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Great article. I am very interested to see what the changes are to the game plan that he alludes to. It does seem significant that they are working on drilling the game plan even before Christmas. This is so much more advanced than we were last year. 

Hopefully this highly drilled game plan and significantly increased fitness leads to some better outcomes in games this year. 

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    “They’re a good group, they’re quite an experienced group of coaches”

    Interesting.... I thought we’d be on the lower end of experience. 

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    Boring fluff piece, but hopefully Richo brings more stability and success to our inexperienced coaching group.

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    38 minutes ago, McQueen said:

    “They’re a good group, they’re quite an experienced group of coaches”

    Interesting.... I thought we’d be on the lower end of experience. 

    So we've got Richardson saying this and Nathan Jones saying mid year that Craig Jennings is (was) one of the best footy minds he's ever seen plus a compliment for his work with AFL X - I'm beginning to think we might need to appoint Jason Dunstall to give us an actual non-mfc appraisal of our coaches abilities. ? If we're down the bottom mid year, i hope he has a clear schedule.

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    These fluff pieces dont worry me what are they gonna say “yep we’re going to dish up much the same rubbish as we have for the last 15 seasons...”

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    In seriousness I'm super pleased we have Richo onboard and feel really positive about 2020. 

    My key takeaways were that the players are fit, have got a good conditioning block in and  will focus alot on footy and how we play when back from the break, and that Richo's focus is that the players understand it instinctively.

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    People must have run out of things to complain about.

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    15 hours ago, John Demonic said:

    So we've got Richardson saying this and Nathan Jones saying mid year that Craig Jennings is (was) one of the best footy minds he's ever seen plus a compliment for his work with AFL X - I'm beginning to think we might need to appoint Jason Dunstall to give us an actual non-mfc appraisal of our coaches abilities. ? If we're down the bottom mid year, i hope he has a clear schedule.

    Pert was that appointment

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    Lets face it they are all click bait puff pieces to keep us engaged over the break. I just look for the little bits that spark my thought. In this case it was “ They’ve embraced the changes we are going to make to the way we play.” I have not been down to training yet but plan to on Friday and will have this in mind when watching. For those that have though does anything stand out as significantly different in the likely style of play or structure? This feels like more than just a slight adjustment to the 2018 model. 

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    Of course he is going to say that. He is employed by us. Imagine if he came out and said I AM UNIMPRESSED!!

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    hopefully the new game plan referred to is dealing with the weaknesses that  st Kilda under Richo found so easy to exploit and therefore us so easy to beat. 

    Happy to have him on board

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    Not reading a word of that or any other off-season fluff article.

    Round 1 cant come fast enough.

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    2 hours ago, spalding said:

    hopefully the new game plan referred to is dealing with the weaknesses that  st Kilda under Richo found so easy to exploit and therefore us so easy to beat. 

    Happy to have him on board

    Agree 100%, as if we can fix the flaw St Kilda and others exposed, and have our mids run both ways and backline not sit so high, both will make a big difference!

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    3 hours ago, spalding said:

    hopefully the new game plan referred to is dealing with the weaknesses that  st Kilda under Richo found so easy to exploit and therefore us so easy to beat. 

    Happy to have him on board

    Exactly, that last game against the saints was like watching under 12s. They knew our glaring weakness and just ran it around the boundary at every opportunity, and we had no answer for it. It was that simple and Goodwin had zero ability to counter it. It was embarrassing as it gets and as easy a win for the saints without actually needing to play well.

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    5 hours ago, spalding said:

    hopefully the new game plan referred to is dealing with the weaknesses that  st Kilda under Richo found so easy to exploit and therefore us so easy to beat. 

    Happy to have him on board

    I don't know about new game plan, but fixing some issues with our current one? Theyve added Ratten & Brad Hill, so we first and foremost have to dominate at the centre bounce and deliver it to our forwards with precision! I think St Kilda and a few other clubs are probably going to still beat us at that two way running game, if we're messy and ineffective with our inside 50's.

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    23 hours ago, chookrat said:

    In seriousness I'm super pleased we have Richo onboard and feel really positive about 2020. 

    My key takeaways were that the players are fit, have got a good conditioning block in and  will focus alot on footy and how we play when back from the break, and that Richo's focus is that the players understand it instinctively.

    My key take away was the players were eating properly which allowed them to attack fitness and strength training.

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