dazzledavey36

This is absolutely spot on, and I hope you don't cop stick for it from the usual rosy glasses suspects. I'm a fan of Goody and have been since day dot. But he's coaching this year has frustrated me more then ever purely with everything you have stated. I was hoping by now we would have seen some tweaks in the game plan after we got exposed through a few of those early losses, but I've seen nothing to suggest otherwise and this what concerns me the most. If we're not willing to tweak the game plan now then we're in big trouble come September. The continued rolling door selections of the likes of Bedford, Weideman and Melksham has really confused me when we've had blokes like Chandler, JVR, Laurie and hell, even Baker who all have been consistent and shown better form then those other guys. I have admired the way Collingwood have gone about even though I hate it at the same time. They're top 4, and have just polished off 9 wins in a row. They've had 5 debutants who have all come in and added new life and enthusiasm into their line-up and play a exciting brand of footy that certainly stacks up with the best. We've had one player debut this year and the club that's used the least amount of players this year. Go figure.

Vandenberg never was/is a match winner.

What a username...

If he's on the list that is..

Jayden Hunt is the clear stand out in terms of versatility as he is able to play back and forward and can even have a run on a wing. James Jordon hobbles around on one leg all and someone like a Hunt could have been subbed on for him. You then move Brayshaw to a wing and Hunt goes back to take his spot in the backline. But no, we use a player that's pigeon holed only for a small forward position.

That's just Goody being stubborn AF and thinking that it'll all naturally play out. Watching games this year has been ridiculously frustrating with how slow they react in the coaching box. The only genuine move I can think of where it was completely out of the box was the Weideman to the backline against Freo and that was because it was forced due to May injury. Collingwood are sitting top 4 and have blooded a number of kids this year which has given their players extra enthusiasm and energy in the same way Bowey did last year. We on the other hand refuse to reward blokes who are actually in form. The biggest and main concern out of all this though is the significant the drop in pressure and defensive output. Like we're really poor for pressure key indicators, in fact I think we're last which is stark different to last year where we were sitting around the too area. Our brand has always been built on defensive pressure and contested footy around the stoppages, but we're just getting smashed far too easily.

Unfortunately Young signed a massive 5 year deal to 2027 to commit to his club, which so happens to be an interstate club. Massive respect there for loyalty unlike some.

I saw Blake Howes had 19 disposals for his first game in months. Can someone give a rundown of his game. I would like to think that's pretty impressive numbers for a young kid who's missed a lot of footy.

The talk at the time coming off a very poor 2019 was that we severely lacked outside players who could deliver the footy and provide outside run as we had a plethora of inside mids but zero outside ball use. Draft experts noted Hayden Young was the absolute perfect fit for our list needs but also was best available after Rowell and Anderson. I know Jackson played some part in our grand final win like 21 other blokes on the night so I'll be appreciate of that. But I've watched Young closely since his AFL debut and then again his BOG performance Friday night and in my honest opinion he'll be a star of the comp. I wasn't entirely sure at the time when at a crucial stage in out development in nailing those early picks in the draft, we reached for a athletic ruckman who was said to need improvement on his contested marking. But the moment we drafted him I threw my full support behind Jacko. Unfortunately hindsight is wonderful but ideally yes when you have an early pick as we did we probably needed to take that safer option.

I don't get it either. Gawn was slaughtering us in the ruck by either trying to grab it or hitting directly to WB player. I feel our midfield stoppage work was better when Jackson is in there because we become less predictable. See Brisbane game when we smashed their midfield apart.

Because its funny trying to watch you weasel your way through this thread making absolute zero sense as always. You made yourself look very silly with my sarcasm comment and tried to dig your way out. "They both won and both lost" when trying to justify a draw.. enough said.

Pressure was non existent last night. The zero tackles inside 50 proves that.

We built our game last year on forward half turnovers and pressure. Last night was the complete opposite to that. Bailey Dale was able to waltz out of the back half far too easy and set up their counter attack without any pressure. Having the no tackles inside 50 is disappointing considering this was our benchmark 12 months ago

Played 2 good quarters and then went missing in the 2nd half. He had 5 disposals for the last two quarters. Still not doing enough for me.

*All year

Well yes? That's exactly what it is? Of course we're clearly not going to go unchanged when we have Lever to come back in 🤦‍♂️

We're not winning it this year. Have accepted this for a number of weeks. Far too many concerns in all positions of the ground and we are not even close to rectifying them at all.

Because that's how predictable we are. It's no so much bangingbto Engish it's the fact that we continue to bomb it to Gawns head at every opportunity. How Goody hasn't picked up on this is confusing.

Sums up my feelings for the game. No words to describe it.

It's sarcasm.

No we're not. Trengove was good, but it wasn't up to the standard and class of Brayshaw.

I give up with selection this year. In saying i think we'll go in as unchanged.

So why on earth does a key forward need to spend that amount of time on the bench for goodness sake? He's our only key forward of the night and Goody sees fit to keep him on the bench for for 30% of the night. So realistically going off this, we were just bombing it on Fritsch head half the time while Weid just sat on the Bench... Bizarre coaching really. In comparison Harry McKay averages over 90% TOG this year.