Changing game plans takes longer than we thought. I wasn’t expecting a win and it made it more enjoyable to watch. Crows are contenders, seriously fit and we got pretty close. A couple of trades at season end and we are even better.

I think Tracc and Oliver (if they’re with us next year) will be much better after another preseason. I’d hate to see that happen at another club.

I think Tracc forward is the future. He seemed to really care about his shots today. Pity he didn’t get them.

I feel like Max is a little off… And it reflects in his ruck craft.

I’m doing my best to enjoy every game. Can’t enjoy the highs without the lows. My old man was a Collingwood supporter. Footy would have been so much easier if I’d have gone with him, but my Uncle took me to the footy as a kid to watch the Dees. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Go Dees.

haven’t seen it yet, but my guess if Goodwin.

“Excuse, excuse, excuse”

We have to be better

Credit to Adelaide

Avoiding questions with long and protracted answers that don’t really answer the question

Only managed to see half if the last quarter.

Watched the scores

I think we are mentally and physically weak.

I do think we have so some very good players and some too old or past best 22.

I think it’s the strategy we employ or football direction we employ that is terrible, Why for instance Kick backwards with only 1 minute 30 left and you are a couple of goals DOWN.

FFS you are trying to get the ball forward ( quickly) and win. FGS (pardon the profanity ) as I yell at the TV . Sorry darling.

Just as well we do not have kids. It’s up to others with football smarts, I am too old. Too stuck in my own ways.

We need a clean out , some players but more strategy and direction staff. For instance. The players do not need to love each other or the coach .

Respect is different. And we cannot kick for goal and we are not fit enough mentally or physically. I will read this thread twice more.

1 hour ago, Dee Boys said:

I like @picket fence and find him an amusing poster.

But if Matthew Jefferson makes it as an AFL footballer then I’m the Dalai Lama.

Hnmm gee he was very disappionting today.. very, and no excuses, just cant find space and separation, but I did see a flicker but overall looked all at sea. NEEDS to really bulk up and impose. I'm not giving up hope but yep can see he needs a power of work!

1 minute ago, 640MD said:

Only managed to see half if the last quarter.

Watched the scores

I think we are mentally and physically weak.

I do think we have so some very good players and some too old or past best 22.

I think it’s the strategy we employ or football direction we employ that is terrible, Why for instance Kick backwards with only 1 minute 30 left and you are a couple of goals DOWN.

FFS you are trying to get the ball forward ( quickly) and win. FGS (pardon the profanity ) as I yell at the TV . Sorry darling.

Just as well we do not have kids. It’s up to others with football smarts, I am too old. Too stuck in my own ways.

We need a clean out , some players but more strategy and direction staff. For instance. The players do not need to love each other or the coach .

Respect is different. And we cannot kick for goal and we are not fit enough mentally or physically. I will read this thread twice more.

I totally agree kicking the ball backwards and to the pocket made absolutely no sense. If we were in front maybe but why don’t they ask Goodwin that question. So frustrating and inexplicable.

2 minutes ago, 640MD said:

Only managed to see half if the last quarter.

Watched the scores

I think we are mentally and physically weak.

I do think we have so some very good players and some too old or past best 22.

I think it’s the strategy we employ or football direction we employ that is terrible, Why for instance Kick backwards with only 1 minute 30 left and you are a couple of goals DOWN.

FFS you are trying to get the ball forward ( quickly) and win. FGS (pardon the profanity ) as I yell at the TV . Sorry darling.

Just as well we do not have kids. It’s up to others with football smarts, I am too old. Too stuck in my own ways.

We need a clean out , some players but more strategy and direction staff. For instance. The players do not need to love each other or the coach .

Respect is different. And we cannot kick for goal and we are not fit enough mentally or physically. I will read this thread twice more.

Agree with this. I think our problems are more Coaching than players.

Coaching includes Fitness and Hi Performance Staff. We are not prepared to a High enough Level.

Players who are totally focused do not miss the shots we had at Goal in the First Quarter

22 minutes ago, Garbo said:

Just look at Curnow over at blues to see the same thing, this is the

time of year when it shows

22 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Young players can’t afford to miss pre seasons. It absolutely kills their season. It’s why the effort from Lindsay this season is absolutely incredible.

1st time McVee got his colours lowered,so glad Goody changed things up and made a change🤔in saying that the back line got murdered by the midfield,.Rankin and co just did what they liked

39 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

You want to have a go at someone? Have a go at senior players who can’t tackle, can’t handball, and have poor efforts repeatedly.

Yes rest the senior players. They need a mental break and see if we have anyone with potential .

2022-2025 was a total failure for many reasons.

Goody ? No bloody idea ? Should he go or should he stay ? NBI. But he needs a LOT of help.

1 hour ago, At the break of Gawn said:

McVee's had a couple games like that. He just plays too loose.

Been kind of the same all year, not the player he was or can be, he missed too much of the pre and early season injured.

See Bowey last year.

Van Royen butchered almost every disposal today.

Coulda, woulda, shoulda.........

On Jeffo. Before he convinces anyone else he's good enough to play AFL football maybe the kid needs to convince himself.

Back to page 1 and read again. Rince and repeat. But we still lost today when we might have won,

If the club is serious, then you cannot play Oliver and Viney in the midfield for the time being. It's time to change it; they are too slow, lack football awareness, and have a lack of skills. All Viney wants to do is play rugby again instead of focusing on football, and as for Oliver, if the game is not a contest, he chases his tail. As for Jefferson, he has no thirst for the contest. Early in the game, he just jogged along, not even bothering to chase an opponent, and for someone who wants to play at a high level, that's just not acceptable. Well, at least the game was not a blowout. They kept trying, but the lack of skills and football nous is amazing for professional footballers.

I loved all the changes made at 3/4 time to inject some life into our midfield..

Oh wait, it's stubborn Simon

1 hour ago, Demonsone said:

Reality is we have gone from 16 wins in 23 to 11 in 24 & lucky if we win 8 games … whilst relative healthy, that’s going backwards and yet the club wants to back Goodwin whilst our membership & gate receipts go down the drain not to mention whatever talent we have left will start requesting trades

That would be the reality bus......

2 blocks of 5 consecutive losses, Simon can not rationalise that.

8 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

I loved all the changes made at 3/4 time to inject some life into our midfield..

Oh wait, it's stubborn Simon

I saw Lindsay in one centre bounce

So the cliff is almost here. That was a reasonable performance but there was never a moment where we looked like we could win. They held us at arm's length from the minute we kicked our 5th goal in that run. Just a matter now of how quickly and effectively we can rebuild the list. We're going to be bottom 6 for the second season in a row, so rebuilding on the run clearly hasn't happened. Need to go very hard at trading assets like Oliver, Salem, Lever, Fritsch and hope that Gawn, May, Viney have enough decent footy in them to stop us from falling into a 2007-09 style hole while the kids develop. Could also trade Petracca, but I really don't want to see a guy with actual elite standards go when we have so many who half-[censored] it.

34 minutes ago, BrisbaneDemon said:

That’s poor coaching though, you need to work with what you have, he’s been here 9 years….. let me say that again 9 years, we haven’t been able to score under Goodwin for a long time, 2018, 2021, apart from that we have always been a terrible scoring team, good on D but so unreliable infront of goal.

Either we get a senior assistant in to run the midfield / forward connection or we move Goodwin on, this CANNOT go on in 2026, I [censored] hate watching my football team play…..

And that's really the issue, most of us are hating watching every single week the same [censored].

It'll come to a point where most of us won't care. Just a dull, nothing season.

1 hour ago, Devil In Disguise said:

Goodwin will probably bring Petty back in to solve our forward issues😁

Give him a rest ! Petty playing now , will not help next year.

17 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

If the club is serious, then you cannot play Oliver and Viney in the midfield for the time being. It's time to change it; they are too slow, lack football awareness, and have a lack of skills. All Viney wants to do is play rugby again instead of focusing on football, and as for Oliver, if the game is not a contest, he chases his tail. As for Jefferson, he has no thirst for the contest. Early in the game, he just jogged along, not even bothering to chase an opponent, and for someone who wants to play at a high level, that's just not acceptable. Well, at least the game was not a blowout. They kept trying, but the lack of skills and football nous is amazing for professional footballers.

Goodwin still believes, after all this time, that the big three can get it done. When Adelaide started to peg us back in the 2nd, he immediately threw them in there together. I just can't stand it.

5 minutes ago, Pirlo said:

Could also trade Petracca, but I really don't want to see a guy with actual elite standards go when we have so many who half-[censored] it.

elite standards? he can't hit a barndoor and his tackling has been sub-par all season.

he's supposed to be a leader but i don't see him driving elite standards at all.

1 hour ago, Devil In Disguise said:

I reckon we win that game if Disco plays forward and TMac back. 16 marks and kicks straight.

Agree, been calling for Turner to play fwd for a while now. Leave Petty in defence.

Just now, Bombay Airconditioning said:

Agree, been calling for Turner to play fwd for a while now. Leave Petty in defence.

Let’s move our best defender, what an awesome idea 🤐

1 hour ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Windsor should be our wingman.

Langford and XL can share the other wing, Lindsay more defensively and Langford more offensively.

Windsor on the wing. Flower like. In the back like shifting flower in the 80’s we lost in both places .