Doug Reemer

Goodwin said Post match, they put a load into the boys early in the week. He then said we’ll have to look at our program. Why are we “loading” when we have no realistic target come September? Sounds like they flogged them on the track post bye and that might be why we were flat. Melksham said he normally lines up on the #1 defender and tries to negate them. But once we lost Petty, they reshuffled and went smaller and tried to hit up more leads. 2 questions. 1.Why don’t we back in our clubs own talents and strengths? This year we’re sacrificing our best winger (Langdon) as a tagger and every week our most creative forward has to play undersized? Why not attack the game and try win it than defend it from the outset? Is Goodwin now deliberately coaching to save his job as compared to trying to develop our list? I had to listen to it today on SEN, the 1st Qtr commentary sounded like an obituary’s piece. Once a coach starts coaching to save his job it never ends well, they normally back in the old faithful at the cost of exciting new talent. This might be a tough 8 weeks.

Have you not watched his career? He is the definition of a charity contract. He is like James Frawley, bit with absolutely no talent or pace.

Ben is without a doubt the worst player in the AFL. It’s dumbfounding how much money he is on!

It’s years like these that weed out the Bandwagon who only buy memberships late in the year to get finals access. I know the more the merrier. But if a flag 4 years ago doesn’t get any loyalty out of you, nothing ever will!

This is the most obvious move that should be made. As George states in the pod each week, JVR barely plays 40% game time up fwd. If we had a genuine 2nd ruck option, he might have a chance!

How so?

I’d happily party with Rivers

And I think we knew this last year, so we traded this years pick to Essendon. All we’ll need this year is points to take Kalani White, if/when he nominates us!

This Instagram Reel sums up the Dees Goal Kicking woes. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK8i28tJloX/?igsh=MW5yMjBsbDh0cWUxdg==

Then he needs to go down back and Turner needs to stay up fwd. Bring Jeffo in and lets have a good look at him.

How is it that when we were [censored] we had a better forward line? We had Robertson, Green, Jurrah, Hogan, Gartlett at different stages. Players who were at least reliable and had confidence in their own abilities. I could probably cop this year of development (wasted senior players) if we were at least taking our opportunities and were just not good enough. Could you imagine how our backline feels? Constantly under the pump defending turnovers and constantly copping 12 point turn arounds over and over. May intercepts on the last line or at half back, hits up a good option, only to watch it get bombed into the forward line where if by chance it’s marked, it isn’t converted and then most times pogo back and is kicked into space or over the head of our overworked defenders. I don’t blame May at all for his outburst last week against the Pies, he must be frustrated as hell watching his forward line constantly waste opportunity after opportunity. If I were him I’d be asking our forward line if there’s any danger they could kick some F’ing goals!

@binman Are you able to tell me how many ineffective inside 50s we had this week? Thats the worst delivery I’ve seen in a long time.

Well Explain to me why Essendon, Stkilda and Ports forward line worked better than ours? It’s not the head coach. It’s a pathetic line coaches.. This club’s completely rooted.

If I hear Goodwin say in the post match presser that we have been working on our goal kicking/kicking..

Because our forwards are coached by a BACKMAN!! WHO WAS A VERY ORDINARY FOOTBALL HIMSELF!

“They’re not home yet” STFU Dwayne you moron! They’re 31 pts up with 6 minutes and we have a team full of window lickers!

This clubs a [censored] disgrace. Losing to these [censored]’s is an absolute embarrassment.

If we weren’t too busy licking the windows midweek instead of doing goal kicking practice we’d be 4 goals up! This club is [censored] excruciatingly painful to follow! Can any of our senior players fwd of the ball kick???!!!!

I don’t care what anyone says. Coaches have a huge say when it comes to to player recruitment and drafting anyone that thinks otherwise is delusional. Melbourne have officially wasted the Best midfield we’ve had since the golden era of the 50s and 60s. Because we’re too pig headed to recruit and or draft genuine forwards. There’s a reason our Fwd Line is [censored]. Because hardly any of them are natural forwards. Fristch is the only one & he has the composure & intensity of a local footballer. Buckle in for the next 5-10 to watch other clubs with a brain utilise their asset's by supporting them, with a quality structure around them.

100%

This year has a real 2010 vibe about it. Hopefully we don’t do a 2011 next year.. Too many brain fades from “Senior Premiership” players. He kicked a few goals late, but it’s what Fritsch fails to do without the ball that kills us. I’ve never seen a goal hungry fwd like him play on from a mark inside 20m to turn into traffic. Just like he did in the 2023 finals against the pies, he [censored] himself again. We must go after a KF who plays like a man in the off season, who can stand up when needed.

JVR 1 mark and 3 disposals to half time. Melb/Goodwin have successfully ruined this kid by using him as a second ruck.