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4 minutes ago, My name is legion said:

Get stuffed

That’s pretty funny - telling an engorged onion to get stuffed


“Our brand as a football club .............”

”an improvement ......”

”happy that we kicked 2 goals after quarter time .... wasn’t that good?”

You’re all panic merchants.  Goodwin is a smart guy. The season is going to be okay. Any criticism is just twaddle.

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On a more serious note; kudos to Hardwick for a developing a system of play that players can understand and have confidence in. Tonight fielding the 5 youngest players on the park and they didn’t miss a beat.

 

- Signs we are moving forward

- we battled it out for 3 quarters 

- got beaten forward of centre

- cannot connect with handball or foot

- scoring will come in time

- re established contest and defence

- cannot bring it to ground or mark inside 50

Speaks with no urgency. As if we have all the time in the world.


Am I too late to play, I swear I haven't seen any pressers yet.

1. Proud that we were able to play something like 'the Melbourne way' in the first quarter.

2. Proud  that we showed a defensive edge and didn't leak goals under pressure in the second.

3. Disappointed that late in the game our concentration lapsed, which resulted in a scoreline that I thought we did better than.

4. We have something to work with and will go into next weeks game against Hawthorn with a much clearer view of what still needs to be worked on.

5. No, the season is not over for us, we have a great opportunity to play 'the Melbourne way' next week against quality opposition, and really set ourselves up for a return to form. I think our supporters can begin to believe that we are beginning to begin to turn the beginning of a corner.

5 minutes ago, spirit of norm smith said:

- scoring will come in time

In the year twenty five twenty five
If the club can survive
If fans are still alive
They may find ...

In the year thirty five thirty five
we'll find our goal scoring will thrive
we'll kick five or six goals a game
then go out next match and do it again

In the year forty five forty five
our rate of scoring goals will rise to the sky
we'll shoot at goal again and again
some games as much as nine or ten

In the year fifty five fifty five
the club will pull out of our crash dive
we may start to win some games
and even push for finals again, woa-woh 

37 minutes ago, bjDee said:

That’s pretty funny - telling an engorged onion to get stuffed

Thought the response was appalling but then started to laugh.

Thanks Legion.

Humour is going to be a valuable thing over the long winter ahead. 

39 minutes ago, bjDee said:

That’s pretty funny - telling an engorged onion to get stuffed

 


1 hour ago, SPC said:

In the words of Allen Iverson “Pay him out early”!!

‘The answer’

Goody's living in Disneyland.

Statistically our worst team performance for the year.

We also nearly cracked the turnover ton reaching what must be some kind of record with 97!

6 players accumulated nearly 50% of those alone, racking up 46 turnovers between them, they were....

Viney,  Melk,  Gus,  Frosty,  Hibb and  T-Mac

Two players racked up over 20% of our turnovers between them @ 10 a piece in Viney & Melk.

We got lucky tonight with theTiges missing many getable set shots as well.  The scoreboard flattered our performance and the Tigers weren't even hitting anywhere near their straps IMO.

Could it get any worse?  If we don't address the core problems and keep the blinkers on....hell yes!

P.S. Our team DE% hit rock bottom for this season @ 58.64%.  That's 14.3% below the approx usual AFL average of 73%!   That's the sort of disposal numbers one might expect from a half decent VFL level team (if they were forced to come into the AFL and play).

Forward pressure?  3 tackles inside 50.  2 from Garlett, 1 from Bull Smith.  That was it :unsure:

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1 hour ago, TRIGON said:

On a more serious note; kudos to Hardwick for a developing a system of play that players can understand and have confidence in. Tonight fielding the 5 youngest players on the park and they didn’t miss a beat.

I was listening to SEN on the way in and they interviewed their assistant Adam Kingsley. He mentioned that Hardwick is an amazing presenter, communicator and really knows how to motivate his players.

Goody seems very robotic at times, but hopefully he's improving his communication skills a long the way.  

Hire the Richmond tackling coach, seriously if that manic style is what we are supposed to be playing then we need to poach the mentors of the teams that can do it properly. MFC is a sad place to be. I have no faith at all.

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9 hours ago, TGR said:

Swans were 0-6 and made finals?

 

Simpleton comment.

Yes but we aren’t mentally anything like them. 

We are a bunch of marshmallows.

It started in Perth in the Prelim and sadly no recovery in sight. 

Seriously, 2 goals after quarter time last night. I was there - no wind and wasn’t that cold. No excuses. Richmond should’ve won by 10 goals. 

We are going nowhere. 


This is Goodwin’s 5th year as coach/coach in waiting. No idea!!

I can see how this season will now play out. We will be crap until mathematically out of the finals race. Then play good footy again. Everyone then will have high hopes for next season and set up for the next sucker punch. Jones will get another season.

 

The up side is we will have no.1 pick in the draft.

we have survived as supporters for decades on hope for the following year and enjoying the draft period as our season highlight.

This year is after all just another one of those years.

The sad part for me is that after 2018 I thought that stuff was behind us however it is now back to situation normal. 

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Summary of press conference:

We were better, because quite frankly, we couldn’t be any worse.

Our skills are deplorable.  Whilst I use the word ‘connection by hand and foot’, what I mean is the most basic skills that even the under 12’s would be expected to deliver.

Our forwards are out of form so badly we cannot even hide them in the backline

They will have 4 days away from the club.  Seek.com will be busy.

We are all in this together.  No one can escape this sinkhole of a season with any dignity alone.


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