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PODCAST: Rd 22 vs Western Bulldogs

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20 minutes ago, layzie said:

I was a little surprised at Binman's catch all response to the people who were impressed with how how we played and thought

I can't speak for the others but I stand by my opinion that this was one of the first games thia year where we looked fully committed to the gameplan. This isn't to say that we haven't played or tried to play that way this year, I'm usually one of the first people to point out the fact that Goodwin was trying to implement this style all season, but I dont think there was another game this year were we looked 100% dialed in and committed to doing what the gameplan asked of us.

Stats can be pulled and arguments can be made that we've been playing this way all season but the reality is that it's only taken shape in the second half of the season, I'm not fussed about being 4th in ball movement since the bye, whatever that even means. I'm also not taking any proof out of the first 5 games, the first Saints game, or second Gold Coast game because the effort levels were largely inept. I'm not looking to the Port game or similar ones because these games we looked confused and caught in two minds bombing long and reverting to old habits. I'm not looking to the Collingwood game because this wasn't a good display of the new style but more the old territory game that kept us in it and lastly I'm not looking to the West Coast game because to call that a measuring stick is a joke.

Im not re-writing history and I don't think some others are either. However it was plain to see that we had bought into this way of moving the ball more in this game than nearly everyone other game this year and I think that statement is legit. I've said it all year that I was undecided on Goodwin right up until last Tuesday and one of the reasons was because I did think the style was starting to take shape. If it had been working a treat all year of the players had the buy in and confidemce then we'd sure as hell have more wins on the board.

If I’m not mistaken, Goody said for the last half or third of games last year, he reverted back to the older style of slower, contested ball because he wanted to stay in the games.

IMO, this actually cost him time for the team to be able to adapt. He needed to stay the course during those games. Instead we lost a lot of those games anyway, people became frustrated that things weren’t changing and it bled into this year with the losses we had.

He tried to stem the bleeding and was reactive in doing so, which just ate up time and patience for a lot of fans, in my opinion.

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