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49 minutes ago, Return to Glory said:

This is where we differ my friend.

So one of you is a pipe dreamer the ther an analyst

 
1 hour ago, ding said:

The whole footy world thinks we are a poor club.

I think we are over-rated.

 

The team we put on the park today was as good as we can expect all year. 

Yuk.

The whole footy world things we stink and we’re over rated?! Yeap I have to agree.

Man on man defence is hard work but aren’t we supposed to be fitter than ever? Only time we manned up was in the last three minutes - result was a turnover and Brayshaw goal. Allowed a slower older average team to dominate for long periods by persisting with guarding grass. Also Gawny is one of my favourites but he doesn’t seem to have any communication with our mids. 
Starting to think there is only one solution to stopping our talent going backwards - Get Clarkson!!

 
17 minutes ago, Alex Flood said:

based on last season & the first 3 games this season where exactly is that improvement coming from ? It’s not going to just magically appear.

We are better than last yr, not hard really..

Need a bit of continuity with this group and we will see improvement imo. 


54 minutes ago, goodwindees said:

Nobody takes any notice of you after you wrote that Joel Smith was disgusting and played the worst game you ever saw against Carlton.  He was good against Carlton, even better today.  This from an athletic player who has hardly played. 

Are you still sooking it  ?  stop making up stuff show me where i quoted it.

REALLY ! GET A LIFE DH. 

22 minutes ago, big_red_fire_engine said:

Avatar is not something I gave much thought to. He just coasts through games. Has no real impact or urgency. Has a neat kick but doesn’t really use it as a weapon. I just keep waiting for him to step up. I feel what you see now is the best we’ll get. 

His 50 metre penalty with a minute or so to go was pathetic. Melksham and Hannan were in the goal square and only one defender anywhere near them and he walks forward, then ignores them and kicks to Melksham one out against 3.  
Can we be more unaware or have less urgency when the game unbelievably was still there to win.

We looked like a team with less competitive match practice, took awhile to settled to the pace and awareness for some players, confusion (being caught) is because the players doe not know where to go automatically, no clear system or style of movement. 

We'll be better for the run, patches of good footy but large patches of letting the other team move without pressure.

 
34 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Do what you like. We're a crap team with a crap coach

You really do need to get out more, if your footy team is the most important thing in your life

We made a few crucial defensive errors, must say Goodwin MUST HAVE coached them to make those errors

11 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

The whole footy world things we stink and we’re over rated?! Yeap I have to agree.

Yep, thats the point i was making.

Sad reality.


56 minutes ago, Win4theAges said:

You watch every single team we play this season play this way against us because we are so thick. It took Brayshaw to work it out and apply hard pressure with 2 minutes to go and what do you know we force a turn over and kick a goal.

You reckon Goody will work it out?

Win4 i think we both know the answer to that

4 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

We lost the game through crucial defensive errors, Geelong didn't

That is true. It looks like we don’t know what to do. We don’t man the goal line on a shot and we keep the ball in, when we are standing on the boundary line near their point post. Then we don’t man up in defence allowing short passes to guys on their own.

That is the result of a poorly coached, poorly selected and poorly organised team.

This bomb it in game is a disaster.

No system. No coaching plan to disrupt the simple Geelong keepings off plan. We looked best when Tmac was off the ground and Trac went forward. Smith was missing and should have been swung forward for a while. I really think it was a very poor coaching display and I dont usually buy into that argument. We also lost at the selection table again. VDB was not ready. We needed Weid up front which would have helped TMac. 

5 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

We made a few crucial defensive errors, must say Goodwin MUST HAVE coached them to make those errors

I agree that we make costly mistakes and cough up simple goals, BUT we go forward just about more than any other side, and there is absolutely no method to our attack, which is largely on Goodwin, especially due to the fact that it’s been the same story for the last 18 months.

Edited by Forest Demon

More inside 50’s than the cats. What has changed since last year? We still suck. 


3 minutes ago, Redleg said:

That is true. It looks like we don’t know what to do. We don’t man the goal line on a shot and we keep the ball in, when we are standing on the boundary line near their point post. Then we don’t man up in defence allowing short passes to guys on their own.

That is the result of a poorly coached, poorly selected and poorly organised team.

This bomb it in game is a disaster.

Wow, everybody on here was crying to get Lockhart in, he cost 2 goals with crucial errors

He wasn't coached I am sure to take players on inside the 50

Other errors are players not doing what they are coached to do

You can't coach skill errors

Edited by Satyriconhome

1 hour ago, america de cali said:

The club declares bankruptcy. Assets and players transferred to a new club called Melbourne Devils sans Goodwin.

Legal phoenixing you reckon?

I have always supported Goody but am losing patience with the growing trend of being dictated to by opposition teams and not having the ability to react. From the first bounce it was easy to see Geelong's tactic of chipping it around through the midfield. We did nothing to counter that. Geelong had 54 more uncontested possessions and 60 more marks. How do we let that happen?

1 minute ago, Forest Demon said:

I agree that we make costly mistakes and cough up simple goals, BUT we go forward just about more than any other side, and there is absolutely no method to our attack, which is largely on Goodwin, especially due to the fact that it’s been the same story for the last 18 months.

Our first 9 entries gave us no score at all and Cats had at the  same time 2 entries for 2 goals.

Coachless.

1 hour ago, waynewussell said:

Hard to read the garbage! We were in the game throughout. We gave ourselves a chance to win. We were the equal of the Cats, wherever they are ranked. It was a line ball in the final minute. Posters who are keyboard assassins need to take a breath before they post the bile. WE have a very competitive group right here, and the more games they play together the better they will be. Think about how long Ablett, Selwood, Hawkins and Danger have been playing. We are tracking in the right direction. I hate the venom, the knee-jerking and the abuse that the 'supporters' show here. Grow some, and watch the game for what it is worth... a dour struggle that was oh so close!

PS: The absolute morons that keep calling for the coach to be sacked... and have been doing so since Norm Smith... YOU ARE WEAK AS...!!! 

Ablett and Selwood we’re ready from day 1, Danger from year 2.5, Hawkins longer but he made it.  You tell me ANY Melb player that is in the same ball park consistently as those guys and I’ll say your kidding yourself. Those guys will their team to wins. Our guys fart around and have a laugh thinking they’re the goods. The scoreboard tells me otherwise. 2018 is a distant memory.

 


3 minutes ago, Swooper Northey said:

I have always supported Goody but am losing patience with the growing trend of being dictated to by opposition teams and not having the ability to react. From the first bounce it was easy to see Geelong's tactic of chipping it around through the midfield. We did nothing to counter that. Geelong had 54 more uncontested possessions and 60 more marks. How do we let that happen?

 

We need a Swooper Northey coaching this club!

53 minutes ago, Older demon said:

That was an awful game to watch with Geelongs game plan to hold onto the ball and playing keepings off. It worked and not sure our brain trust worked it out. Scott happy to murder the game to slow the game down and stop our run

Can anyone remember the last time our brains trust DID "work it out" during a game?

 

So fed up with this club making everything so hard, for 56 years. Not only is it hard to win we've even made it hard to score. Geelong is ordinary yet we let them control how the game was played for 90% of the time. Two short bursts in the 2nd and last quarters not good enough, don't be fooled by the final margin. Last year there were excuses, this year there is none, the coach is in big trouble.


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