jnrmac

It's pretty clear whatever they are they don't work

That's not something I have have ever said.

We are 17th in defence this year, 9th in 2018, 9th in 2017 and 11th in 2016. But we don't have any room for more defenders because ours are such guns.

Its the manner of the losses, the repeating of the same mistakes, the inability of players to perform simple tasks for a professional footballer and the inability of the coaching staff to articulate a clear plan and execute. And the fact we have been listening to the same shiite for way too long

I heard the interview in question. he said that he had seen it live. So when he said he hadn't watched it again he was clearly saying he hadn't watched a replay. Some nuffies here seem to think that he would lie about that.

Our defence is the 17th best in the league

There is a lot of revisionism around here...

Are you calling him a liar? If he wanted to cut it short he could easily have said 'Yes we reviewed it and moved on'.

So if you have on opinion it doesn't count unless you want to run for the board and control the club? Is that what you are saying? Are the current and previous boards beyond criticism?

Melbourne coach Simon Goodwin is so determined to see his club move on from last year’s preliminary final humiliation at the hands of eventual premiers West Coast that he hasn’t even watched the full replay. The 42-year-old former Adelaide champion has only briefly touched on the experience with his players, instead opting to focus on 2019 and the Demons’ next tilt at a drought-breaking flag. “It’s been a pretty simple one for me,” Goodwin told SEN on Tuesday. “You look at your year in total and you try to keep perspective about where you’ve come from as a footy club and where you’re going. “I certainly haven’t looked back. I’ve been more inclined to look forward. “I haven’t dealt with it with the players. I actually haven’t really watched it again.”

All the players have skills - some clearly better than others. The issue is they are confused and don't know what to do. It's like they get the ball and say to themselves 'don't mess this up', 'hit the target, 'give the ball off to the nearest team member', 'kick the ball to an outside runner', 'handball backwards to a team mate running forward', ''switch the play but FFS don' t kick to the corridor', 'play on quickly but don't turn it over, or kick to a dangerous spot, or a one-on-one',.. .. all in the split second before than are tackled to the ground. So then they rush their decision or are frozen by fear hence the shocking turnovers. This adds to the pressure and players trust in their team mates. Also the players distrust of the coaches. Once that breaks down, people don't run to position, do the 1%ers for their opponents and they start playing for themselves.. Its cancerous. And when there is little on field leadership it all goes downhill, Compare this to an Al Clarkson coached side. They have a well drilled game plan and know where to kick to, where to run and when to switch. Fagan has borrowed it and because he has Hodge on field coaching it has come together very quickly. Goodwin is stubborn and insists on playing 'the melbourne way' whatever that is, regardless of how the game is being played, the weather conditions, the opposition, our personnel or the scoreboard. You see that from his ridiculous team selections at times. The only times I have really seen him vary this approach significantly is against WCE 2 weeks ago when we should have won, and against WCE in rd 22 last year. We supporters know how the team plays and can almost write the script. Watch Houli get 30 damaging touches this weekend , Jack kick 6. and Dylan Grimes look like a superstar.

I applaud your posting effort but I fear it is on deaf ears. Against St Kilda you could have written the script with Bruce and Membery taking 100 marks between them and kicking 6 or 7 goals. Their outside runners chop us every time and we failed to negate it. Probably because Goodwin is to stubborn and wants to play the melbourne 'brand'. You have made a valiant attempt to predict the game against Richmond and it looks like the usual script. Your suggestions make a fair bit of sense. Goodwin made some good tactical moves against WCE but that is the exception to the rule. Richmond should wipe the floor with us.

What more evidence do you need? Analyse the 2018 season and you'll see that we played good football for 4 weeks.. The previous 10 years and the one after were putrid.

Mate they didn't even review the PF. They don't do reviews. Its beneath them

Wonder what the invisible CEO and Board are doing?

The players look totally lost. Maybe they don't 'agree' with the game plan, maybe the message or brand is being lost as we keep losing. The message is confused and when players have the ball they just look like they want to get rid of it as quickly as possible. They run to the wrong spots. They fly for the same ball. They have zero confidence in kicking for goal. they don't run both ways. But its all down to injuries and pre-season surgeries. Yeah sure. That explains it all. Coaching and on field leadership are deplorable

I think we need to go on a camp.. ..and as someone else suggested, have more banners to run through that ask people to not to send hurty tweets

The players look totally lost. They look confused. They don't know what to do. They look scared to take the first option. It looks to me like they don't believe in the coaches plan anymore. Probably because the coach doesn't know what he is doing.

Fantasy stuff

Nah I am really inspired. This club is going places.

Good to see Casey rally to win against a side that had lost 6 in a row now 7. Inspiring stuff.

You're unsure of what is blindingly obvious?? hes no good and never has been.zero intensity or attack on the footy.but if you can't see it after this long there's not much help for you

Goodwin: We were outplayed for majority of the night. In the end, we were lucky to be in it. Even the coach doesn't support your pollyanna viewpoint

Apologist number 2 rears his head. You clearly didn't watch. We were putrid. Gifted them 14 goals. We were 3 goals up after 3m and were hammered in nearly every stat.

Gee i wonder what the ladder is for gifting the opposition 14 goals every week? Surely we're top