jnrmac

Hardly tearing it up. Once with more than 8 kicks. 3 games with 1 goal. meh... Did I mention he was 28yo?

I am wondering of the refusal to play Brayshaw in the middle has something to do with strength issues in his arm. Elbow tendon injuries like he had over summer are notorious for taking 12-18mnths to get your strength back,.

this is one of those classic lose-lose games

He must have pictures of Goody. I am a Melksham fan but this year he has been awful. Very selfish player and wouldn't chase to save his life.

Adelaide has made eight changes for Wednesday night’s clash with Melbourne, headlined by the return of stand-in captain Tom Doedee. Doedee has reclaimed his position in the Crows’ back six after successfully completing Tuesday’s main training session and will lead a young Crows side out onto Adelaide Oval to tackle the Demons. Five of the inclusions for Round 10 are aged 20 years or younger, with two more AFL debutants set to be unveiled in Harry Schoenberg and Lachlan Sholl. Schoenberg, 19, is a ball-winning midfielder who was taken with pick No.24 in last year’s AFL Draft. The inclusion of Schoenberg and Sholl brings the number of AFL debutants blooded by the Crows in Season 2020 to eight. Teenage swingman Fischer McAsey and tenacious forward Ned McHenry return to the senior side after brief rests on the sidelines, while Darcy Fogarty has been named to make a long-awaited return from a persistent shoulder injury. Fogarty will be joined up forward by the experienced Taylor Walker, who was a late withdrawal from Saturday’s loss to North Melbourne with gastro. Veteran David Mackay rounds out the inclusions. Kyle Hartigan, Shane McAdam, Andrew McPherson and Tyson Stengle will be managed on the back of a four-day break. Riley Knight, Bryce Gibbs, Rory Atkins and Kieran Strachan have all been omitted. Midfielder Brodie Smith has been named on a wing and is set to face a game day fitness test for a knee contusion suffered against North Melbourne. Smith was restricted to light duties during Tuesday’s training session with his right knee heavily strapped.

8 changes for Adelaide

No wonder you have Mental Demons.

Makes sense to me for all of the obvious reasons but the selection committee each week seems to be chanelling Garry Lyon from on the Coach.

My take is the opposite of yours. A Coaching apprentice has the opportunity to learn the craft of coaching (or refine your own theories) without the day to day pressure of being a F/T coach, media performer, corporate schmoozer, selector, mentor or recruiter. Relationships are important but previous 1st time coaches have lamented about how much extra there is for a FT coach to do and how much easier it is for a line coach. Many have been swamped by the extra responsibility of being a FT coach and haven't coped well. Some have even said at theend of their tenure thatt they wish they could have just focused on the coaching aspect rather than all of the other 'stuff' that goes with being a FT coach. The work load of a FT coach would be horrendous.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/353939/club-champion-fifth-jack-watts?videoId=353939&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1473317040001 Anyone thinking the decision to get rid of Watts was wrong only needs to look at the 2016 B&F when Watts came 5th. Have a look at his cringeworthy speech and Roos' intro that stated that "Jack decided to become a great player" Start of next season he was dropped from all of the pre-season games because he came back out of shape. He was gone at season's end. Watts is a wasted talent. The world is full of them. Football wasnt of great interest to Jack he'd rather go motorboating with buxom women.

The difference might be that at other clubs they're not relying on new players to win games. They have a leadership core that do the grunt work, Our 'leadership' is very sketchy

The coach and the players have stunk it up for a year and a half. Nothing has changed. And we have a full list. Anything else is just a pathetic excuse.

Port only had an extra day I believe. But this is part o fthe problem when the heat is not applied to the players. They are let off the hook. It was a dismal performance. Totally unacceptable. The same as last year when we gave the players an out because of our 'injury list' We let our players and coaches off so often for garbage performances. And the weird thing is that It seems the only time they really perform is when the blowtorch is applied. Yet here we are with a full list and Goodwin still can't coach. And Epstein didn't kill himself.

We all knew this intuitively but interesting to see it in writing. Well done. Another embarrassing thing we lead in.

Ratings? Virtually every time we are on Prime Time we completely embarrass ourselves.

He had a dodgy ticker.

We haven't won clearances in the last two weeks I believe so it could hardly be worse.

You could throw Jesus H Christ into the middle and Goodwin still can't coach.

And like the Adelaide camp that has festered for 3 years, the fact that our players went around their leadership and coaching staff to complain to the Players association about a camp says everything about this group. even goodwin was shocked and offered to resign. Yet he learned nothing. Imagine for a second if a player had gone around jonathan Brown to the PA because they didn't want to do a camp? Well thats what we had. Brown would have figuritively smashed them. Its not only a disgrace but emblematic of the poor and divided leadership we have at the club. And when the whips are cracking thats when you need leadership. Where is ours??

I think the time has come to move Oliver out of the middle. We can't afford to have Viney and Oliver in the middle together. Its not working We need more composure. And Viney can't play anywhere else. Oliver is ineffective and turns the ball over with his happy hot potato handballs. He can play forward and that 's where he should go for now. Viney has no other position and often gets in the way of Oliver. We are better off with Salem in the middle to replace Oliver. Salem is not launching defensive attacks or providing run out of defence with his dinky 10m kicks sideways but he is composed and quite tough. He would be better in the middle where his decision making and skills would be better used. We can't do any worse. Goodwin has to do something different.

We have enough talent. We don't have a decent coach. He should have resigned in shame after the Geelong game Goodwin: 'We couldn't get the ball off them' and "we'll be better prepared next time". Seriously a full time coach saying that. Disgusting.

This. And it is blindingly obvious to everyone except our brainless coaching staff. I think this is why we need to get Salem into the midfield. He is no use to us off half back.He doesn't run and carry and deliver to a forward. He constantly dinks the ball 10m (which he does quite well but provides no real value). He is quite a smart decision maker so could well be a revelation in the guts Oliver is now next to useless in the middle. Turns it over too much, puts team mates under pressure and his happy handballing provides no impetus. Viney we can afford to have in the middle but he isn't creative nor can he burst away to deliver to a forward. My thinking is we cant play oliver and Viney in the middle together. Or maybe brayshaw goes in there as it is his natural position and can't seem to play anywhere else.

It's humiliating enough to be a Melbourne supporter and deal with the garbage this lot give us but for professional players to have this happen on the field is a total embarrassment and shows what the competition really thinks of Melbourne. What a basket case and a joke are we. It is outright shameful and to me demonstrates a complete breakdown in team ethos. Whether they are peeved at the coach or there are different factions amongst the playing group as rumoured for several years now it is beyond the point where it can be fixed by the current administration and coaching staff. Why does it take the blowtorch of the AFL community for the team to come out in a half decent effort (Hawthorn game) then fall back again the next week against Brisbane for 3 poor qtrs. And now this disgusting 4 quarter capitulation against Port. Something yet again is terribly wrong at Demon-land. Maybe someone is missing their puppy?

Thats the difference between a team playing on instinct and a team playing with confused instructions in their head. And players worried about their own opponent - like kick chasers they want to look at the stats sheet and say 'I beat my man tonight' or 'I got 23 touches'. Goodwin can't coach. PLayers don't know what to do. Thye aren't playing for each other. They aren't running their guts out. There is no leadership. They are headless chooks with a coach that has no idea about how to fix the problem. Why does it take the string blowtorch for the AFL community before these hacks put effort in? Why does Melbourne always have these absolute blow out games where they get smashed? Coaching and leadership

I am still haunted by losing to Sydney at the MCG after Sydney had lost 26 games in a row.