Didn’t get enough credit IMO for his GF performance, some of his clearance work creating goals was 👌👌👌

I love you Jack Viney and now that you have put your injuries behind you and helped win a premiership for our great club, the Love will come. Jack has been scarred and scars take time to heal, he has looked more part of the team as every one has become more selfless.!!

Yeah I was way too hard on Jack. Not sure if he altered his style, but appeared to try to do less, which had greater overall impact.

Anyway, I’ve been wrong about other Melbourne players in the past, will probably be wrong about more in the future..

Jack’s commitment and attack on the ball has always been beyond reproach. Some of his decision making needed some work. However, those calling for him to be dropped or traded need to give themselves an uppercut. He’s one of the few who can come back from injury and walk back into the team based on reputation alone.

The talk by some of Jack becoming more selfless in 2021 is very odd to me. 

Although l get where some people are coming from, no one has been more team orientated than Jack from the moment he played his 1st game & nothing has changed, other than others can now extract the pill & we need someone to sacrifice themselves to play the support role needed to balance the mids out and take the next step. The 2018 finals series reminds us all of his ball winning abilities where he played like a bull despite a busted up foot and dragged us into the prelim. He also accepted his demotion as captain with much grace and was the first (or one of the first key mids) to commit long term before we started our 2021 winning streak.

The following (patched up) quotes from his resigning have aged beautifully in my view and show an insight into the pressure Goody was feeling at the time and the need for primarily our other mids to embrace greater selflessness:

Goody: “I’m one of the people who really believes in his vision, and he needs some strong characters to stand up beside him. I feel like if I was to head somewhere else and end my time at the club, then I would be hanging him out to dry a bit. So it was a big decision, and one of the big reasons I stayed.”

Selfless mids: "We are established footballers and now it is time work out how we can best function as a unit. That is when we will really start making big inroads ... I feel like I’m willing to attack my role to allow other people and other players to use their strengths. That is something that I have always been willing to do and thankfully it is valued internally. But I think my lick of the ice cream will come when we are a successful team. And that is ultimately what my goal is. I didn’t make this decision to stay at the football club to get the individual recognition." 

Jack Viney says the Demons’ midfield unit can be “something really special” if they play with a more selfless attitude ... But Viney said there was no doubt the four of them all had an important place in the engine room, if they played the right way. “We have all got to sacrifice a little bit to work well together because there are only so many positions in the midfield ... If we can rotate through and work well as a unit, there is so much talent ... It can be something really special and massive advantage for us.”

So true!!!

Edited October 1, 20214 yr by Demons1858