5 minutes ago, Neil Crompton said:

None of us know the ins and outs of what is being taught behind the scenes at the club. Changing an ingrained way of doing things does take a long time. We all hoped it would be ready for seasons start but obviously more time is needed. Goody gave up on changing his “new” game plan halfway through last season and our season collapsed. Goody seems far more committed this year to this current plan, and I doubt he will cave in and revert to the old style this year. He obviously knows that if he fails he’s out - but at least the Club appears to be backing him till years end.

If the belief within the Club is still there - and we are told it is - then I can see our game plan finally coming together after the bye, and us starting to fly. Hopefully we see some promising signs tomorrow.

I'm glad Goodwin is sticking to The New Plan.

It is often said for a team to click (gain cohesion) they need to play together, play together, play together. The fwd 7 players are a revolving door! How can that possibly help executing The New Plan.

55 minutes ago, KozzyCan said:

They might have undersold it...

Maybe, but I think we all got carried away by the reports of love and connection.

3 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I'm glad Goodwin is sticking to The New Plan.

It is often said for a team to click (gain cohesion) they need to play together, play together, play together. The fwd 7 players are a revolving door! How can that possibly help executing The New Plan.

The forwards haven't been performing. The last few weeks people have been calling him out for keeping the same players, even though they weren't performing. Now he drops them and people are complaining. Everyone in the team has been training this new plan. Not rewarding forwards who have been performing at Casey wasn't working. At least he's trying something new. He's keeping defence and midfield largely the same for some consistency.

Everyone moans about Goody's stubbornness, but when he finally makes a dramatic change everyone complains. He can't win!

If we do get a new coach, expect very dramatic changes every week.

22 minutes ago, Neil Crompton said:

None of us know the ins and outs of what is being taught behind the scenes at the club. Changing an ingrained way of doing things does take a long time.

They're learning a different method of playing football not doing an engineering degree.

4 minutes ago, Flowergirl said:

The forwards haven't been performing. The last few weeks people have been calling him out for keeping the same players, even though they weren't performing. Now he drops them and people are complaining. Everyone in the team has been training this new plan. Not rewarding forwards who have been performing at Casey wasn't working. At least he's trying something new. He's keeping defence and midfield largely the same for some consistency.

Everyone moans about Goody's stubbornness, but when he finally makes a dramatic change everyone complains. He can't win!

If we do get a new coach, expect very dramatic changes every week.

I get that fwds haven't been performing but each week we've had at least 2 fwd changes sometimes to players who appear to be in form.

It was a bad look last week when only one tall fwd was selected and he was also to ruck then at half time Goodwin said Petty was moving fwd as we needed the aerial presence, something that was obvious at selection. So coaches need to share the responsibility for our fwd line not performing.

My main point was the 'revolving door' of fwds isn't helping The New Plan.

I'd prefer we select a fwd 7 and stick to them (except for injuries) and persevere until it clicks. It couldn't have been any worse.

Edited April 18Apr 18 by Lucifers Hero

11 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I'm glad Goodwin is sticking to The New Plan.

It is often said for a team to click (gain cohesion) they need to play together, play together, play together. The fwd 7 players are a revolving door! How can that possibly help executing The New Plan.

I agree with what you are saying @Lucifers Hero , but I don’t know why the revolving door. Maybe Goody is looking for combinations of forwards that will follow his game plan. Or maybe he is “punishing” our 2 best forwards for not following his plan. Both may be back next week or the week after - and there is Jeffo to also get a look in. Which makes your point even more valid. I have NFI.

21 minutes ago, Flowergirl said:

Maybe, but I think we all got carried away by the reports of love and connection.

The Love thing always felt pretty fake.

11 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

They're learning a different method of playing football not doing an engineering degree.

Yeah I don't buy the 'change is hard' thing at all. Plenty of teams change the way they play over a single off-season.

Things I'll be putting on the whiteboard pregame

1. Effort

2. 2 way running from the HF's, HB's and mids, we simply have to get back to help the defence otherwise we're toast.

3. Tackling and Pressure not to fall below 180 and regularly pushing 200, I want gang tackles, I want the occasional free against because we went too hard.

4. Forwards leading

5. Oliver, Petracca, Rivers and Viney looking for a forward or inside handball. Oliver and Viney banned from kicking.

6. Petty to make Treacy earn every touch, like really earn it.

7. RUN, RUN, RUN.

   Give me that and I'll cop a loss but it'll be close.

55 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

I get that fwds haven't been performing but each week we've had at least 2 fwd changes sometimes to players who appear to be in form.

It was a bad look last week when only one tall fwd was selected and he was also to ruck then at half time Goodwin said Petty was moving fwd as we needed the aerial presence, something that was obvious at selection. So coaches need to share the responsibility for our fwd line not performing.

My main point was the 'revolving door' of fwds isn't helping The New Plan.

I'd prefer we select a fwd 7 and stick to them (except for injuries) and persevere until it clicks. It couldn't have been any worse.

It wouldn't be helping and selection has been poor, but the guys that need to get used to the new plan for it to click are our mids, and they've had relative continuity.

Can somebody tell me what the new game plan is?

14 minutes ago, Kent said:

Can somebody tell me what the new game plan is?

6 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Great thanks a lot

Very clear summary

Anyone come across a poll on the Adelaide Bigfooty forum asking whether they would take Goodwin at Adelaide next year?

12 out of 102 voted yes and 4 of those voters were registered Melbourne supporters.

This is a group of supporters that haven’t seen a flag in 27 years that have hypothetically been offered a premiership coach next year, and the consensus is hard pass.

3 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Yeah I don't buy the 'change is hard' thing at all. Plenty of teams change the way they play over a single off-season.

Or even within a season.

2 hours ago, Kent said:

Can somebody tell me what the new game plan is?

Kick it through the big sticks more than the opposition does 😜

If anyone thinks we are even a remote chance of winning tomorrow or turning it around and winning more than a handful of games for the year, please turn on the football and check out how bad North can actually be. This team beat us by 10 goals and probably should have won by 100.

So, Simon Goodwin reckons he's the best option to turn things around at Melbourne. Well, I beg to differ and just to put a little perspective on just how badly the Demons are performing at present, consider North Melbourne in comparison.

The Kangaroos have only won one game (no prizes for guessing who that was against). They were beaten by the Dogs (by 16 points), beaten by Adelaide (by 36 points), walloped by Sydney (by 65 points) and then beaten by the Suns (by 52 points). At the time of writing their game against Carlton is not going well (they are behind by 27 points midway through Q2).

So how is it that the largely beatable North Melbourne manages to horse whip Melbourne to the tune of 59 points?

Taxi for Simon Goodwin please.

5 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Things I'll be putting on the whiteboard pregame

1. Effort

2. Petty to make Treacy earn every touch, like really earn it.

3. RUN, RUN, RUN.

   Give me that and I'll cop a loss but it'll be close.

I hope the easter bunny is kind to you on Sunday Roost

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5 minutes ago, Demon Dynasty said:

I hope the easter bunny is kind to you on Sunday Roost

I think we’ll get beat by 65 points and I feel that’s being kind.

The loss to North, who have since regressed to their usual 20 loss a year standards, should really count against Goodwin. And I’m sure it will if decisions need to be made.

Some of our other losses have been understandable and a semblance of respectability (GWS and Geelong) but we have absolutely no business losing a game by 59 points to North Melbourne. Let’s get serious for a second.

Will really find out over the next few weeks if the Demons players actually "love" Simon Goodwin.

If we cannot win a game over the next month or so then Simon Goodwin will be sacked.

Every Melbourne supporter I have spoken to is very angry about our current predicament. It is totally unacceptable!

7 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

We all hoped it would be ready for seasons start but obviously more time is needed.

Not helped by injuries and setbacks to at least some of those who would have helped drive it, and a whole slew of consequences that flowed on from that (e.g., Rivers back to the backline).

Yes, all teams have injuries, yadda yadda, but in terms of getting a new, faster ball movement approach off and running we desperately needed the 4 amigos (Linsday, Windsor, Langford, Tholstrup) playing every match. It may not have made much of a difference in the short term, but would have put us further along the path.

7 hours ago, Neil Crompton said:

I agree with what you are saying @Lucifers Hero , but I don’t know why the revolving door

It's not all that revolving. Jefferson was injured, Johnson got himself suspended, and when he came back didn't show much/enough. Turner's the only one who's been in/out, though he's a bit of an enigma in that he clearly can deliver but then doesn't - not on a consistent basis.

The coaches have backed Fritsch and JVR to find form, but this week's axing is just an acknowledgment that there's a limit to that kind of patience.

7 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

Yeah I don't buy the 'change is hard' thing at all.

It doesn't matter whether you buy it not, it's a fact.

Go back and watch the Simpson interview, where he went through trying to change the way WCE players - and admitted that it failed. And it failed because he didn't have the players who could play the way they were trying.

Plenty of other examples as well.