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Wasn’t sure where to put this mods. Here is an uncomfortable article dealing with the impact of racism in the VFL, with a very brief portion from a very humanistic John Northey. Losing makes me sad, but not as a sad as how we treat those ‘different’ from us. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-23/persecution-of-robert-muir-story-football-doesnt-want-to-hear/12553554 Go Dees.

Wow. Even today people don't get it. Your comment embodies the very issue he faced.

Coincedentaly I just read the article (not realising there was this thread). Heartbreaking. So much trauma. I started going to the footy regularly (ie most weeks), usually by myself, as a 11 year old in 1978 and fans yelling racial abuse was so common as not to be even noticed. The footy show episode says everything you need to know about racism in this country. And how far we have to go to even get close to meaningful reconciliation. Assuming of course we actually want to get there. Which I am far from convinced about. No doubt many would say oh that was long ago. Well one of those aresehokes who thought such a 'skit' was funny is the president of Collingwood (in a lineage that includes that pig mcallister) who still thinks racial jokes are hilarious. And the other shamefully still has a very public voice. And was just sued by Nicky winmar for defamation after claiming he was lying about his famous protest (one i didn't know Robbie muir had made a decade before) I feel ashamed for using the mad dog epithet many times over years when talking about Robert Muir.

This is so sad and unfair. We live in a world that can be wonderful and rotten, to the people who inhabit it. I just have no more words at the moment.

I remember the game where Robert had 19 possessions in a quarter and virtually won the game off his own boot. Thought at the time he was the most dynamic player I had ever seen. Also saw the despicable coverage in Adelaide when he jumped the fence to deck the cretin who had been abusing him and throwing cans at him. No mention of this on the news coverage at the time. Mate of mine was there and was livid at the news services for not telling the real story. I had personal experience of the sort of abuse aboriginal kids suffered at the hands of spectators and players. My brother and I had an aboriginal foster brother in our teens. He was a good enough footballer to play for a state high school rep team. Baz and I played basketball with him as well and often had to step in to defend him against some truly obscene abuse by people’s W.E. thought should have known better. It was an eye opening for a teenager into the true nature of our society. Still makes me smoking angry 40 years later.

st-kilda-apologises-to-former-player-robert-muir Kudos for the apology. But do they have to wait until a harrowing story is in the media. It behoves all clubs to look back at those that have worn their jumper and reach out before the media spotlight past wrongs. Those wrongs weren't seen as wrongs at the time; sadly it is how our society was. Nor can those wrongs be undone. But the player can be embraced for what they contributed to the club.

Wow what a harrowing story I saw many of Muir’s games in the 70’s (Moorabbin was easy to get to from home) he was a sensational player and was obviously abused on the field. He reacted. I hope St. Kilda wake up. Their treatment of him over the years has only made it worse. Don’t get me started on The Filth and Vic Park

And people wounder why our indigenous brethren might seem hyper sensitive to the odd sly monkey emoji posted on social media. On a minor tangent, good on the North Melbourne Footy club for calling out the social media giants for their pathetic and week response to the issue in it's modern manifestation in the article below, as have the MFC and others: https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2020-aaron-hall-partner-sophia-absalom-slam-disgusting-instagram-racist/news-story/6e4903f0b64ebee434a80ba776c3ca9e If this kind of rubbish doesn't go against 'Comunity Guidelines' then what kind of messed up world are you living in?

OMG I have tears after reading this story, so incredibly sad.

Sitting at the ground today the least problem we had was May and Lever. By far was the complete lack of accountability to stop the Dogs running from defence. There were loose players everywhere plus their disposal skills put ours to shame. Add the way we butcher the ball the score flattered us. After seven years of rebuild we are such an average football club and the management and coaching group need to own that. Hate to be the voice of doom but I can’t see us being any better in the short term

I'm not sure of the reasons people keep suggesting moving him back. He clearly doesn't fit there anymore, I'd easily have Oscar as a defender over Tom right now, not least because Oscar has been playing there for the last few years whereas Tom hasn't. I just don't know what is to be done with Tommy anymore, I think the injury from last year and maybe the form drop of the team has killed any confidence he had. He may well bob up for a random good game this year but it just doesn't seem to be happening. When Jacko is back to fitness and has had one run around in the scratch matches I'd be bringing him back in.

I think most have made the comments I would have liked to have made. Suffice to say, incredibly sad. An indictment on the period he played in and our tendency to pay lip service to the plight of too many of our indigenous players post-footy career. As a sIight departure, I will say that the Australian media tends to be terrified of long form journalism. This ABC article is an example of the impact it can have when done well.

Talk about white line fever. On the other side of the line is the crowd the one's that carried on and abused the life out of Muir. He retaliated. Abused by some of the opposition in his playing days. It is amazing with the mental illness he was diagnosed with that he is still alive. One tough hombre. I know what it's like to be abused and be vilified ..... That's all l will say about that. As for Robert Muir he wanted to play the game he loved however the crowds and some of the the opposition players saw it different and Muir stood up to them.

I look @ Geelong & see they haven’t bottomed out & made finals every year since 2007 bar maybe once, consistently always win many games during the season, sure they have failed not winning many finals since 2011 flag & their list has changed yet their strong culture & leadership is ingrained... ours is far from it!!!

I was at the game yesterday and we were pretty comprehensively outclassed, some notes below. - Pressure from the forwards was terrible, they had so many options bringing it out, it was just a procession - They applied pressure in the middle to the likes of Petracca - every disposal was under duress and we didn’t cope - Their mids had great inside/outside balance, they just flicked a couple of handballs and they generated the cleanest of clearances with acres of space - May was fantastic, his body work always working his forward slightly under the ball before spoiling with real purpose - Harmes is being wasted, his current position plays to none of his strengths - Our goalkicking was terrible and we never looked confident, we could have been still in the hunt late if we had kicked straight - 3rd quarter was abysmal, no more to add - One point on the umpiring, not sure if it was raised by the commentators, but twice we got pinged for pushing in the back as they were kicking, and that’s fine, but how the hell can they both be down field when they were clealry in the kicking action? Both kicks were shanked due to the push. Summary: pressure our mids, be prepared to run, and you are a very very good chance of beating Melbourne.

The Dogs are a side who have a game style that we can't handle. They love to flick out that quick handball to a player on the outside, and they are a terrific team off half back. Their man three - Daniel, JJ and Crozier - cut us up all day when the ball hit the deck. Not only are they clever players, but they use the ball very well and were able to hit targets in these conditions. At half time you could tell that there were a few signs that we weren't playing all that well, but we lifted our intensity and lifted our pressure in the second term and we took our chances. We just had to keep that up. And then we fell in a hole, both on the field and in the box, in the third term. Bevo made some changes, such as English deep and Bruce into the ruck as both had been ineffectual to that point, and he clearly implored his players to look for the switch and run hard at every opportunity. They did exactly that and too often they took the ball from one end to the other and they made us look second rate. Goodwin didn't prepare enough for it, but then the players also didn't run hard enough either. Our midfield was smashed today. Trac was off, Oliver looked like he was gassed, Viney tries but today it didn't really pay off, and Gus didn't have the same influence as previous weeks. Preuss was good in the ruck but, really, we should have had more influence out of the guts than we did. Overall, this was a big test for the club after three wins against teams we should be beating, and we failed miserably. And it really hurt to watch that. People will try and pick out individuals in this game, but I don't see that as the problem. People were pinging Fritsch for goodness sake. The bloke aint the problem. Our problem, against good sides, is that they cut us up on the outside and when the pressure drops they run it out without any issue and make us pay. Our gameplan is too rigid and inflexible to change for it and, unless we put massive amounts of pressure on for pretty much the whole game, we struggle. One positive from today was, again, the back line. We could have had the greatest back line in the world in that third term and it wouldn't have stopped the ball the way it came in. I thought May, Lever and Tomlinson were all excellent throughout the game and gave their tall forwards an absolute bath. Hibberd was off and Wallis kicked 4 on him but, again, he had A+ delivery without any pressure. Season is on the line next week against a side who have even more leg speed and run than the Dogs - the Saints. We will need to make some adjustments and prepare ourselves as if we lose next week, then we're gone. I won't write us off just yet as many here did after the Port game and then three games later we are in the 8. However, roll over against the Saints and it will be very, very hard. Very disappointed after that game but I'm not giving up on the season just yet. While the Dogs were better, we more than had our chances to not only be further in front at different stages, but to also bridge the gap in the last term.

A few changes here and there isn't the priority. A lift from our midfield is what's really needed. But there are a few changes to be made. Looks like Sparrow's going to be out for a while. Will Jones get his spot back? Fingers crossed Gawn's fit and can come back in. Should be for Preuss. However, I'm not a fan of TMac's current form and I think we need to consider dropping him. But we may be reaching too many changes. And finally, Melksham. We know Goodwin/the FD rate him given he was captain vs North. But this is probably the 8th game he's played this year which simply isn't good enough. Another 50m conceded, another weak defensive game, and to top it all off a set shot kicked into the man on the mark. IMO, those sorts of performances should result in being dropped, particularly when they're on the back of a year of largely poor performances. Bennell could be a replacement. I'd keep Pickett in because there's no better option out of the side and he did lay 5 tackles to his credit, but he keeps being close without actually converting that into a solid performance. Maybe he needs to kick an early goal to get into it, and he had two chances today.

You can't continue to annoy the entire board but then complain when people call you out. Each week you bump threads out of nowhere, many of which are your threads to begin with, almost always after losses.

Moving McDonald back doesn't change his physical situation, so don't see the point. The bloke is playing physically hampered. It's both frustrating and sad to watch at the same time.

IMO the biggest problem yesterday was that the Dogs generated their scores precisely in the way you would have imagined them to prior to the game. They came in with a plan and executed it. Whatever plan we went in with didn't work. It's OK to back your own system in but sometimes you have to acknowledge the strengths of the opposition and look at ways to set up to counter that. We should have known they would rely on Daniel's kicking, Johannisen's run, and their relative speed to move the ball. We should have known they are league leaders for generating scores from their defensive 50. We should, and I'm sure did, know all of that, but whatever we decided to do to counter it didn't work. Add to that their tactic of repeat switches (not sure if that's a standard ploy from them or something they came up with deliberately for us) and there were a whole host of things they did that we couldn't stop. I'm convinced part of it was on the players because we saw old habits creeping back in. Dinky handballs in tight and Viney trying to break tackles and kicking without looking are two classic signs of Goodwin's Melbourne struggling with pressure. But I'm also convinced we should have had considered how to set up across the ground to limit their run, and when they were switching it repeatedly from the first quarter, that's also something we should have adjusted to. Backing in our system to the hilt, even when it's not working, is a flaw.

First five minutes the warning bells were on high, as Demons looked flat. As bad as we were for the day, some points to consider: - Melksham touched set shot, Fritsch missed everything in 3rd, Kossie two points from early shots, generally poor goal kicking. Make 3 of these shots and maybe a different game - mids flat for the day, other than Viney, the rest no chasing, went back to dinky football, rather than bold of last week and last quarters of preceding two weeks - Melksham and Fritsch had opportunities and poor conversion, Weideman made most of limited opportunities, Pickett, Spargo, Hannan didn’t do enough, their opponents seemed to have a free reign. AVB also fitted into this bucket. TMac little influence. - Bontempelli running free and starring, nothing done, just let go - team probably played 10 minutes of reasonable football in later part of 2nd quarter Add all of the above shockers and only lost by 28 points! Makes me think all isn’t lost. Most teams bar Geelong have had at least one if not too underwhelming performances in this season, as Hub life, different game breaks, never getting home games, adds an additional challenge into the year. The good, the defence under attack for a lot of the game, Due to little or no forward/midfield pressure held Dogs to only 12 goals. May, Lever, Tomlinson, Lockhart, Salem All pretty solid. Really up to Oliver, Petracca, Brayshaw to lift consistency, take the game on every week, and forwards to chase like their careers depend on it!

Tomlinson has had 3 goals in total kicked on him in 4 weeks playing back.

A powerful and uncomfortable read. It shows the importance of the Indigenous round that allow stories like this to be told. I hope theAFL and the Saints reach out to him.

Out: Preuss, Sparrow In: Gawn, Rivers Rivers should never have been dropped in the first place. Put him into the half back role and have Harmes run through as the 5th midfielder splitting his time in the forward half.

Your analysis of Lever is not based in the evidence though, which is why I can't help but feel it's simply personal. He's been nailing his kicks for a month now. He's also more than just an intercept mark, although that is one of his strong suits. The way he and Lever (along with Hibberd and Salem) have been setting up behind the ball has been critical to our improvement. The way the Dogs were able to break that down today is one of the main reasons we lost. What you've outlined about the ruck changes Beveridge made is my point exactly: it's not "junk", there are just different approaches to it. They tried being cute, it worked for a bit then didn't, so they went back to a traditional set up, but chose Bruce over English (for two reasons I think - Bruce was giving them nothing in the forward line, and English was being outworked by Preuss). Agree on work rate. Their switches opened the fat side up and our zone didn't work across fast enough. We also saw mids failing to run defensively again. Old habits creeping back in when we're under pressure.

Melksham has been woeful in all but one game this year. He keeps getting games seemingly because he’s mate with Goodwin. He needs to be dropped. If it’s good enough for Hibbo, Jones and Jetta it’s good enough for Melksham.

Harsh on Tomlinson he was good today

There’s a bunch of intelligent stuff being said here. And I reckon it’s fundamentally all correct; we’re all just ruminating over the details. We need to play consistently at a high level of energy to produce the work rate that applies the pressure that is the key to Goody’s system. When the fire doesn’t burn bright, as in yesterday, everything goes awry and Goody doesn’t appear (and that may be just an appearance) to ring any changes to do anything about it. Before the game, I thought the dogs looked really up and about and we looked a little flat. Knew then we could be in trouble. But, at half time, I backed the fact that we were in front to mean that we had the grit to pull us through. Woops. No grit. What I find myself thinking again and again at these times when we get busted open is that the team doesn’t seem to realise it. Part of me says that’s got to be bollocks, but it keeps happening so another part of me insists it isn’t. Team psychology is weird; there are days when you just ain’t got it. But the best sporting teams have a player who can rise above the psychological milieu and spark a fire, a change. Cotchin does it for Richmond. Remember when Warne came on to bowl, or when Richards came in to bat? Didn’t matter the situation, it was a new game. We don’t have a tool, a match metaphorically, on the ground or in the box that can spark a fire. Maybe one will develop...

It's not hyperbole. He's absolutely dominating. It's not worthwhile, it's not a suggestion worth trying, it's ridiculous.

What baffles me about the focus on Tomlinson this week is that he was one of our best yesterday and played one of his best games for the club. He was providing rebound and making space for us to spread and get scoring chains going.

1. You are allowed to move sideways. "east-west" the umps would call in the early days of this rule. What you are not allowed to do is move sideways and fwd. But it's another rule that they pick and choose when to enforce or not. 2. Yesterday there were several instances of players being pushed in the back as they kick - and a free was paid downfield. It's wrong and no one calls it out. It's akin to a 50m penalty. Total garbage. 3. Players get pushed in the back ALL the time when they are kicking - more often than not when kicking for goal - and yet the umps rarely pay it. 4. Here's one that has been consigned to the dustbin of history except against Melbourne at the worst possible time - players running past the kicker within 10m. That rule was enforced with Nazi like enthusiasm and not rarely paid. The umpires are a joke.

Two things I've been reflecting on and wondering about the impact of: Yesterday was our first game with a red ball all season. I'm also guessing it was our warmest game since Round 1, five months ago. I have no idea whether there's any merit to this at all, but is it possible we struggled to adjust to the earlier start, red ball and/or warmer temperature? Yesterday was our second game all season at Metricon, but it was the Dogs' 6th. I wonder whether they knew the ground dimensions better than we did and planned accordingly?

The winner of the game is in the top eight and the loser out. Had Melbourne won, it would have consigned the Bulldogs season to the scrapheap given their remaining fixture which still includes a bye. The Demons led at half-time but they gave the Dogs a bone which was willingly accepted — they notched 6 goals in the third quarter and dumped the Demons out of the eight. This game simply saw all the bad habits return for Melbourne players. When they serve up dinky kicks, dinky handballs, little forward pressure, inaccurate kicking for goal, unpressured turnovers, and lack of discipline against a side that runs and spreads, the failings of the team and particular individual players was on display for all to see. In a game decided by four and a bit goals, Melbourne gave away two 50m penalty gifts and themselves had two goals disallowed due to a lazy approach and a failure to kick strongly with a flukey wind. As we saw a week ago, accuracy wins matches but it was not to be this time. While most statistics were surprisingly equal (except for handballs where the Dogs excelled, and hitouts to advantage where Melbourne did) the most telling and damning statistic was the scores from turnovers. They scored 59 points to 23, a six goal differential in a game that was lost by less than five. No matter how much contested ball won by either side, no matter how many ruck contests won, no matter how many marks, if you give the ball to the opposition, particularly one that runs and runs, the game will be lost. And don’t blame the backline for the opposition scoring, when they defend again and again, only to see it handed back. No surprise Wallis kicks 4 goals when it gets put on his chest at least 3 of those times. Aaron Naughton, the shining hope for the Dogs was held scoreless by Stephen May who dominated down back. Jake Lever continued to intercept and spoil, but they can’t hold back the deluge coming in from upfield when our mids don’t work hard enough on their opponents. The small forwards for the Demons were simply horrible. The Bulldogs were able to waltz the ball out of their defence multiple times without so much as a smattering of pressure, during the game in general it was much the same. Plenty of déjà vu from the Geelong game there! Hannan, Spargo, Pickett and Melksham in particular failed to do the work to keep the ball in the forward 50m and provide further scoring opportunities. Once again Melksham could only muster a single tackle for the whole game, and his refusal to contest marking opportunities, seeking the cheap kick over the back has surely been noticed by the coaching staff? Sam Weideman continues to mature, and his marking was telling, but when Tom McDonald gets thrown into the ruck, Sam is left all on his own. Footscray at least rested English down forward to provide a threat when he wasn’t rucking, but we failed to do likewise. It became easy for Gardner and Keath to double team a solitary tall forward. How many times have we fallen into that trap this year? The mids on the statistics pages equaled the Bulldogs for possessions and clearances. You wouldn’t have known it with the output from the middle in terms of quality. Too often Melbourne reverted to the short quick handball rather than the decisive break-out and kick we had seen over the past three weeks. The Bulldogs mids just kept pumping the ball long and deep and five of their mids scored goals themselves. For the Demons only Oliver troubled the goal umpire. Before the game the side lost Nathan Jones to a “quad niggle”, and his hardness around the contest was sorely missed. His replacement in Hannan had a meagre six touches for the game, and has probably burnt his opportunity for next week although the Jones and Sparrow injuries might keep a spot for him. What to do now? We gave the Dogs a bone, and they wolfed down the opportunity. We have opened the door to other sides now, and failed ourselves to demonstrate we are a capable finals contender. We have given Carlton a bone to chase next week, the prospect of finals for them. Next week we come up against St.Kilda already two games ahead of us. Fail that test, and we give the finals chances to Carlton, GWS Giants and Collingwood along with the Bulldogs. Our season will be over. Will the Demons have the strength of will to go for the bone on offer, or will they allow their bones to be picked over resulting in another wasted season? MELBOURNE 1.3.9 5.5.35 5.8.38 7.10.52 WESTERN BULLDOGS 2.4.16 4.4.28 10.5.65 12.8.80 GOALS Melbourne Weideman 2 Fritsch T McDonald Melksham Oliver Spargo Western Bulldogs Wallis 4 Bontempelli Cavarra English Liberatore McLean Smith Vandermeer Williams BEST Melbourne May Viney Petracca Weideman Lever Salem Western Bulldogs Bontempelli Liberatore Smith Wallis Macrae, Hunter INJURED Melbourne Tom Sparrow (shoulder), Nathan Jones (quad) replaced in selected side by Mitch Hannan Western Bulldogs Nil REPORTED Melbourne Nil Western Bulldogs Nil UMPIRES Chris Donlon, Nick Brown, Shaun Ryan VENUE Metricon Stadium

Hey graz - you weren't being rude at all with your question to him earlier. Far from it. The onus of proof is on him. He claims Tomlinson is on the big money, so it's up to him to back it up.

Disagree. May and Lever show very strong leadership to set up the team from the back. I reckon they'd be filthy on the lack of defensive running in front of them yesterday.

We just had our test. Saints will kill us the same way they have always done. Membrey will kick 5.it's written in stone Let's see if Richardson can earn his money because we know Goodwin won't make one change to combat st kildas strengths

Umps were rubbish. But didn’t necessarily cause our loss But 3 things need explaining 1- dogs 50 to gift them a goal in 3rd qtr. was Melksham stupid or wrong? He didn’t go over the mark. He went to the side just like when someone marks in the deep defense and they prevent the switch. There was no warning. 2- push when kicking. It’s not downfield. It’s a retake. Got to ask for clarification (Goodwin??) 3- when it’s not advantage? Viney free kick and Vandenburg has the ball, advantage called but Vdberg says no (hand up) as a bulldog is right next to him. He gets tackled. Ump pings him for holding the ball. Clarification(Goodwin)

I forgot Joel Smith existed. If he is to be given a last chance to save his career it has to be as a forward as he is no backman that's for sure. I'd gladly have him in ahead of T Mac.

Please don't suggest this. He's a butcher back there. As soon as he went back to ruck a defensive stoppage he kicked it straight into a Bulldog who picked up the crumb and kicked an easy goal. As @DeeSpencer says, his problem is he overrates his abilities and doesn't play the percentages. That spells death in defence. Would get killed once the ball hits the deck too. I think he plays out the season as a KPF and we look to trade him. The problem is we're a bit skint on KPFs. Weideman, Jackson, Petty(?) and Brown. You couldn't see the latter being on the list next year either. If Richmond can build a forwardline around one KPF in 2017 and win the flag, then we shouldn't be afraid of the prospect of having Weideman and Jackson with a rotating ruckman down there.

I don't think the dogs put any extra pressure on us in the third which is where lost the game. If so its not about buckling under pressure. Our mids and forwards simply did not do enough defensive running and they have the players who can exploit that just about more than any other club because they have so many excellent field kicks. And are drilled to switch and take the kick on. Which is bevo's game plan That is is why I was worried about this game beforehand. We didnt do enough defensive running in the first half either, particularly tbe first quarter. We were dead lucky to be in front at half time. In the third we gifted them goals through turnovers and we missed our opportunities. And that is because our Achilles heel is how many players we have with terrible kicking technique. Wind of the sort today, just like rain exposes poor technique. As it did today. For me the real issue is why the players did not work hard enough today. That is as much on the coach as the players. They did not have a single excuse not to be ready.

It's interesting that the game plan is being built around a superior midfield dominance and extreme pressure from our forwards. These are the two areas that often go missing in work rate and rarely click consistently. It makes enough sense that the element that requires the least talent (work rate and fitness) is apart of your game plan, because it means you should be able to have a bunch of plug and play small forwards and pressure forwards to come in. It's definitely a major problem with inconsistency. Even when our midfield is firing, often there will be 1 or 2 forwards who have those stats that you mention, particularly the tackle stat. I do wonder if it's a bit of case of the forwardline being a sum of all its parts. If one or two chains are loose, the rest of the thing falls down. I think it holds up better than that though, because usually Melksham, Fritsch and Bennell barely tackle, Hannan comes in and out of games, ANB is on and off, Spargo struggles to play four quarters. Kozzie fumbles more often than not. There's inconsistency across that group. Weideman finally seems to be building some consistency, but his kicking is inconsistent. Tom is as you say, a liability at times. It's a piecemeal forwardline at the moment without Petty or Jackson able to come in. I don't rate him, but I'm surprised we bothered to sign Brown, because we've basically not played him. I'm a bit exhausted after today to be honest.

Our mid-small forwards are a massive issue. They are largely ineffectual 3 out of 4 games. Hannan, VDB, Pickett, Spargo and Melksham will have one game in 4 or so where they kick 2 or 3 goals, present and lay some tackles. The other 3 games they'll get 6 touches, 0 goals 0 or 1 tackle and be pretty much invisible for the whole game. Bennell has been the same when he has played. TMac is useless, can't take a mark to save himself, can't present, can't do anything at ground level he's just a massive liability. Fristch gets chances each game but often doesn't capitalise. Fair enough he's not going to average 3 goals a game but he should be kicking 3 goals a game every 2 or 3 games with the opportunities he's getting.

They won't make many changes, given two are forced with Sparrow and Jones and preuss will come out for maxy. But I'd be really disappointed if melksham isn't dropped. The 50 was pathetic from a supposed leader. That goal was the nail. His body language straight after was pathetic. Shameless to be act confused. A fifty every day of the week. And a lazy, careless one too. But unfortunately that was not the worst example of a lack of leadership. Not going back hard and marking inside 50 (I forget who kicked it, Salem maybe) was just unforgivable.

Jeepers, Lever, Tomlinson and Weideman were all decent today.

People thinking Goodwin’s coaching cost us really are clutching at straws or have agenda’s. That was a loss based on inadequate defensive run and not taking chances when they present. The same side did both well last week. We missed 4-6 high % goals and they made there’s. We played like an improving mid tier side who struggled with a higher level of pressure. We unsurprisingly were caught short for outside run which a lot of us had already said was a concern. Just need to reset and get the changes right next week otherwise outside run will catch us out once again. Lost in it all will be Steven May’s game which you will struggle to find a more complete defensive game by an individual.