Posts posted by rpfc
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3rd was pretty good yeah?
Super pressure and great commitment to the handball territory game that gets us going.
Last 10 mins in games like that are for teams like Richmond to save face. I remember those days…
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On 22/04/2025 at 13:43, SthSea22 said: Dee Brief Facebook page mate
The unctuous pod bros are hardly a doyen of journalistic integrity
Might want to wait for the teams to be released mate
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51 minutes ago, rpfc said: Said it before - I would make Petracca the next skipper.
We all question our loyalties from time to time and challenge those around us and ourselves to justify continuing on.
I am glad he seems to be throwing himself back in love with the club and what it is trying to achieve.
This is in the wrong thread apologies.
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Said it before - I would make Petracca the next skipper.
We all question our loyalties from time to time and challenge those around us and ourselves to justify continuing on.
I am glad he seems to be throwing himself back in love with the club and what it is trying to achieve
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Said it before - I would make Petracca the next skipper.
We all question our loyalties from time to time and challenge those around us and ourselves to justify continuing on.
I am glad he seems to be throwing himself back in love with the club and what it is trying to achieve.
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4 hours ago, Adam The God said: It'll be interesting to see what Richmond does to stifle our ball movement if we're as aggressive and run in waves as much as yesterday.
Will that handball game be able to stand up to manic Richmond pressure?
And if we make a few errors and a team really brings the heat, will we go back into our shells or keep going for it?
This will determine how sustainable this game plan is with this group.
May to come back in… no one plays within their shells more than May.
Get. The. Ball. Out. Of. His. Hands.
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Lindsay is making me feel a lot better about not having our top pick this year.
They all look like very good players that you can structure your team around.
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2 minutes ago, Deestar9 said: Did yesterday’s result make you see what I see 🤨
The post you are quoting says I did see what you see.
The reality of the situation is that we are behind a number of teams with how the game is played and Goodwin has only a few months to ensure he can see this evolution through.
I have been calling for it since before the end of the 2022 season and I am glad we have some momentum but what do they say about Swallows and Summer?
Long way to go before we sleep…
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People don’t like it when I say it - but JVR doesn’t have natural tall forward tendencies to exploit space and understand how the ball can be attracted to space.
We all know Fritsch’s shortcomings…
27 tackles in the forward half and the way we move it with the setup we had today may portent something for this club that is different to the two that were dropped.
Long way to go but when you are drastically changing how you play - things happen quickly and some guys are just left behind…
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56 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said: To everyone still critical of our last quarter.
Some perspective please. Not only did we not have Lever and May but we then lost Turner for the 2nd half who was on par with McDonald as our best defender for the day.
We then had to move Howes off Bolton onto a bigger opponent in Amiss.
So we literally came into the 2nd half with 3 strong tall defenders already lost to injuries and were completely under siege due to lack of talls. Thank [censored] for McDonald but who's rated as our best tally defender this year.
Howes also held up his end of the bargain i thought.
Mentally reassuring and steeling stuff I hope. Really good perspective that I hope is shared by Howes and the rest of the backs.
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11 hours ago, Deestar9 said: What gets me excited is that we have realised we need a new game plan and we need to evolve. We have recruited new players to help push this & to support the players that are still part of our future. It took us 7 years to get success but I feel it will not be so long to be contending again. Unfortunately our supporters don’t seem to have the patience to ride it out.
I can see what you see, but I am also unsure if Goodwin is the person to bring it about.
They are not antithetical concepts.
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14 minutes ago, wheaters31 said: 29th July, 2013, Peter Jackson appeared on "On the Couch".
Interview is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu0NIDU-aC0
Jackson was one of, if not the best appointment the club has had this century.
He stated on the program, that at times "the club's gone back to too many people who have got red and blue...I think sometimes we don't have a propensity in this club to bring in the best from outside".
He then spruiked the culture and winning environments at clubs like Sydney and Geelong.
After that interview he went on to appoint a number of people within the football department from those cultures. Paul Roos, George Stone, Ben Mathews, Brett Allison, Brendan McCartney, Matthew Egan and Shannon Byrnes. Industry best appointments.
My worry is that we are now moving away from appointing the best, and reverting to this propensity of former MFC people.
Brad Green - President
Nathan Jones - Midfield coach
Mark Jamar - Ruck coach
Alastair Nicholson - rumoured as next CEO
Steven Smith - rumoured as next President
Luke Beveridge - rumoured as possible next coach
These people may very well be the best options, and that it's just a coincidence that they have had a MFC involvement before,I don't know from afar. But I just hope we are not reverting back to what we were before Jackson. To be a high quality and successful club, you need the best people in the industry, and I hope we are going after them regardless of whether they have red and blue in them or not.
Not a fan of the inclusion of Presidents in that list. CEO, Coaching, admin roles - that is where you want the best of the best and develop in-house under those merited experts.
Board members, by definition almost, need to be supporters of the club and have the interests of the club above their professional aspirations in the game. The fact that he played games is immaterial to why Steven Smith is the next President.
So Jamar, Jones, etc - they make me nervous but not the Board.
And as an aside - Beveridge has done enough in the game to evolve past ‘former Dees player’ to predominate his CV…
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3 minutes ago, Roost it far said: I don’t think it’s fitness as much as the way we are playing. It’s deflating, playing a slightly different way every week is not helping
It’s both but a % of 22 in 4 qtrs is beyond staggering.
A prognosis of multiple cancers.
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11 minutes ago, Roost it far said: The most frustrating thing is we played the game not to get belted, not to win but not to lose by too much. There's only one way to play when you have our list and that is to win. Give the players some licence to play on, to kick into the corridor to run. We have nothing to lose and if you want to learn to transition fast then set your defence and go for it. We're better off turning it over going for it than bombing it down the line and turning it over. So frustrating.
Closest thing I have read on here to my thoughts. We are so uninspired and the senior players seem inert and incapable of inspiring any attention of the younger players to a display a consistent commitment to how Goodwin and Chaplin wants them to play.
Who’s fault it is immaterial - this is leading in only one direction…
And the fitness aspect (last qtrs) is just maddening and a shock. We should be one of the fitter sides after last year.
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13 hours ago, John Demonic said:
Phone in and impart your wisdom on us uneducated plebs, you don't have to listen to anything except Andy cheerfully asking you what you want to say
I do it here for free everyday.
Quote me.
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This is just pathetic.
We have been an irrelevance if anything most of my 40 years on this planet and you people are here thinking these journos just ‘have it in’ for us.
We are going to get it when we lose against a team no won has lost to since Trumps first administration, we are going to get it when our coach alludes to the things that can’t be alluded to in our society of stiff upper lips, and we are going to headlong back into indifference unless we can halt the slide next week.
Some of may be new here, or too young, or too stupid - there are worse things than being negatively talked about in the media…
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2 hours ago, Supreme_Demon said:
For those interested, the fellas at the "Deebrief" had their own analysis of what they thought went wrong against the Kangaroos.
Call it a review or a therapy session, I don't mind listening to what they have to say. Although, I always listen to the Demonland podcast first. ❤️💙
I can’t stand the DeeBros. Don’t listen to the Land one much either. I just know too much to make it worth the frustrating listen.
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2 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:
Why on earth is he the forwards coach? Never played forward in his life. I can't believe we can't find a forwards coach that played as a forward. He will end Goodwin's career, no wonder Fritsch, Turner and van Rooyen look clueless out there you can't teach something you have never experienced.
You’re the one making these so called ‘best 22’s every week since October…
They are not the best 22…and certainly not on the weekend…
Im beginning to think you have no idea what you are doing
#nomorebest22s
#WERRIDEEsbest22sIKeepHearingAbout
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Welcome to Demonland: Harvey Langford
in Melbourne Demons
He is playing his what 5th game? 1st night game at the G?
He is in the top 5 best 18 year olds I have seen at the club.