...he does that ONE THING that drives us crazy.
What is it for you???
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...he does that ONE THING that drives us crazy.
What is it for you???
non ruck in the ruck - if they are short (for ruck size) eg Hannan, or Dunks, Or Bont. I even hate seeing Naughton ruck
The outside 5. It drove ME SPARE!
I feel like that few seconds after someone takes a mark you want to press right up in their face and halt the flow.
It clearly can't be done all the time, but conceding ground especially in the defensive half I just don't get.
From the TV I get it, looks ok but when you're at ground level playing; someone running up into your face just puts that element of doubt into your mind.
Press! Don't back off.
/rant and hopefully it's gone forever.
None of those things worry me.
How long have we got?
:D
I don’t have any issue with the on field options, in isolation some have been concerns in games but there are reasons and nuance behind most of them. I actually think the portrait painted of Bevo being some mad scientist spinning the magnets and trying wild moves is incredibly inaccurate. Every coach in the comp throws players new challenges, ensures they have versatility and can give the side options. I would like him to be more adventurous in some respects not the other way around.
I chose grouchy press conferences. I think his needless clashes with the media, general secrecy and condescending attitude have at times put pressure on him and by extension the playing group. I dislike sections of the media as much as anyone but he picks targets that have friends in high places and ultimately it has been bad for the club. He is intelligent enough to reflect on this and realise that this is not a battle he can win.
My choice isn’t listed but I’d go with filling the last two-three spots in the 22 in a given week with driftwood that he for whatever reason likes the shape of.
Of the options it has to be non-ruckman in the ruck given we’ve been doing it roughly 100% of the time for the last 4 years.
I just don't have an issue with any of those things with the right context. I'm confident that Bevo and his crew have supporting data to justify their tactical moves.
Not listed but match committee selections. In the end I went with non ruck man but accepting that at times it's going to happen.
I can live with grumpy press conferences but prefer that he didn't make it so obvious he was pissed off.
and yes, I do love Bevo.
The 5m thing got my vote. I’m sure there is a time and place for it, but we did it every. Single. Time.
The press conferences overall are good IMO, but he certainly doesn’t forgive and forget.
When Bevo does a long form interview or even answers a press conference question from a journalist he likes he is incredibly insightful and engaging, always gives a hint to his thoughts on tactics. That’s the Bevo I want all the time or as often as we can get.
He is going to get peppered with questions on Darcy, Jamarra, use of our talls, loss of Dunkley all year so we need the best version of him. Kane Cornes and co have made it very obvious that they will go after him this year.
I find I can't vote in the poll.
There needs to be other options
All of the Above
and
All of the Above and more.
I could have voted all of the above, but I would need to add more.
Match Committee selections.
The Determination to reinvent the game until the season is almost shot.
The treatment of some matches as insignificant (such as Brisbane 2015, Freo 2016 and others)
Non-ruckman in the ruck - Hannan or Buks getting murdered doesn't help us at all.
Track-watchers this pre-season note Naughton was taking ruck contests in the F50 - you don't use a Ferrari to plow a field.
LOL.
I wanted to add 'Magic Committee Bingo' as an option but figured that is the ultimate 'Bevo-ism' and when it works (like it did particularly in 2015) then it is pure magic.
So I couldn't include that because it is part of what makes Bevo who he is. Outside 5, Caleb at Full-back etc - those are tactical changes that he could EASILY reverse field on. Well, I think he could.
I quite like his press conferences. People may think he went OTT on Morris but heck, I enjoyed it. Reckon I watched that presser 3 or 4 times.
I'd like the role of Ruck to be looked at differently though.
From the top of d50 to the centre I do...that ‘control’ zone where the oppo is trying to switch and set up theor attack. Inside d50 I want to press and apply pressure to the kicker - make them feel uncomfortable - and forward of centre I just feel it gives the kicker more angles to work with if you drop back...
His stubborness when he makes a captains choice in selecting players. Some are not up to it but he continues to play them and leave them on the list.
Yep like 65% of us. Just play rucks and stop stuffing around Bevo.
It's not like we're the only team that has its best forward rucking in the forward fifty.
If we win possession a quick kick to the top of the square can be contested by the taller forward, brought to ground or marked.
This is Bevo in a nutshell
Who could have coaxed such footy out of Fletcher Roberts, Joel Hamling, a Clay Smith held together with elastoplast, Zaine Cordy starting up forward in prelim and granny, backing in rookies McLean and Dunkley
When everyone doubts him, he often doubles down in his belief on a player, or what a player could become - e.g Gardner
It has to be the ruck issue, an ongoing frustration that exists for me on on a continuum from "Geez this isn't working" to "Danjul."
For mine it is grouchy press conferences.
When Bevo is on, he is one of the best footy people to listen to. Too often he gets into us against the world mode.
Having said that, I totally understand why he does it because the amount of times his comments are taken out of context and become click bait.
Possible EW, although I think its often a case that we can't see or get access to the data or supporting information that leads Bevo and his staff to settle on a course of action.
Just knowing a bit about how Bevo operated during his time in my organisation, he's not a gut feel kinda guy... he makes decisions based on the information presented. Doesn't mean he gets things right always, but I just don't think that when he does get it wrong its' because he's blind to what others can see.
I do, however, have a suspicion (based on conversations with his previous boss at my work) that his biggest positive trait could also possibly be his biggest weakness at times. His boss once told me that Bevo is loyal to the hilt, and would always support his team, even when it was time to perhaps change tack or cut his losses.
I suspect that once he and his team agree on something, he's loathe to change course until they've exhausted every and all opportunities to make it work. Not out of pure stubbornness per se, but out of belief in his team and their decision making process.
In both cases the answer is "an inanimate carbon rod".
Or heaven forbid let's recruit/target players that fill that need so we don't have to play Cordy or Sweet. But yeah nah, all those people (and plenty on this board) commenting loudly and often about our recruiting needs are all wrong and Beveridge is always right.
Maybe you're right and his loyalty is a double edged sword. Hey I love Beveridge, I just can't come at people who think he's above criticism.
I chose non-ruck in the ruck as it exemplifies our biggest issue over the last 4-5 season: the team has lacked balance - playing too many mids and shoe horning them in the forward line, ruck setup, lack of any defensive intercepting.
It’s partly a recruiting issue too, but when it’s a regular occurrence over a 4-5 year period, the buck stops with Bevo.
All coaches need to improvise on match days due to injuries or something not going to plan but we seem to get invested in in what should be a short term fix and roll it out over a period of time. With Lobb it should solve the the support for English challenge during match days by only having 2 genuine ruckman on the list could catch us out.
I vote for dropping back from the mark. I have yet to see any real advantage in this move.
Unless you consider being 5 meters closer to wherever the ball lands as an advantage.
I get that the new rules reduce the man on the mark to a useless imitation of an inanimate statue, but this practice of regularly giving time and space to the opposition is difficult to accept.
This (to my mind) is not good practice, either in the phone box, or the Tardis.
I’m hoping the giving up 5m on mark is curtailed, especially anywhere close to our defensive 50.
A few things that have puzzled me, hoping with Lade’s extra help and a more harmonious playing group these conundrums are a thing of the past:
1) Puzzling MC selections
2) Inability to try something different to counteract when oppo has a run on
3) Refusal to tag an oppo mid who is tearing us apart.
I still think Bevo is a good coach and I reckon he can take us to a second premiership this year or next.