Hellfire Dub

Hi FG, how do we contact the club? I've only ever seen a membership email address

That article in the Age about Longmire last weekend talked about he's enjoying developing his new training coaching business associated with the Swans. It also talked about how he was enjoying spending time with his children and travelling. It didn't sound like a fella who'd be in a hurry to move interstate and reverse commute to Casey fields.

It's very simple stuff that's not happening. 2 goals in a first half. I've said it before on here but back in my amateur Gaelic Football days (where it's hard to score in the small goal with a keeper), that would be embarrassingly low. It was so painful to watch the first half and last quarter. Who will lead towards a ball carrier? Who will kick it to their advantage? We got goals when we lowered our eyes or when we turned inside. Why defend grass and let them accumulate their highest ever number of disposals? Why tackle low and let them handpass? Or throw out a weak outstretched arm they can just run through? Why let them run out the clock? Where was the pride in letting them score 5:1 goals in the last quarter?

Five goals to one in the last quarter. 57 points! Other teams are laughing at us.

This is great news! Even off the pitch good old Bailey was working the body under the high balls and hitting the target last July

If we had generous billionaire sponsors who would gift properties, vehicles and lucrative sponsorship deals to players and their families it would help.

Why don't we have a CEO at the moment? When is there likely to be one appointed? Is the board recruiting and who are the likely candidates? Is it unusual for an entity to have a temporary President and no CEO?

Yze is a brain, as he showed onfield for the Dees. I really feel our negligence in not keeping him, to ascend (at least a year ago) to Goodwin's position, was a critical miscalculation; geez You're right Deemania, we were such a badly run club to renew SG and let Yze go. Now we get to watch our team swap places with them. Other clubs and coaches are laughing at us.

As the Devil we all know best ElDiablo, Goodwin has made a plan to coach until the end of his contract terms. Once he makes a plan he sticks to it doggedly for better or worse despite the evidence to the contrary or the negative outcome. He just loves lifelong learning on the job at our expense

Thanks for posting that footage DD. It's just so damning and so obvious. The guy just can't react in games. He sets out a system and stubbornly sticks to it whether its working or as in this case a crazy move. Every coach this season has set their team up with a plan to beat us and they've often adapted and improved it during the game. We're not seeing that and it's not his nature.

I agree, he's not showing leadership and seems to be s strange selfish cat. I don't blame him wanting to leave as Goodwin obviously has no idea and has been gifting games to undeserved underperformers for years. There's still no denying that Tracs behaviour last year was disgraceful and corrosive to team spirit. Apart from scoring 33% of our goals last night 😭 he did lots of pointing and gesturing but not much leading by example. He could follow Dangerfields example last night, not huge numbers but very effective and damaging. And setting up his team mates to score. Not blasting away hard won possessions and burning leads or open forwards.

Staying quiet about terrible umpiring hasn't helped us. Last night was one of the most blatantly partisan displays I've witnessed for any team. Geelong couldn't get pinged for anything and we'd get pulled up for any and everything imaginable. It killed any momentum we were building in the 3rd quarter. And it gifted them at least 3 goals so we may as well protest because it can't get much worse. Its not why we lost, but it didn't make this game any more enjoyable anyway For most of the players our effort was better for 3 quarters and showed a bit of pride. When we lowered eyes or looked inside we sometimes found better delivery and hit targets. That gave me some hope. We ran it out well from defence a few times and played on quickly and decisively a few times. We also won some clearances. In most of those positive passages after all that hard work (we always look laboured) somebody would then butcher a kick up high towards their clustered defenders. Or as a variation we'd miss players in the open in favour of hitting it to a losing contest or a missed low percentage shot. Or sometimes inexplicably kick it straight to the opposition. Such panic and agonisingly poor decision making saw them either control the ball down back or burn us on quick turnovers again. The forwards didn't have a clue, didn't defend well, didn't lead, didn't mark, didn't make space, couldn't kick straight. Abysmal performance and this is down to lack of coaching. Midfielders blasted away hard won possessions then everyone's racing backwards desperately trying to defend. It's awful football. Exhausting to watch and certainly exhausting to play with no reward. Repeat ad nauseum then run out of legs in the final quarter. Nothing is where we want it to be SG. Nothing.

Under no circumstances are they to "Roost it far!"

Pirlo, well said. This was on the AFL app today talking about most and least accurate goalkickers per team: Most accurate Jacob van Rooyen - 61 goals from 96 shots (63.5 per cent) Daniel Turner - 18 goals from 29 shots (62.1) Tom McDonald - 169 goals from 279 shots (60.6) Least accurate Trent Rivers - 9 goals from 31 shots (29.0) Clayton Oliver - 55 goals from 145 shots (37.9) Jack Billings - 112 goals from 291 shots (38.5)

Thank you for posting this NSC. I think our coach's stubborn mindset and tactical weaknesses were always problems but that Yze quietly brought the skills SG lacked. That may have disguised the problems but they became evident when Yze and to some extent Burgess were both gone. Yze strikes me as a serious and talented coach and I said on here at the time that I wished he had been given the role instead of extending Goodwin. There may be others on here who also wonder if Yze will coach his hollowed-out team of youngsters to more wins than SG and his core of premiership veterans. Could he and would he return?