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If I were Selwyn Griffith, I'd be embarrassed as hell, even if I didn't think I'd done much wrong. It's just a really bad look for a fitness coach to have his team consistently trounced at the end of the match.

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    1 hour ago, At the break of Gawn said:

    Thankfully in the presser Goodwin said that the final qtrs would be a whole club review. To me that indicates that he thinks there's an issue with our high performance team.

    Goodwin saying this now, after 9 rounds when any fan could've pointed this out after round 3 is akin to him saying 'no comment' to the question.

    Since Burgess left we've not been the same physically. Yet no changes have been made.

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    1 hour ago, Adam The God said:

    I haven't heard the presser yet. That's interesting.

    We could well be 5-4 if it weren't for final quarter fade outs.

    More than “could well”. We should be 5-4. We could well be better than that had we not ground to a halt vs North and Essendon.

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    13 hours ago, Oxdee said:

    This sits purely in goodwins shoulders. His game plan is so inept that rhe players have nothing left in the last quarter.

    Maintaining possession and winning the ball back is so labor intensive that the players are exhausted by 3/4 time.

    Almost every possession we take is contested. No easy ball. Goodwin is killing us.

    Yes final quarter fadeouts are a massive issue and have cost us several games.

    But our profligate wasting of shots at goal earlier in games leave us vulnerable, and opposition know this and that they can run away from us.

    If we got 5-6 goals ahead by ¾ then the opposition would maybe feel less optimistic.

    Of course we will never know because we continue to be pathetic at finishing, before we are exhausted.

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    The football department have to know it’s an issue and the main reason cant be anything other than fitness. I just don’t think they can say it publicly. Perhaps they might at the end of the year, but declaring we aren’t fit enough to run out games in season only gives our opponents more confidence.

    A deeper dive into our quarter by quarter stats over 9 games:

    Melbourne:

    Q1 22.25.157
    Q2 21.28.154
    Q3 36.24.240
    Q4 14.22.106

    Opponents

    Q1 25.33.183
    Q2 28.24.192
    Q3 25.19.169
    Q4 44.22.286

    Differentials

    Q1 -26
    Q2 -38
    Q3 +71
    Q4 -180

    An interesting pattern here is also accuracy. We already know we waste so many chances, but the data is clear how much of a difference it makes. We only convert >50% in one quarter, while our opponents only convert <50% in one quarter.

    If games ended at 3/4 time (yes, they don’t), we would be 4-5 with a percentage of 101.2.

    Edited by Melb16

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