26 minutes ago, BDA said:

His disposal is an issue. I’m a big fan but he must improve this aspect of his game

Yep, that's a weakness that's crept into his game this year. Very neat and effective in 2024 but has turned the ball over far too often this season.

Liked him playing in the middle though. Plenty of upside.

2 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Proud of the effort. The close loses once again does my head in.

Viney is a dead set liability. New coach either needs to find him a new position or trade him off.

Could he go to a lock down back pocket type role? I know his ball use is poor and he'd get done for pace but maybe he could make up for it in the contest...who knows maybe he'd just get too exposed for size and pace...

Rivers poor kick was a killer. Oliver had a look today, I haven’t seen in years

Where is Sparrow at?

Not sure if his 10 touch, 4 tackle games are going to impress the new coach.

Fun game, we lacked composure and as usual we were punished by our poor disposal across the ground.

I still loved seeing us take aggressive options in the corridor and the D50 scoring chains.

Got beaten centre clearances 19-10

Re Gawn's ruck work in the last quarter, have a 2nd look. On most occasions he tapped to the exact correct place, but our mids were a step behind, and/or the Dog's mids were reading it off his hand. Our setup and system 3-5 metres off contested ball was really poor today, so I reckon our midfield woes rest on the shoulders of the mids, not the ruck.

An honourable loss if there ever was one

Showed our next coach the potential of our list, particularly our young players, and our ability to play fast paced, damaging transition footy

Unfortunately also showed them the limitations of our senior players, some of whom might have some tough conversations coming their way at seasons end

Oh and we might need to bring in an assistant coach focused specifically on close game scenarios, because once again our leadership and planning at that last CBA was woeful

Still, very entertaining and shows us we have life yet!

It was great to see the magnets thrown around on the board. Bowey playing forward at stages. Persisting with Windsor in the middle. Petty looked free to roam and he benefited. McVee looked like he had a new lease of life and looked angry. Had his dash back and laid some strong tackles. And Culley who is a beast.

Youthful exuberance is fun to watch.

1 minute ago, rufus said:

Could he go to a lock down back pocket type role? I know his ball use is poor and he'd get done for pace but maybe he could make up for it in the contest...who knows maybe he'd just get too exposed for size and pace...

I personally couldn't seeing it work.

He'd get exposed for pace against the likes of Charlie Cameron, Bobby Hill and even a Izak Rankine.

What we saw today (from us) is the difference between knowing how to play and knowing how to win.

21 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

His 2nd half was great. It's good Chaplin threw him forward to get more in the game

Yes 💯. what a wild idea! a good player is being beaten, so rather than sub him, or leave him to stew, make a positional move to our advantage!!!!!

“coaching” - who’d have thought!!

People mentioning Windsor getting injured—I somehow missed it from my seat what happened to him?

7 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

The way our mids set up at stoppage is goddamn woeful. I know who our stoppage coach is and I know that he needs to be the first one replaced.

We constantly chase tail in the middle, because we are constantly set up wrong. The only times we looked like winning a clearance was when we had Windsor wide able to run at the footy.

It’s a crime to be losing clearances with a midfield like ours on a regular basis.

Totally, but there was one really important tap in the last (when momentum shifted against us) where Max had out bodied English, had his hand completely free to guide it straight down the throat of a Melbourne player, instead, he tapped it straight down the throat of a dog. It happens too often IMO.

Agree on the midfield coaches though.

1 minute ago, The Cult of Disco Turner said:

People mentioning Windsor getting injured—I somehow missed it from my seat what happened to him?

Hammy

21 minutes ago, Smokey said:

Trade Petracca at all costs.

Disagree. He was a little bit of silk away from mastery. I’d hate to lose him. And he’s playing a team game.

43 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Two more efforts like that and we will get at least one more win

Would be particularly pleasing if it were against the Pies and even better if it denied them a spot in the top four.

17 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Apart from last week vs Zero competition he has been an out and out FAILURE in most of his games this year. His elementary failure to judge the ball in flight leads me to the belief that he WILL NOT make it

Terrible post.

3 minutes ago, Adam The God said:

Totally, but there was one really important tap in the last (when momentum shifted against us) where Max had out bodied English, had his hand completely free to guide it straight down the throat of a Melbourne player, instead, he tapped it straight down the throat of a dog. It happens too often IMO.

Agree on the midfield coaches though.

In 2021-2023 we had an amazing ruck mid connection and then we lost our midfield coach who was a brilliant coach and it all went downhill.

We have to get a top quality midfield coach next year. It’s the most important area of the ground.

22 minutes ago, Maldonboy38 said:

It's strange to feel disappointed AND proud after a game. Loved the shuffling of players into different positions, loved our heart and intent, loved the wrestle in the last quarter, loved the high moments of great play, HATED our poor poor disposal. The unforced skills errors today were infuriating.

I don't think Goody was a factor. If anything the players appeared to enjoy the day more, and didn't compound as easy - as we usually do. Perhaps that was due to Goodwin not burdening the club anymore.

21 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

I don’t disagree but it’s a hard task to play such a good tall forward duo with such inexperience.

Defense needs experience. Tmac was brilliant on Darcy but to expect Adams to go with Naughton was really a baptism of fire.

It was a baptism of fire, but I'm glad we gave him the opportunity. Winning doesn't help our cause as much as developing these guys for the future.

Also agree that May's suspension probably hurt us today. I thought Naughton was really damaging for them for most of the game.

19 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Apart from last week vs Zero competition he has been an out and out FAILURE in most of his games this year. His elementary failure to judge the ball in flight leads me to the belief that he WILL NOT make it

I know you love Jefferson but by any measure Roo and Petty are better.

Your blind hatred for almost our entire playing list is one of the most bizarre takes on this site. I have no idea why you even support us.

I do think Rivers is a player for the future, but I also see him butcher the ball way more than he should. Fixes that and he could be a real weapon.

1 minute ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I do think Rivers is a player for the future, but I also see him butcher the ball way more than he should. Fixes that and he could be a real weapon.

If he could tidy up his skills, I reckon he could be a future captain.

Happy with the boys endeavour to day and special shout out to Cully who I thought would be a bust after watching at Casey, but he looks that unique type that plays better in the firsts.

Ice Windsor for the remainder, maybe bring in Laurie for a couple and let's do it afiain next week