a new gameplan which involved owning the corridor and kicking in long. This new game-plan simply plays into Melbourne's main weakness as a team a few years back.

In 5 weeks time Melbourne could start playing this game-plan to perfection. If this is the case, we will start winning and Daniher will be the genius. However if this is not the case, and Melbourne comes 5-8th and loses first final, or even worse, doesnt make the finals, he should surely be fired.

i think our new game-plan sux but wev now invested in it by spending the whole preseason basing gameplans around it.

do people think its possible for melbourne to win a premiership playing that game-style.

food for thought: we played best in the first and last quarters when we started playing more direct. It was in the second and third quarters, when we got killed, that we actually were implementing our game-plan...hmmmm

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    you know what ?

    i'm betting Daniher is no genius !!

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    "I thought we played very dumb football in thoes 2nd and 3rd quarters" ND after match.

    THAT IS YOUR FAULT DANNERS. The game plan sucked and was never going to work so rather than blame the boys take a look at urself cause i thought u were worst on ground. I hope to hell he reads these sites as he could realise how bad he was last night but i doubt it. DONT BLAME UR TEAMMATES. THEY ARE THERE TO FOLLOW YOUR INSTRUCTIONS

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    You're on a roll occo <_< !!!

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    You're on a roll occo <_< !!!

    perhaps just still fuming. Apoligies

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    perhaps just still fuming. Apoligies

    Oh gosh no apologies needed......

    I'm with you :) !!!

    Sorry.

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    Oh gosh no apologies needed......

    I'm with you :) !!!

    Sorry.

    Nice to know that im making sence for once....as i know i havnt at times in the past.

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    "I thought we played very dumb football in thoes 2nd and 3rd quarters" ND after match.

    THAT IS YOUR FAULT DANNERS. The game plan sucked and was never going to work so rather than blame the boys take a look at urself cause i thought u were worst on ground. I hope to hell he reads these sites as he could realise how bad he was last night but i doubt it. DONT BLAME UR TEAMMATES. THEY ARE THERE TO FOLLOW YOUR INSTRUCTIONS

    How true, i agree with you, and we certainly did suck last night

    Need new game plan

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    How true, i agree with you, and we certainly did suck last night

    Need new game plan

    See occo, you're definitely not alone ;) :D !!!

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    no he's not alone... I must confess i did not hear the whole interview...only the main sound grab....but it was both lamentable and contemptable that such a buck passing effort should occur so early in the season. The buck starts and stops with him.

    Forgive me brehtren and sisters....this does not bode well. The season didnt start on friday it started many weeks ago when his lordship instigated this mania masquerading as a game strategy. It did not work well then, it hasnt all along. Is he waiting for the loose bike chain to suddenly jump back onto cogs simply by perservering ? There were times last night when is was laughable. Players werent aware of where the ball was or where it mught be delivered or from where. The ball all but fell on a group at one stage such was their disarray.

    One can only hope that that was a serious wake up call; yes already. Keep that up and we wil be playing catch up footy all season.

    ND must realise he is on thin ice. That this wil be his last season if he continues to deliver that cr@p on and off the field must surely be some component of his thinking. has he used up all his tricks and now canvasses any folly as optionable ? Lets hope not. I'm hoping he's better than that. I can only hope ...as in all the years he has been at the helm he has not shown this supporter he's capable of much more, certainly not at the very highest level. He wil lneed to nip it in the bud immediately for if it were to continue even for a short while some may sense he's for the chop and then all cohesion goes up the race: ....season over

    now before you all acuse me of ultra pessimism...I'm not. But I am entitled to be observe and decipher as i see it.

    Go Dees ( but go a lot better than that )

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    I agree with most of you here, but one things i'll say is that if he's saying that it was dumb football then that must mean that's not meant to be our style. So here comes the million dollar question, "WHAT IS OUR STYLE"? And if what we played on Friday night isn't what we're supposed to be doing, how can he as our senior coach let that happen?

    ATM i'm in this kind of under the surface anger, i'm bottling it up in the hope that next week the players will be so effing fired up that we will wipe the floor with Hawthorn and show who we really are. But believe me, if we don't perform well come easter Monday, god help me i will let it out. (Hopefully not on here though!) :D

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    he said we "played dumb football in the 2nd and 3rd "

    so what d we take from this...

    we have a rather ambiguous game plan thats easily miscontrued ?

    they dont listento him?

    he didnt realise in time ?

    he didnt make the right corrections at half time ?

    he didnt reiterate and explain the misunderstandings at 3/4 time ?

    HE HASNT A CLUE about how to fix it ?

    or

    G) all of the above

    granted he cant run out and play for all 18.....but he can make his ideas plain and known.

    this apparently doesnt happen. that is a concern.

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    An important point is that we members have no direct relationship with Daniher. We appoint the Board to run the club prudently.

    The Board need to satisfy themeselves of the reasons for Friday's debacle.

    Possibility 1. The new plan is going to work. The board needs to get a time-frame and measures to evaluate progress, from Daniher.

    Possibility 2. Daniher has gone mad. Daniher to go on a holiday and Paul Williams to fill in.

    Possibility 3, Daniher has got it wrong and will teach a morw workable style at training. The board needs to get a time-frame and measures to evaluate progress, from Daniher.

    What are odd of the Board having the balls to call to account the most talented of the Daniher bros? Not much! The only time that it has happened in the last twenty years, Joe slipped the dead weight of the Board and went troppo on match-day. A bit naughty but effective.

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    I have been calling for Daniher's head for a long time. It's not just the game plans, if they can be called that. It's the fact that for years our skills have been deficient (compared to WB, WCE, SS, etc.; our team has been mentally soft; we are bereft of leadership across the board on the ground; we hold on to talentless players for too long; Daniher never takes any responsiblity for bad losses (Grant may have been a bad coach, but at least he wore a lot of their losses, Craig often accepts responibility, etc). etc,etc,etc

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    Go Dees ( but go a lot better than that )

    :rolleyes:

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