Engorged Onion

nice acknowledgment of some truth's about surgery and the impact and flow on's that it has... I for one don't believe we have overrated our list with the best 22... there is always refinement for their skills, and there is always deadwood amongst the depth players which need to be turned over... but the surgeries etc has been significant in how we play.

apologies - I wasn't having a go at you - more of an acknowledgement of a disappointed reality of Jayden

just like your anointed fave player?

this isn't really a comment on Yze - but surely he is not the only one with 'intellectual property' on how to kick to team mates or kick for goal accurately?

Erm, are you suggesting a media conspiracy?

Extremely briefly - Confidence comes from the execution of task first... good (or bad) feelings always come after the action.... Yet, coaches and players buy in to the need for confidence...confidence just makes things easier.... because if you believe you need confidence to execute, what happens when you dont have confidence (your execution goes to [censored], as you are not task focused).... more Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in the club please Mr Williams...

Please let me know how is someone who has no direct link to a club's acceptance or non acceptance of 'mediocity' - part of the teams problem?

being a pedant, but it aint Buddah - it's Steveo

With all due respect @stranga, what does that even look like? Kind of reminds me of the hollowness of David Warner fully apologising re: Joe Root and telling us all he has 'taken full accountability' without actually doing anything more than saying those words.

I presume you are in agreeance @praha...

Valid point @Damo So perhaps Goodwin in his pressers, detailing how surgery has impacted on fitness, which impacts on availability of athletes which impacts on roles which impacts on running patterns which impacts on available strategies whilst unfit which impacts on technique which impacts on 4qrt efforts which impacts on confidence which impacts on execution which impacts on trust in others which impacts on subjective things from the fans such as , belief, hardness, desire of said team, players etc... could be a useful thing?

me? or that's how you would respond?

For those bitching about Goodwin and his soundbites to questions that are posed to him... I would love to see your own responses to them (seriously, write them down)...because I suspect there is nothing he can say that would appease any of you? I'd hate to be a coach and be under scrutiny publicly week in week out....and having to justify/explain/mansplain reasons for a loss...

hilariously i booked some prof development up on the goldy 4 months ago as i thought we'd be playing some great football and in for a thumping at Metricon, whilst I sink beers... I do believe the thumping may still happen, whilst im sinking beers still...just to us.

he didnt want to be at this [censored] club... comprehendè?

The downturn is really hard to make sense of. Did we overachieve last year? Well, that's bollocks, you can only win against who you play against. So what has changed (aside from personnel) for things to be so vastly different in 7 games (inc prelim '18)? And more importantly why has it changed, and what needs to be addressed. I'm really hoping Goodwin (or the rest of Demonland) can give me some clarity and answers on this.

Is Goodwin 'woke' enough to change tactics? I also 'woke' this morning for a run at 6am in the dark, and ran by BMAC (not TMAC) down at Barwon Heads, having a morning stroll...didn't know if he looked [censored] off, tired, or just disengaged...

None, just a simple hunch mate...

Is that a genuine answer... as in - they're not aware and they don't care?

C'mon @DeeZee, there is media speak, and there is how he talks to the players in the organisation on a daily basis. There is no way it's one and the same. Further to that - every single coach has their own version of a methodology - hence it will be the same message, expressed in a range of different ways. How Goodwin presents to the media forum, is clearly not how it is amongst the players.

Please send that post through to the FD... Appreciate the succinct analysis @Dee Zephyr

Yeah, well, they didnt review it hard enough ?

Aside from Lever and May, who wouldn’t help the strategic plan that the FD appear to be gunning for - you can’t help but think that’s 5 weeks in a row where our dominance of inside 50’s and resultant lack of conversion into shots must have eroded all the good will from the players playing the system from the joy of last years finals.

Help me understand why people are all of a sudden insistent that a player (Garlett) who didn't make the cut to play finals for us last year, is now an important cog in the wheel of how this team plays, when all evidence points to his lack of forward pressure when the chips are down... He jagged some goals against a putrid VFL side...surely he needs more than 1 game? What he potentially brings is not enough to what he has shown on numerous occasions that he cannot bring.

"Squiggles" - Aggregate of all predictor Engines. Looks pretty healthy to me.