Demonsone

Congrats to Lyon well deserved! Imagine Lyon, Schwartz, Neitz in the current team to fix fw50 issues

Watching hall of fame & seeing Hodge talk about his time at the hawks and the 4 flags in particular the 3 peat was all about how selfless he & the players were….we managed to do this for one season & watching May & Gawn it’s shows how far have we are off the pace, I hate pies but their players wouldn’t have yelled at their captain!

Same issues since 2022, more inside 50, clearances, centre clearances , hit outs, Long bombs continue, poor trading & failure to address our lack of a power fwd, it’s like a broken record watching it & hearing Goodwin say the same stuff! He’s had 3 seasons to fix this! How is Jvr meant to develope as a fwd playing ruck??? What’s stopped the club chasing players like Membry & Mcstay?? Surely our list mgt needs to be held to account or we just don’t have cap space, or we are not a destination club! Our disposal by foot from our best players eg Oliver , Trac etc not up to par

The game plan should be working but players are going long to a 1v2 or 3 & ignoring free players who could attack free space, this has been happening for the last 3 seasons, so who’s to blame, either Goodwin can’t fix it or our players are thickheads!

A review was done last year on our culture which seems not to be working with May as you lose & win as a team!, but another one needed to analyse both our game plan with constant bombing & why we can’t trade in or develop a key fwd! How is Jvr meant to develop when he’s rucking part time?

So who is our next power fwd??? Club either refuses or haven’t been able to attract any decent fwd for last 3 seasons, when is our next Neitz who retired in 08 or Schwartz retired in 02!

Plenty of footage shows free players calling for it yet the obsession to bomb is utterly dumb, lower your eyes and vision , our finishing by Trac & Oliver isn’t great! Yeah they win it but if ur finishing isn’t there .. means stuff all

Agree the kid will ask for a trade, having to ruck and not focus on his fwd craft, yet see who pies have traded in exp , membrey mcstay, Schultz, vs zip, why do wee need fwds when we have defenders turning into fwds

Own worst enemy & either players are thickhead or Goodwin just can’t get them to stop bombing it long, ignoring free players over & over honestly it’s just stupidity! Decision making by senior players, Petty going for glory on the boundary, Fritsch playing on. The umpiring was total BS

Our players must be dumb same poor decision of kicking it long why?????

Free kicks aside which have killed us! The going into fwd 50 & ignoring free players continues, Goodwin just can’t coach this out of them or our payers are thickheads!

CH 9 reporting a COMPLETE copy of the 1964 GF has been discovered in Perth! Commentary is good considering 60 yrs ago, luv no out on the full & some of the kicking was horrendous

Just watched it similar kicking to current team 8.16 !

I know that, my question is why has he been dropped the last few games

Any news on why Tmac no in the team .. thought he payed well all season??

You just answered the question of integrity it’s all over the place, if we were in goon Nic we should be maximising the last 7 in Melb … but on current form

The last 7 in Melb isn’t right either from a national comp perspective and so uneven and reinforces the poor integrity of the AFL competition

Don’t agree totally they were a basket case owing 5 mill in debts & they turned it around, secured great profits from playing home games with only 25k attending whilst other teams were losing $$ @ docklands ( great system afl) pushed for redevelopment of a stadium over 15 yrs via the state gvt, maximised their uniqueness away from Melb metro clubs to attract talent, multiple million dollar profits.. vs no home base & training at a paddock next to punt rd and 50 min Casey & a pipe dream Caulfield

Hate the cats but also respect them and what they continue to achieve since 07, they haven’t bottomed out , don’t sell home games interstate, trade in quality experience A graders, their strategy was set when the expansion clubs entered the comp, we are so far behind in key areas it’s chalk & cheese

Watching power fwds we can only dream of having

Watching lions not miss shots hurts even more

Watching ANB hurts

Enjoy our last home game or any game in Vic as we will be on the road inc a bye for the next 4 weeks, another shafting by the afl!

Goal kicking has cost us finals & continues to haunt us, stop selling home games it’s a regional ground open ground!

Totally agree, I’m all for supporting the community, have all star indigenous v the Dees preseason game lie Freo did