BoBo

I fully agree with both halves of that glass. We’re obviously winning enough ball to get it inside 50, we just butcher it or continuously burn better options. Our forwards are also in terrible form obvs. So that doesn’t help. But we really don’t (and haven’t for years) maximise their chances of getting a clean grab either. And I ask this genuinely, does Goodwin look like he’s tried to address the F50 connection problems to you?

Huh, maybe just a weird software glitch then with the stream output. If nobody else was hearing it, then the signals up until that point were all good. That’s weird.

Didn’t Goodwin say we’re getting ‘high quality entries’ (or something along those lines) after the Geelong game? 50 inside 50’s, for 6 goals. 16 scores. Geelong had 49 inside 50’s, for 12 goals. 25 scores. It’s hearing him say this that confirms to me that he doesn’t reckon the vast majority of our entries are an issue which is WILD. Must just solely be an issue with the forwards then I guess? 50 entries, 6 goals, but nup, if we only kicked straight for a spectacular 14.2, we would’ve belted them by 1 point. That’s the logic. 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠

That’s really strange. It was a slap back delay sound, so either another microphone somewhere was picking up on a sound source or a secondary output was directly feeding audio into an input. The delay sound wasn’t degraded though, which makes me think it was the latter. It sounded like the same signal repeating itself? Audio stuff just does weird things sometimes.

Yeah, basically exactly like that. I called and it went to voicemail

It's not a good time.

I'm listening to the podcast and it is feeding back like crazy... anyone else having issues or is this a me thing?

Lever out for up to 8 weeks. Going in for ankle surgery. Coooool.

I feel like our midfield set up dictates where others play on the ground. Do we keep rivers back and start with Kozzie, Tracc and Oliver in the middle? Viney goes forward? Do we stick Rivers in the middle? Windsor? If Riv and/or Windsor go in the middle, who goes back to the flanks?

This has been mentioned on here so many times. It’s the ‘kick it to Maxy down the line’ and ‘kick it to a contest in our F50 near the boundary line’ instructions. Percentage plays. Create a contest. It’s killed our instinct to look for the best options available and instead instilled a reactive adherence to a now defunct system.

Yep, did a good job.

What are you referring too here?

I’m sympathetic to this and I don’t place the blame solely at Goodwins feet for our performances this year. The reasons we find ourselves in the current state is a lot of different problems all adding up and coming to fruition. He has made bad errors though. Reverting back to the old style mid way through last year to mitigate losses was him losing his nerve and all it did was push the problems we had then, to now. So we lost half a year of in game development for the current style of play. In essence, he played to ameliorate criticism, which any way you cut it, is a failure of leadership and lack of foresight. Forward connection issues are HIS problem. Had years to fix it and hasn’t or is unable too. There is no escaping this. You can say we don’t have the players down there required (which is probably true) and we don’t have the skills to execute properly, but long bombs into the forward line, for years, over and over again? If players were not instructed to do this then the only other explanation is he just allowed players to get away with murder. To me, this is the one where Goodwin lost me, probably starting sometime mid 2023 to be honest. Complete dominance and forward F50 entries for [censored] all scores. We’ve all known about this problem with us, it’s been spoken about to death, the same conversation over and over again and we are STILL DOING IT. I cannot get over this.

He’s had a great start to the year. It’s been very worrying that his intensity at the contest has been a point of difference to the majority of other players. A number of times over the last 3 games I’ve asked myself why is it he looks like he’s on another level in terms of being hungry for the ball?

There have been too many games over the last few seasons where he’s gotten the ball and I’ve done the whole ‘oh, Tom Sparrow is playing’. He plays ok and has some good games, but isn’t damaging. I doubt his name is mentioned by opposition coaches very often, if at all. Which is what I was saying about him in 2022 with the caveat that he’s still learning the game. Turning 25 this year.

We’ll need around about 8/9 wins from the next 19 rounds to not finish bottom 4. If we lose to west coast or Richmond in the next few rounds then I cannot see that happening. We are so far behind other teams.

This year is a learning year and seeing who wants to play with us moving forward, nothing less. Forward connection blah blah blah, exactly the same issue for years bloh bloh bloh. Sick of talking/hearing/watching it to be honest. Skills below AFL standard (ESPECIALLY HAND BALLS) which is frankly unacceptable on behalf of both the coaches and players. There is zero reason for players not being able to handball. We did play better for longer this week which was good. Melksham burnt about 4-5 times F50? I feel like he's our only forward that repeatedly finds himself alone in our F50.

Is that a 2 goal rebound from 2 Fritsch behinds this quarter?

He looks a bit one dimensional. And he might have speed in a straight line but isn’t evasive. Reminds me of Sam Blease, except not as quick maybe.

I don’t think Turner takes that kick to Kozzie in previous years.

We’re back! C’mon Dees

Umps need to fix up their understanding of 15 meters. It’s way more inconsistently called than last year.

Nice one. Get another one.

Execute skills - goal. It’s that simple.

Hand ball execution, decision making still causing us problems.