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Gawn: 2020 A Fail but Not a Waste

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A good perspective.

 

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    Great to hear Max be so honest without spin or corp speak.

    “There’s so much to this, so it’s going to be a good unpacking and hopefully come January when we’re back, we’re a completely new club that’s going to play regular finals football and be ruthless in the way we play.”

    Is he expecting big changes somewhere, or just a throwaway line?  Hopefully, a bit of both.

    The players have earnt their post season break.  It will be a short preseason so good time for them to refresh and regroup. 

    Onward to 2021.

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    Hard to not see all this and just say, heard it all before and the talk has been cheap coming out of this club for a long time. i know they have to say it, but it really washes completely over me.

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    Well said Max. You gotta be tough on this Club, it’s the only wag to break the cycle

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    2 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

    Great to hear Max be so honest without spin or corp speak.

    “There’s so much to this, so it’s going to be a good unpacking and hopefully come January when we’re back, we’re a completely new club that’s going to play regular finals football and be ruthless in the way we play.”

    Is he expecting big changes somewhere, or just a throwaway line?  Hopefully, a bit of both.

    The players have earnt their post season break.  It will be a short preseason so good time for them to refresh and regroup. 

    Onward to 2021.

    That line had me wondering too LH " A completely new club"?????

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    2 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

    Hard to not see all this and just say, heard it all before and the talk has been cheap coming out of this club for a long time. i know they have to say it, but it really washes completely over me.

    I don't agree I have seldom heard a captain speak so honestly about their year.

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    2 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

    Hard to not see all this and just say, heard it all before and the talk has been cheap coming out of this club for a long time. i know they have to say it, but it really washes completely over me.

    This x 1,000

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    2 minutes ago, old dee said:

    That line had me wondering too LH " A completely new club"?????

    The club (players, coaches etc) is never exactly the same from one year to the next is how I read it. List turnover and coaching changes.

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    2 minutes ago, old dee said:

    I don't agree I have seldom heard a captain speak so honestly about their year.

    Fair call and dont get me wrong, i love Max and i like his style and his words are great.. but until they back it up, which they dont most of the times, it has no affect on me.

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    4 minutes ago, Clintosaurus said:

    The club (players, coaches etc) is never exactly the same from one year to the next is how I read it. List turnover and coaching changes.

    Ok it maybe just his words but "Completely" stunned me.

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    6 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

    Did he really just say 'the learnings we've learnt....'?

    Very sadly YES

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    52 minutes ago, Demon3 said:

    Fair call and dont get me wrong, i love Max and i like his style and his words are great.. but until they back it up, which they dont most of the times, it has no affect on me.

    What effect on you would it have been if Max came out with the usual platitudes and for example boasted that we moved up from 17th to 9th?  I expect you'd be spitting chips.  Perhaps absence of a negative effect is a positive effect?

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    Well said Max & I’m sure he means it but why didn’t we hear this from Goodwin at his presser after the Essendon game??? The real question is why does this group continue to drop games??  We’re is the leadership or culture to stop this ad it’s like a broken record!

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    19 minutes ago, Hogan2014 said:

    Well said Max & I’m sure he means it but why didn’t we hear this from Goodwin at his presser after the Essendon game??? The real question is why does this group continue to drop games??  We’re is the leadership or culture to stop this ad it’s like a broken record!

    too busy counting the numbers of support at baord

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    by "completely new club" I think and hope he means - attitude and professionalism

    losing to Freo/Sydney and beating Saints/GWS shows we still have a soft underbelly.  We have the talent to be 5-6th easily but our lack of killer instinct and to do whatever is necesary to win is still lacking.  unload a few pea hearts and recruit/draft more lads that will do anything to win.  culture shift still needed

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    2020 has definitely been a year of learning some harsh lessons.

    In brutal reality any year you don't win the Premiership is a wasted year.

    The old 'Ricky Bobby' saying comes to mind...."If you're not first, you're last!"

     

    Having said that I appreciate Max Gawn's sentiment and it was good to hear his honest answers. Let's hope he and the rest of the Melbourne players push extra hard this coming Pre-Season. There will be no more excuses in 2021.

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    1 hour ago, sue said:

    What effect on you would it have been if Max came out with the usual platitudes and for example boasted that we moved up from 17th to 9th?  I expect you'd be spitting chips.  Perhaps absence of a negative effect is a positive effect?

    I dont really understand what you mean Sue  and feel like you might be speaking on my behalf and assuming you would know how i would feel. Simply put, i dont care what the y say, i care what they do.. and they are saying it and not doing it. So until they do it has no affect on me.

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    To paraphrase Ricky Bobby we're the 8th loser.

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    I remember his speech at the end of 2018 thinking this is a guy that doesn’t accept mediocrity. Hopefully some of his teammates start to take the same approach.

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    46 minutes ago, Pates said:

    I remember his speech at the end of 2018 thinking this is a guy that doesn’t accept mediocrity. Hopefully some of his teammates start to take the same approach.

    Talk is cheap. I'm still waiting to see the results of Brent Moloney's big speech.

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    So are we back from Hell yet?

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    2 minutes ago, ding said:

    So are we back from Hell yet?

    No..Get back inside that Burning Coffin

    We’re up to 57 now...

    Still “Learning” apparently....

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