Bring-Back-Powell

I recall we were injury depleted in those floggings. For example in the Saints loss we were missing Farmer, Schwarz and Neitz which all combined for 110 goals that year. I admire your optimism, and there are some clear parallels with respect to mid season slumps, however in 1998 we had a dynamic midfield and potent forward line, and won 8 of our last 9 games prior to the North prelim. It would be hard for history to repeat.

“You never hear anything from Kate Roffey in the tough times” Jon Ralph, tonight (13/6) on the Midweek tackle.

If North bring high end pressure and sustain it for 3 to 4 quarters like Collingwood, Brisbane and Fremantle, they WILL beat us. They’re gun players such as LDU, Simpkin and Larkey are in hot form and they have an unusually low injury list by their standards. Our game is in such poor order at the moment that the only way we can win a game of football at the moment is if the opposition provides low end pressure such as the St Kilda game. I question whether North can go the distance with their pressure though.

As others have mentioned, in 1998 we had a forward line. A damn potent forward line. In 2024 we don’t have a forward line.

He’s absolutely been a reflection of our season. He was horrid coming off the bench against Sydney. Played his best 2 games of the year against Dogs and Hawthorn, which incidentally were our 2 best wins of the year from a dominance and quality of opposition point of view. Was patchy in the Adelaide double, as were we. Both he and club have been inconsistent to poor ever since. Goodwin didn’t help his confidence by starting him as sub in opening round.

Back for GWS round 20?

MELBOURNE premiership coach Simon Goodwin will guide the Demons until at least the end of 2026 after signing a two-year contract extension. I thought he was contracted through to the end of 2027, so I guess there is a bit of wriggle room to sack him at year's end if he can't get a response from his players. Ratten was extended for 2 more years during the 2022 season, but was sacked at the end of 2022. So there is an absolute recent precedence. However, can anyone imagine Pert and/or Roffey sacking Goodwin after the bond those three have clearly formed from the 2021 flag. Won't happen.

Definitely some parallels with our 2021 flag and West Coast's 2018 flag. West Coast obviously won the flag in 2018, had two solid home and away seasons (2019 and 2020) and a 1-2 finals record (compared to our 0-4 finals record), started 2021 well but faded badly in losing 6 of their last 8 games to miss the finals. Once West Coast realised the flag window had shut in 2021/2022 they completely fell off the map and put in historically bad performances, albeit with a lot of injuries. I'm not saying we're going to be the next West Coast circa 2022-2023 in the coming years, but their 3 years following their flag were eerily similar to ours3 years following our flag.

Hard to believe we were 56 points in front of a side, just 2 weeks ago. That game was an absolute false economy against a side that didn’t put any pressure on us.

Staggering that Goodwin put even the slightest positive spin on that game. The Pies had an absurd amount of gun players out and only got 15 touches from far and away their best player. That quite frankly should’ve been a 6 goal win to us based on played availability but instead the game was over at 3 qtr time.

I should be able to get three bays to myself on level 4 Warne stand.

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“We took a big step forward today” A quote from Goodwin’s presser tonight.

Just listened to Richo on SEN. He didn’t say this in so many words but it felt as though there’s a concession from the club that we’ve overreacted from our 2 finals (where we dominated in either scoring shots or entries) and that we’re quite frankly struggling to adapt to a game plan focused on connectivity. Be interesting if we’ve drawn a line in the sand of if we persist with whatever we’re doing.

Not overly happy with it. The coaching panel refuse to give him a whole game so he needs to make up the minutes at Casey.

Think you nailed it with Disco going back tomorrow as he’s not the answer to our forward line. Tomlinson would have to be on one of the shortest leashes going around

Ash Johnson unsurprisingly got axed for the Pies as he’s out there today.

$3490 off a $10 bet but I was never betting on the 7 leg multi so I can’t complain. The combination of winners so far this round is absolutely sick.

5/5 so far. (Unfortunately didn’t put money on it so kinda happy if one of tomorrow results doesn’t salute) Literally every result has gone our way so far, although North beating WC doesn’t make a lick of difference to us. Geelong losing tomorrow would be nice.

I’ve mentioned this already this year but I don’t think I’ve come across a coach in AFL that talks up his wins as much as Fagan. It’s like every win is a benchmark win against all the odds. He already declared the win over the Dees as the club’s greatest ever win…until it wasn’t when they beat a lame GC in round 8.

Not that I care but the Dogs are a bit stiff from a fixture point of view. Tonight they played the Lions who have had 2 byes v 0 byes for the Dog. Then next week they play Freo off their bye and the Dogs still wouldn’t have had a bye,

@FearTheBeard what sort of crowd are they expecting? Is it a genuine 95,000 sell out? Or a Clayton's sell out of 78,000?

Brilliant work WCW. Good news about JVR. Our forward line needs him.

Thanks WCW for sharing. Any news on how JVR trained?

West Coast have a history of playing mid season draft recruits straight away. The bloke from Charcoal Chicken comes to mind either last year or the year before. I'm of the belief that the mid season draft should be used for players that can instantly help and impact clubs for the second half of the year. Players that are burning up the VFL/WAFL/SANFL and can hit the ground running in the AFL in a position that a club is currently lacking - eg - a 22+ year old natural forward to help the MFC.