I watched today’s game and also watched the games vs Essendon, Nord and Melbourne. You can make up all the excuses in the world but we just aren’t that good.
For the list we have, we should be alot better.
The 4 games you've mentioned there is 1 constant, being out coached
So if they win , it’s the players
If they play badly, it’s the coach
Not disputing we played badly.
But when the coach refuses to make any changes to stop the opposition transition out of defence with zero pressure then that's on him.
We sends everyone forward of centre bar one player and allows the opposition to have no 1 but 3 spares than that's on the coach.
That you get interviewed lat qtr time (last week) and say the opposition is getting to many uncontested marks and don't bother to do anything about it until the final qtr, then sorry that's on the coach.
Ferguson is very much like Dimma in that he is so stubborn he refuses to make any changes and revert to plan "b"
I've said a number of times when our game style comes off we are brilliant to watch but when it isn't working then we are crap and it's up to the coach to change it up. He rarely does until it is far too late
So now we are off to Adelaide next week for our elimination final