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Scoreboard suggests otherwise. We just blaze away. It's all about scoring shots.... not scoring ability for us... Milk, no cream. Cake, no icing.

I'm not saying that... I'm saying it's our ONLY tactic. With no commensurate skill to finish it off.

My point is... there has been tweaking and some rearranging but the pre-eminent method of play is really just pressure. Pressure is a component of good play but it shouldn't be the be all and end all, and that's my take away. We really have no that many sides to our game. I know he is capable of nuance as his early days with us ( but notably under Roos ) exhibited this. We seem stuck in a rut and just vary our cannoning along said rut up either side but never out. Many I suspect are waiting for this weekends result before putting any lines through the season bit I'm already there. We're just playing out 25....it's how we do it that will determine who and what for 26... and for mine that ought to 'who' in every aspect... FD and List. Go Dees Just go better ;)

Loosely translates as ?? Asking for a friend 😉 😀

There has , to this befuddled observer, been most likely one common theme about Goodwins tenure. The prevalence that pressure will see you through. A lot , if not all, of his tactical strategies are reliant on unswerving pressure. There's never been much attention to nuance, to top end skill... just keep at it and the ball somehow goes through the sticks. And there in lies the fault in his 🤔 thinking imho. It doesn't. Yet we still don't seem to give any weight to finishing off our efforts properly. It's very slap dash . We have a game that attempts to have/use the ball more often than our opponents but we're failing. I can.only surmise that we'll struggle continually if we don't change that fundamental of thinking. It seems Simon is either reluctant or inherently incapable of repositioning his approach. This is why , for the most part , I see a need for a change at the helm. We just seem to be going nowhere and doing it the hard way which if nothing else only confers extraordinary wear and tear on the list. Better teams play a much more clever game. We don't really want for effort, just results. That the very essence of the game ( for mine ) seems to sit at the bottom of necessities is the damning commentary. The game is about a better score. Simply that. You win by no other metric. Just the scoreboard. You score most effectively with goals. You score higher if your goal kicking is accurate and often. Kicking points ... just dumb footy. And he we are. Now ponder this for a moment if you would. We do this by design. This is how we play. This has to change. What avenues of change do we have ? How's the pondering going ??

It's not even an elephant in the room , our goalking is merd !! Why is this not better ? Can only logically be one determination. It doesn't rank of importance. Bizarre really.

Or Tulip.. saw them clean him up at Artic Park one day. An act that changed my perception of footy forever. Absolute [censored] act

Lethal, not called for nothing. He and his Neanderthal brethren , esp Dipper, would oft hunt for victims. Two absolute [censored] examples of almost- humans.

He had mates ...

Always bemused me that the club goes all clandestine at traing , all the secret squirrel stuff. I mean.... who tf would copy us !! 😆😆😆🥴

Biggest test ? It's our Grand Final ( the only one we're getting remotely close to this season ) Do or Die stuff. Let's see if anyone actually takes real pride wearing the jumper. Not expecting miracles ,just decent footy and some semblance of accuracy. Too much ?? Go Dees ( but....tttt... Filth by 50 )

Something I'd agree with him on ..... as I've suggested elsewhere. Two aspects. Technique and Mindfullness It's not rocket science.. Both require application and repetition..

Jnr Jnr Jnr have you not heard . We're in good hands ....... Purely coincidental that our fitness drops after someone leaves and another teams betters when same said person joins. Co- incidence actually means two things happening at the same instance etc. Nowhere does anything dictate they must be mutually independent. ( often a misconception) We haven't been the same have we ....

So here we have an instance of a political football being.... a political football.

Well, lots of things are worth a try. My thoughts of May forward are I have none really. I'm aware he knows what to dobas he was a fwd once before settling into one of the comps best backs. It's possibly more my reticence of fixing something that ain't particularly broke. Our defence is generally OK. Well it was, before it was 'fixed' . I was a little dubious that bringing a suspect Lever into the team and displacing Tmac would result in a beneficial upgrade. It hasn't. My preference is to have May, Tmac and Disco hold down the big defender roles. No one else really does May's job quite as well as he does. But...let's roll with your idea May up forward.. then begs with whom ? I've really rewritten JVRs card atm as not being quite good enough. Might you want Petty back and Disco fwd ? A backline comprising Petty, Lever, Tmac, and Salem ? Tbh.. I'm past caring. We might as well raffle the magnets. Just to finish this post.... my rationale re Ricky pushing forward is he's out of sorts at back atm. So don't have him there. His forte is reading the flight, picking off the ball and making decisions ( generally very good ) quickly. He can normally find a team mate with a quick disposal. We [censored] around a lot in the f arc. Someone who can get ball, move ball to advantage quickly is what we've missed for a long time. Look at games we've been most dangerous in. The ball moves quickly and fluidly into the 50 and directed to advantage. I.e.. someone sees someone else and ball is relayed quickly without hesitation. What do we do all to often... we prop.. just long enough to kill the ball. We need to break this cycle. But , hey, cast the runes, mix it up and it might all be for nought if no bastard can split the sticks anyway. Go us... Roll on 26

Just not a venue

You recently won houses upon a profound belief. Putting any up for this game ?.

A particular #4 was a very nice kick. Well he was

Probably the only joy I will get this weekend regarding us playing the filth. Fond memory. Thanks Jack 👏 ( take note who touched that "almost" goal too 😉 )

That WOULD be a logical approach. ....and obvious. Bizarre really.

Fixed 😉

Sorry... that went past you.. My post was referring to D Rev assertion that the "average" person doesn't work weekends or Thrsday/Friday evenings . It was a loose pointing to the many people in hospitality and tourism to say nothing of shift workers...in factories ...or Hospitals, Etc etc. I.e.. they ( footy players ) are hardly hard done by.

You won't do all things at all times. You might need to do some things a lot of times. It really oughtn't be a Lotto everytime a Demon kicks for goal. 🤷

You're very close to something. I'd extend your thinking by suggesting its because there's no clear, defined artfulness in our forward structure and craft which leaves far to much to effectively chaos theory in approach to scoring. It's as unregimented as our skills. Our forward game is NOT built upon skill it's built upon pressure. And my oh my does our scoring exhibit the effects of that.

Believe it or not that is as much of the why you practice as the physical. Is to train your mind as well as the method. As I said. Technique and Mindfullness. One becomes the other. Kinda Zen. Wax on...Wax off