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17 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

It’s really not. It would be disappointing to lose Trac but no player is bigger than the club

Thats a fine opinion to have if you are a Geelong with Ablett or Hawthorn with Buddy. You are kidding yourself if you think we are, we are currently an absolute shambles. 

Goody said last offseason to judge us on the field and not by these offseason stories. Well, we finished 14th, played the most boring football imaginable to the point crowds stopped showing up and the off field issues keep coming.

Not a hard judgement to make id think. Him, Roffey and Pert have to go. 

 

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Just now, BringBackTheDemon said:

Thats a fine opinion to have if you are a Geelong with Ablett or Hawthorn with Buddy. You are kidding yourself if you think we are, we are currently an absolute shambles. 

Goody said last offseason to judge us on the field and not by these offseason stories. Well, we finished 14th, played the most boring football imaginable to the point crowds stopped showing up and the off field issues keep coming.

Not a hard judgement to make id think. Him, Roffey and Pert have to go. 

 

Trac’s not even bigger than Gawn let alone the club. 

Norf are 10 years into a rebuild and won 3 games. They’re a shambles.

Tiges entire list is leaving. They’re in trouble. 

We’re under the pump no doubt but burning the joint down doesn’t make 2025 better, it sets us back a decade. Changes to be made no doubt, but panicking doesn’t help anything. 

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Just now, Fromgotowoewodin said:

Trac’s not even bigger than Gawn let alone the club. 

Norf are 10 years into a rebuild and won 3 games. They’re a shambles.

Tiges entire list is leaving. They’re in trouble. 

We’re under the pump no doubt but burning the joint down doesn’t make 2025 better, it sets us back a decade. Changes to be made no doubt, but panicking doesn’t help anything. 

If you think we will be fine without Trac and he is the only one with issues you need your head read. Just so happens that two of our most professional players want out in the same offseason and now Kozzy is suddenly feeling a bit homesick too. Read the room. 

Im glad this happening two years before Tassie and not when they arrive. The club needs a reset right now. Carrying on with the people we have in charge for another 12 months thinking everything is fine will only extend the misery and make it harder to get the club back on course. 

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53 minutes ago, COOLX said:

We have gone backwards at a rapid rate of knots since our first double elimination. What did we do, we pick up Grundy who we assumed was going to kick goals. Stupid move. After several concussions to Brayshaw ,surely we didn't have a backup plan for his replacement as he was not far from retiring due medical reasons. Guess what it happened. Who was going to replace Oliver or Petracca if they got injured? We did end up using Rivers as a mid , this should have been done after the first double elimination also we needed to pick up mids. We have plenty of ex senior coaches , doing a variety of what? Surely one of those coaches should have been the reserves coach. Why does a club need a CEO and a President ? think how much money could be saved by only have one. If Godwin leaves Petracca probably will stay (hoping) ,if Petracca I will support another club. 

What a hotchpotch of amazing events you have cobbled together accusing the Club of not having multiple PlanB’s for all these instances.

Yes Brody wasn’t our finest selection, but your replacement answer for Angus is breathtaking. Angus had not had a concussion since 2017  when he was crudely and once in a life time happening cruelly perpetrated by a thug. 

Sorry  we don’t have Bont or Cripps running around at Casey waiting for the same time injury or fitness halts both our champs.

Riv has proved a good substitute andbperhsps Kossie  could be given more time on the ball. 

Our senior Coaches are selected before the Casey job and that mix is normal for an AFL club.

You are completely misguided about Perty and Kate. Both jobs are vastly different and. CRO is the most vital administrator of all. The president to my knowledge is an honourable position and not paid. 

Trac has already indicated that Simon is not an issue and your 6 yo comment about changing Clubs  if we lose Trac is a kindergarten or primary school approach, 

Grow up and support the Club after 5/6 years of success. 

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1 hour ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

If you think we will be fine without Trac and he is the only one with issues you need your head read. Just so happens that two of our most professional players want out in the same offseason and now Kozzy is suddenly feeling a bit homesick too. Read the room. 

Im glad this happening two years before Tassie and not when they arrive. The club needs a reset right now. Carrying on with the people we have in charge for another 12 months thinking everything is fine will only extend the misery and make it harder to get the club back on course. 

Don’t bring ANB into it, completely unrelated to club issues.

If you don’t think the club will survive without Trac send him a letter with your pocket money taped to it and see if that changes his mind. Meanwhile the adults in list management will work out what deal we can get and how to move forward.

Sacking the board and coaching staff isn’t going to change his mind, Trac wants out for Trac, wants to play in front of the pies big crowds and boost his TikTok numbers. 

No one said everything is fine but a complete reset equals a decade of recovery. Maybe Pert needs to go, maybe it’s Richardson. Maybe there’s others, but burning the joint down helps nothing. 

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1 hour ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

Trac’s not even bigger than Gawn let alone the club. 

Norf are 10 years into a rebuild and won 3 games. They’re a shambles.

Tiges entire list is leaving. They’re in trouble. 

We’re under the pump no doubt but burning the joint down doesn’t make 2025 better, it sets us back a decade. Changes to be made no doubt, but panicking doesn’t help anything. 

Pretty sure 3 of our Top 10 players want to leave...ANB, Kosi, Trac add in depth like Tomlinson and i'd say like the Tigers we are in trouble...this is before we lost Smith, Brayshaw...gee whiz thats a big number of our best 22

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2 minutes ago, Fuchsias Forever said:

Pretty sure 3 of our Top 10 players want to leave...ANB, Kosi, Trac add in depth like Tomlinson and i'd say like the Tigers we are in trouble...this is before we lost Smith, Brayshaw...gee whiz thats a big number of our best 22

Why would you add in depth like Tomlinson though? He’s not best 22 and has no contract which is why he’s going. He’s hardly Shai Bolton. 

Brayshaw would give his left agate to be still playing for us. Can’t blame the club that he’s not. 

Smith made his own mistake. 

It’s not a tigers situation at all. 

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37 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

No one said everything is fine but a complete reset equals a decade of recovery. Maybe Pert needs to go, maybe it’s Richardson. Maybe there’s others, but burning the joint down helps nothing. 

When I say reset it doesnt mean rebuild. It means we need a new direction. Sacking Richardson and keeping Goody is absolutely pointless, much like with the Stafford sacking. Those guys are there as servants of Goodwin. Bringing in another two servants wont change anything. 

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7 minutes ago, BringBackTheDemon said:

When I say reset it doesnt mean rebuild. It means we need a new direction. Sacking Richardson and keeping Goody is absolutely pointless, much like with the Stafford sacking. Those guys are there as servants of Goodwin. Bringing in another two servants wont change anything. 

Well that’s probably not unreasonable, everyone else on here seems to want the whole place cleaned out from the board to the bootstudder which I don’t think is helpful. 

I think we have to keep Goodwin for at least another year. The back end of 2021 is the best football I’ve seen us play in my life. We’ve been exciting before, we’ve scored heavily before but that finals series was something else. I don’t think he’s had a clear run at it since, and while we’re all flat about the straight sets we weren’t far off. This year has been no good but we make some changes, see what we can get in the trade (despite CP5 tanking our brand) and draft and go again.

I don’t see any better alternatives out there - west coast can’t even find anyone to apply for their job. 

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28 minutes ago, Fromgotowoewodin said:

Well that’s probably not unreasonable, everyone else on here seems to want the whole place cleaned out from the board to the bootstudder which I don’t think is helpful. 

I think we have to keep Goodwin for at least another year. The back end of 2021 is the best football I’ve seen us play in my life. We’ve been exciting before, we’ve scored heavily before but that finals series was something else. I don’t think he’s had a clear run at it since, and while we’re all flat about the straight sets we weren’t far off. This year has been no good but we make some changes, see what we can get in the trade (despite CP5 tanking our brand) and draft and go again.

I don’t see any better alternatives out there - west coast can’t even find anyone to apply for their job. 

Let me throw up GWS as an example. Leon Cameron had them in flag contention (didnt win a flag like Goody but made it to a grand final) after that they dropped away slowly but surely playing boring predictable football towards the end much like we have this year. In comes Adam Kingsley who reenergises the entire club in quick time. Nobody was saying how great the Kingsley appointment was at the time. Same could be said for Collingwood with Buckley and McRae.  

Stop living in 2021 that time has passed us by. Dont be scared of change, embrace it. 

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58ER, I have supported this club for 68 years and I have put up with many many frustrating years.For us to win only one flag in 57 years is shocking. I suppose your'e one of these people who don't mind constant failure. I can say that I actually enjoyed our dynasty in the 50's. 

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Just now, Edward Langdon said:

Sounds about right.

If you interviewed 100 Melbourne supporters walking out of the G after the last Pies game, I reckon 75-80 would be happy to see the back of him.

I think the sample size was 11 and probably all related to Gutnick 

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