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A psychologist can’t fix fundamental technical flaws and or a persons physical make up. No matter how good someone feels about themselves, certain situations will bring flaws to the front. They can only help maximise what you have. Max gawn will never be a great kick. He can improve but it’s not possible to make him a great kick because he isn’t built to be. Also, because someone missed a kick under pressure doesn’t mean they didn’t tick all the psychological boxes too. Sometimes your flaws just decide to show up because we all operate within a range. Fritsch, melksham, too etc have a tighter range than Oliver, Gawn, petracca etc.

Pressure. Anyone who has played competitive sport has had the feeling of falling back into old habits when the pressure is on. Correcting such habits can be a years long process. Sometimes we also just have our ceilings.

You want rivers out for smith? Rivers!

Seems the easiest way to open the game up these days. We are terrible at it

They’re also super clean. It was nice to watch a team play with such crispness. Especially the second quarter. It looked elite.

That’s very dramatic

They’re a highly skilled team

Strange things happen in sport. No one does what we did in one half of a grand final either

I just don’t see it as the failure you do. Losses compared to what? Winning the flag? Last year we were cooked all over the ground. This year we were cooked in one third of the ground. Not making excuses, I’d like to see us work some areas of our game out that have been a problem for some time. But we have the players we have and you can’t always get who you want in to the side. The fact we should have won both games hurts but is also really promising. With no forward line and very few ball users we should be in a prelim. Draft/trade well this year and we could find something that makes a difference. You could have judged many coaches too early. Top 4 three tears in a row is tough to do. Winning flags is very hard

I don’t think the epl is a good example for coaching. They are over the top reactive and they have an enormous pool to choose from.

He is a system based coach. You can’t reinvent the wheel on the go with sport. How do you prove someone would do a better job than goodwin with what he had at his disposal the last two finals series?

Lost at selection as in we had no forward line to select. The game looked a lot like a dominant team with no forward line

They definitely do drill it in. Under pressure you will always revert to bad habits. He hasn’t got past his bad habits yet. It can take a long time

I want the air out of the tyres long before that. First interstate grand final for a while between gws and bris. The afl will be gutted. And what an uninspiring spectacle it will be. The afl need to get what they deserve with the way they run things. I want as much of the country to tune out as possible

They will play these two games for years to come. It will be called how to gift teams a prelim. It sums the year up quite beautifully. Gotta be the smallest average losing margin for a team ever. tonight felt very familiar. Chip away for no return only to have one skill error result in a turn over goal for the game. Teams are left speechless after playing us. They thought they’d be reviewing a loss, but they are reviewing a win. petty and melksham may have been the difference this year. We looked a different team briefly when they were up and about. Injuries play a big part again. don’t know what to think. Plenty still working. We might be the worst skilled really good team ever.

Just need to break even for the first five minutes

Right now is when we run over them. They are cooked. We just need a little composure

Two points down is a good place to be. We can run over them. Just can’t afford any silly goals to them. Winning contested possession. More scoring shots. Just need to out run them this half.

When have they ever paid 50 for that

I’ve done some maths. We ran all over Sydney and Sydney ran all over the Carlton. Carlton’s defence isn’t as good as Collingwoods. I think it leads to one simple conclusion.

If we kicked straight we would have won the other night. Last year we couldn’t run due to injury. Context is relevant. Playing tough, hard football is timeless.

Who’s actually taking in football media these days? It seems everyone I know can’t stand it anymore and has switched off. I can’t help but feel the afl is headed for trouble with its poor management and horrific media arm. It has some serious things to sort out

I really hope we haven’t seen the last of him.

What bothers me is that no one has any idea how it will be adjudicated. This is increasingly true of a number of rules. The afl love the grey areas of the game. Increase conversation and fan engagement etc. But surely with an incident like that one we should all have a pretty clear idea of what the result will be.

The afl has shown tons of common sense so far with these situations.