FireInTheBennelly

Out: Chris Donlon, Hayden Gavine, Paul Rebeschini In: Anyone not on work experience

Billy not looking too flash either

And Derwit has just explained why the sling tackle has become so 'standard'. The umpires paying ridiculous holding the ball frees has meant the ball carrier is desperate to get boot to ball when their arm is held, they lose control of their body. The tackler is desperate to prevent them from disposing of the ball and that is the best way to do it. Gil, you have [censored] this sport and put players lives at risk. I hope you get your ars sued to kingdom come.

Have these umpires seen football before?

This is how most coaches fail. They come up with a gameplan and then try to fit their players into roles. A successful coach will identify the perfect role for each player to utilise their skills/strengths, while working on their deficiencies. In the latter stages of a players career they will have gained enough ability and preparedness to play different roles. Fritsch backline, Brayshaw wing, Harmes backline. These are all examples of trying to push a player into an unsuitable role. Sure there may have been reasons for doing it, but it's not the way a successful coach goes about it. For mine you could even add Salem as a defender to this. He was an out and out mid, moved to the backline and is now stagnating. He could've been our perfect outside mid, but I doubt he'll ever get serious game time in that role.

Heroes wear helmets!!! Harmes needs to be played back into form and stay there. He's the best tagger in the comp. Half back, no. Wing, no. HFF, no. Take the number 1 mid every week and let's see what happens. Hell, might even win a clearance.

Can anyone put a clip together of Goodwin after the siren heading to the tunnel? The man is beaten. He has no answers. He's in way over his depth.

A part of me did

I think you're all piling on the club without thinking. There's definitely a good reason for our misfortunes tonight, so I'm waiting on a fair and balanced appraisal of the game from @Satyriconhome

You're not reading it wrong DG. It's being adjudicated wrongly. It has been for years. Clever coaches from the Clarkson stable have exploited the poor adjudication for a decade, and only now, when Clarkson's side are poor, he's called it out. He wanted the loophole closed, however what's happened is an exaggeration of the poor interpretations. Players need to be coached to drop the ball at the slightest contact. Far less likely to give away a free. No, it's not football, but that's how they want it played. [censored] Gil

So does that mean it was a skill issue or decision making?

Seeing the leg-ups the AFL have been giving GCS, I really see them doing everything they can to prevent that from happening. Within the rules or otherwise.

#bringbackvelcro

I couldn't help but thinking Heffernan was still on the Bummers payrole when he played with us.

Does Jonno Brown still live in QLD? Can we get him COVID cleared and working with Weid while we're up there?

I lost count how many other times a player took possession and was immediately tackled - and made absolutely zero attempt to dispose. But all of a sudden prior opportunity kicked in again.

Definitely Rodge. He was average last year and to be able turn it around under the circumstances is a massive effort.

Yep. we're currently the easiest team to play against for a decent coach. Apply basic pressure and stand around waiting for us to hand it over to you.

I reckon you could've stopped at anything.

Not sure about you, but I'm seeing plenty of consistency

So many 'learnings', so little learning. One can only hope the board is learning.

Nup. Still nothing!

If we can get rid of any AFL assistance does that make it easier to push back on the draw that we generally get? I'm talking Geelong, Essendon fixtures where we're always shafted.

And the 1 they called play on was when Hawkins had May on his wrong leg and May actually pulled up expecting it to be paid. Hawkins spun around beating him easily.

You know what really surprises me in all of this? [censored] nothing!