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That's ruck craft big boy.

I'm sure his intentions were to protect Gawn from scrutiny but It's really dumb to even raise it. Just sounds like he's turning a very personal issue into an excuse. It's also disrespectful to North and Xerri.

Imagine the poor media team having to send the email letting him know his video is due.

There is no way Goodwin isn't astutely aware of the media spotlight. Unfortunately he really is just a terrible public speaker and always has been. Whenever the cameras are on him you can see how much he struggles with it. He either says nothing of value and just repeats a bunch of cliches or he says something completely innappropriate. You watch other coaches front the media and you can see it comes a lot more naturally to them and they just seem way more at ease. Even when guys like Chris Scott puts his foot in his mouth he only ever makes himself look like a fool. It's really inexcusable for Goodwin to put the spotlight on his captain like that.

Goodwin bringing up Gawn's personal issues as an excuse for his performance was pretty ordinary. Maybe he thought it would protect Max from criticism this week but now there's a big spotlight on something private that wouldn't have been there had Goodwin said nothing.

Slow precision kicking is one of the most difficult ways to move the ball. You just give the opposition time to set up their zones and every kick is an opportunity for a turnover which is why very few teams do it. There's so many ways we could have fixed our ball movement but really, transition footy and speed on the ball is in vogue for a reason.

I think it's unlikely that his relationship with the players has deteriorated. I've seen nothing to suggest that is the case. The thing is it doesn't really matter if the players love him. His job is results driven and if he can't get the players to perform and can't resolve the issues with the gameplan then he will have to go.

Yeah well there's no point going through the corridor if you're just going to bomb it to a contest in the goal square, might as well just hug the boundary. It's high risk play for no reward.

We only started taking it through the corridor once North got on top and we didn't get much out of it because we still just bombed the ball in deep to the same spot when we should be being for more unpredictable from that position. I've never seen a team with a more baffling forward set up than us.

Nah don't believe that at all. Collingwood are ancient and Macrae totally transformed them when he came in. You don't need to be a team filled with perfect kicks to play attacking football it's more about how you set up your players. If you bring your forwards up higher and focus on creating turnovers then you have a paddock between your press and your goals. Heaps of space for forwards to run into and all you need to ask of your mids is to kick it to their advantage. You can also cheat forward in the midfield and have your players move the ball aggressively by hand. Loads of stuff you can do. I don't think we get the best out of our players with our game style.

It's both. The mids are instructed to pump it as deep as possible and the forwards are instructed to present in front of the goal square. We don't trust our mids to hit a lead and we don't trust our forwards to win one on ones. Personally think it's a cowardly way to play.

In his 360 interview he said that the players are learning a new gameplan and that there would be teething issues. I'm not sure I can yet see what exactly this new gameplan is. We still rely on winning clearance and contested ball to win games, we are not great at creating or punishing turnover, we seem to be chipping around the ball in the same manner we did early last year, and the forwardline-midfield connection is still the same mess it's been for years. But... Maybe this is the teething he's talking about. Personally, I have my doubts. I think if these issues haven't been resolved by mid year then it isn't going to happen and it will be time to part ways.

He changed to Leo Messi a couple of years back didn't he?

Obviously success is the best thing you can have but you also have to capitalise on it. North Melbourne were the most successful team of the 90s and couldn't convert it into memberships.

Maybe you're right. Global Warming is going to kill us all in 50 years so there won't be any football clubs anyway.

Windsor deserved a nom but Miers was the best of the lot.

Right so we focus all our efforts into appealing to a 60+ demographic. Some real room for growth there.

Yeah that was exactly my point, good job.

Advertising is a pretty intangible activity at the best of times. Think it would be foolish for us to stick up our noses at modern promotion activities and I don't think it would cost nearly as much as you seem to believe. As mentioned by another poster Hawthorn have also embraced a similar strategy. We are currently putting resources into producing media and other communications but my point was more that what we're producing comes of as stale and bland. I think we can do better than what we are currently outputting in that area.

Thought she oversaw the whole media department. Regardless, it's something other clubs invest in and we should too.

Didn't we hire Clare Pettyfor last year to do this exact job?

Rome wasn't built in a day, Neil. Their social media pressence is broad and appeals to younger generations. Their style has also been adopted by several other clubs across the league. The only way to grow supporterbase is by targeting young people. No one who has already picked a team is going to swap past the age of 12. That our club's supporterbases demographic is disproporitonately older should be a cause for concern.

Yes:

100% Our social media profile is awful and cringeworthy. Giants are the gold standard in that department and who we should emulate.

Anyone who thinks that horrible weather and scheduling conflicts shouldn't have an effect on crowd sizes is kidding themselves. 24k was fine considering the conditions and it looked noticably worse on TV because people were understandably sitting under cover.