beelzebub

Is this something else the Colombians have control over !!!

you had me at 1 ) priceless !!

And there my friends is the problem in a nutshell. God help us

does $8m stop the wind blowing ??

I wonder if Hodge would have just stood on the other side of the pitch looking at Sidebottom ?? ...i wonder

Condolences to the Adams family. I hear you OD ?

Without doubt we have enormous skills issues We have NO leadership. Our games are played out rudderless. What leadership does is harness and direct what assets you DO have. Look at Lions pre Hodge..and Now. That's no accident.

I hear in many circles that Hodge is a Coach in waiting. Very cluey , understands the game, understands roles, understands HIS role and a good conveyor of strategy. Can't say I've ever heard any of that , and Jones, in the same sentence.

Yes , secondary, but can we get to it straight afterwards !

Would be my thinking. But im not on the same page as our fd

so we're only a little bit dead ? phew !!!

good post I cant see Richardson being a mentor..If he were to sit above Goody he may as well be doing his job. Richo might well prove a clever get as an assistant...if that were to transpire

@Pates on all seriousness i think context sets the time parameter. Goodwins training wheels came off when Roos left. Gameday wise a year earlier. I think its not only fair but relevant to afford anything within his tenure as having had affect.

yes it might.....everything has an effect.

yep.. I suppose the problem is hes 30...but it's not like he's worn himself out lol. Should be a season or two left in him til we can train up a replacement ( or find a ready made)

just changed the goalposts....That wasnt the thrust of the discussion

Well actually we do, in a fashion. Just doesnt want to play ball the way the coaches want...or is just a marked man. I have a sneaky suspicion with different Assistants he might just come good again

shhh they dont want to hear that.....

I tend to agree that those who , as their right is I suppose , just suggest it's all a joke may not be seeing the bigger picture. That picture is not just expanse but time. Quite often in work places something can happen that sets off a chain of events. The eventual calamity may not be for months or years, but it's festering away. People can often get pushed offside by a person or some situation, they put it aside and go on as though all is OK. But the seed is sown. Even though one may put head down , bum up and put shoulder to the wheel in order to get on with things that niggle is still there. A dam doesnt fail because it suddenly fails ( short of a squadron of Lancasters) . That moment has been ages in the making. It starts often with a small crack....and time....and pressure.

that's already a given

The Matilda Cup

The more you look at it the more certain I am actually there IS a connection. That is when the ROT really set in... The demise of this season is everything about how we went about last season...and that last season started with its preseason. Happy to be derided...hell add it to the list Im not slashing wrists. The success of this club has nothing what soever to do with my happiness and state of content. We have no success...so I HAD to find other things to enjoy Cheers

Ive been thinking about this. I reckon they were...just as bad. The difference was whilst we had enough sound bodies , and until we were figured out, then our British Bulldog , gung ho , stack on the mills , rush the ball forwards, contain in 50 ...coerce through the goals style was successful ( as it were ). Skills weren't the #1 prerequisite....just keep corralling the ball forward. But of course you can't keep that up forever. That and everyone including the Chirnside Park under 10's have figured out our devilish little plan. Now we are on the back foot ( often ) and need to have skills, they aren't there. They were never honed nor practised. Only 2-2 players can consistently kick to a position with accuracy and weight. I'm not sure anyone can actually handball except to someones feet or the opposition !! For a team, supposedly at the elite level, we're pretty woeful Red.