McRae era (2022-present)

[Pies4shaw]

As long as it’s not a consistent shit show in which case it needs to be stopped.

I hope this is a joke. The bloke turned around a terrible team and missed the Grand Final by a whisker in his first season, then won the flag in his second. The third is a transition year in which, disappointingly, the younger players have generally fired blanks. Before he arrived, we put up with a decade of depressing drivel. I have complete confidence in his ability to get what can be got out of his players - but too many of the moving parts have been missing this year. For a while, the top-end talent papered over the cracks created by extended injuries but you get to a point where there are so many potatoes in the team - or underdone players who are actually stars but can't for the time being perform that way - that it doesn't matter how good the coach is. Happily, he is a great coach. I have no doubt that they will ratchet things up again as soon as they have some better magnets to put on the board.

[What'sinaname]

Right now, the coaching is a mess. For 3 consecutive weeks, we've been beaten the same way and it has nothing to do with personnel. As soon as Hawthorn had 104 disposal in Q1, I said this game is over and headed for a 10 goal loss.

Either the coaching is incompetent or the players aren't listening / following instructions. Either way, that's not good.

[Big T]

It’s the lack of any young player development or creativity which I am concerned with and would like him to correct.

If McInnes doesn’t play full games for the rest of the season questions have to be asked, same for Macrae.

[Johnno75]

The frustration is as mentioned we are being beaten by what we know which is a huge worry. Hawks had +115 more uncontested possessions and most of those were handball receives (+80 or so). Sometimes it’s not a quick fix but it seems to be getting out of hand hence we got the blowout today.

Geelong bounced back in 2024 somewhat but they injected a bit of youth into the team (Dempsey, Bowes, Humphries, Bruhn). It’s not as easy as that for us because no one is blossoming in the VFL and as for pick 6 well if you are really quiet you can hear them laughing across in the west.

[Johnno75]

Even tonight we allowed way too much uncontested ball -75 and it started to show late which was expected given the 6 vs 8 day break. Luckily we did enough in the middle part of the game to set up a decent lead.

[Prometheus]

[25]. Preliminary Final 2022 (Sydney vs Collingwood) = -1

Sydney's next game was an abysmal failure.

[Jezza]

OP updated after Round 24.