The Cult of Disco Turner

I have no idea whether the loading stuff is true or not. I joined the loading cult because the leader was convincing and it provides me some small amount of hope/cope. Plus they give out free snacks at our weekly cult meetings.

Devil’s advocate because I broadly agree with the sentiment: I tend to give these players a lot more leeway given that normal workers also don’t put their body through what these guys do every week. If someone offered me 700k a year before tax for 5-10 years and then they told me there was a decent chance I’d have lasting mobility issues and potentially even lifelong brain damage, I’m not so sure I’d take that job.

The only positive is this probably allows further healing for the brain after the concussion.

I mean, I’m pretty optimistic and think we are a chance against the Pies but after turning around the season and winning 5/7 you want Goody fired if we don’t beat the most in form team in the competition?? Seems reasonable…

This entire thread is just so perfectly Demonland

Bombing it long isn’t the gameplan—it’s just unfortunately what some of our senior players revert back to when they panic under pressure when we’re losing.

…until yesterday we had won 5 out of our last 6 including a win at The Gabba against the reigning premiers who remain a top 4 side. Given the first 5 weeks of the year and evolving our game style, it’ll be really difficult to make finals but we also get to watch a ton of really exciting under 25 talent on iur list who will continue to learn and grow and get better. We lost a game. The goal kicking was horrendous. Progress isn’t linear.

Yeah I don’t disagree but I think Goody and co are well aware that we simply do not have that many accurate kicks on our list and we also lack any traditional dominant forwards. So efficiency without those two things is nearly impossible and therefore the only way we can compete is via volume. **with that said, the goalkicking yesterday was shocking to the point that we could’ve had 10 more opportunities in that second half and I’m not sure we would’ve had more than one or two goals more.

You increase the volume of opportunity. To put it back into footy terms, you try to implement a gameplan which creates a plethora of goalkicking opportunities for your side so even if you miss a lot (like against Sydney) you make enough to still beat the fewer number of opportunities your opponent will get.

That’s not how this works… A gameplan is about team tactics and can only go so far as to create opportunities to score. We have had plenty of opportunities to score every single week. Goalkicking is about the individual and is incredibly hard to re-teach to professional athletes who’ve been doing it a certain way their entire lives.

That’s fantastic news I’ll call the footy club tomorrow and let them know they should expect your resume

No thank u

This season has a big “any given week” feel to it. So many chaotic results. It’s certainly unlikely, but still wouldn’t say the season is 100% done. Everyone between 6-12 on the ladder is a bit all over the place atm and while I wouldn’t bet on us (especially since we seem to have forgotten how to kick the ball through the big sticks) crazier things have happened.

Goody’s job is to implement a game plan in which players play defence and offence in a way that creates sufficient opportunities to kick more goals than the other side. He did his job. We had plenty of opportunities. There are no adjustments on earth Goody could’ve made that would’ve stopped that amount of dreadful kicking. What is Goody’s responsibility now, though, is making the necessary change to who coaches goal kicking going forward.

Everyone - [censored] goal kickers

I tend to be pretty positive and supportive about our players and coaches but this goal kicking has broken me. Goalkicking coach has to go.

I can’t do it with the goal kicking anymore.

Guys I’m starting to think we aren’t gonna boost our percentage much today.

Dominating and still can’t kick a [censored] goal.

Idk what you’re talking about I’m having the time of my [censored] life.

Appalling 1st quarter. But I think we battle back and win this. Despite last week our quarters have been uneven all year.

about 5 free kicks for holding not called there

Well this makes a lot of sense now

Would be great to have Viney back in the side at some point but I’m now far more concerned with his long term health and well-being.