2 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

Yep good points with both posts, just want to make it clear, the time was right for Goodwin to move, the playing group was fractured beyond repair without big changes. He tried to implement the quicker ball movement without really trusting the younger or role players enenough

Yep, agree with all points, except perhaps the very last one (need to give that some thought).

I think from a coaching perspective, a barrier to implementing a faster game style was he was still very focused on zones, structure and players playing very specific roles. Hard to play on instinct when you're trying to remember where you're supposed to he or what your role is.

That said there's a funny irony in Sundays game.

We are the long bomb team, not the one Goody is involved in.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by binman

Tuned into the pre-game thread for the Swans and somehow I ended up back in a Goody good or bad, and what cost us the flag debate! Am I in a time machine?!😂

Anyway, on the topic (if that's ok) I think we should look at this as a free hit and a chance to measure ourselves against the current peak of the competition. What's going to be really interesting is seeing how we try to adapt our MCG-suited game to the much smaller SCG. I also think that our conditioning has been very much planned for this period and the aim was to give ourselves the best chances at the Lions and Tigers, to then allow for the longer break to the swans.

With that in mind I'm expecting Moose to be sent back to Casey. I don't think he did anything wrong but I think this was a plan to allow Max to be Max against Grundy. Bowey obviously will come back in and I'd be happy seeing Cross come in for Culley.