WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - HARLEY BENNELL

[Mel Bourne 4,534]

On 6/14/2020 at 1:44 PM, Wiseblood said:

True, but should we have been giving him a few 'scratch match' games first so we feel confident enough to play him for 70-75% game time, rather than 50%?

Once his fitness and confidence rises then he could be terrific for us, but I felt as though we got away with bringing him in a little too soon.

I dunno, I think bringing him in as soon as we did would've helped him psychologically. The more anticipation for his first match, the more pressure he would've felt along the way. He's now got those first game nerves out of the way, and the next time he laces up the unwanted attention and scrutiny will be considerably lessened.

But yes, we were fortunate to get away with it. 

Edited June 26, 2020 by Mel Bourne

[Demonland 73,163]

Hmmmmm.

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://twitter.com/7AFL/status/1278489994949091328?s=20r.com/7AFL/status/1278489994949091328?s=20

[Cards13 9,117]

3 minutes ago, Demonland said:

Hmmmmm.

https://

://twitter.com/7AFL/status/1278489994949091328?s=20r.com/7AFL/status/1278489994949091328?s=20

oh god....

 

[BW511 2,688]

Goodwin: Harley, you are playing instinctive and natural football mate. Love the enthusiasm, but we won't have it

[Ethan Tremblay 30,971]

Sounds like Harley has some of them learnings to do. 

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

"Your kicking looks poised and balanced, and usually goes right to one of our blokes. Check out our former captain over there, you could learn a lot from him."

[AllMyTeamsAreWank 564]

I'm done with Goodwin. Have tried to give him the benefit of the doubt recently, but he's officially lost the plot. We've got blokes that can't execute basic skills and we're keeping this guy out. Before it was because he couldn't play the required minutes, now it's because he needs to work on areas of his game. 

Either he needs to undergo some Buckley style reinvention or he has to go. 

[Supermercado 2,802]

Not enough storming towards the 50 and kicking it like he's got a wooden leg.

[Jaded No More 68,974]

I can only assume the things they want him to work on are defensive intent. Which I would be fine with, except half of our team gets a game regularly despite being horrible at two way running and defending. 

[DemonOX 8,801]

We have to melbournise him first then he can come into the team. 
 

Ffs he betta be in the side this week. It’s not like we have an abundance of goal kickers in our side. 

[DemonOX 8,801]

11 minutes ago, Jaded said:

I can only assume the things they want him to work on are defensive intent. Which I would be fine with, except half of our team gets a game regularly despite being horrible at two way running and defending. 

It’s like when people drive, road rules are optional which is the same as when u play for Melbourne, defence is optional ?

[Lord Travis 10,763]

Team has worst forward line in history.... bloke kicks 4 goals in reserves... 

"Yeah look Harley we need you to tackle more and worry less about scoring goals. Try to take on four opposition players at once and create more congestion, that's what we really want to see. Goals aren't the aim of the game, we need congestion and repeated entries into 50 amounting to nothing"

Great coach we've got...

[Vineytime 854]

Let me guess? He’s not getting the fundamentals right... but once he does, look out ??

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,939]

Instead he plays VDB who could barley move on Sunday, had a whopping 1 kick and had the awareness of someone who'd been plucked off the street that morning and played their first ever game of football.

We're losing games on Thursday nights.

[Go the Biff 3,442]

We need to complete his transition into an inside mid who can't hit a target. Or an undersized KPF.

Then his transformation will be complete

[Cards13 9,117]

Lols galore, you cynical devils.

[DeeSpencer 26,083]

Half this board still whips themselves in to a frenzy with any mention of Roos and defensive mantra. 

Yet Goodwin tries to get a defensive plan sorted so we have a base to build on and he’s an awful coach?

Melksham is the only guy who I think is really disappointing with his defensive efforts right now and he’s playing as our second key forward.

[Pipefitter 2,168]

Remember when goodwin started and we played offensive football? Now we still play offensive football but not in the scoring perspective.

[Jaded No More 68,974]

4 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Half this board still whips themselves in to a frenzy with any mention of Roos and defensive mantra. 

Yet Goodwin tries to get a defensive plan sorted so we have a base to build on and he’s an awful coach?

Melksham is the only guy who I think is really disappointing with his defensive efforts right now and he’s playing as our second key forward.

We had a defensive plan already. Roos nailed it, despite having a terrible backline compared to now.

 Goodwin wanted to add attack, which was the right decision. But somehow we ended up being crap at both. It's a real talent to ruin everything.

Edited July 2, 2020 by Jaded

[Leoncelli_36 2,264]

Goodwin will be gone by rd10 when we are 1-9. He is a moron. It’s plain and simple. TMac has been given 26 rounds to work on his game. VIney keeps falling over at every contest and continually blazes away inside 50, but he is all good. Get stuffed simple Simon...

[GCDee 3,199]

Goody clearly doesn't like kicking goals........ 

I'll spew if ANB is in before Harley. 

[Mazer Rackham 14,971]

1 hour ago, Supermercado said:

Not enough storming towards the 50 and kicking it like he's got a wooden leg.

It's just stupid enough to be true

[DeeSpencer 26,083]

4 minutes ago, Jaded said:

We had a defensive plan already. Roos nailed it, despite having a terrible backline compared to now.

 Goodwin wanted to add attack, which was the right decision. But somehow we ended up being crap at both. It's a real talent to ruin everything.

Roos’ defensive plan was to chuck everyone in the backline, drag the other team down to our level and then beat them with experience. It was rubbish but enough to see us through 14/15. We weren’t even trying to lock the ball forward and defend the whole ground in those years. It’s pretty easy to keep the oppositions scores down if you have no attacking intent.

Goodwin’s zone defending and change the angle corridor ball movement - with the basis of a fit decent group of veterans led to our best coached season in 2016. The same plan worked well enough until the end of 2018.

5 of our back 7 and the two wingers have played almost no football together. Our forward line had 2 guys who have barely played in years and Kozzie in his second game. There’s a lot of change from last year yet alone 2018. 

The forward press leaks like a sieve and we can’t hit the side of a barn going inside 50. The coach has to fix those problems. I can’t blame him if he’s using selection to fix problem A before turning to problem B. 
 

[ding 5,126]

Dont know the real reason for this, but im happy to Blame Goodwin.

 

[MyFavouriteMartian 572]

Just now, ding said:

Dont know the real reason for this, but im happy to Blame Goodwin.

 

of course, who else.

I think Goody started off,  covid spreading around the world.