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POSTGAME: Rd 04 vs Geelong

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Maybe the one silver lining that game reveals, Geelong aren't going to do anything of note this year, yeah they'll win enough games at taxpayer stadium to get into the 8, but they aren't really a contender.

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    Whatever we once had that made us special is gone.

    Whatever we had that made us competent is also gone.

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    Just now, watchtheeyes said:

    I mean say what you want about the game, but we have no forward line.. none. No key position player, no talls. Van Rooyen looks barely a VFL player.

    No team is winning with that.

    And then you add Petty…

    You find a way. Richmond dominated for two seasons before Lynch arrived with Riewoldt as their tallest forward.

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    We were competitive until the 4th quarter.

    Had our chances....but unfortunately our forward line lacks potency.

    The pressure goes up further on our Club.

    Simon Goodwin is in BIG trouble now....he is coaching for his career.

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    Unfortunately, we are carrying too many players. For AFL footballers, Petty and Salem are lacking in any dynamism whatsoever. Sparrow doesn't do enough and Sharpe appears to be a bust.

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    Just now, Maldonboy38 said:

    Our play between wing and F50 is an ugly, ugly thing.

    Our effort was really good and most gave their all.

    I could see us trying our new style but we simply don't have the foot skills to execute. Actually, our foot skills are a total embarrassment.

    van Royen and Petty are in the lowest form slump I can remember for each of them.

    And we are slow.

    We run past for the handball but the receiver had no idea what that are going to do with it so they just bomb forward

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    About 25 minutes of effort combined with a consistently putrid display of skills and forward half decision making.

    Van Rooyen. Give him a spell, that was a disaster of a game.

    We have so many deficiencies, it is impossible to see us fixing enough of them at once to even be competitive.

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    our window is closed

    effort was there but everything we do is so laboured. all huff and puff with little inspiration

    skills not at AFL level. can't execute simple handballs

    we're cooked. time to plan for draft and trade period. trade out some senior players and bring in some more youngsters and build our next team to challenge

    and find a new coach. Goody ain't the man to take us forward.

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    Just now, Supreme_Demon said:

    We were competitive until the 4th quarter.

    Had our chances....but unfortunately our forward line lacks potency.

    The pressure goes up further on our Club.

    Simon Goodwin is in BIG trouble now....he is coaching for his career.

    Geelong were average and in second gear

    They should have beaten Brisbane last week

    The conditions there were brutal. They overran us despite that.

    Tonight was way worse than it looks.

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    Just now, praha said:

    You find a way. Richmond dominated for two seasons before Lynch arrived with Riewoldt as their tallest forward.

    Sure, but they had speed and kicking talent through the midfield.

    We have Oliver, and Viney.. god love them.

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    Bombers, Freo and Tigers to come.

    Lose all three and I'm not sure how Goodwin can survive.

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    Just now, BDA said:

    our window is closed

    effort was there but everything we do is so laboured. all huff and puff with little inspiration

    skills not at AFL level. can't execute simple handballs

    we're cooked. time to plan for draft and trade period. trade out some senior players and bring in some more youngsters and build our next team to challenge

    and find a new coach. Goody ain't the man to take us forward.

    we’re a bottom 4 team. Still coming to grips with that reality. Hard to believe how steep the drop off has been isn’t it.

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    Bought the Gawny captains diary in ‘21, boring as bat**** as much as I enjoyed the actual season.

    Hopefully he puts one out about wtf has happened since then because that would be much more interesting.

    Mentally and physically not prepared for afl footy this year

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    6 minutes ago, Pottsydee said:

    Love bottom of the ladder when you've traded you first rounder out

    That pick is Lindsay you absolute fl@g of a supporter…. Would rather him at this stage. Maybe learn about what the pick was traded for you peanut brain

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    7 minutes ago, adonski said:

    Jeelong 63 more marks

    Suspect Goody makes a change shortly

    Change of coach?

    Ill Be Back Jim Carrey GIF

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    You expect something from this game plan, but something is just not working .

    Goody has totally [censored] this team up. Whether he designed something that the list didn’t have a chance in hell to execute or the team ain’t fit enough or the team doesn’t believe in it…. All roads lead back to Goody.

    If there was a glimmer of something we were doing well I’d say persist, but there is nothing absolutely nothing we are doing well. So we have to stem the bleeding and try and salvage something. Because this team is not capable of playing the modern game or a variation of it.

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    So, starting with some positives. Apart from Petty, our backline was much improved today. Chandler was excellent for mine. Number of players lifted and were better.

    Our forwards unfortuntately were not great. Fritsch was better than the previous shockers, but still well below the standard and others have covered JVR. The forward line entry remains diabolically bad, we mess up goals so incredibly effectively it's almost like we train to do it.

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    No, no, no, no, NO. This was not a game of everything working well across the field but simply lacking cutting edge up forward.

    We are lacking skill, confidence, ball use, positioning in all areas of the ground right now. Anyone who thinks this is simply a forward line issue is kidding themselves.

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    Can’t stand them, but at least Carlton fight games out. They are [censored], so the fact we are a good few rungs below them in terms of current level tells us all we need to know.

    I try to stay positive, but things are slowly taking its toll. We are comfortably, with West Coast the worst team in it.

    Just so frustrating when we had that 10-12 minute period of dominance but couldn’t put it on the scoreboard. This has been happening for far too long over the last 3 seasons.

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    I've been a Fritsch defender and while I thought be showed more desire to be involved tonight, my god, he is in the biggest form slump I can remember for a Melbourne player.

    Shanked nearly every kick and made some terrible decisions when we looked dangerous going forward.

    I'd consider dropping him but the options just aren't there.

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    4 minutes ago, DemonDman said:

    Another last quarter fade…goal-less…about time Selwyn Griffith is held to some accountability. We haven’t ran out a match since Burgess was in charge of high performance.

    This 100%, absolutely spot on DemonDman. Since we lost Burgo, to say our fitness has regressed would be an understatement.

    Our horribly sub-par final quarters has to point blame at our fitness team.

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    Why cant we change the game so there are only 3 quarters, makes sense to me !!

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