Grr-owl

"Adelaide is chasing fitness guru Darren Burgess, who signed a three-year deal when he arrived last summer." https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-trade-news-rumours-whispers-2020-jack-viney-geelong-isaac-smith-melbourne-demons-updates-tom-morris/news-story/c3e09490ae2a954c0fdf3f4b07201787

If only it was the 70's....

I reckon he doesn't come across well in the media, though. While he seems to be enjoying himself, I reckon he has Assistant Coach written all over him.

I think your last sentence hits the proverbial nail. Goody has to take some 'learnings' out of his career so far. I am reminded of Damian Hardwick, a man who looked very far from a premiership coach in 2016. He was weak in the media, just came across as a bloke who had lost himself. And then in 2017 he was a rock, and has been ever since. He spoke about it, and gave the credit to Mrs Hardwick - I'm sure we all remember that. Is there a good woman in Goody's life? Most of us need one to bring out our best....

Jordan Lewis, please.

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Now you're talkin'. Just about as good as it could get.

An he never dun nuffin neeva.

Often while weeing, I don’t hold it at all.

Standard practice in many Asian countries... They even designate particular walls to do it against.

Danger Signs: 1. I feel that we should win. 2. In the pre-game warm-up, we are not on our toes.

But those guys are old.

As a general trend, we seem to be short on bogans. As I understand it, we passed on Dusty. Get the guy in, I reckon, and load him up with video games, overground backyard swimming pools, a beer can hat with straw, a lifetime supply of pizza and coke (drink), and a V8.

I like the idea.

I agree totally on Goodwin persisting with moves that don't work -- I'd add Brayshaw on a wing to your list. Play them where they play best or trade them, I reckon. In that case, trading Jack would open the opportunity for Harmes to do what he does best, and if that improves the team then I'm onside. Just one more consideration. Can you see the team being improved by keeping Jack in a role as a pressure forward?

I think you are right.

So, the strategy removes a sticking point and involves playing Brayshaw and Harmes in the middle to improve the play. Sounds good to me. Do we think it sounds good to Goodwin? He seems to be right off Harmes. If I am not wrong, Lord Nev, who seems to have an ear to the ground, intimated that Goodwin has told Harmes he won't be getting time in the middle. Is the strategy removing one sticking point only to replace it with another, more debilitating? Robbing Peter to pay Paul goes the cliche...

Has he been given enough of a go on the wing?

But that will only happen if the player who replaces him provides that. Who is that player?

Can't understand why anyone would think we'd be improved by Jack leaving.

Because he isn't very good in the media, and he's got brilliant assistant coach written all over him. it's only a matter of time before he goes to work for some club, better us than another.

He’s a player for ‘Now.’ Are we in the window? Er.....

I sense that their heads are so full of horse*hit pyscho-babble micro-management bollocks that they're mentally fatigued to the point that they can't find the energy to actually do it.

I'm totally with you. I suspect that the corporate PR management-speak that he dishes out in press conferences manifests itself within the organization as performance reviews, vision documents, all kinds of other micro-management horses*it that results in people groaning in mental fatigue in front of screens, ticking and not-ticking boxes. I have a feeling that Lockhart was dropped because some box somewhere wasn't ticked; otherwise I can't see a reason why the successful backline of Harmes, May, Lever, Tomlinson, Salem, Lockhart and Hibberd was disturbed (okay, Harmes was being wasted in the first place) and Smith brought back in to play where he has only failed. I can think of more examples. I want to get off my chest why I think this kind of thinking is so bad. I work in an English Department at a University located somewhere between Beijing and Paris. Last week we were asked to analyze the top ten English departments around the world and develop a step by step plan to bring our department into alignment with them so the university can achieve its goal of being among the best in the world. Whatever we come up with will need to be cross referenced and aligned with various local and national goals as articulated in a multitude of other action plans and vision documents and requirements of accreditation bodies and so forth. Well, you might be able to guess the immediate and overwhelming obstacle to achieving that goal: our students aren't the best in the world. In fact, some of them make it into my classes without being able to write a coherent sentence. And yet, we are required to endure the grind of producing that document, devoting time and energy that could be better spent on genuinely productive stuff such as..... let me think.... hmm... teaching them how to write a coherent sentence. Somewhere some people in the organisation are fooling themselves. That's the f*@#ing problem.

I dunno which thread to write this in and I don't want to start another, so I'm going to say it here, flaky as it is. I've sensed in the last few injury videos that Burgo kinda feels like he's wasting his time. Seems a serious bloke when it comes to his business. Just a feeling. Hope I'm wrong.