31 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

I'm not saying the umpiring has been strange at times this round, but I do feel like the officiator's cellar shouldn't be opened until after the game because the 3/4 time tipple is clearly having an impact.

Anyway, nice to see that Maynard will certainly get rubbed out for a few weeks for that completely unwarranted elbow directly to the face of an opponent after the ball had already moved on.

Surely it was a 'football act' ?

7 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

No! Not every thread! This is a NON-MFC thread. What part of NON do folks not understand? There’s every single other thread to moan and groan about our club, why can’t this thread be exempt? I mean, your comment had nothing to do with the Pies/Swans match. The point of it was to highlight our dearth of goals kicked so far this season. Fine, point it out, but you could do so in our post-match or our pre-match thread, or any number of other threads. I just think it sucks that the one thread that some of us find is a welcome distraction from the sad plight of our club is being hijacked. I guess I’ll just have to add it to my list of threads to avoid, as unfair as that is.

Fair call GW.

1 hour ago, BoBo said:

It’s both and more.

Coaching - down the line, create contest. Explicitly no reason to develop pin point skills.

Focus on defense- limit teams scoring over kicking big score ourselves (we’ve scored over 85 points, 3 times in the past 48 games)

Reliance on Max to take marks everywhere. Again, no vision or skills developed. Just find Max forward of the ball. Failing that, kick it to a contest. Hope it’s a ball up and we’ll win it.

Kick it to pockets in our F50 to create a stoppage via the boundary if the forward doesn’t mark it.

Always always always, create a stoppage and limit other teams scoring. No focus on creating chains of free flowing footy.

We have prioritised winning contests and bashing it forward, in the hope that there will be another contest to rinse and repeat the process.

Player list:

Created for defence and stoppage/contest footy.

Look at out mid field alone. Tracc/Clarry/Viney. They’ll win you the ball and do bugger all with it if it’s dependant on skill. No speed at all. Just chaos balls forward. Which teams worked out against us in 2022.

Off field issues are a part of the more. Can’t be stuffed going over it to be honest,

So coaching wise, the game style is completely defunct. The senior and even 100 game players we have are both: conditioned to said defunct game plan and also too many of the wrong kind of player. Very little skill, very little speed. Will crack in though.

Big changes needed both the end of this year and next.

Wrong thread buddy.

About half a page of the wrong thread, too!

Or should that be half a spool?

42 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Agreed they lost to GWS badly, but they’re building into their season nicely. And Bulldogs and Sydney are definitely not mug teams who they’ve beaten.

The Dogs were without key players (Bont particularly...Treloar, Weightman)

Sydney were a one man team tonight, awful.

As I said, it's a long season...I don't think they will make it but I've been wrong many times before.

1 hour ago, rjay said:

It's a long season...they've only played one contender and got smashed.

they will break down at the pointy end of the season, its so obvious how can everyone not see. they are being carried by sidebottom and pendlebury not will not last for ever

6 hours ago, rjay said:

The Dogs were without key players (Bont particularly...Treloar, Weightman)

Sydney were a one man team tonight, awful.

As I said, it's a long season...I don't think they will make it but I've been wrong many times before.

Me too @rjay. A few times in '78, once in '82, '85, '87, and '89 respectively, once or twice in the 90s, a bad year in '98, but pretty much a perfect record since then.

We'll see how they go against Brisbane at the gabba next week

My mate who supports Collingwood textured me straight after the game and said so you rate us top 4 now. I said no but top 6 yes.

Hawks, GWS, Lions, Cats top 4 for me.

Then Pies, Dogs,

7 -8 will be between Saints, Crows, Suns, Freo but won’t make the prelim.

Beat the Lions and it’s a conversation but not until then, he did acknowledge that Dogs were robbed a few weeks ago when they played them.

5 weeks in and it’s season over for 8 teams for various reasons.

9 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

How’s Hayden McLean’s availability at the end of the year.

A viable second ruck that nails difficult set shots.

And also drops some absolute sitters, surprised no one has gone down the he would fit in perfectly at the MFC.

Our list hasn’t improved sure our drafting of young players great but our trading of experienced talent is very poor ..you only need to look at who the pies, cats, lions, & hawks have brought in.

8 hours ago, rjay said:

The Dogs were without key players (Bont particularly...Treloar, Weightman)

Sydney were a one man team tonight, awful.

As I said, it's a long season...I don't think they will make it but I've been wrong many times before.

Dogs were also missing Liam Jones at that point. Pies were hoisted over the line in that game by the 3 in yellow.

It’s remarkable how important Sidebottom and Pendlebury still are to them. Sidebottom is still playing so well.

48 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

And also drops some absolute sitters, surprised no one has gone down the he would fit in perfectly at the MFC.

He dropped those sitters after I posted the suggestion so it didn’t age well.

The point still stands that he’s a viable forward -ruck “30 goal a year” player that we should hunt this off season.

59 minutes ago, godees said:

Sidebottom is still playing so well.

He really is playing well...interesting to see if he can sustain it.

He also puts a lie to the idea of pace, just plods around the ground and gets to where the ball is then makes great decisions.

5 minutes ago, rjay said:

He really is playing well...interesting to see if he can sustain it.

He also puts a lie to the idea of pace, just plods around the ground and gets to where the ball is then makes great decisions.

Great players are great players and they find a way until they physically and mentally can’t.

11 hours ago, Little Goffy said:

Wrong thread buddy.

About half a page of the wrong thread, too!

Or should that be half a spool?

Fair. I’ll reel myself back in and not get so wound up next time.

On 10/04/2025 at 21:29, BoBo said:

So a dangerous tackle is when you hold a players arm, you drag them down and they hit their head on the ground?

Is that a technically correct decision?

It was until the “VAFA” Boys club turned, Aussie Rules into touch Basketball.

15 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Rjay, they’re going better than ok. They’re 4-1 with an absolute stack of MCG games to come. They’ll likely finish top 3 and if they can avoid Brisbane at the GABBA in week one, they probably play in this years GF.

I see you’ve learnt nothing from recent years.

Remember when Carlton was flag favourite this time last year after starting the season like a house on fire? Or when Geelong won their first 7, only to lose their next 5?

Or when we went 10-0 to start 2022, and then…no I know you remember that one.

Collingwood look good now, even though they’ve copped some good luck getting Sydney and the Dogs when they did, with both missing stacks of elite talent. But it’s Round 5.

even west coasts ball movement looks good.... gee if we dont at the very least put in a very solid performance tonight we are in alot of trouble

i love gc17's pink guernsey

they should wear it instead of that red monstrosity

44 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

i love gc17's pink guernsey

they should wear it instead of that red monstrosity

Yeah me too, first impression was what the hell but it's grown on me, I love it now.

Great game this too, Kangas looked almost gone halfway thru the 2nd now have put their foot down and lead by 8. Shades of the Crows/Cats game.

Great to see Nth playing well! If this isn’t alarm bells 🔔 on Goodwin tenure

(double post)

Edited April 12Apr 12 by whatwhat say what

north vs gc17 an excellent game of footy to watch while missy elliott rips it up on coachella main stage

2016 we had that epic shootout against a North team who went on to win 10 in a row, Beat GWS a prelim finalist, Hawthorn coming off a 3-peat while badly losing to [censored] sides like St Kilda and Essendon..

Hate to say it, but Norf aren’t as pathetic as they seem. They look like 2016 Melbourne. They are still yet to take a scalp, but as bad as we were, 60pt win for a side like this is still a decent effort considering at the time everyone thought we were a shoe in after a surprise performance against GWS.

Just now, VNightCityLegend said:

2016 we had that epic shootout against a North team who went on to win 10 in a row, Beat GWS a prelim finalist, Hawthorn coming off a 3-peat while badly losing to [censored] sides like St Kilda and Essendon..

Hate to say it, but Norf aren’t as pathetic as they seem. They look like 2016 Melbourne. They are still yet to take a scalp, but as bad as we were, 60pt win for a side like this is still a decent effort considering at the time everyone thought we were a shoe in after a surprise performance against GWS.

clarko has them building nicely, much as dimma has gc17 doing similarly

as they both should - the amount of assistance they've had dwarfs what we had in our 2007-2015 incarnation