Engorged Onion

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.

How on earth do our views on Oscar (positive or otherwise) have any bearing on his confidence? I am confused.

Ahhh, the demotion of Oscar - it was always going to confirm a truth for some folk... perhaps the truth is somewhere in between... at least it is in my mind. If May and Lever were playing, Oscar would be on a third tall, who are typically average players themselves, and he would be doing fine...and probably under the radar. Oscar has been playing the number one role due to injury and well, he's having a less than stella time of it. For mine, when it he gets some runs on the board in the VFL, I assume (rightly or wrongly) the FD will pick him again and he will form a great defensive unit with May, Lever, Salem, Jetta, Mary Hore and Hibbo (though he's hanging on by a thread on form alone).

Please elaborate @Demons11...

Come to the bosom of the beast Ed I'd imagine Gus and him are familiar and friendly with one another...and if that doesn't get you over the line...

it's the going rate for forward with talent - and it's an opening gambit - personally I'd pay it, as there is a lot of upside to him, he isnt fully developed, and can clearly perform when it counts as evidenced by last year.

Why @Skuit? Why on earth do they need to be '[censored]-a-hoop' visually... as though that is the only discernible way to show they care, and that winning matters? Why can't they just get on with the job? Matter of fact from this exhibit itself - there is no correlation (and/or causation) between how hard you choose to celebrate or not, and whether you keep on kicking goals... Kicking goals is passé, when you've got a job to get on with, from process minded *nb hee hee - censorship for cockahoop

correct weight sir - and I am the youngest myself...

@stevethemanjordan - if ‘old man natedog who should retire and relinquish captaincy’ can jag 3 goals running off him - then he has limited pace ?

Of course! And until the paying public (paying with tv views, or gate receipts) turn away from the game, nothing changes! The evidence is in - no matter how much the AFL tinker/change rules on the fly, people still watch it - so as there is no disenchantment, there is no real cost for the changes from the AFL's perspective. It's football, AND it is simply just entertainment for the masses to avoid thinking about the drudgery of their own existence

For those worried about the run of St Kilda, from a strategy perspective, what would you do with our team of players and what strategy should be employed?

mmmm, check mate there @Mega_Watts...

That goal from 50 was always in before he kicked... it's great when he backs himself. I assume though he would have dished it off if there was any other team mate in the 50, and as there was not, there was no other option. Competence, breeds confidence.