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Yeah, just send him to the hospital and home and forget him for a few weeks

Boo hoo. Living on that side of the bay is a nice life. People and AFL players choose to go and live in Geelong.

Oh FFS. The current situation is evidently good enough to produce athletes and for them to perform at the highest level. Supporters seeing a co-joined heartland training and admin base are placing their own emphasis and bias into what it is ‘solving’… I have heard everything from your whining screed above about shared [censored] facilities, to the ‘club being brought together’, to some nuffies on here thinking they will go and have a drink there every second Thursday in retirement like they did in 1976. Give me a break - I can be indifferent to this, but not when you get all whiny and annoying.

Wayne - there is always an undercurrent of unease with any negative descriptions of the current performance of the players, team, FD, and admin. There was plenty of jumping down throats on here that can just be avoided with just a tad more self-reflection and empathy. The media is going to do what they have done, it doesn’t make the calls for change from some on here less pertinent now or then.

You see it every year in 20/20… Im an old school junior cricket coach and technique is being sacrificed for excitement. Doesn’t seem to matter as every country has fallen under the spell; but test cricket will eat this kid alive unless he respects a solid technique and knows his limitations.

Well that was a strange bump…

Also the sound space wasn’t great. These are the little things they will get better at with practice considering they never bothered doing them much in the past.

That’s some good content.

JVR should have the option of not going into the ruck. And the answer to our forward is not just more pressure. Having options to kick to is imperative to attract the ball to the right spots. Especially this mid group that is prone to dump footy.

Jvr rucking then.

Didn’t Johnson play as the best tall Fwd in the VFL premiership team? rpfc says he’s ahead of Jefferson and co. and if the FD would like to avoid JVR rucking 20 mins he is the best bet to sidle up with Jacob and Turner in a 3 prong attack.

Not sure about this #demonland myths trope. I was one to see and applaud the opening up last year of our game plan. And we had success early in the year, as the better teams showed up and as the season wore on the moments where we reverted to type became quarters and halves and subsumed senior players. That was my point and I don’t think it was a ‘myth’, maybe a difference of opinion… Regardless, moving forward into 2025 I hope we have one group buy in to one gameplan and we can begin to go in one direction. And the reversions become infrequent and irrelevant; that would be a step in the right direction.

Being a ‘good kick, but a bad decision maker’ is incongruous, especially for a mid who is in pressure and contested environments when distributing the footy. If you can’t be effective when you get it, and the team is better placed when you don’t get it - then you are not going to stay in the team.

Yeah, and I suppose the Sherrins are yellow?! - random bloke at the footy in the 60s

Again, the ‘game plan’ would be overlaid over the three phases of the game. So that last paragraph is essentially ‘the sky is not blue; it’s obviously blue!’

Winning contested footy is not the outcome that you should worry too heavily about; it’s score after the contest, clearance. We were much better previous to 2024. I don’t see this as shifting blame from Goodwin, he is in charge. And ultimately, the players are the ones that are going to slow down and hit a target, or work collectively to win a contest and get the ball forward to advantage to score.

#joyride

Isn’t that the point? We could only be ‘in’ games when we played an unwatchable, unsustainable to win big games, style. I applauded the attempts to get that going but it was sputtering and not universally embraced across the team. Give it to Judd and Trent and we were off to the races, but nothing slowed us down more than if Lever and May got the footy. And that is damning on a level isn’t it? Anyway, I hope and expect Chaplin to get them all on one page like he has previously.

It’s fixable. But ‘fixable = top 4’ is what you’re asking. If we are patient and can put up with the occasional complete collapse away from what they want to do without the team reverting back to ‘tried and true’ boring nothing footy, then, yes, we can get there in 2025. I would say for young teams that the cattle will be the problem but ours have smelled that paddock before - they can get back there if they all commit.

For those that need the explanation; there are 3 phases. With the ball, without the ball, and in dispute/contest. With the ball we were slow and boring and stilted and bottom 4. Without the ball we are much better but still allowed sling shot goals when we overcommitted forward in the press. Top half but still not as good as we have been. In dispute we have been chaotic. The red mist was back when we did get it and there wasn’t much time or reason for how we would move it. And there were also times when we would get flogged in contested possessions and clearances for quarters at a time. Probably middle 6 ranking for that. So I think it tracks. But you might want to put a link in.

Having current Casey players have roles in the NGA is inspired, I also would think there is value for the DNA that Mark Williams runs.

Nicks is a coll board.

Yes, more risks lead to turnovers. More pressure the same.

The logic is TMac is nearly done, May spent time injured last year and will be 32, and Lever is literally injured now. Petty has to be back.