Gawndy the Great

I have no trust. The effort which was lacking in the last few weeks was there. I think we had a 237 rating at one stage. But I don’t trust the coaches to change the plan, I don’t trust the players to try something different and take some risk and I don’t trust their skills under pressure. Long road back from here. It’s going to get worse before it gets better.

What happened to Sidebottom?

Perhaps it was the remaining fixture, but definitely heard something about us having the hardest fixture.

I heard that we have the toughest 2nd half fixture based on the current top 8

I hope Dimma goes to Suns and we take Dew as an assistant. Maybe a chance to snag one of their guns.

Who runs with Curnow? It’s not Lever and May doesn’t have the agility. Tommo will get a bag kicked on him.

The issue is game plan. Everything is secondary or directly traceable back to it. specifics - 1. structure and shape. Outnumbered at contests, doesn’t allow us to transition the ball fluently when we do win it. Instead we dump kick it to another contest and ultimately fail. There is no overlap run and wingers are pushed right to the outer. 2. stoppages. Getting murdered with scores from forward half stoppages. Half the team are defending space and are flat footed when they should be pressing up on an opponent. 3. Skills. Kicking efficiency, tackling forward tackles, ground balls. These are the 3 things i would work on first to try and nullify the opponent from scoring. We are very leaky this year. Get this right then you can work on a whole host of forward half issues.

Our last 12 months has been telling. You can blame the playing group only so much as the form goes up and down. We lack system and method that can win games. I’d be happier to accept a loss knowing we are trying to play different, more boldly - use corridor some more. But the stubbornness will cost us 2023 and I cannot really see Goodwin changing anything next year. I don’t think Yze or Choco will be with us next year so we need to think who we going to target.

Yep we have a 5 loss run coming up. Strap in for the turmoil that will follow.

Our key players lack agility . Gawn is useless post contest, May can’t get a ground ball, Lever looks uncoordinated and doesn’t know what he’s doing, Trac fumbly and lacks composure and clean possession. We don’t have any weapons off half back, which for our intercept and turnover game is a huge issue. Bowey and Salem just lack speed and composure. Also it’s the second week now where we are behind with a few minutes to go and just lack any idea how to take a bit more risk and use the corridor. not much we can do about it this year unfortunately - target a few good ball users off half back and take a few kids in the middle to rejuvenate the list. Game plan needs to be completely overhauled top to bottom. Stoppage footy is all but done.

I know it, you know it, everyone on here knows it. opposition coaches know it and laugh at us when we dont. The FD though are on a different planet.

I need to find something else to do next Friday night as I’m not going to ruin my third weekend in a row.

We got 15-13 frees. Bar the gift goal in the first (which was balanced up in the 3rd) the umps were consistently bad for both. t

This is what I mean - the average punter can see this. It happens every single week. The oppo coaches go to town on it. We need to roll more players into the stoppage and stop relying on dump kicks out. We get torched on the wings during general play, it boggles my mind why we don’t push up an extra into the contest - almost every other team do it.

Such a waste of talent? Waste of a list? I think not. Our list is overrated. We will lose the next 3 on the trot and topple out of the 8 and will fight to make it back in given the difficulty of our draw. Our game plan and structure is soo pathetically bad it’s predictable how sides will continue to cut us up in the middle. I’m going to sleep. Wake me up in another 57 years please.

The curse of Naarm.

Freo outnumbered that last contest and the backline … where are our players????

WEAK

Top 4 ? We have the hardest draw in the 2nd half. We are a chance to drop out of top 8 after the next 4 games as we have 0-4 written all over us.

LJ gives a nice fist pump to the crowd and says thanks for not booing 🤮

Bye bye 2023.

O Meara playing his one game for the year. Our D50 stoppage work has to be a real concern. We are really poor.

Gawns mobility looks pretty limited even for him.

Seriously we are witches hat on HB. Cannot nail a tackle to save ourselves.

What a disappointing performance. Our midfield skill and aggression is not just off - it’s well below our best. We have come way back to the pack and in some area starting to fall behind.