Look you can tell how much the players loved him after they got around him yesterday after his 200th game as coach.

It's just frustrating because after 21 we've achieved nothing.

But I'm sick of getting new coaches so it will be interesting to see what happens.

I'm assuming he'll be there for his final season before he comes out of contract but he'll be under so much pressure

2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Wins like yesterday are good for the Kids, the new Young Supporters

@dazzledavey36 being a case in point. Good Crowd, lots of colour and motion. He won’t forget it either.

I vividly remember the first Demons game i saw

Round 1 1971 v South Melbourne and we absolutely pumped them, after the Game i got taken into “The Rooms” and actually got to shake hands with players.

Met The Coach Ian Ridley, who wore the long Trench Coat, like Norm Smith. Great Memories for a 7 year old. Kids don’t forget

Tom Sparrow won’t forget it either…

I was nervous about taking our whole family to the game yesterday. Especially as we were taking our youngest for the first time. It turns out they had a great time shouting things at the Roos and clapping for our plentiful goals. A highlight was definitely singing the song at the end with the older siblings. I'm so glad it was a win for that happy first memory and association with the MCG!

1 minute ago, Hellfire Dub said:

I was nervous about taking our whole family to the game yesterday. Especially as we were taking our youngest for the first time. It turns out they had a great time shouting things at the Roos and clapping for our plentiful goals. A highlight was definitely singing the song at the end with the older siblings. I'm so glad it was a win for that happy first memory and association with the MCG!

This is exactly why scoring efficiency is so important.

Kids want to see fast plays and Goals, on a regular basis. That’s the game.

Defending is important of course, but the Goals are remembered

The MFC simply must get the Forward connection and Forward Structure sorted by next season.

On 13/07/2025 at 10:18, beelzebub said:

I'm taking another sabbatical should Simon reign in 26.

That'll please many

Fantastic ..,guess we won’t be reading you in 2026

On 13/07/2025 at 20:26, deegirl said:

Sitting there today at half time and they’d thoroughly given me the 💩 I had the thought that maybe we all - players, coaches, supporters - were so focused on that one premiership that we got comfortable/complacent.

It was a good result today however I’m depressed at the thought of sitting through 2026 watching exactly what we saw in today’s first half. Which is what happens if Goodwin is there in 2026. However much I appreciate and respect Goodwin for 2021 the moment has passed and he’s not the future.

So you aren’t prepared to see the obvious improvements in our game plan come to fruition in 2026 & then judge Goody? But you’d be happy to see a new coach come in ..with new ideas ..new assistant coaches & then have to build a relationship with the playing list (who by the way are 100%behind our coach ) and basically we start again..not sure of the logic behind that. I’d say out of the 9 games played on the weekend ..way less than half were of great quality for 4 quarters . It was a very good win in the end.

18 minutes ago, Deestar9 said:

So you aren’t prepared to see the obvious improvements in our game plan come to fruition in 2026 & then judge Goody? But you’d be happy to see a new coach come in ..with new ideas ..new assistant coaches & then have to build a relationship with the playing list (who by the way are 100%behind our coach ) and basically we start again..not sure of the logic behind that. I’d say out of the 9 games played on the weekend ..way less than half were of great quality for 4 quarters . It was a very good win in the end.

Improvement is relative when you look at the trash we dished up in the back half of 2024

And it was a win against 16th who had two key players out. Hardly a sign we’re ready to storm the top four in 2026

8 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

Fantastic ..,guess we won’t be reading you in 2026

No.. not til EOS

Knock yourself out...

Just for all the club knockers on this and other threads: have a look at the story in the AFL website about Disco and his family and see what the club has done RIGHT!

7 hours ago, deegirl said:

Improvement is relative when you look at the trash we dished up in the back half of 2024

And it was a win against 16th who had two key players out. Hardly a sign we’re ready to storm the top four in 2026

DG.. we have it wrong you see. We're not appreciative of the small offerings when they come along. We beat a lowly team... and we aren't celebrating sufficient enough to appease those too easily appeased. Wow... we snapped a LOSING streak... should be champagne and oysters all round !!

It's far better to win. Had we not won that game we were truly rubbish. We're now slotted against another struggling outfit but I'm not chalking this up just yet as we know anything can and often does happen.

Nothing would actually make me happier than we went on from strength to strength... well from whatever and wherever we are ...upwards.

I really don't care who is the coach. I just want continued and persistent success for the Dees.

Should the team perform miracles in 26 under SG.. fabulous.

All I see currently is a lot of FeS2

Some are easily sated.

I am genuinely interested/curious how rest of year plays out.

25 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Just for all the club knockers on this and other threads: have a look at the story in the AFL website about Disco and his family and see what the club has done RIGHT!

Stay focused. The thread discusses the ability and suitability of the current coach to that job.

Good the club looked after Disco.

Try not to conflate unnecessarily.

8 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

So you aren’t prepared to see the obvious improvements in our game plan come to fruition in 2026 & then judge Goody?

Where are these obvious improvements in our game plan?

21 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

I am genuinely interested/curious how rest of year plays out.

Agree. We have won the first of four so-called winnable games. Hopefully we take the points in at least three of them. Then, the big test of how much we have or haven't improved is the final three weeks against teams playing for a finals or top four spot will really tell us how we're shaping for 2026. I'd want to see us win at least one, but hopefully two of the Bulldogs, Hawks or Filth, and be nothing less than competitive in any we don't win.

On 13/07/2025 at 10:09, picket fence said:

I value my sanity to the extent that if Goodwin is still coaching our club, I will retire from posting in this thread ,at the very least!

Double down on this!

15 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

This is exactly why scoring efficiency is so important.

Kids want to see fast plays and Goals, on a regular basis. That’s the game.

Defending is important of course, but the Goals are remembered

The MFC simply must get the Forward connection and Forward Structure sorted by next season.

Reckon kids just want to see the Dees win and Kozzy doing freaky [censored].

2 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Stay focused. The thread discusses the ability and suitability of the current coach to that job.

Good the club looked after Disco.

Try not to conflate unnecessarily.

I'll conflate as much as I like, thank you very much.

19 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Tom Sparrow won’t forget it either…

Considering what we know about head injuries he probably will.

1 hour ago, Ollie fan said:

I'll conflate as much as I like, thank you very much.

Do what the .... you like.. Easier to ignore what you have to say if you can't even stick to the topic.

Some of us can.

26 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Do what the .... you like.. Easier to ignore what you have to say if you can't even stick to the topic.

Some of us can.

Yes, some of you can stick to the topic. Currently 175 pages of people sticking to the same topic: everything Goody does is wrong. It is SOOOOO boring.

5 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Stay focused. The thread discusses the ability and suitability of the current coach to that job.

Good the club looked after Disco.

Try not to conflate unnecessarily.

This thread is all over the place. The club, the CEO, the culture, drafting, trading, general whinging, and everything else has been discussed.

Posters are welcome to post their opinions on things brought up

22 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Yes, some of you can stick to the topic. Currently 175 pages of people sticking to the same topic: everything Goody does is wrong. It is SOOOOO boring.

I don't think everything Goody does is wrong. He's obviously a good coach otherwise he wouldn't have lasted 10 years, wouldn't have coached us to a flag, wouldn't have developed the relationships he has with the players, wouldn't have implemented a variety of forward thinking strategies over the course of his career etc.

Kicked better on the weekend. Cudos to Goody, as some hear have him responsible for the players kicks for goal… 🥱

36 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Yes, some of you can stick to the topic. Currently 175 pages of people sticking to the same topic: everything Goody does is wrong. It is SOOOOO boring.

Almost as boring as the Conga line of apologists telling us what a great job he's doing

11 minutes ago, Cranky Franky said:

Almost as boring as the Conga line of apologists telling us what a great job he's doing

can you provide even one example of anyone in the past 2 years saying he is doing a great job?

45 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Yes, some of you can stick to the topic. Currently 175 pages of people sticking to the same topic: everything Goody does is wrong. It is SOOOOO boring.

And this is where folk like your good self find reasonable assessments so hard to swallow.

As others here have already suggested. It's not about doing everything either right or wrong. It's about being able to affect successful results in a sustained manner .

Simply having attained a flag ( and kudos to all ) does not guarantee nor qualify you ever more. What worked,now doesn't. Who was successful, now isn't.

Some, I among those , question the ability of the current FD regime which by default has Goodwin as its major influence to bring home the bacon.

It's not an overly complicated premise.

Those that find continued dissatisfaction with the current trajectory and call for change will continue to do so unless we become successful.

If that'sboring.... go find another thread.

Why are you here boring yourself ?

4 hours ago, Cranky Franky said:

Almost as boring as the Conga line of apologists telling us what a great job he's doing

Actually, as one of the "apologists" I can say, we don't say that. However, we say that not every loss is his responsibility. We say that a season where we ended up top four, entered the finals with a long injury list including most of our key forwards and still lost to the eventual premier by 7 points is not a season to be completely ashamed of. We say that he has dealt with some pretty severe problems such as the untimely forced retirement of a true leader and key player, and serious injuries to two multiple AA players, and kept the playing group generally united. We say that his excellent relationship with the players means that, eg, we get to keep players who are heavily pursued by other clubs. We say that yes, there are things that could have been done better, but that does NOT make him a disastrous coach.

So if you are going to criticise the "Conga line" then at least do so on a proper basis.