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    3 hours ago, Redleg said:

    Melksham has to be on his last chance this week.

    His game was pathetic against the Tigers and worse against the Cats, where he cost us several goals.

    He is in on reputation and not form.

    He's a mate of Goody's since Essendon days "Citing his friendship with incoming coach, Simon Goodwin, as the key reason for his move to Melbourne" (source wikipedia)

    Hibbo is also close mates with Goody. Hibbo took his dropping on the chin and has come back to reward Goody with some fantastic efforts so far.

    Melksham, on the other hand, is taking advantage of this friendship and putting in some [censored] poor efforts. Goody needs to drop him and make him earn his spot. 

    Thought I'd revive this tread... Do we have a full-time forward coach yet? Or is it Justin Plapp performing it a long with his role as midfield coach? Seems awfully ironic that the worst i-50 converting team in the AFL doesn't have a forwards coach. 

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    24 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    This is taking the [censored] now.

    Goodwin was stubborn and arrogant is not willingly let Frost stay at the club. He put all his eggs in the Lever and May basket and that's now looking like a blunder and a half. Meanwhile we have 700k defender who doesn't even actually defend and rather skirt packs and point the finger at someone else for his own [censored] up (see On The Couch vision) 

    One of the greatest coach in the modern era saw something in Frosty and took him on board. That says something and that's enough for me.

    I'll take Clarko's opinion on Frost over yours.

    Hard not to agree on this.

    I don’t think Lever would be in the Hawks best 22 at the moment while Frost seems to have won Clarko over at this stage.

     

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    10 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    Blame can't be solely on mods here mate. It's the same personal of midfielder's that were running around back in 2018.

    I blame the turn overs. The mids run forward, as they should when your team mate has ball in hand, then someone does an inexplicable turn over that catches everyone unawares and the other team streams forward and our defenders have no assistance.

    Again, this is attributed to the fast paced style that Goody demands the team to play which has a high risk of turn overs. It’s a high risk game plan and we simply do not have the skills to handle it. Goody needs to drop it ASAP.

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    The guys spent about 15 minutes discussing Melbourne. Gerard even said in the opening that he thought this was team was the best on paper in the last 25 years. Lyon disagreed with this, due to the fact that too many of the players lack basic fundamentals (e.g. kicking). He pointed to the fact Melbourne persisting with this “red zone” play on at all costs footy, and that we don’t have the skills that can sustain at this frenetic pace leading to some of these horrible skill errors.

    Melbourne has persisted with the play on at all costs game style (no.1 play on team in the AFL) which certainly is coach driven and can be backed up by interviews with players such as Gawn.

    I think it’s time Goodwin drops the “play-on at all costs” game style as this list clearly doesn’t have the skills to execute it.

    Edit: They also dismissed the notion of that the players aren’t playing for the jumper and that Schwartz’s comments were too simplistic (and I agree). The effort is evident with most. The only vision to disagree with this was Lever’s horrible “meltdown”’ (Lyon’s words) where he didn’t even fly for it and then looked to blame others.

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    45 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

    Clarkson is the main one and if you look at his protoges they have largely done very well....

    The only protege, excluding Bolton for obvious reasons. who's not already a senior coach is John Barker. He might be a good consideration. [Edit: There's also Yze who might be a good option].

    Voss could turn out to be a disaster or could be a master stroke. Lots of risk attached with that. 

    23 minutes ago, Pipefitter said:

    I ordered a whole bunch of stuff which all shrunk In the wash. I’m glad our sponsors are in as poor form as we are. The only difference is new balance actually gave me a refund.

    Haha I also made the same mistake, but only shrunk a little bit so I’ll just put up with it. I only do a cold wash for them now.

    3 minutes ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    And as the lowest scoring team in the AFL that’s working very well.

    And it’ll be another dour affair this Sunday with us kicking about 5 goals in total due to our lack of real targets/goal kickers.

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    A bit harsh on Brayshaw, thought he was one of our best and kicked 2.

    Salem should be everyone’s biggest worry. That jog after the 50 was a disgrace. He should be dominating now yet he’s just an average half backer. He’s gotta be up for trade at this years end you’d think. 

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    Just now, Vineytime said:

    He has bulked up considerably through his torso - chest & back but it has cost him his agility...

    To go with that he couldn’t keep his feet, if he is to be our main focal point up forward we are in strife. 

    He looks like he has concrete in his boots at times.

    I wonder if the biggest issue is that he can’t handle the no.1 defender? He was great in 2018 playing the 2nd best but since Hogan has left he just can’t beat his opponent.

    2 minutes ago, W I S E said:

    Unpopular opinion. In round 1, Weitering kept Tom Lynch to no goals, no marks and 9 touches in a Richmond win.
     

    Maybe the narrative should be a little more about how good Weitering’s start to the season is, rather than how poor TMac was.

    This comment is spot on. Weitering is a star and could possibly be AA this year. He gave Tmac a bath and I reckon he’ll give a few other gun forwards some more.

    I’d like to see how Tmac goes next week but he’ll have either Hooker or Hurley on him.

    Actually pretty happy with this draw. 

    Blues first up will be a good litmus test as to how this season will go, but with our Marvel record and them missing some key targets up forward, even a neutral would expect a win for Melbourne.

    Essendon at the G is another good test against a team that is probably around our level. They were very patchy against Freo, so again I'd probably lean towards a win here.

    Cats at the G is the best possible scenario really to play them. I'd really love to see us get the win to atone for our woeful round 2 performance last year. This is a 50-50.

    Swans at the SCG. We play smaller grounds quite well and without the pro Swans crowd in attendance as well as beating them there last year when we were terrible leads me to expect a win here. 

    4-1 would be great, however 3-2 is a reasonable expectation for even the most balanced Dees supporter. 

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    12 hours ago, picket fence said:

    Spargo WHY??

    3 TURNOVER GOALS

    Not and never will be up to it!

    Not his fault... MFC Coaching .... down to you SIMON!!

    To be fair, he was pretty good against the Hawks in the last Marsh series game. Sadly though, the intensity went up another level and he wasn't able to cope. 

    But on the flip side it also undermines all the work we’ve done this off season on our fitness and over running teams which we demonstrated in the Marsh series...

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    I was very pleased with Spargo’s efforts tonight. I’ve been a big critic of his, but I think he really put on a lot of forward pressure and did a heap of smart things. I hope he gets selected round 1.

    Lockhart was also very good, and definitely is worthy of a round 1 spot.

    I’m a bit worried about Tmac’s form, but I suppose his second half against Adelaide was decent.

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    A pertinent question I think is: Does Viney deserve to be VC?

    If he’s that far back in the votes amongst his peers, then he shouldn’t just be a walk up start for VC. 
     

    I honestly think it’s great that the administration has given the power to the players to decide, and if Viney isn’t no.2 then he shouldn’t be VC.