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Yeah, nah. The Captain or Vice Captain addressing the players after a game is not a story at all. I doubt someone would even think to 'leak' something like that it's such a non-event. Petracca giving a speech was only a little story because of everything that happened last year. If you're trying to catch a rat, you need better bait.

Ain't no one caring about Gawn or Viney making a post game speech.

Who does it help to deny this? It obviously didn't happen as reported. Morris had a bad source and didn't follow up with anyone from the club.

It's a weird one though. I'm sure Goodwin will be asked about it on 360 as well tonight.

Salem saying on radio this morning that this didn't happen...

I guess he can still ply his trade by playing VFL.

Is that likely to be resolved by Thursday night?

As I said in my earlier post we still need to improve a lot in that area. 7 marks inside 50 on the weekend is very poor. We were better, yes, but you can't expect to consistently kick a decent score without generating set shots.

Fair enough but it's the other stats I'm worried about. Geelong kick a goal almost a third of the time they enter their forward 50. GWS almost a quarter of the time. We are at 18.8%.

Not sure what you're trying to say here but we're 13th for inside 50s 14th for shots at goal, dead last for Goal efficiency and marks inside 50...

Riewoldt feels like a classic jobs for the boys appointment.

I thought it was more to do with the language spoken by the parents more than what country they're from. Arbitrary but there you go.

Going deep to one on one contests is a fine way to score, you back your players in to win those but you still can't be too one-dimensional. Still gotta find those easy marks to players in space which are created by good running patterns from the forwards. I'm still not seeing that from us. Geelong are probably the best in the comp to do it. Our pressure in the forwardline was incredible though. 27 tackles in 50 is like our best in ten years so unlikely to be repeated often.

Forward entries still a big concern for me. We went top of the goal square almost every time but our players were better positioned to take advantage and the ball came in faster so it was harder to defend. But we only had 7 marks inside 50 which is not good at all and barely even tried to hit up easy targets in the forwardline.

Great win today. Credit to Goodwin. That contract we've given him is outrageous though.

Yep. Richo has seemed a pretty feckless footy manager who only seems to get mentioned when he needs to clean up a mess. See: Chaperoning Goodwin in Vegas and mowing Oliver's lawns. Tim Lamb has not been able to attract any players of note outside of Grundy who was a disastrous miscalculation. A lot of abject failures in our recruitment since the flag. Goodwin has been unable to fix our scoring issues over 4 years, in fact we've gotten far worse in this area. Plenty of analysis in the media this week showing just how poor our forward set ups and entries are, but this has been a problem that has not been addressed for years. Several players who have underperformed or are at least surplus to our needs. But the list is the last thing that will need to be addressed after the other positions are replaced. Then the club will have clear air to decide where the list is at and make their moves from there.

This thread is literally about the coach.

Its not one thing or another. The club needs major change in several areas. The coach is one of those areas.

Goodwin has said that the players were the drivers of change during the off-season.

You're describing most of our list there.

Was statistically one of the best ball users by foot in the comp last year when he was playing midfield. Trained there all preseason only to be kicked out so Viney and Oliver could take all the minutes. I agree that the list needs a fair bit of change, to the point that we're getting into rebuild territory. In that case I dont think Goodwin is the right guy for the job anyway. Always had favourites and we'd need a development coach.

Sparrow was never much better than those guys. Now we're trying to turn him into a tagger because we let all the guys go who could actually play that role. Its a blunder.

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A lot of the guys you're campaigning against are the ones that were keeping them out of the side. We'd be a lot better off with one of them playing Sparrow's role.