Would another coach get more out of the Bulldogs' 'highly talented' list? - Footy Classified

[@tb7667]

It’s hard to assess the Bulldogs list when Beveridge never plays their best team, let alone in the right positions.

[@AC-mq6ll]

Your 100% right about not picking the players for the right and preferred positions. I remember him picking a forward at the time, to play in the backline - that forward had NEVER played that position previously and boy did it show.

[@martynlawrence3609]

If you are in it for the now there’s no way you should lose to the hawks right now.

[@DW-rs1pr]

How many other jobs can you keep bringing up how you were good at your job almost 10 years ago... bizarre reasoning. Id be filthy if I was a bulldogs fan

[@mytwosense9135]

Exactly. How long do you coast on an 8yo premiership. Same goes for Hinkley too, at least Bevo does have some hardware.

[@kiroolioneaver8532]

I think the days of coaches in any top tier pro sports staying longer than five years in one place are over lol In European soccer (regardless of if the dude won you trophies) the shelf life for coaches is short. The NBA has followed this trend and now it's spreading to coaches in other sports. The most successful NHL team since they came into the league in 2018, the Vegas Golden Knights (one Stanley Cup, two finals, and four semifinals in six years have had three coaches during that same sustained period of success).

[@tb7667]

and 2016 was a total fluke

[@user-cx9gq2ud6t]

As an eagles fan I’d love to have that list. I just don’t get why they aren’t better.

[@Vinnie101a]

@@tb7667: a bit like Steven Bradbury?

[@stormblessed2673]

I reckon going into the 2022 season most would have rated the Bulldogs list as way better than Collingwood's, who had just finished 17th. Yet see what McRae has done at the pies since - a prelim loss by 1 point and a premiership. I reckon he probably would have done just as well with the doggies list too, same goes for Chris Scott, John Longmire, other gun coaches, etc.

[@chuckle1111]

Spot on llordo

[@chucklauber9914]

The week to week inconsistency is just baffling to me. This team was nailing it with back end intercepts earlier in the season... and against the Hawks, it was a back end group that didn't really show up at all. To me, that isn't just the head coach... it's a collection of players that are not being held accountable. In the AFL, you can't afford to take a week off. On Bevo's end... he needs to be a lot more consistent on roles... and quit experimenting in mid-season.

[@billyhoyle2780]

Justin Leppitch to be the next coach of the Dogs, you heard it here first

[@Saint_Svadhisthana_Sahasrara_1]

BONT deserves better than this…

[@lesliebosua1217]

And this fact is probably not lost on Bont. Will he stay on?😢

[@aroy8094]

Unfortunately if he does leave I see him being another Treloar, I don't see a team that's in the premiership window in the next 3 years picking him up

[@billyeilash1191]

Bont looks depressed

[@kiroolioneaver8532]

European soccer was first, the NBA was next and now it seems all other sports leagues are slowly following suit. The shelf life for coaches at a team (rebuilding clubs excepted) is probably now two to four years. Today's athletes are different more powerful hold more leverage and need different kinds of personality/ego management and motivation. I think the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights are THE example of this. In their first six years of existence (2018-23), they made it to two Stanley Cup finals, won one championship and made it to the semifinals/final four twice and the playoffs five times. Over those six years of consistent high performance theyhad three different coaches (firing the first coach they had who won coach of the year and led them to the Cup finals in their first ever season after a little over two years on the job).

[@travelwithroland2]

I felt like he won that GF with a game plan that worked on that day, but his method for that was quickly dismantled the next year and it just did not work when others found how to beat it. Having said that, but for a bounce this way or that they almost beat Geelong. Chris Scott once said “ you are never as good as it seems, and you are never as bad a it seems”. I think that they are not far away unless they lose too many matches. That is the issue.

[@TheBinaryWolf]

Bevo says he cares about his players, which is true. But the team doesn't need a nanny: it needs a coach with an effective game plan.

[@devilwarr1or]

....have they ever considered the team is just not that good? They got 6 or 7 elite players yes but the rest arent even average. a team is 23 players all contributing.

[@ianmcleod9088]

Barrett has always hated Bevo and would love him to get sacked . All this crap that comes out of Barretts mouth and he couldn't even play the game at a good standard if at all , he truely makes me sick .

[@timhellyer-lx3kv]

Would you rather listen to blokes who played at the highest level like Darcy, Selwood and cotchin saying obvious fence sitting rubbish ?

[@aussieoutlawalt8411]

Ive never seen a team play with so much arrogance when they played the Hawks. If they dont beat Richmond bevo will be gone by the Monday

[@Dude-etiquette]

None of those commentators would be able to do it. They talk a big game but are essentially keyboard warriors

[@dodgyoldmate1644]

Matty Lloyd as a Dogs coach💗💞💕

[@bernsy45]

Barrett has had Bevo in the gun for years

[@user-cx9gq2ud6t]

Damo loves this, his favourite topic is Bev Bad lol

[@Jazzanaught]

Let’s face it, the bulldogs only won 2016 because of the pre finals bye. They were injured and limped into the finals. The rule change and the week off helped them fluke their way to the flag. Bevo is still in awe that he was able to pull that off. He doesn’t have an idea what to do next.

[@jeromeb4756]

Cant fluke your way to a flag

[@Jazzanaught]

@@jeromeb4756there’s and exception to every rule my friend.

[@WilhelmKurtToVaira]

Be great if the Hawks can make a pitch to Bont. Hawks May not look like it right now but they seem to be right for an injection of a superstar to propel them to the next stage of their development. Unreal to imagine.!!😱

[@andrewwebb5473]

The Bo t will be an old man before the Hawks win another flag.

[@mpk33]

Dream on, tiger.

[@michaeldewson8708]

All the great sides have continuity something that Bevo fails to understand.. You dont need to reinvent the wheel ,,

[@jasonmccredden1050]

The scrutiny is political and laughable go dog's

[@richardbehan8118]

Halftime Eddie, HALFTIME.

[@maxshiraz3447]

Bulldogs list is midfield at best

[@nathand4500]

barrett making himself the story what a flog