Longmire: Good or Bad ?

[barry]

Longmire isnt inspiring me as a coach. We've has some very weird selection policies this year...
Playing a ruckman as the sub in the first round.
Not bringing in experience for the wet Geelong game.
Playing 3 tall forwards tonight in the wet....
And playing another tall as the sub.

[caj23]

He is a complete @@@@@@@

Wet conditions again and he selects a tall team, then when Grundy pulls out he brings in Pyke. Blind Freddy could see that we were going to get run off our feet in the final term. Evertitt (only because he was already in the 22) should have taken the extra tall position and Parker should have been bought in. Although why they named 2 talls as emergencies is beyond me

Everitt is nowhere near AFL level and is a disgrace to the bloods ethos, yet supercoach has given him a gold pass.

We shouldnt be suprised given that the club just handed him the job on a platter without proper process or considering what other coaches may have been available. Geelong could have taken the easy option and given the job to Sanderson but they went through an interview process and selected Scott instead, seems like the right decision.

So frustrated that we're stuck with this bloke who supposedly knows the ropes after 11 years as an assistant. Incidentally, if he was so good, why wasnt he poached by another club?

[Gary]

The jury is still out...but perhaps not for long...I see nothing to encourage me about the impact of coaching on our season.

[Cpt. Kirk]

If you choose not to listen to the press conferences you may think that but in the first round he played seaby as the sub because mumford was just coming back from and injury and didnt want to be left ruckless for more then half the game.
I don't know who you think he could have brought in against geelong other then either pyke or seaby although they would be terrible. If your refering to kennelly he was too underdone two weeks ago to play, The same goes for TDL, Moore and LRT.

I think Longmire is doing a alright job for the injury's that he has to deal with so far these include who i would consider three of our best four backs in Kennelly, Malcheski and LRT.

I dont think he will ever have the X factor that roosy had but he is still imo a better then average coach.

[barry]

Outcoached by Ratten says a lot really

[dimelb]

Longmire: Good or Bad?
That didn't take long, did it?

[Cpt. Kirk]

Outcoached by Ratten says a lot really

Maybe come back in tommorow when you stop blaming the coach for things that he cannot fix, other then bring in a first gamer such as parker he wasnt able to bring in another small. Have a look at the list.

[ScottH]

5 games is a bit early to asking this.

[caj23]

5 games is a bit early to asking this.

It would be if he hadn't made such glaring mistakes at the selection table

We were told that he'd had 9 years as an assistant and knew the ropes but he is making some fundamental errors at the moment

[Cpt. Kirk]

It would be if he hadn't made such glaring mistakes at the selection table

We were told that he'd had 9 years as an assistant and knew the ropes but he is making some fundamental errors at the moment

Can you please list these errors?

[Foreign Legion]

Bringing Pyke in on a wet night was a huge mistake (even though he wasnt disgraced) when Jack went off we were stuffed. The only reason Jack came back on was because we had too many talls. I don't know, Sydney people - had it been raining for a while or was tonight an unexpected downpour?

And was Rohan rested? If so, that was an idiot of a decision.

[Swans500]

....A little slow witted in my opinion!!!!....

[Auntie.Gerald]

i dont agree re coaching as yet

Carlton lifted massively thru a marque player in Judd..............we couldnt go with him...........ROK looked like a light post as Judd ran away from him 4th qtr especially.............I dont think we have the 'quality' in our fast players........and our slow quality players are too slow !!

[dimelb]

... And was Rohan rested? If so, that was an idiot of a decision.

Rohan is out for ~3 weeks after a knee injury in the gym.

[Cpt. Kirk]

Bringing Pyke in on a wet night was a huge mistake (even though he wasnt disgraced) when Jack went off we were stuffed. The only reason Jack came back on was because we had too many talls. I don't know, Sydney people - had it been raining for a while or was tonight an unexpected downpour?

And was Rohan rested? If so, that was an idiot of a decision.

Rohan injured his knee and is out for three weeks, i agree with jack coming back on but we literally only had first gamers or underdone players to bring in instead of the talls.

Pyke was a good IN but definitely not for this night, perhaps parker in his first game could have done a lot better but playing in that sort of weather would do little for his confidence if he made a few blunders.