Redlagged

This the team we very nearly beat just a few weeks ago?

Petracca and Oliver aren't responsible for our position ... though they propped us up for years, along with Gawn. It's the several other players who haven't lifted, have stagnated or gone backwards. That, plus we have 3 or 4 players who aren't much good. The sledge Petracca/Oliver brigade are wrong- headed.

Petracca and Oliver to be replaced by Sparrow and Tholstup? Is this an attempt at comedy? Our problem is not Petracca and Oliver, despite their relatively modest output (perfectly explicable in CPa case), but because we have some very mediocre players who wouldn't get a game in a good side. One is Sparrow. Another is Tholstrup, though let's hold off on wiping him for another year. Jefferson? Clearly nowhere near it. Not up to it. Margins are fine in this caper. Replace those 3 with effective contributors and we'rea different side.

Correct. He's not good enough. Never was and never weil be.

Excellent summary.

Yes that would be nice. I presume this is what Goodwin means when he says 'we're in an outcome based sport'...the latest corporate cliche he has picked up in some seminar or other. I've defended him for 2 years with family and friends. But enough. The real worry is that so many players have either stagnated or done backwards...Windsor, Van Rooyen etc. Can't think of a more obvious sporting case where a coaching cleanout is required.

Agree. If he plays. Anyway Howes is clearly there for cover. Glad he is in. Was unlucky to be dropped in the first place and has been outstanding in the VFL...REALLY good, as the Casey coach would say (he uses the word ad nauseam).

I didn't know there was a veto on plain speech. But that's beside the point. Boasting about the number of taggers available to the team seems to me a depressing way of thinking. Especially afer a six goal loss...and when you've only managed a pitiful 7 goals yourself.

Have tried to tolerate Goodwin's press conference cliches and absurdities. 'From an inefficiency perspective' was a new one this week. Can someone teach the bloke to talk directly? But, re Oliver tagging, him proudly announcing that we have now have not one, but TWO taggers, in the team did my head in. Desolation Row. How about a couple of goalkickers? His press conferences are a mirror of the way the team plays.

Spot on

The censored word begins with w and ends with r. Next week's episode will see him by the fire (with another large red) reading from 'Alice in Wonderland'. Large Print Edition.

I've always struggled with the idea that Goodwin actually isn't very bright. Probably unfair. And ultimately you have to blame the players for today's fiasco. But really...I saw that little video Goodwin had up on the MFC web site during the week. Having a nice red while boiling a pot of water for a spag bol and mouthing comforting inanities about the team. (Sweeping shot of the cosy kitchen included.) And it filled me with total despair. FFS! Can we get a serious coach please, and not a lifestyle/pissweak new age [censored]?

That may not be such a bad idea.

Agree with the second sentence (not the third). This Trac-watch fetish is just silly - reading every of his smirks/smiles/half-smiles/frowns as if it tells us something portentous. FFS! Better off reading a book, or getting on with life.

Only goals before half time in the first game of the new season kicked by Viney and Langdon. A dark portent! Haven't felt this pessimistic since the loss to PA in the first game of 2019. Perhaps its just that our middle rump of players aren't much good?

No Oliver at training? Reason?

I just had to double-check, because I'm still bewildered. Fowler won 3 Truscott Medals. Obviously that award - the B&F - is considered worthless. But Nathan Carroll and Lynden Dunn, among others, are there? I think they need to start over.

Whoever put this together is a poor judge who can't spell. No Laurie Fowler, but Jake Bowey? Are they kidding? I like Jake, but he's lucky to get a game in the current side on form, let alone in an all-time one. And no Brett Lovett? Bizarre and insulting. As for the misspelling of Sean Wight - appalling and amateurish. *Good to see Alan Johnson there though, Fantastic player. Once clearly BOG in a final, from the back pocket. Can't remember that happening too often.

He may be needed!

'Cooked' is a tediously overused term. Suggest it be put in the fridge.

Pointless post.

Agreed on Japanese whiskies. Superb. Moreover Japan is a remarkable place to buy whisky. You can get a bottle of excellent Scotch ....Ardbeg etc...from a Seven Eleven for half what they cost here, even less. It's ridiculously cheap.

Just saw the post game pressers. Lyon is sarcastic and arrogant and says some curious things. But at least he's interesting. Goodwin? Win or lose, he's dull, bland and repetitive. Pointless listening.

Any lip readers out there?

Petty - overrated and overplayed