{"id":424112,"date":"2024-09-29T21:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T21:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424112"},"modified":"2024-09-30T01:10:13","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T01:10:13","slug":"big-conversations-ahead-for-broken-longmires-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=424112","title":{"rendered":"'Big conversations' ahead for broken Longmire's future"},"content":{"rendered":"

W\ufeffhere to next for Sydney<\/a> coach John Longmire<\/a>?<\/p>\n

After suffering his fourth grand final loss from five appearances, going down to Brisbane by 60 points<\/a>, \ufeffthe Swans may be asking the exact same question.<\/p>\n

And now, with just a year remaining on his contract, \ufeffthere are suggestions the coach could be mentally exhausted.<\/p>\n

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According to leading AFL reporter Damien Barrett, the Swans will complete a major review of Longmire's game plan and how it failed.<\/p>\n

\ufeff"To be smashed now twice inside three seasons (in grand finals)\ufeff… Add the 2016 and 2014 grand finals to the losses that he's had as a coach of this footy club," he said on Nine's Sunday Footy Show.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"John<\/p>\n

"I expect this footy club to fully debrief this one and I think some big conversations will be had."<\/p>\n

Longmire took over as Swans coach in 2011, going on to win the 2012 flag.<\/p>\n

But the coach has since suffered four grand final losses in 2014, 2016, 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n

The latter two losses were by 81 and 60 points\ufeff, which has set off alarm bells as to how much mental strength the coach has left.<\/p>\n

It has drawn comparisons to a former Geelong coach\ufeff, who also suffered a string of heartbreaking grand final losses that mentally rocked the leader.<\/p>\n

"It got the better of Malcolm Blight – 1989, 1992, 1994, demoralised in grand finals (and he) left," Barrett said.<\/p>\n

"The Cats made the grand final the next year (1995) under a different coach (Gary Ayres and lost).<\/p>\n

"These types of results, now that we've had two (grand final losses) inside three years, can have a massive effect as the way you view yourself and the way your club views you.<\/p>\n

"His game plan has fallen down badly, really, really badly, embarassingly badly in two of the past three grand finals.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

It's also left Matthew Lloyd concerned that Longmire's game plan is too predictable.<\/p>\n

\"Cornes<\/p>\n

"There was no dare, \ufeffthere was no handball around the back. They were too safe," he said.<\/p>\n

"I just wonder, John Longmire, does he have to ask himself, 'do I have too safe a plan?'.<\/p>\n

"He can get me to grand finals, but it can't win me grand finals.\ufeff"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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