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12 hours ago, praha said:

Roos was a teacher, he put his arm around blokes. Yes he was firm and he held players to account but he was also quite zen. Confident is a given.

Goodwin was also quite tempered. I don't think he held players to account enough. And when he started to (ie. Lever this year) it came as a shock and fractured the playing group.

I guess what I am saying is that King is coming in and speaking like as if he's the principal of a school for troubled youths.

There is a tough balancing act, maybe King has been briefed that he needs to be a hard [censored]? I don't know. It might explain dumping May and Oliver, I am not massively hurt by that, but collectively with everything it does seem a little like we are losing control.

The rewriting of history post Goody's sacking is hilarious. Goody wasn't tempered. He went and shot Watts and Hogan. Both fan favourites.

Did he back in the same players for too long? Probably, but the dross that has been written about him recently is fantasy land nonsense.

Also, you're completely wrong about Roos too. He wasn't a put his arm around guys coach. He was a Ross Lyon, Al Clarkson, Chris Scott type.

He basically let his assistants run the show during the week and he'd do match day and press conferences. If you weren't in the 22, he wouldn't speak to you.

Conversely, Goody was very hands on and would be across the playing group. This is the McRae, Mitchell and Fagan approach apparently as well. It's why some of the players couldn't stand Roos and couldn't wait to play under Goody.

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    18 hours ago, praha said:

    I'm getting concerned.

    King has come in with very firm, confident lines, but the last time we saw that we ended up with a season percentage of like 52%.

    We're losing McVee, who chose to leave after meeting King.

    We have shown May the door.

    Let Petracca choose where he wants to go and now lost any chance of a reasonable trade with Flanders choosing St Kilda, unless GC magically decides to give us Humphries.

    We've told Oliver that he is a VFL player in a 14th-placed team, meaning we'll get peanuts for him and still pay $700k of his salary until the end of the decade.

    We have Jack Viney touring facilities.

    I don't know. I think everyone needs to buckle in.

    No McVee had already made his mind up before King

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