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I'd concur save I'd trust the supporters more than the coaches. Ours is a life long commitment. There's, well...essentially mercenary in some respects.

Thats actually my fear. Unfortunately we have a track record for doing just this. It's sad to think that the team that has had the greatest run at beating Melbourne.... Is.... Melbourne !! We've lost more games than we've won. ( some may need a moment to properly digest that )

Who is going to drive it .... indeed 🤷‍♂️ No one currently has the moxy. Few seem to understand/admit the problem. No one seeing the Elephants and no one's feeling the urgency. I don't mind in a fashion that the CEO has no footy resume. That might actually work in our favour as he can possibly work outside of the 'accepted' norms of the industry. No need to worry about " oh you can't do that, that's not how it's done " . It's a business. The problem is it's run as a Club, nudge nudge, wink wink 😉

Melbourne's Brain's Trust

I'd shake it up NOW... but by now I would be referring to the instigating of change. The first would be putting everyone on notice. A mini review. Not the waste of time review earlier. ( that's had wonderful results )... no, a better than cursory look at who's doing sfa to benefit the playing group. You'd run your eyes across the F.D. across coaching .. across the lot. Who's essential, who's not. Who's f'ing up who's not. Start negotiating with Simon. Everything IS negotiable. If you think it's not.... you've not negotiated 😉 Start short list of coaches available... up and comers, seasoned etc. Look to get fresh eyes , fresh ideas.. An aspirant together with experience mentor for mine is the ideal. F off all the FD cloggers. Inform the List Managers to sharpen their quills... we getting seriously jiggy jiggy ar the trade table. In conjunction with that get better understanding of who can go, who stays.. contract exposures etc etc. Time to prune the Rose bush.... lest it dies. The first step is admitting there's a problem. Currently we don't I'd also address the playing group. Inform them the current state of play is not good enough. There will be change , there will be improvements. They would be told they are either part of the solution...or part of the problem. Everyone needs to understand the status quo will change. Get on board or get out the way.

There's only one thing worse than Goody believing his own bs.. The club believing it !!

Yeahhh... wouldn't want to be..... them !!!

As distasteful as you find it the ladder supports his view.

He's only repeating what many of us are saying. I for one take none of those games for granted and hope the team doesn't. Goodwin's no nong, he'll know the club is hamstrung and rudderless. As much as I'd think it best for the club he signed off it'll be 26 that the torch is lit under him. Of course if we continue to nose dive... the drums will get only louder.

Been there , been the entre . Waste of time unless you're capable. Moot now anyway. We're not playing finals

On light of what Red spoke of elsewhere possibly the trio of Petty , Roo and Jeffo has the greatest possibility of getting up. I don't know that any combo will make much of a difference though unless we change how we play in the front arc. I'd like to see Petty take the biggest defender. I don't care who the opposition put their gorilla on but I'd like to see Petty take him irrespectively causing the cascade effect. Neither Roo , nor especially Jeffo are geared for it. Fritsch isn't a tall anyway. You could leave him in or not. I prefer Milky to Fritta .. You know #18 will put in all day. Reality is we're just mucking around and seeing what/ who might click. Thats about it . Very important they keep separation when ball brought down. We make it far too easy for opposition to defend currently. End of the day we're doing not much more than playing out the year. Every game's a dead rubber here on in really.

Let's try that. I mean, why not. 25 is dead. We're practicing for 26 now

We've talked much recently , as a group , of Windows opened or shut or somewhere moving in between. No one talks about the door. If we don't do something soon we may well find the door closing behind us. Much of our game that we lament isn't new. It just shapeshifts a little. We've never really dealt with our dearth of skilled players, our kicking is problematic save for a handful. What is the obsession with pockets 🤔 🤷‍♂️. Do we need team excursions to SpecSavers as our vision is poor. These aren't overnight surprises. It's with no surprise I find myself thinking that those in charge must think , well one of two things, either they will correct themselves... with a few more games or even more worrisome that it's not our real problem. We still are terribly inefficient in the front arc. Ahh just one more season will sort that out... surely. The 20/21 itself has a few lessons . Not all obvious. We played a game of hold and wait. Denying teams their want to over-run us then counter.. It worked then worked better. It was like watching tides. But even then that almost wasn't enough in 21. The Dogs had experienced this and knew how to deny us. Truth be told imo had it not been for 3 or 4 players executing a number of exceptional acts the game was lost. They did, adrenalin had kicked in and we played out of our skins for the remainder of the game. That only ever works is those 'no tomorrow' games where everything is on the line. They are rarified occasions. Week in week out home & away contests can never replicate this necessity. The bulk of the season needs teams that are equipped with a good complement of skills/abilities and schooled well in sound footy processes. Waiting for that to fall into place.. .. might as well be waiting for Godot. Mind the door !!

You avoided most of the question. Goal kicking i agree with essentially.

Reckon you could be right about Spargypants. On the surface Jeffo looks like he should go OK... but he's all at sea out there. Never really makes me feel he's suited to the big game. Just nqr for the 1sts 🤷‍♂️🥴

Dunno... we know what Jeffo can ( or can't do ) Try Kentfield. See if he's competitive at AFL level. Got to start evaluating the list in real conditions... just mo

You might get there, but you're the entre .

Nope Fair assessment... ought to come into about 3.50 by the game. But that's an on-paper thinking , by the numbers as it were. More holistically.... unless we lock down our defence better and sew up the holes and if we are incapable of taking full benefit of our opportunities ( i know who am I kidding ) then in truth this is a very 50-50 game. We can both be as useless as each other. A difference... Clarko is a much better day/game coach and they might smell blood.

Who then ??? Take as long as you like .. Just whose [censored] job is it to have the team ready, focused and primed for a game ?? Take as long as you like...really. Put that thinking cap on. Not too tight. Tic toc... tic tic..

A very accurate precis imo. How sad and frustrating that the powers that be would rather do nothing in case they did 'something' !!! A moribund paralysis. The petrification of gentrification . Aka. Gutless wusses

I'm genuinely intrigued that the conversation , as such , is deemed by many to be about Goody's new plan and the difficulties ( supposedly) of the team to adjust and perfect. Today , an interesting effort ( at times ) displayed much more than just an inability to finish off not just the 'gamestyle' but the game itself. There are to some observers the poor locating of magnets as well as the inclusion of magnets with weak or mixed polarities. There are other options but the powers that be are loathe to implement. Odd really as they might actually benefit the somewhat flawed 'plan'. The problems we have are far greater than the gameplan. Selection, Placement...and Preparation. The trifecta I wonder how many other teams would stuff up with our entries.

Tmac to the backline Throw Lever forward. Will that work.. (Ricky ) ....w v f knows ... but could be fun. Not like anything matters much for the rest of the year. So what the hey Roll out the barrel

Admire the positivity

Memo to MFC: Game starts 3.15 CST Go us !! Hope the lads rise to the challenge. Again... 3.15 😉