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Melbourne currently has the longest drought in the AFL in winning finals in consecutive years

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Hasn’t happened since 1991 when we beat Essendon at Waverley, after winning at least one final from 1987-1990.

Clearly this record will continue into a 32nd year and won’t be rectified until Sep 2024 at the earliest.

Carlton has the next drought - haven’t won back to back since 2001. Gold Coast obviously haven’t even been in a final.

We all love and cherish Goodwin and will be forever indebted to him for winning a flag. However this is a record that he and us ought to be disappointed with. We clearly should be in the middle of a sustained run at prelims and grand finals with this current list.

Consistency and continuity of success (by way of finals wins) has eluded Goodwin’s tenure so far.

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    17 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Hasn’t happened since 1991 when we beat Essendon at Waverley, after winning at least one final from 1987-1990.

    Clearly this record will continue into a 32nd year and won’t be rectified until Sep 2024 at the earliest.

    Carlton has the next drought - haven’t won back to back since 2001. Gold Coast obviously haven’t even been in a final.

    We all love and cherish Goodwin and will be forever indebted to him for winning a flag. However this is a record that he and us ought to be disappointed with. We clearly should be in the middle of a sustained run at prelims and grand finals with this current list.

    Consistency and continuity of success (by way of finals wins) has eluded Goodwin’s tenure so far.

    Yep, Goodwin is too inconsistent for mine.

    2017 - Failure 

    2018 - Great but bumpy road to the finals and garbage PF (which he didn't bother to review)

    2019 - Huge Failure 

    2020 - Failure (felt like 2017 again)

    2021 - Perfect! But, was it more the coaches around him that made him improve?

    2022 - all things considered.. it is another Failure

    Not sure what it is but I don't think we can say he is a top 5 coach yet he has a top 5 list. I would like to be proven wrong next year...

     

     

     

     

     

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    8 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Do explain please?

    Do you really think any Melbourne supporter is shocked to see a stat that says we haven’t been a consistently good side for 30 odd years?

    We all live it BBP. I didn’t mean to come across so dismissive. I just feel like we all know this in our bones 👍

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    3 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    2018 - Great but bumpy road to the finals and garbage PF (which he didn't bother to review)

    And we are back talking about the 2018 preliminary final review/lack of review again.

    Let. It. Go.

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    Just now, The heart beats true said:

    And we are back talking about the 2018 preliminary final review/lack of review again.

    Let. It. Go.

    I am not dwelling in the past, just laying out what Goodwin's tenure has been. I leave it to each supporter to make their own judgement.

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    Holy F$@&, I thought I had seen it all, but no now is another WTF moment.

    But this stat beggars belief and the fact an explanation was asked for as to why, is just icing on the cake

    There are people who live with doom and gloom. They have fleeting moments of happiness but they are waiting for the bad times to return so much they never really enjoy the moment.

    Carlton just want to get back to finals

    St Kilda just want consistency over two seasons 

    Bulldogs just want to back up after reaching a GF

    Freo - want desperately to win their first Premiership 

    Essendon just want to try and win 1 final

    North made back to back Prelims in 14 and 15, helped a lot

    GWS couldn’t win a flag when they had the best list in the competition between 15 and 19

    Gold Coast would like to have a sniff of finals with 4 games left in a season, let alone have finals consistency 

    Crows haven’t been close since 17

    Port look great for a few years in home and away then fell away despite the massive Covid advantage- Brisbane ditto

    Cats taken a big step forward this season after being September failures for so long

    West Coast a long way off long rebuild ahead

    Sydney living in the moment 

    Pies everything going their way in the close ones, not much different to Richmond but they lost the close ones

    This thread is going to take some beating to be the worst thread on demonland ever

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    2 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

    Holy F$@&, I thought I had seen it all, but no now is another WTF moment.

    But this stat beggars belief and the fact an explanation was asked for as to why, is just icing on the cake

    There are people who live with doom and gloom. They have fleeting moments of happiness but they are waiting for the bad times to return so much they never really enjoy the moment.

    Carlton just want to get back to finals

    St Kilda just want consistency over two seasons 

    Bulldogs just want to back up after reaching a GF

    Freo - want desperately to win their first Premiership 

    Essendon just want to try and win 1 final

    North made back to back Prelims in 14 and 15, helped a lot

    GWS couldn’t win a flag when they had the best list in the competition between 15 and 19

    Gold Coast would like to have a sniff of finals with 4 games left in a season, let alone have finals consistency 

    Crows haven’t been close since 17

    Port look great for a few years in home and away then fell away despite the massive Covid advantage- Brisbane ditto

    Cats taken a big step forward this season after being September failures for so long

    West Coast a long way off long rebuild ahead

    Sydney living in the moment 

    Pies everything going their way in the close ones, not much different to Richmond but they lost the close ones

    This thread is going to take some beating to be the worst thread on demonland ever

    So I take it those who have responded with smart Alec responses to this thread are all honky dory with the fact that we haven’t won a final in consecutive years since 1991.

    You posters are easily pleased.

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    4 hours ago, The heart beats true said:

    Do you really think any Melbourne supporter is shocked to see a stat that says we haven’t been a consistently good side for 30 odd years?

    We all live it BBP. I didn’t mean to come across so dismissive. I just feel like we all know this in our bones 👍

    I certainly knew it in my bone in 2021. 

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    More useless information from someone who obviously has little going in their life. 
    Nobody cares. Particularly Today….

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    We also hold the record for the shortest drought since their last flag

    that'll do me

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    4 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    Yep, Goodwin is too inconsistent for mine.

    2017 - Failure 

    2018 - Great but bumpy road to the finals and garbage PF (which he didn't bother to review)

    2019 - Huge Failure 

    2020 - Failure (felt like 2017 again)

    2021 - Perfect! But, was it more the coaches around him that made him improve?

    2022 - all things considered.. it is another Failure

    Not sure what it is but I don't think we can say he is a top 5 coach yet he has a top 5 list. I would like to be proven wrong next year...

     

     

     

     

     

    So finals 3 years out of 5 with 2 prelims and 1 flag is a failure after 12 years of zero finals and 57 years without a flag? I have deadset heard it all now

    You blame him for the failure but then the ultimate success you suggest he doesn’t deserve the credit? Those same coaches were all here this year no?

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    9 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    So finals 3 years out of 5 with 2 prelims and 1 flag is a failure after 12 years of zero finals and 57 years without a flag? I have deadset heard it all now

    You blame him for the failure but then the ultimate success you suggest he doesn’t deserve the credit? Those same coaches were all here this year no?

    More like 3 out of 6.

    It's just my view, you may trust him blindly I just think he needs to improve a lot.

    He's got a generational list to not make finals every year.

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    1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    So I take it those who have responded with smart Alec responses to this thread are all honky dory with the fact that we haven’t won a final in consecutive years since 1991.

    You posters are easily pleased.

    No we're not.

    We just want to focus on the real issues.

    Theoretically, if we win the flag next year, do you think this stat will still be meaningful?

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    44 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    More like 3 out of 6.

    It's just my view, you may trust him blindly I just think he needs to improve a lot.

    He's got a generational list to not make finals every year.

    I don’t trust him blindly. When he underperforms I question him and when he succeeds I congratulate him. Seems fair imo

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    2 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    So I take it those who have responded with smart Alec responses to this thread are all honky dory with the fact that we haven’t won a final in consecutive years since 1991.

    You posters are easily pleased.

    It wasn’t a smart Alec comment it was intended to strike a nerve and it did. Go and have a good look at yourself and your post it’s seriously one of the most pathetic threads ever.

     I’m sure St Kilda, GWS, Dogs, Bombers, Carlton, Suns, Freo and North are all patting themselves on the back because they are ahead of us in this stat.

     I know you’re still dirty you missed being there last year but FFS, take some heart in knowing being slightly underdone or off looks 100 times worse than it actually is 

    The dream for this year is over but we aren’t falling off the cliff

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    4 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:

    It wasn’t a smart Alec comment it was intended to strike a nerve and it did. Go and have a good look at yourself and your post it’s seriously one of the most pathetic threads ever.

     I’m sure St Kilda, GWS, Dogs, Bombers, Carlton, Suns, Freo and North are all patting themselves on the back because they are ahead of us in this stat.

     I know you’re still dirty you missed being there last year but FFS, take some heart in knowing being slightly underdone or off looks 100 times worse than it actually is 

    The dream for this year is over but we aren’t falling off the cliff

    Can you explain exactly why it’s such a pathetic thread? And if you think it’s so pathetic then why did you waste your time responding to it?

    I’ve just stated the facts. It’s an unusual fact, but a fact nonetheless and it was bitterly disappointing that we couldn’t rectify the record.

    We had a golden opportunity this year with two home finals against interstate sides but couldn’t get it done. Now we rue another September of no finals wins.

     

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    2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Can you explain exactly why it’s such a pathetic thread? And if you think it’s so pathetic then why did you waste your time responding to it?

    I’ve just stated the facts. It’s an unusual fact, but a fact nonetheless and it was bitterly disappointing that we couldn’t rectify the record.

    We had a golden opportunity this year with two home finals against interstate sides but couldn’t get it done. Now we rue another September of no finals wins.

     

    It’s pathetic, look at my responses twice and other responses, with regards to other clubs in finals and our premiership drought

    it’s a stat which means nothing and if you can’t see that well, you’re beyond help

    It”s like saying Freo have a better finals record at Optus than Melbourne 

    1 final - 1 win

    3 finals- 2 wins and a premiership 

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