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Zero skill, zero confidence. Taking tackles we should avoid

They have been raping our forwards, and Reid gets that as a hold??????

The seven commentators have serious wood for Alir Alir. We need to stop making him look so good. If we drop anyone onto him when he lags off max, he will not look so good.

Typical. No defence, leaking like a sieve.

So it begins...

I like the look of the forward line. All year we have been bombing out on the head of the talls, and the entry patterns have been so obvious. Now we will have a forward line that works like the pies - have to hit a fast leadup target. Milky, Fritzy and Trac are all good marks, and good in the contest. This might just work. If I was going to add a tall it would not be Preuss. He has a lot of work to do over the summer to get into the team. And he only got 75 hit outs and 3 x the possessions of Chandler at Casey.

Like looking at my wife and deciding whether you should go out with Elle MacPherson! Would suggest they each get judged on their merits. This Half forward role has eluded us for most of the year, with spargo dropping off. Don’t know what to make if it, but hope a rest and a pre-season (and a few angry pills) gets him back on track. Chandler will not stamp Spargo’s ticket. I hope he has a great game and shows us that he belongs.

Something else on, so not going to this 3XL blockbuster. what has Chandler done to deserve a game? Routinely gets 4 disposals and about 20 AF points at Casey. i believe we can win this one.

More like: AFL decide to give GCS a priority pick, and ensure that King Goes to Hawthorn for 2 old chuppa chupps.

11 players down by more than 20%, and another two down by 19% on last year. Look at the names: Viney, Brayshaw (Jones), Lewis, Hibbard, TMAc, ANB,Melksham,(Omac) Tim Smith, Garlett, Hannan, Spargo. Last year their contributions got us to a prelim. Take these 13 players (more than half a starting 22) and have 20% less value from them in a game where 5% matters, and is it any wonder we are down the toilet this year? What a horrible reflection in the reality that was (is) 2019. This year 11 players scored over 2.5, last year 17. This year 5 players scored greater than 3.0, last year it was 9 players. Our top end was considerably weaker as well. Frost, Hunt and Harmes hold your heads high and proud, only significant positive movers.

This clip is instructive, but not for the Gus contest. If the kick had of worked, it would have been the Collingwood players that looked 'lazy'. Gus would have been open, corridor side, ready to go. The kick was crapola, and the contest became a mugging. If it were a set-up contest like a ball up, then this is terrible positioning - all on the wrong side, too many committed, lagging off too far. This is easy to say that in this example, simply because it is what we do at every contest. It was a clear tacking by the wobblers to have one man out the back or side in the clear to exit stoppages, and we simply acted like a bunch of Labradors that see a tennis ball. It also speaks to our lack of two way running (we get out of position and then give up and dont chase back) - but given how often the players have run for the man, only for the ball to get butchered, is it any wonder all they can raise is a half-hearted jog? hen you see Max shaking his head at what is happening, you know this runs deep. We seem to lack the footy IQ to adjust on the fly. When this contest happened, the lack on adjustment was clear. I am out of position - I just stay out of position. Or I get the ball, even if I get my team mate's way. We have no cohesion, our system appears overly simple and without flexibility, and our players have no trust in their team mates to do what needs to be done because the have worked together so often that this knowledge is second nature. Lazy is how it looks, but it is so much deeper than this.

This is an industry with a fixed cycle. By August 1, coaches are supposed to know their ‘futures’ at the club. It is also the time that coaches that want change put their hand up. Pushed? Jumping? Who cares. I suspect he is moving on to get his opportunity to become a ‘real coach’ instead of a pervert of other lists. I would be happy with a tigers-like clean out of assistant coaches, and bring in some fresh talent and capability. Not sure we had the best roster anyway. With a reset of the fitness dept, a swag of changes in the coaches dept, the heat will mount on Goody next year if things dont turn around. The club are backing him, and so will I. But he has until about round 6 of next year before things get ugly, I’d reckon.

I think this is a great thing, and if i remember correctly, there was a lot of cash offered by both parties at the election?

It is actually a good time to give players different roles. Given that the last time they played, Gawn tagged Grundy in the second half to big effect was perhaps why he was asked to do so again. Nullify Grundy, and we have the marking power and contested players to make it a good strategy. Max plays in a team. if the coach says ‘stand on your head in the goal square for the benefit fo the team’, then he should do it. AA? Should not be on Goodwin’s concern list. Lets win one of the last 2 and exit the season with some hope.

So I read that a PhD student found that you don’t make the top 8 if you have more than 27 games lost from your top ten players in the regular season. We are at 38. There are very few exceptions (Richmond this year), but the correlation was incredibly high. With a very average bottom 6 this year, we had nothing to prop us up. So for 2020, I suggest we need to refresh that bottom 6 significantly, and ensure we keep our top 10 players on the park. Might help us a bit...

Dumb club, or dumb supporters? I would take two wins from here. Simply because the team goes to the off season with something positive, rather than a fistful of straight losses. It also can impact on Memberships - win and people have HOPE. We can sell that. The off season should be brutal, but to call the club ‘dumb’ for wanting to win in the last two games is appalling. Are you Mark Neild?

Really? I get that people are upset with how we have gone this year, but dragging the Lever trade out again? Goodness, find something else! I think we made an absolutely perfect set of decisions bringing May and Lever to the club. With a top flight full back and a great intercept defender, we will have the makings of an excellent defense. This will be a cornerstone of what we need to go all the way. To trade in young players and only have frost and Omac back there, and JWags (we had not drafted Hore at this stage), it was an obvious weakness. Find the best available and get them - and that is what we did. This year was a blowout. ACL and then recovery means we have not seen his best, but it is there. Put him in a side where he doesnt have to be 1:1 key defender and the freedom will change him up again. The trade is DONE. Move on, would you, already?

We were done on the wings because they spent the day playing a man off the back of the square to run cover across defence, whilst a defender hit up into the square. This left a winger down. Jones was often the man starting on the back corner of the square, leaving their winger free to do as he liked. The Pies also set up at contests with one man out the back (or side) to act as receiver. We are like labradors chasing a tennis ball. We had no run off half back mainly because they slowed the ball down and looked for terrible options. Some OK switches, but too often all they had was a kick to a poor contest up the line. Even when options were there, poor skills or going too slow cost us outlets.

Any of the Manangatang under 11’s available?

We were awful. Collingwood were bad, but we were worse. THis was not a game for the ages, but a game to get through. Our defense was pretty good early. May was top shelf, and to deny those sneaky goals that the Pies normally run through with strong defensive efforts was pleasing. Not much else went right. Fritsch up forward was good, but the conversion from set shots was appalling. Did we really have 9 marks inside 50 to 3 qtr time and I think we were 1.6. Appalling, after solid build ups. OMac did OK. A high half forward role could actually suit him. Hibbard was a train wreck today. The inability to hit a target (he had 3 and managed to kick it straight to a Pies player) was an absolute embarrassment. Jones and Viney were well below par, Gawn was neutralised, Salem below par. It honestly looks like a 17th ranked team Poor skills, Poor application, no idea how to work together or what others in the team were doing. TIme for some personnel to have a break, theme for others to be gone. We are dreadful. Pies will need significant talent back to beat anybody of note. They stopped in the 4th,a dn we still could barely stay competitive. Please, can wee win the off season and have a good 2020?

No late changes. Anyone else think we are going in way too tall for the putrid conditions?

Gil is a priority p(r)ick.

Are we trying to have the slowest and oldest wingers in the comp - maybe ever?

Seems to position them and their brand in trading/options, so probably not such a bad promotion. In the end, it is a form of gambling, so nothing more abhorrent to this than the million gambling and odds ads shoved down my neck each week.

It is a nice thought, and I will be more than annoyed if 1 and 2 go to GCS. But the AFL can ‘get away with it’ because: 1.GCS are a basket case 2. Melbourne, who will finish 17th, had a good year last year so not getting pick 2 wont be seen by the wider community as such a crime. 3. We don’t make a fuss, so if they decide, MFC will go quietly. 4. Picks 1 and 2 are ‘good mates’ and apparently (not proven) this will help retain them both. I would prefer to see end of first round, access to state leagues as a priority, or some free agency hand-out. However, I completely expect us to get shafted. #3 seems to be OK, though, but 1 and 2 are apparently a class above.