Great article outlining the new football department structure for 2016.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2015-10-09/dees-announce-new-football-structure

The article also has an enlightening interview with Josh Mahoney (Widely seen as one of the rising stars in football admin, and you can see why.)

Essentially, we're beefing up our development and gameplan areas, as well as undertaking an annual review of requirements in the coaching ranks, with the relevant staff having input on this (the senior coaching staff structure). I see this continuous review as a massive upside, as I've said in a few threads over the past few months.

The club looks to be ticking all of the right boxes as far as the off-field requirements go, with appropriate allocation of resources.

The next step is the on-field part. Hopefully the constant mis-steps are a thing of the past. At least the football conversations are coming from the appropriate channels now, unlike under previous administrations.

Well yes on field....MMM...I sitting in Elwood having a late night red wine with Swyl....and we think on field has to drastically improve with attitude being a key factor...god this merlot is good~!

I agree whole heartledly with Whadda

The Merlot is great

Go Dees....

Yes ATTITUDE

The kiddie Brayshaw has it in spades

Toumpas has not

Indeed Mr Swyl....indeed!

The kid brayshaw and kid van demon is what I need....when I feel the need for speed!!

Colonel Hogan is ok to

We need players to get the ball to him

I don't care if they are nice blokes....

What do you mean~~!! We are all nice blokes at the Dees~~~!!! That's the freaking problem....!

Wow, another thread that some one belts Toumpas.

Do you just go into every thread and try and tie some thing to Toumoas so you can belt the kid?

Such a bitter old man.

I'll try and bring it back on topic...

The article was terrific and the part that stood out to me is that Roos will be focusing more on further building up our culture and habits during his last year as senior coach. With Goodwin obviously taking on more responsibilities I think it's terrific that Roosy will further focus his efforts there. With such a young list we have the opportunity to make sure these guys are ready to go so that they can model these habits to any new draftees or players to the club.

As each year goes by I get a little more confident that we are, truly, headed in the right direction. There is still plenty of work to be done but we now have the right processes in place to take us where we need to go.

Good report and fantastic that Danile Cross with a sports science degree will contribute to the club

Very positive example for the next generation.

Colonel Hogan is ok to

We need players to get the ball to him

I don't care if they are nice blokes....

'Hogan ok' is blasphemy.

I'll try and bring it back on topic...

The article was terrific and the part that stood out to me is that Roos will be focusing more on further building up our culture and habits during his last year as senior coach. With Goodwin obviously taking on more responsibilities I think it's terrific that Roosy will further focus his efforts there. With such a young list we have the opportunity to make sure these guys are ready to go so that they can model these habits to any new draftees or players to the club.

As each year goes by I get a little more confident that we are, truly, headed in the right direction. There is still plenty of work to be done but we now have the right processes in place to take us where we need to go.

I think the Geelong game prove where heading in the right direction problem is we take two steps forward and one back eg bombers and blues game we had a chance for revenge and we blew it we could've ruined Enrights 300 th and had Hird sacked and ruined judds lap of honour this season we need to Start doing things like that, we screwed Corey and got clipped in the other 2 games,now my last gripe is with the fans we should get 40,000 members this year to thank PR for the platform he has set, how many guys post here that arnt members because if you do your pathetic

Good report and fantastic that Danile Cross with a sports science degree will contribute to the club

Very positive example for the next generation.

I just hope Crossy is still not the last one off the track, hoping others have taken his example and will run with it.

Whoops Daniel

and all done without any Merlot

New release Gehrig Reisling planned for tasting at 2

I really like the strong focus on development, we have a young core that could develop into a premiership team, we're giving them every chance.

Tyson, Viney, Hogan, Brayshaw, Petracca, Salem, Mcdonald, Gawn all look like A graders in the making imo

got some good strong B graders and potential B graders around them too

exciting times ahead

Wow, another thread that some one belts Toumpas.

Do you just go into every thread and try and tie some thing to Toumoas so you can belt the kid?

Such a bitter old man.

yeah having watched 12 Whorethorn Flags & The MFC nil it can make one rather Bitter.

and how many have you witnessed Gorgor?

Born in 77 mate, seen a few.

Born in 77 mate, seen a few.

Pay that.

People always talk about Whorethorns great era of the 80's and totally neglect that they made 4 GF's in a row during the 70's winning 3 flags!!!

It doesn't quite specify the exact positions but I see he mentions McPherson mentioned as a development coach.

So we might be in the market for a new forwards line coach. (or it could be a slip of the tongue).

Either way I like that we have an experience and quality coaching group around Goodwin and we can add younger coaches in through the development position and at Casey.

I like the theory of this Jennings guy coming in and evaluating the coaching. You can have the greatest footy minds but if the message isn't getting across then it's wasted.

The one surprise I have is that we (and every club) don't have a specific kicking coach. Things like tackling, marking, ground balls, handballing can be taught through repetition and a pretty basic technique. If a player can't do those then they're unlikely to get drafted. But kicking is a very difficult skill that almost every player has to improve on from when they are drafted. Even the most natural kicks have to work on their penetration and execute under a much bigger pressure.

I don't know who instructs our players with kicking. Is it one of the development coaches? Do they just work on it by trial and error and repetition?