POSTGAME: Rd 05 vs Richmond

[Billy 2,544]

Wow 6 & 21 since 2018, time to act on the coach me thinks

Let’s do the worst 6

6. Goodwin

5. Hunt

4. Smith

3. Melkshem

2. Lever

1. Tom friggin McDonald

 

Edited July 5, 2020 by Billy

[Little Richard 6,265]

The definition of stupidity is seemingly having a game plan in place where players bomb it long into the forward line whilst only playing one (rubbish) tall forward in Tom McDonald. A neanderthal could come up with a better avenue to goal. 

Drop McDonald and bring in Brown and Weideman FFS.

[The Swimming Dee 1,904]

13 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Goodwin banged on that Harley needed to work on his defensive pressure.

Melksham 3 disposal 0 tackled

Hunt 4 disposal 4 disposal 1 tackle..

We are a garbage football club. Something is rotting at the football club. We have the talent on paper, but our coaching is a shambles.

Melksham has to be dropped. He is not even half the player he used to be...cannot win a one on one 

[dazzledavey36 55,315]

11 minutes ago, Radar Detector said:

Footy is dead to me for 2020.

MFC can’t select the right side. Can’t dispose of the footy. Terrible coaching. Low scoring. 

We’ve had 2 years to correct this rubbish disposal.

Only thing that would save the year for me is a new coach. 

Hibbered and Tracca were the only positives.

And an even special shout out to Hibbo. Bloke has been through the hell the past 3 months and his last 2 weeks have been fantastic. 

Lever, Smith, Oliver, Viney, Hunt, Melksham can all GAGF

[Half forward flank 1,022]

7 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

Sugar coat that one biatches

VDB done

Smith never to be seen again. Cost us at least 5 goals

Lever - what a mistake

Oliver - overated lair that can't kick or handball

Brayshaw - turnover merchant who goes missing

Viney - courageous but limited footballer who excels at hitting up opposition players

TMac - Is it possible he is worse than his brother?

 

Agree with all. We have gifted prime onball time to Brayshaw, Viney and Oliver, all the while inder the best tap man in the business. Any all or could and should be dropped. 

Half way through the 3rd qtr there were 9 Melbourne players with 3 disposals or less.

 

Hibberd best game in 2 years

Trac  hold your head up.

 

 

[Wadda We Sing 10,685]

We will never play finals with Fritz and TMac as our main forwards....wont happen.

Football without the crowds, is just not football.

[Demon3 2,541]

1 minute ago, Sir Why You Little said:

He doesn’t have experience. It all fell apart at the end of 2018, and he refused to face it. 
i knew we were in trouble then...

we never reviewed teh prelim loss properly and accepted we still had lots to learn.. its been downhill since that moment.. club is in no mans land at the moment. From top to bottom.

[Brownie 5,986]

4 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

The lack of change from teh coaches box was so stark today.. i cant defend it anymore.. what has changed in 18 months.. nothing and players are now regressing.. Oliver, brayshay, tom Mc, Lever is teh biggest bust in our recent footy history. Joel Smith selection and positioning in teh back line is mind blowing.

What change did Goodwin make in play today.. did Hunt get a run on teh ball? did Melksham move from the 50m arc, why not put smith fwd, give picket a run on teh ball.. its was a disgrace and im almostr done with this club. Im so angry. the club set itself up for a sustrained period of success and something has turned horribly wrong and it starts in teh coaches box.. the p[layers love Goody apparently thats great, but he cant coach. Period.

Thats the worrying bit.

If the likes of Oliver, Brayshaw, Melksham aren't buying in and just jogging, it's up to the coaches to drive the culture and get them to buy in to the game plan.

Why would a player buy in to our current game plan?

Anyone?

[loges 6,767]

2 minutes ago, Leoncelli_36 said:

Guys on the chopping block:

 

Smith 

Tomlinson 

Lockhart 

Melksham

Hunt

and Oliver.

We need to play Harmes in the middle, as evidenced in the last quarter. 
 

We must add a KPF next week. I am not sure Kozzie is ready. He will be a star and the chase down tackle was his highlight. He has not hit the scoreboard enough. 
 

we lack scoring power and I’d try Bennell as a forward, at the expense of hunt or Melksham 

 

 

 

 

Re Kozzie, will be a star as you say but you need not to look dangerous you actually need to be dangerous. It will come but it's not there yet.

[The Swimming Dee 1,904]

2 minutes ago, Billy said:

Wow 6 & 21 since 2018, time to act on the coach me thinks

Let’s do the worst 6

6. Goodwin

5. Hunt

4. Smith

3. Melkshem

2. Lever

1. Rivers (excusable)

 

Surely Viney gets a gig..:he was horrendous and continues to be the dumbest player in the team

[Tarax Club 3,942]

Positives; "busted" through the 50 point barrier and  Hannan, Hibberd, May and Petracca had a real dip.

Otherwise; from the top of the pops, totally over C. Oliver's soft shoe shuffle, lose it,. The rest can't be bothered presently...

Edited July 5, 2020 by Tarax Club
Fair Go

[Sir Why You Little 37,120]

1 minute ago, Demon3 said:

we never reviewed teh prelim loss properly and accepted we still had lots to learn.. its been downhill since that moment.. club is in no mans land at the moment. From top to bottom.

Absolutely 

Those losses are very important, but Goodwin thought he was above all that. 
 

I will not watch another of his games, 

I have seen enough

6-21 and that comes after all the previous garbage years. 

[Ethan Tremblay 30,962]

20 minutes ago, reynolds46 said:

Sad to admit it but we are a bottom 4 side 

I appreciate that you’re being positive but we’re a bottom two side. 

Edited July 5, 2020 by Ethan Tremblay

[Deesprate 1,324]

5 minutes ago, Maldonboy38 said:

Not sure where we go from here.

Board has endorsed Goodwin for the foreseeable future.

Our best players should be making up an elite midfield, but there basic skills are untrustworthy.

Our new skipper is busting his gut but see very little leadership from anywhere else.

Our recruiting of Lever, Tomlinson and Langdon - which looked to be such good planning and team building - is looking like the worst trade/recruit waste in a long time.

Little development of younger players.

The messages from the Footy department and coaches gives the supporters nothing - no hope, no energy, no new thinking.

We are stuck. The way out could be long and painful... again.

Good summary. There is something rotten at this club. There is simply to much talent to be this bad. My personal view is the massive money paid to May and Lever has caused issues multiplied by the fact they are both terrible. I also think the haunting of Jones and Gawn has led to animosity. Gawn is a good bloke but captain I reckon it has destroyed Viney.

[Half forward flank 1,022]

Drop Viney  

Make a Statement.

[chook fowler 19,519]

Tomlinson should be a leader but he just jogs around and contributes nothing. Most of his efforts are half hearted and lack lustre. 

[Vineytime 854]

18 minutes ago, Josh said:

It's an actual talent to take Oliver, Petracca and Brayshaw combined with Gawn and be useless.

 

On paper that is the most talented starting midfield in the league, in practice on the other hand ?

It’s actually not mate cause they don’t get the job done. That’s the problem, all the talk they are great when they are not. 
 

Oliver / Brayshaw can’t kick. 
viney turnover king. 
 

Gawn is a star. 
Trac having a good yr. 

all the criticism comes for Goody but if the players can’t hit a target what hope has he got. 

[bing181 9,328]

22 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

We have the talent on paper

This is just delusional - though you're not Robinson Crusoe.

Did you watch the match?

[Leoncelli_36 2,264]

5 minutes ago, loges said:

Re Kozzie, will be a star as you say but you need not to look dangerous you actually need to be dangerous. It will come but it's not there yet.

Yep and I was howled down by @Wiseblood this week for saying as much. He is a kid who needs development for his confidence at this level. Bennell is a better option right now. 

[Half forward flank 1,022]

How would you be being Bennell, being told you have to work on things then you watch this rubbish. Repetitive mistakes from top guns  without consequence

[Accepting Mediocrity 1,418]

I can't remember feeling so 'meh' after a loss.

Positives: some huge individual efforts. Hibberd made a few mistakes but tried his heart out all afternoon - you can't ask for more as a supporter. Showed tremendous courage at times. Ditto Brayshaw and May. TMac worked hard - things aren't working for him atm, but I don't think it's through lack of effort on his part. Petracca's first half was huge. Gawn was immense. Hannan and Fritsch made the most of limited opportunities. 

Negatives: Melksham, Hunt and Pickett combined for 12 possessions. That's half our forwardline providing nothing.  Lever is a talented player but just looks completely devoid of confidence. Oliver has gone so far backwards in the last 18 months it's not even funny. 

But the biggest negative was the predictability of today. No shame in losing to the defending premiers (who played well today, it should be granted). It's just the unbelievable sameness of it. Our forwardline functioned exactly how we all knew it would after Thursday night selection.

 

 

[Demongirl35 1,060]

Ugly and embarrassing.

melks had a player running to his right, tries to get around man on the mark and gets tackled. Brain fade.

Tomlinson backed out of how many contests. Chipped it inside 50 to someone with players right on his [censored]. Might as well boot it closer to goal. 

May kicks it to a player with 3 tigers on him in the middle of the ground. 

a lot of these things you can’t coach but you know what you can do as a coach? Not put up with that and have that type of player in your team. Discuss those things with that player and make them earn a spot.

goodwin changing absolutely nothing. I never see him on the phone.  Hardwick was going nuts in the box at one stage. Good! He expects more!!! 
 

smith wtf??? I just can’t. But hey, goody will keep him in  for the rest of the year. Why not! It’s the goody way.

tmac was our second forward option in 2018 and had the second best defender hence why he was fantastic. Either put him down back, bring a big tall in or p**s him off. 
 

I just can’t deal

[bing181 9,328]

1 minute ago, Vineytime said:

Oliver / Brayshaw can’t kick. 
viney turnover king. 

Woah. Why single out those 3? There are only about 3 who CAN kick/not turnover.

[Tolstoys Nudge 1,734]

24 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Well I did open the changes thread last week with the comment that we should not play Lever and Smith in the same backline.

I got howled down

Time to find an interest in another sport for the season

Smith MUST go fwd it’s the only surety I have from today apart form fact SG must unfortunately go. No plan B no fwd system AGAIN butcher ball and best kick is in 2nds, fact is WCE ended his career that fateful day and until a change is made we are COOKED!!!

[dazzledavey36 55,315]

1 minute ago, bing181 said:

This is just delusional - though you're not Robinson Crusoe.

Did you watch the match?

Or maybe our list is actually just overrated.