The Cult of Disco Turner

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.

The quick, creative handball chains we’ve been executing so well recently are right up there with the speccy for my favourite thing to watch in footy. There have been a few that have been like poetry in motion.

Could be wrong but I feel like there might be a bit of a disconnect for some here in terms of what the coaching staff seem to want our forwards to do versus what forwards have historically done in footy. Have found the game plan thread and Binman’s recent comments there really helpful in trying to understand this. Petty and AJ certainly aren’t Hogan or Cameron but the way they play largely negates intercept marks in the forward 50—which both prevents those really frustrating fast transition goals through the corridor that killed us earlier this year and allows for ground balls that either let Kozzy do Kozzy things or starts those inside 50 handball chains to try to get to the open man. Given that we do not have a dominant key forward at the moment, it honestly seems like a brilliant move by the coaching staff.

I’m not as well versed in footy coaching/strategy as others but I feel like it’s been noted that the “tagging” isn’t really tagging and is instead a way to put Clarry with players/into spaces where he gets a lot of the ball and can shine, thus building back his form. Yesterday’s 31 disposals when he’s supposedly “tagging” seems like pretty strong evidence of this being the case.

If you’d like I’ll genuinely give you my Kayo login information so you can go back and watch how much of a positive impact he had in that second half.

I’m…happy? And not anxious or furious? What is this feeling…?