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3 minutes ago, Turner said:

OMac, Wags and Jones have sealed their fate. Last game in red and blue for the 3 of them. Smith i thought played his role really well on papley but still not enough to hold his spot. Melksham has run out of chances for the time being and we're far too slow to react in the forward 50 ZERO movement. 

Lockhart May Lever

Salem Tomlinson Hibberd

Langdon Viney Bennell

Fritsch Weideman Harmes

Pickett Brown Spargo

Gawn Oliver Petracca

Brayshaw Neal-Bullen Rivers Bedford

OUT: Smith, McDonald, Jones, JWagner, Melksham

IN: Lockhart, Hibberd, Bennell, Pickett, Bedford

Hard to argue with much of that - I'd like to see Bennell get another run, though if he's struggling to go at 100% maybe give Baker a shot on the wing?  

There is a reason soldiers are trained to scream and yell when bayoneting.  It invokes primal aggression, gets adrenaline pumping, fine-tunes 4 billion years of evolutionary advantages that have seen countless generations of our ancestral tree get the better of their opposition.  All the massages, focus sessions and training in the world won't give you that killer edge on the field.  Nor will genteel addresses as a whiteboard covered in arrows. 

Come on coach, give the players a fair-dinkum rev-up as they go out to play - get them up and ready!!!  So many key games in recent years we have completely bottled, coming out flat and a step slower than the opposition.  When is enough enough???

Omac seemed poor tonight; not to make excuses, but what are peoples' thoughts on the effect the inclusion of Smith might have had on his role and the synergy of our defence?

6 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Everyone has to cop it for that.

Players refused to dig deep and do the hard things. You could see from the very start they were hesitant in going into contests, refused to tackle, refused to run without the ball. A current assistant coach at another club messaged one of my mates "these players just have no ticker".

Goodwin had no answers yet again. It's hard to see improvements he's made in his time as senior coach. Most of the 'improvement' has come from a better list. So many of the same problems with no answers year after year. It's also hard to see how we motivates the players. The corporate speak and monotony doesn't seem to be working.

Stafford. Firstly, goal kicking is very very poor. Clearly not working. Secondly, our ruck work seems to have gone backwards to the point where it's rare that our rucks hit it anywhere near one of our own players.

Richardson. What has he brought exactly? Neither here nor there with him tbh, but I've seen nothing different from a coaching perspective.

Don't want to go too overboard after one game, but this is too much of a recurring theme now, these things happen far too often.

Staggered if people keep believing that 'Goody has the players' after seeing this kind of thing over and over.

The worry for me is I've heard him in about four interviews try to explain his role, and his responses were confounding.  Hard to deliver in an ill-defined role.

We just love not being up for critical games.

Champion of the club; indelibly in rarefied company pulling on the guernsey of the oldest club in the world.  However, if we are fair-dinkum, surely we have seen his last game.

1 minute ago, GCDee said:

2021 welcome to demonland Al Clarkson. 

 

Why would he come to us? 

So much talk on the "what are they saying at Lakeside Drv" thread about us being a weak side.  Well, yes we are.

1 minute ago, KysaiahMessiah said:

60m out with a 50m penalty is edge of goal square last time I looked

Fair go - it's not like they have a clear marking on the field to judge a 50m distance... oh wait.

To think some people penciled us in for a 10 goal win tonight.

I could [censored] cry

Langdon pulls a beautiful 50 mtr penalty.  Now kick it!!!

Edit: Aaaaand he misses it.  AAARRRGGGHHH

1 minute ago, layzie said:

Goodwin and Richardson always just look stunned 

Situation normal for Goodwin; Richo spewing that COVID-19 has ruined his opportunity to supplant him.

Does Fritsch have any goddamned[censored] idea which way the wind is blowing?????

4 goals in 12 min.  Doable - come on

We spray everything but the goals from that pocket - Sydney goal no trouble.

Christ, we painfully inch the ball fwd around the boundary - Syd get it to their 50 with a couple of kicks down the spine.  Ugh.

1 minute ago, Clintosaurus said:

Why were we not allowed to travel up yesterday? Had to wait for Freo so not even a direct flight from Maroochydore. 5 hours travel on game day.

I know I'm totally up for 2 hours of elite athletic performance after 5 hours of flights and airport transfers. 

Can we pull back 21 point margin against the wind?  Time for our Burgo 4th quarter fitness edge to come to the fore.

One whole goal in 3/4 of the qtr - they got 5 in the 2nd with the wind.

They are waltzing it out of our fwd 50.  

Jones on bench with thigh strapped - maybe we're a chance?

We look truly dreadful.

Brayshaw is handy with those snap goals.  ?  Phew.

32 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

so what contract do you offer him remembering list sizes are being cut and his manager will be shopping him around

Base level with plenty of incentives for # games in the 1s.  He's 28 next month, so I'm not sure how many other clubs would be in the market...?