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  On 26/03/2025 at 04:12, DubDee said:

I wonder what Goody could say to make anyone feel better after the weekend?

I imagine whatever he says will just annoy the majority on here

Yep

l wish he’d shut up & coach the friggen team with a bit of imagination 

Its all looking a bit embarrassing now

 
  On 26/03/2025 at 02:45, Demon17 said:

Absolutely.

Hard Quiz followed by Charlie Pickering's The Weekly.

Not to mention SBS/ABC News and the wonderful Sarah on 7.30.

Top viewing night.!

You wouldn't happen to be over 50? πŸ˜‚ 

 
  On 26/03/2025 at 06:15, Young Blood said:

If this interview is from weeks ago or even pre-season its not going to age well this week...

Having seen a couple of eps, it's more than just about coaching. It will be about his player career, growing up playing footy I'm guessing the 2 premierships as a player then going into coaching. 

It would have been recorded before the footy season 

 

 


Low points 

two of them 

1- β€œ2019. The doubts as a coach. But out of darkness you find strength and mentors and learnings !! β€œ

And 2… not discussed 
 

  On 26/03/2025 at 11:11, dees189227 said:

Having seen a couple of eps, it's more than just about coaching. It will be about his player career, growing up playing footy I'm guessing the 2 premierships as a player then going into coaching. 

It would have been recorded before the footy season 

 

 

So basically Open Mike

 

Petracca injury in 2024. The hurt 

 

what was the issue? 
 

Trac didn’t feel the love from the club 

 

We hope he feels the love now !! 
 

we were worried that he might seek a trade and had to lean into it … so we had honest and open conversations and had to show the love and every player can feel they can feel the best that can be 

On Clarry … 

β€œThoughts were … do we need him to have a fresh start and considered that 

we got it wrong that we didn’t discuss with Clarry first … we looked at trade options for Clarry 

but now he feels happy and excited about the year ahead 

there were worries in pre season 2023 that he’d be playing footy going ahead β€œ 


How can 2025 be successful

β€œCuriousity 

Create fun 

Love and allow people to show their strength 

Love and healing and connection 

Put the pieces together to create 

Feeling intensity to succeed” 

β€œPlayers wanted to see the uplift in their coach and being happy β€œ

constant dialogue around the players growing and reaching their potential. 

lots of words around the journey and learnings and being your best and love and openness etc etc etc 

basically all the phrases like you hear from a β€œlife coaching consultant” 

  On 26/03/2025 at 00:40, GS_1905 said:

We not talking about Simon on 360 tonight?

we are. and not only was he repetitive and insubstantial , cliche and blindly confident, but he was also apparently unobservant of the questions asked to him.

imagine how the players feel in trying to parse his meaning (about anything for that matter), and he's meant to hold the collective vision. when one talks with such an expressive limitation and willful ignorance, good luck finding an intricate and dynamic game plan let alone execution to take on the best. 

if he's 'open' and 'accepting' 'and loving' that's only because he is like honey in a sieve.

p.s. i called for his deposement two years ago when he signd on for two more years and in the video the players were visaully and audibly underwhelmed. They just don't want to hurt his feelings at this point. And that's not a good enough reason for members 

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  On 26/03/2025 at 12:12, spirit of norm smith said:

How can 2025 be successful

β€œCuriousity 

Create fun 

Love and allow people to show their strength 

Love and healing and connection 

Put the pieces together to create 

Feeling intensity to succeed” 

words sound good don't they


  On 26/03/2025 at 12:00, spirit of norm smith said:

β€œLost two finals in 2023 by goalkicking. 
Successful years !! (???)” 

my words … heartbreaking years!! 

yeh and that's him these days, comfortable with 'looking' good and 'sounding' good, not really 'being' good

It’s called miss management, [censored] drafting, refused to rest players in 22, failed to fix our fwd line since 21, played Oliver who didn’t  have a preseason, great culture building for others busting their butts at Casey! a club starved of success for 57 years couldn’t handle success, 

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  On 26/03/2025 at 12:06, spirit of norm smith said:

Low points 

two of them 

1- β€œ2019. The doubts as a coach. But out of darkness you find strength and mentors and learnings !! β€œ

And 2… not discussed 
 

2025 isn’t exactly shaping up to be a party for him.

  On 26/03/2025 at 12:12, spirit of norm smith said:

How can 2025 be successful

β€œCuriousity 

Create fun 

Love and allow people to show their strength 

Love and healing and connection 

Put the pieces together to create 

Feeling intensity to succeed” 

 

  On 26/03/2025 at 12:16, spirit of norm smith said:

β€œPlayers wanted to see the uplift in their coach and being happy β€œ

constant dialogue around the players growing and reaching their potential. 

lots of words around the journey and learnings and being your best and love and openness etc etc etc 

basically all the phrases like you hear from a β€œlife coaching consultant” 

Did he say anything about winning?

 

I fear the 'love' mantra is the club's 2025 buzzword that 'culture' was last year.

I'm already tired of hearing it.  Its being overplayed and pretty soon the 'love' talk will be ridiculed by fans and the media just as the 'culture' narrative was ridiculed last year.

Time for football to do the talking.

Edited by Lucifers Hero


  On 26/03/2025 at 20:13, Lucifers Hero said:

 

Did he say anything about winning?

 

I fear the 'love' mantra is the club's 2025 buzzword that 'culture' was last year.

I'm already tired of hearing it.  Its being overplayed and pretty soon the 'love' talk will be ridiculed by fans and the media.

Time for football to do the talking.

I get the feeling he just means 'appreciate' and Petracca didn't feel appreciated. Maybe it's just me but I'd have thought people want to be appreciated at work and by their loved ones. That said I don't want to hear the MFC (or in my personal life) going on and on about either love or appreciation, especially it feels hollow.

  On 26/03/2025 at 20:41, Go Ds said:

I get the feeling he just means 'appreciate' and Petracca didn't feel appreciated. Maybe it's just me but I'd have thought people want to be appreciated at work and by their loved ones. That said I don't want to hear the MFC (or in my personal life) going on and on about either love or appreciation, especially it feels hollow.

I agree with the Petracca reference but that is now ancient history.  Petracca has moved on. 

Goodwin seems to talk about 'love' in every interview regardless of the context. 

As they say in the classics:  talk is cheap!

Time to stop trying to convince everyone the club is a loving place. 

 

As John Lennon wrote - All you need is love

*and wins

  On 26/03/2025 at 20:52, Lucifers Hero said:

I agree with the Petracca reference but that is now ancient history.  Petracca has moved on. 

Goodwin seems to talk about 'love' in every interview regardless of the context. 

As they say in the classics:  talk is cheap!

Time to stop trying to convince everyone the club is a loving place. 

So now we’ve installed, and are telling the world we have a culture based on love.

How about instead we stfu and instigate a culture of winning.

 

 


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