Bulldogs staff, players meet off-site to thrash out issues

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Bulldogs staff, players conscionable off-site to thrash retired issues

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The Western Bulldogs’ shot unit and players met astatine St Kilda Sea Baths connected Tuesday to thrash retired the issues that person bedevilled their play alternatively than conducting a modular reappraisal of their nonaccomplishment to Hawthorn.

The gathering comes arsenic unit grows connected the squad to present connected interior expectations, shared by the club’s apical officials successful the pre-season, that they would marque the finals this play aft an off-season reappraisal that led to important changes to the shot section and the coaching unit surrounding their manager Luke Beveridge.

Marcus Bontempelli and Adam Treloar look dejected aft the Bulldogs’ daze nonaccomplishment to the Hawks.

After a tenable commencement to the play the nine person mislaid 4 of their past 5 matches to beryllium 11th connected the ladder with conscionable 3 wins.

New shot manager Matthew Egan, who joined the nine from Geelong successful the off-season, said the deficiency of consistency truthful acold was disappointing and discussions astir what was happening needed to instrumentality precedence implicit watching vision, which would hap connected Wednesday.

“We tin beryllium palmy this year, determination is nary uncertainty astir that,” Egan said. “We are decidedly successful to triumph this twelvemonth and astatine the infinitesimal we inactive person immoderate players who are trying to larn their position.”

Egan said the nine didn’t marque finals successful 2023, truthful it was incumbent connected the coaching unit to marque changes to find the close blend that could thrust them to success. He said immoderate prime players specified arsenic Caleb Daniel were retired of signifier and determination were different players who were inactive adjusting to the system.

He praised the manager and said helium was disappointed successful the code of immoderate of the disapproval directed astatine Beveridge.

“He has decidedly got the vigor up for sure,” Egan said. “I person ne'er seen a manager link arsenic good arsenic I person with ‘Bevo’ with his players. His quality to story-tell and make a communicative week to week with the players is amazing. His attraction to item with however helium connects 1 connected one.”

Egan praised Beveridge’s willingness to talk straight to idiosyncratic players astir the reasons for his decisions and said his narration with players was his “absolute weapon”.

He said the brace had developed a enslaved and that enslaved allowed him to situation Beveridge, and they were consenting to prosecute successful pugnacious conversations due to the fact that of their communal respect.

The unit is mounting for Luke Beveridge.

“We person seen teams successful this presumption and cognize we tin crook it around,” Egan said.

Bulldogs’ midfielder Adam Treloar backed Egan’s comments, saying the players indispensable enarthrosis the work for their below-par performances this season.

The seasoned midfielder, who crossed from Collingwood astatine the extremity of 2020, besides said helium loved playing nether Beveridge, and mediocre execution of plans was costing the Bulldogs.

“We knew determination was going to beryllium a spot of unit but arsenic a playing radical we wholeheartedly instrumentality work for the performances we are putting retired there,” Treloar said.

“The past 2 games intelligibly haven’t been up to scratch for us.”

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