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18 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Sorry to tell you Praha but that window's been shut a while now.

You wanna build a Time Machine,, out of a Delorean???

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    19 hours ago, demoncat said:

    I love Viney and think he still has a role to play in the coming years, but a four year extension when he wasn’t even out of contract until end of this year said to me the club needed a feel good story to cover the issues with Trac and Clarry

    Bringing in Nathan Jones as midfield coach was a similar move - I mean in what world does a club who thinks they’re competing for finals bring in an untried coach to oversee their midfield?

    Again, love Jones, but those moves just reek of a club who panicked and were looking to do PR by extending/bringing in some favourite sons

    Those two decisions tells me and the world all they need to know about the management of the footy club

    All heart no brains no hardness Softest club in the league assisted by a non existent strategic plan

    The board is killing this club, not on purpose but through inadequacy. Don't start on the mates of Goodwin

    Who is running this **** show at the moment

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    10 minutes ago, jackaub said:

    Those two decisions tells me and the world all they need to know about the management of the footy club

    All heart no brains no hardness Softest club in the league assisted by a non existent strategic plan

    The board is killing this club, not on purpose but through inadequacy. Don't start on the mates of Goodwin

    Who is running this **** show at the moment

    Agreed.

    Bar the Peter Jackson reign we've been a rabble off the field/board admin etc. it seems for decades. Very little harmony and smooth sailing.

    Until we sort that out we will remain a non destination irrelevant club.

    Our failures since the flag beggars belief

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    9 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    There was no talk of rebuild as of October 2024. Clearly the message from Tim Lamb here was to compete and finish as high up as the ladder as we could.

    Shhhhhh !!!

    A tad inconvenient for today's narrators 😉

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    10 hours ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    There was no talk of rebuild as of October 2024. Clearly the message from Tim Lamb here was to compete and finish as high up as the ladder as we could.

    But remember, it's totally acceptable to move the goal posts and pass mark when your goal becomes unattainable....

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    20 hours ago, spirit of norm smith said:

    Rebuild? Dees cannot afford to bottom out.

    • Tassie still likely to come in and will take premier draft picks across two drafts at least

    • Our revenue is still low with 2025 membership figures estimated at 56000 in 2025 (down from 65000 on 2024) (down from 70000 in 2023) … I think we are now below Dogs and Saints ( only ahead of Kangas for Vic clubs)

    • Relevance? We are already quiet on the AFL agenda except for negative noise around culture and players leaving

    • The FIXture. We would be given dead end time slots, even worse than 2025.

    • Our last rebuild saw us miss finals for 12 years.

    • We need to bounce back NOW and not be satisfied that we were 2021 🏆premiers. Why are we so comfortable with one flag , played in WA , that we all move on in silence

    No one is comfortable with one flag. Lot of people here have said it, Goodwin underperformed.

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    9 hours ago, bing181 said:

    But is that because at the end of the day he's still not as fit as he once was? He went a long way backwards last year, and perhaps he needs more than one pre-season to get back up to speed, literally?

    The club would have all his fitness data, so presumably they would know if that's the case. Interesting that Goodwin has mentioned in a few press conferences working with Clayton to get him back to the player he was.

    Clutching at straws?

    Oliver has never been the most agile or fast player. Even Petracca is on the same boat.

    Our midfield group was designed for a style of footy that is no longer attractive or successful.

    Goodwin had a prime MFC list from 2018 to 2024 to deliver the best results possible.

    2025 and beyond is past his coaching style.

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    Its going to be a very long time until we have the likes of petracca, oliver, gawn again ... cats and pies reset rather then rebuilt ... we should do the same ... its not time to give up on a flag yet ... you are out of contension far too long in rebuild mode with no guarantees picks will be turn to gold ... our list is mostly injury free and can hit pre season hard

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