Roost it far

Take it as a sign.

After watching Collingwood dismantle Brisbane, nothing about football excites me.

Get it forward, our run and out compete the opposition.

It's not just Goodwin, we need change across the entire club I think.

I'm offering the fitness guru at Collingwood a contract, at least one assistant from each of Geelong, Collingwood, Sydney and Brisbane a contract and one of them can replace Goodwin. It's not about the players right now it's become a coaching issue, settle that first. Watching Collingwood last night made me realise how far off it we are currently.

One of the reasons he's become such a good player who's long been underrated is he knows his role in the team. I'd bet my last dollar if JVR played for Collingwood he'd be a 60 plus goal kicker right now. That's the issue with our club atm, we're starting to destroy careers. Bar Chandler and Bowey everyone else has gone backwards. Even Windsor barely gets a touch atm. Rivers has fallen off a cliff, Turner barely gets to the seniors, Petty is a shadow of the past player, Fritsch won't go near it, the list goes on. These are the guys who should be leading our club right now, instead we're hoping Gawn, who can no longer jump, will last forever, that May will suddenly recapture form we haven't seen since 23 and Lever is injured as usual. We need to turn this around fast. We are miles off the good sides and even further behind if you look at the club as a whole. Yes I'm despondent. I love watching footy and I expected we'd maintain a standard as Geelong and others have done. The template is there. We didn't evolve, we didn't keep adding better and better people, we tried to stick with the 21 model which was dead at the end of the 23 season. Time for some change is probably now but I hope we're looking at assistants and managers from Geelong, Sydney, Collingwood and GWS.

It's really sad that it's come to this. They run so hard both ways and just get the ball forward with handballs and kicks that aren't always perfect but they are just always about in numbers. Hope to hell they fall over at some point.

Neeld?

We’ve had one high in 57 years!

We need some Collingwood people at the club

If we finish second bottom and the Pies win the flag I’m giving up.

So McVee is playing at Casey yet Tholstrup is playing one’s. I’d play them both.

This doesn’t make sense nor does dropping him against Fremantle

Highly likely it’s going to be ugly. The best we can hope for is we flood back and stop them scoring

It’s not always about who replaces them. Viney doesn’t warrant a game atm, that’s the statement I’d make. Give Culley a run.

We’re going to get fair dinkum belted. How did the coaches manage to kill this team?

Chris Scott has one of the most, if not the most, professional organisation at his back. Look what Goodwin has. It’s been the bane of Melbourne coaches since the 60’s. We remained amateurs and it’s showing again.

I’d love Davis at the club but think he’s pretty settled in Sydney

Apparently Nigel Lappin is also good but Leppitsch is the one we want as assistant.

Sure but I think JVR, Jefferson, Turner and AJ are all ahead of him. I would however give Fritsch, Viney, Sharp and Henderson a spell.

Pretty sure we just have a laugh and kick a soccer ball around 🤪🤪

I’m sorry to say people, Fullarton is not the answer. Turner, Jefferson and JVR should all be playing ahead of him unless he actually bangs the door down. A polite knock from a guy who is still a step below AFL won’t get him a game and nor it should. Not selecting him yet is selection integrity.

I'm going to presume May is out. I think we've got to play Petty on Treacy and Adams on Amiss, we may even need to play Turner back. Forward, JVR needs help and currently that's Jefferson, Fullarton or AJ. I'd go with 2 of them to help JVR, I don't actually care which 2 as long as they bring effort and intensity at the ball and the ball carrier. McVee and Tholstrup have to come in as they are better than the alternatives. OUT: May, Henderson, Sharp, Viney, Sparrow IN: Turner, AJ, Jefferson, McVee, Tholstrup Clearly there's not a chance we will make this many changes so I'd suggest Viney and Sparrow stay in and Tholstrup and Jefferson/AJ stay out. Personally I'd play Tholstrup ahead of both Viney and Sparrow atm. This game could get very ugly. if we play like we did against the Bombers it'll be 80 points plus and the pressure on the club and Goodwin will grow. If by a miracle we win I'll party like it's 1987, in all honesty I can't see us getting within 10 goals but I'll be heading in with a glimmer of hope attached.

Also won’t happen as it will give us less chance to get within 60 points

If we had a Robbie Flower running around so we at least have a reason to go to the football, I guess that would be exciting. As each day passes it’s starting to feel more and more like we’re back down here for awhile.