Gawndy the Great

It’s on most platforms. Just dropped about 20mins ago.

2024 can GAGF.

And who do the Pies have on their list? Krueger? Played his 1st game in 2 years. The forwards are not the issue.

He was our best player. Hasn’t been for 2 years now.

He has to go. Given his issues and his performance, it’s a late 1st rounder and some of his cap unfortunately. Will likely do what Grundy /JJ has done. Id keep Petty and move him back down back to replace May who has likely 1 season left in him.

History is the best judge of the term generational talent. Other than Gawn who will go down as the all time best ruckman, none of those other players come close to fit that description. Trac is a very good player but his kicking is a big let down.

Double post.

Goodwin has tried different things for two consecutive years and both have failed dismally. Just think about that for a moment. I don’t like going after him or others but in the cold light of day he isn’t able to evolve out of our current situation. We have had forward connection issues for 5 years or so and he’s beem unable to fix it. Other coaches would have resolved it in 1-2 seasons. We need a new coach, that has new ideas and can bring a new edge to our team. We also need to cut about a dozen players who are just list cloggers. 3-4 per season over the next 3-4 years.

The soft underbelly has reawoken.

I want to unload on this team. But I’ll hold my tongue. I stopped watching after quarter time and I’m glad I did. where was the response? The first 5 mins told me all I needed to know. The season is shot, the window is shut and we will likely be clear dwellers for the next while. Id be looking to do a mini reset end of year. Move on players and coaches. Retire a few and look to a new game plan that can flex on contest and ball movement. It’ll take a few years for it take hold and become finals ready. All I can say is I’m really disappointed in this club.

Embarrassing. We are back in the joke category. This is a near VFL side.

Goalless quarter coming up

Great response Melbourne. Just great.

Weak as [censored]

Bombers will get demolished in finals. It’s funny, I think Goody wanted our game plan to look more like this. I presume we will have gone back to our forward territory game. Still won’t hide the terrible form of our mids.

Sam Durham from the mid season draft. How in earth did 18 cubs pass on this bloke. An absolute jet.

Maysi looks like he’s holding his left hammy😧. Then again half our team looks to have an injury looking gait. Maybe it’s to confuse the opposition.

Should we all leave the thread, this is getting kinda weird? I like it better when you two biffo, its more entertaining.

It actually goes back from the time he did his hammy last year. So it wasn’t just the preseason that has gone by.

Will be known within a couple of weeks. But word has it they are now introducing principles to determine amount that can be excluded. Some of which are prior concussions, length of contract, age. Basically - if this goes ahead - we will be screwed … again. I’d be surprised if we even got 50%

If you think about these video clips to see Oliver being outmuscled like that, its easy to think that he hasnt done a good enough body of work and is lacking in conditioning. I see something else. I see that there is no desire, no want, no thirst for the contest. It is completely mental for mine. Now the root cause of that can be many things: has he lost the passion, does he want out of MFC, is his ADHD meds playing around with motivation and energy levels, could it still be his finger? we wont probably ever find out. But something needs to be done. Watching a player of his ilk go through what he is going through, makes me thing he is being thrown to the lions without any support. Got to take the decision out of his hands. Give him a secondary role, one that he is more likely to succeed at and build from there. Casey? forward line? i dont know. But we are doing atm is not working.

I dont think its really ever been about the forwards, ever. Even during the 22/23 campaigns. I'm not going to defend Petty's recent performances because there are ways you can get yourself into the game (same for McAdam). The issue has always been our f50 connection and method moving the ball into forward 50. Does Collingwood have a star studded forwardline? What about the Swans? The answer is no. Can we improve the forward line performance - absolutely but it wont change the root cause of our woes. In a hypothetical experiment, if we were to swap JVR/Petty with Curnow/Mckay and keep our midfield VS swapping Trac/Oliver/Viney(2024 version) with Heeney/Warner whilst keeping our forwards, which do you think would make a bigger difference? The answer is the later. Our midfield whilst strong at contest and defence (over the last 4 years) is a butcher by foot. Always has been and always will be. Our game plan has to recognise that this will not change without changing our personnel. So we should go back to our original plan and look to improve accuracy and f50 connection. Accept that its not perfect and it has its vulnerabilities and that our main scoring sources are stoppage based not turnover which puts us on the back foot for winning flags. We managed to win one and the buck the trend. Carlton are in a similar position to us.

Wasn't Brayshaw in an offield role? i haven't seen him of late around the group. What happened?

I watched some cameo's of Oliver last night on 360 and it was damning. The guy looks disinterested, uninvested. Its hard to make a connection to fitness because to me it seems all mental. Have the events over the preseason that has ultimately led to him requiring to pull his head in (rightly so) also unintentionally led to an evaporation of his edge? i dont know, but many on here point to his physical conditioning, but to me it seems to be something else. We all heard how he has fallen back in love with MFC and we have fallen back in love with Oliver about a month or so ago.

I listened to this and it’s damning. We are writing history in all the wrong ways. It’s pathetic and the whole club needs to pull their finger out. The new game plan is done, toss it out and only look at it when we have new cattle that can kick or has speed. we have to play to our strengths and I’m afraid this ain’t it. Petty just needs a spell. Give him some time off and get him to work on his fitness. When he’s ready, give him a few weeks at Casey then put him into the backline. We may just get him to okay 4-5 decent games which may get us a late 1st rounder.