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Yep. Weird vibes even in round 1.

IT BEGINS

I understand your point, JVR not doing well right now and Sam Darcy is looking a once in a generation player. After 45 games: JVR 62 goals Weideman had 48 Tom Hawkins had 51 (came in when Geelong were basically invincible) Darcy Fogarty had 52 62 goals in 45 games in a hopelessly dysfunctional forward line like ours, is quite good. He’s gone backwards at an alarming rate for sure. Essentially a couple players are maybe moderately better since 2022, a lot have stagnated and probably most have regressed. So it appears to be a systemic/cultural issue within the club.

Golly gosh. Hawks come back and lose by about 3 goals?

I dare say that the ‘brief tiff that happened last year’ game doesn’t have a very marketable ring to it. Although… as a one off, would be very funny.

Oh yeahhhh I almost forgot about that. I bet it was the best review he’s seen in 40 years.

JVR has to go back to Casey to find form and have a breather. His confidence is in the toilet and frankly continuing to play him is neglectful. He isn’t going to improve in a team that is struggling across the board. We are asking a 45 game player to be our number 1 FF, take the best defender each week and also play ruck. WTF are we doing?

Bit of ‘I don’t hold a hose mate’ about it for sure. Not good.

He kept saying he has the ‘credentials’ to fix the issues at the club. It sounded like he was making his case to not be sacked in that presser.

He literally said the players ‘lack fight’?

Whether it happens now or later, Goodwin is done. Just a matter of when.

Spargo with the right decision!!! Unselfish!!!

Shorter kicks = goals. Players leading up = goals. Players that can kick into F50 = goals.

c’mon Dees, keep going!

Just over and over again. Long kicks F50.

Hey can you tell me, with the longer kicks into F50, are we kicking it over shorter options?

I was just about to ask a similar thing. Adelaide v Geelong and Pies v Sydney, had players constantly leading up. Are all our forwards pushing up so by the time we enter F50 they have to run back?

Fair. I’ll reel myself back in and not get so wound up next time.

I feel like we’re gonna win because we aren’t in Victoria? If this game was at the G, I’d feel like we were gonna lose. Football is so dumb. Or I’m dumb. Probably both are dumb.

It’s both and more. Coaching - down the line, create contest. Explicitly no reason to develop pin point skills. Focus on defense- limit teams scoring over kicking big score ourselves (we’ve scored over 85 points, 3 times in the past 48 games) Reliance on Max to take marks everywhere. Again, no vision or skills developed. Just find Max forward of the ball. Failing that, kick it to a contest. Hope it’s a ball up and we’ll win it. Kick it to pockets in our F50 to create a stoppage via the boundary if the forward doesn’t mark it. Always always always, create a stoppage and limit other teams scoring. No focus on creating chains of free flowing footy. We have prioritised winning contests and bashing it forward, in the hope that there will be another contest to rinse and repeat the process. Player list: Created for defence and stoppage/contest footy. Look at out mid field alone. Tracc/Clarry/Viney. They’ll win you the ball and do bugger all with it if it’s dependant on skill. No speed at all. Just chaos balls forward. Which teams worked out against us in 2022. Off field issues are a part of the more. Can’t be stuffed going over it to be honest, So coaching wise, the game style is completely defunct. The senior and even 100 game players we have are both: conditioned to said defunct game plan and also too many of the wrong kind of player. Very little skill, very little speed. Will crack in though. Big changes needed both the end of this year and next.

Chatted to Pendles once or twice outside a cafe near a place I was working… a bloody good bloke. Known quite a few people that have met him and everyone says the same thing about him. Mmmm, I think at that time he was playing off about 23 or so? He didn’t start playing golf until he was about 50 so pretty good effort. That’s the beauty of golf! All up probably only a few minutes of actual play a round, but it creates a lifetime of memories. Playing off 7 is pretty impressive. I never had the patience to keep at golf. Too aggressive, haha

Grundy, Ladhams and who?

In terms of skill upgrade, bulldogs premiership year was lauded for handball skills and how they could chain them together. It now just looks to be the standard.

They are just confident in their skills and know that they’ll both have players to dispose to, either by foot or hand and where those players will be. A lot because it’s afforded to them because most teams are prioritising scoring and have been for a while.