Bring-Back-Powell

The roof’s fantastic for TV. However it should be open for warm early season nights and overcast winter days. Absolutely unbearable and non temperature controlled when it’s mid 20’s plus.

Not sure if that’s more of a dig at North or Melbourne. We‘re the only team North can beat.

Anyone come across a poll on the Adelaide Bigfooty forum asking whether they would take Goodwin at Adelaide next year? 12 out of 102 voted yes and 4 of those voters were registered Melbourne supporters. This is a group of supporters that haven’t seen a flag in 27 years that have hypothetically been offered a premiership coach next year, and the consensus is hard pass.

Thanks GW. I know you’ll address this regardless, but a report on May and Kozzie would be appreciated. Yesterday‘s main train session would’ve probably told the full story though.

Given May and Kozzie are under injury clouds, my money’s on Fritta getting a late reprieve given he’s an emergency. A possible token wake up call?

I stood up and clapped.

I personally didn’t find the flag to be “lousy” but it’s lousy to think many of us missed the flag live and at the same time cannot see any prospect of seeing one in the short to medium term. In answer to your question, I would say 22,000 MCC members (there is purported to be about 24,000 MFC supporters in the MCC), 1,000 AFL members, 16,000 club members and a number of supporters that would’ve scored via the corporate allocation. Plenty.

Yes, agreed. If Geelong get up this weekend, they’d have claims for #1.

Collingwood or GWS would be the #1 seed as of now.

He probably means one “lousy” flag because most of us didn’t get to see that one flag, and won’t have the opportunity to see one anytime soon.

Viney, Rivers and Sparrow should be next on the block. None one of these players have come even remotely close to putting in a half decent performance this year.

What a silly call from this poster calling Fritsch a 0% chance of getting dropped this week. Of course he’s going to get dropped after his best game of the year and kicking a goal that electrified the side for a few rare minutes.

Yep, one advantage (among many) of next year's new coach is that we'll have a game plan that will not have been worked out for a period of time. The last 2 weeks, we've been painfully dominated in the coaches box by 2 very senior coaches. Eg- losing uncontested possession by 80+ meaning the opposition are dictating the game on their terms.

A few suggestions that Fritta should be dropped this week. Given he wasn't dropped after hitting rock bottom in round 3, and actually playing better footy the last 2 weeks including a sizzling goal from the 50 arc, I'd have his omission chances at approximately 0% this week.

The Disco omission was stupid by Goodwin and co. All it did was rob us of a much needed goal kicking option. I also love his celebrations after each goal as he tries to pump up his teammates who are devoid of any inspiration or excitement at the moment. He seems like a bit of a character in amongst a bunch of unhappy players on the field at the moment. The forward line needs an overhaul and i’d be looking at bringing in Turner, Jefferson OR Fullarton. I’d also keep JVR as he’ll have more talls in the forward line to support him.

Agreed. Bring Jeffo in and keep him there. That lead and subsequent goal he kicked in the last quarter V GWS when nobody else could step told me that he’s a natural forward that we’re crying out for. He may even be more of a natural forward than JVR.

I've been crying out for the media to ask this question the last 2 weeks in the post game pressers but they're either not aware of the trend or don't care to ask the question. If it's fitness, Griffiths's position needs to be looked at. If it's lack of care or will by the players, then the head coach needs to be looked at. I know it didn't make a difference to the result but letting Essendon blow the final margin out from 27 to 39 points in the space of 30 seconds is completely unacceptable.

Hope is dangerous.

I know this prediction above is a joke for Saturday and we'll probably manage to get 20K, but we could genuinely get 5,000 people to the West Coast game at Marvel. In 2015 we got 8,000 people to a home game against GWS at Marvel, but hope was growing by the week under Paul Roos and we were winning 2 in every 3 weeks that year. If we're 2-17 and the game is hidden away in the 4:40 Sunday slot, I genuinely fear what the crowd's going to be that day.

My take from that is Kozzie will play and May will miss.

As much as I love watching him play, and he's been in our best 6 for both games, his return hasn't had a material affect on the team. Two 40 point losses confirm that. And he won't have a material affect on the result this weekend either given how far off the pace we are. Playing or not.

Not an answer to the question but that was an underrated win in a danger game. Hawks had beaten Brisbane, Collingwood and had just knocked off the Dogs in a big upset. Agree that ANB's been a bad loss. You convince yourself over summer that he won't be a loss but you end up kidding yourself. If you watch the mini replays of the early 2024 games, you'll notice ANB feature in so many goal involvements. Whether it be centre clearances, 1% ers by way of knock ons, tackles or kicking goals himself. Without going into details for those that know, was his request to SA genuinely warranted?

Gut feel says he'd be a fantastic boost and would sell a vision to the players straight away. He can sell a story to his players. I can recall in our game against them in 2020 at Metricon (yes COVID years) Fox Footy interviewed him just before the first bounce and he mentioned that he reved his boys up with some random boxing fight that nobody had heard from like 1961 or something. The Dogs and Dees were on the cusp of the 8 at the time in a must win game but they came out far more invested than us and beat us quite easily. I'm also weary that he's had just as much of a roller coaster coaching career as Goodwin and has had absolute gun elite players like Dunkley and B Smith head out the door.

Voss out suspended upsets their forward and back up ruck structure with Jackson already out. Not that it matters at this point time.

Yeah I think it’s time he goes to Casey. If you’re getting 4 touches a game as a small forward you’d be wanting to impact the scoreboard, but he had 0 score involvements and was correctly subbed out. We need to get some height into our forward line. The likes of Spargo, Sharp and Henderson aren’t giving us much.