Dee Viney Intervention

And if that is the case send them to Casey and tell them why, they will Learn pretty quickly. Give those at Casey an opportunity, tell them what you want to see. Player management, performance management, player development and list management as a collective has been poor. The club needs a shake up.

Agree with most of what you have said. We overuse the ball in and coming out of the backline. And the inevitable turnover happens and we concede a score. Honestly I would rather a chaos ball clearing the ball out of the backline out to the wing to the advantage side of Langdon/ Sharp/Chandler/Kozzie/Lindsay (fingers crossed) . But the way we set up ahead of the ball sets us up to fail, there is no imagination. Forwards pushing up the ground so high with no targets forward of the ball. Hold some back which creates space in the midfield / corridor as it would force the hand of the opposition to hold players back. If they play a plus one we need to identify that and have a target 20 metres ahead of the plus one and use the short option instead of blazing away. Our ball Movement is too slow, leading to congestion in our forwardline. Everyone in the AFL has known for years that our forwardline and its functionality and midfield to forward connection has been our Achilles heal. Sick of hearing the same platitudes “ we will leave no stone unturned”, “need to be better in all 3 phases of the game” etc. Goodwin cannot coach offence. He has coached any attacking flair out of the players and the team as a whole. Nothing has changed here and unfortunately I have no faith that it will. Would need a massive over correction in his mindset to do so. I mean offence based on setting up defensively. Release the shackles and let the players play and have some fun with their football, see what happens.

Hird is coaching director at Port Melbourne who is coached by Brendan McCarthy. Brendan was great when he was at Melbourne and after spending time Craig Macrae has got a passion for coaching back. Highly respected and a great communicator.

By virtue of our poor 2024 we have received a favourable draw this year. It is early days but to not make finals would be unacceptable. End of story.

Is Bailey Laurie injured. Strange list / player management to have a guy hooked from the Casey game last week at half time and rushed to the MCG as an emergency and this week not even in the squad it would seem Billings takes his place. And we extended his contract….. why????? Great to see Mentha in the squad and hopefully Langford gets a start this week.

Farmland is hard to find in metropolitan Melbourne so the next best thing would be Tracs kitchen

A small part of me wishes this game was at Marvel…………..just to annoy Hardwick.

Thanks for the reply and the training report/s . Probably me still grumpy from Sunday. I understand it is important to have a break from the grind of gym, meetings, watching tape etc. I know they have the main sessions at Casey which will be intense and I genuinely see the value in having fun sessions to keep morale high. As mentioned maybe just me but for the optics after Sunday I wish they had these games with an Aussie Rules Football. Glad to hear they had goal kicking practice today, I hope it wasn’t from the penalty spot.

Thanks for the training report Harvey. I’m all for keeping it light and fun and maybe it’s just me but please Melbourne Demons read the room can we not do it with footballs. Our basic skills, decision making and communication on the weekend were putrid. Play some team based fun games with an Aussie Rules football. Not great optics.

No,but even Ross Lyon plays a more attacking brand of football. Words I never thought I would say.

I understand that is his philosophy. The club or Goodwin has a decision to make. Do we persist with this defensive game style that is not contemporary or working. A style that will hurt our attendances and membership sales. A game style that will see us have less than commercially desirable fixturing which will also make us less attractive to sponsors ( eg shorts sponsor) all of which hurt our bottom line.

I just don’t believe Goodwin can coach offence. Hasn’t found a solution to our midfield - forward connection or forward line functionality over the last 3 years. I have no faith that he will be able to now. We are now also so easy to score against. Will always be grateful for the premiership but I don’t think he is the person to take us forward.

Difference between Hawthorn and Melbourne is that they had the balls to tap a multi premiership coach on the shoulder I doubt we do.

No a total regression. 2021 - Premiership 2022- Straight sets finals exit 2023- Straight sets finals exit 2024 - 14th We have gone from being good at contest and defence to now being good at what???? If that’s not regression we are stuck in quicksand and teams are flying past us.

They will also be happy that the media blowtorch will now be on us………and deservedly so. That performance today was unacceptable.

We didn’t fluke that flag, however everything else you said I absolutely and wholeheartedly agree with

Straight outta Comben

[censored] talk to each other, 3 avoidable tackles for holding the ball in a quarter of football is disgusting.

Good by pressure by Sharp to force the mistake. Get in their faces with some manic pressure Demons. It’s North FFS.

For a team that prides itself on contest and defence, we allow way too much uncontested possession.

When you finish 14th and play a very bland brand of football in comparison to the “glamour teams” then the reality is you are not going to be prime time. It’s up to the football department to change that because it will be hurting the bottom line.

Forwards must step up and deliver today, if the roof is closed then there is nowhere to hide. Need to be more efficient or we are just treading water. Cannot take North too lightly.

The difference between Collingwood/ Giants and us in close games is the mindset. Collingwood / Giants are attacking well drilled teams, they go for the win. Goodwin is conservative and tries not to lose. Case in point against Giants last week when that kick in from full back was about to take place. Giants had. W60 sign held up on interchange bench which I can assume is a minute left we need to go for it, which they did and they got the win. Collingwood last night with a minute to go hold up the stop sign, which you assume is to do whatever it takes to slow play down and not give up a goal. Depending on where the ball is and the time left in quarter they manage the game well…… if there is a team that concedes more red time goals than Melbourne I would love to know who they are. These teams are better organised, drilled and disciplined that is why they win the close games more often than not

Maybe Jim Stynes consecutive games record remains intact. Crisp to get suspended for sling tackle. Go on Michael Christian……. I dare you.

Absolutely agree. He is our most accurate set shot for goal and is a very smart forward with great forward craft. With this in mind why are we using him so high up the ground. Aces in their places. We are not playing to his strengths. Have him patrol inside the forward 40 with space to work in one on one by getting the ball in quickly. Having said that he does need to be much better defensively and that part of his game is on him because that’s attitude based not talent based.