Depends if he hired AOB or not
Adam O'Brien discussion
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Tackleslikeagirl
Alex McKinnon
Nothing to do with who hired who. I’m talking about if one head coach is blamed for a teams poor attack, then that should be translated across all teams. Don’t just pick and chose to suit agendas.
mozza
Game on broheim
This. Ciraldo is all hype and little substance. Doesn’t take responsibility for his shortcomings. Also is yet to win a Finals game. Still gets called a great coach by his mates in the media though.
Let’s not forget their attack was average for the majority of last year and their defence has regressed massively.
Mclovin
Todd Bates
To be fair to AOB the dogs attack fell off a cliff last year when they decided to make changes to the spine but he and the head coach havnt made to much of a difference to the attack. I actually thought with how they played, AOB would have been a good signing seeing as he likes to play high percentage footy but the game got quicker so maybe it was an unlucky choice by the head coach to hire him.
Precisely. Ciraldo seems a little protected in this area. It’s probably fair to say that Obi isn’t the modern day attack coach you’d want. But yes if all the blame went to head coach when he was here, then all the blame goes to Ciraldo on this occasion too.
HarVeeGee13
Danny 'Bedsy' Buderus
I remember people were saying that the attack getting worse when going from Sexton to Galvin was because the draw got harder. I felt like I was being gaslit there. They were just obviously worse. Never a super dynamic attacking side but they at least had a lot of clarity about what they were doing, a lot of cohesion.
No Sexton isn’t special, he’s slow and he’s a pretty average defender, but he does a lot of the little stuff which goes unnoticed which leads to his outside men playing with time and space, he rarely makes errors, and he does actually have some stuff that scabs extra tries for a team eg a really good short kicking game, and if there’s something easy & obvious on the table for him like a winger jamming in when they shouldn’t, he tends to see it.
They tossed it away for a guy who is also slow & plays a style of footy which is really hard to fit into a team concept because he’s always calling his own number and chasing direct try involvements. Doesn’t really think about putting in other guys in good positions to do their own thing pretty much ever. Also a guy who has a rep of being a bit of a ****head.
I’m sure he’s delighted with how things are going though, AOB will tell him to keep spamming those short balls and eventually he’ll get try assists out of that.
No Sexton isn’t special, he’s slow and he’s a pretty average defender, but he does a lot of the little stuff which goes unnoticed which leads to his outside men playing with time and space, he rarely makes errors, and he does actually have some stuff that scabs extra tries for a team eg a really good short kicking game, and if there’s something easy & obvious on the table for him like a winger jamming in when they shouldn’t, he tends to see it.
They tossed it away for a guy who is also slow & plays a style of footy which is really hard to fit into a team concept because he’s always calling his own number and chasing direct try involvements. Doesn’t really think about putting in other guys in good positions to do their own thing pretty much ever. Also a guy who has a rep of being a bit of a ****head.
I’m sure he’s delighted with how things are going though, AOB will tell him to keep spamming those short balls and eventually he’ll get try assists out of that.