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Geez we nailed that draft

I googled that. Perhaps I shouldn't have....

faith /feɪθ/ strong belief in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.

Holy cow. Are looking for a tattoo on your forehead? And do you really think in 2017 we "probably" should have made finals? When we had to beat Collingwood in the last round (who were 13th) and yet we couldn't even lay a tackle inside the first 15 minutes. I'm renaming you Neville Chamberlain, the appeaser. And when you exhort people to have "faith" the evidence would strongly suggest that it is somewhat futile. We won 5 games this year, 3 under 1 goal! What are you pinning your faith on exactly?

That'll fix things. You must be another pea-heart that is happy to accept mediocrity year after year

The fact the players are clueless and nervous with ball in hand is entirely coaching. They have no idea what to do and are like deer in the headlights. Simpletons like your goodself can blame injuries or preseason or 6,6,6, or the draw or pressure of expectations or any number of other excuses. But that's exactly what they are. Excuses. We are supposedly a professional sporting club that has made finals once in 12 years. In a comp where 8 out of 18 make finals. It's laughable, and particularly so to claim that expectations were too high. I think I have worked out your are Simon Goodwin. A question for you Simon. If things are so good with the coaching panel in 2019 why has every single position other than your own, changed?

Good to see they acknowledge the disaster that is 2019. The key is what they do about it. We have been fed platitudes for 13 years and you could probably print the same letter for 10 of those 13 years. We've heard it all before. They're lucky the club has any supporters left. Just fix the **** mess. Demand better from everyone involved.

Gee that ruins your narrative doesn't it. It was clearly coaching in 2018 when they changed the game style after the debacle that was the Sydney game in rd 20. As acknowledged by me and others. Its clearly coaching in 2019. He has botched it and is trying to blame everybody else. Muppets like you haven't got a clue. Thanks for proving me right. play again soon.

Geez its everybody else's fault isnt it Simon? No wonder they have cleaned out the coaching ranks. All will be sweet in 2020. My God what a train wreck.

Well well well. Color me shocked. No on field leadership. Complete shambles in the coaching ranks, Is it any surprise the Dees finished 17th. And there'll still be some muppets saying it was all pre-season injuries

Jetta fires long low bullets. A joy to watch. Davey from memory was much shorter but yes, very accurate The only one that we have to match Jetta would be Melksham.

This would be a coaching issue. And the reason we have cleaned out the coaching ranks.

This needs an update Outscored 28.21 to 8.19 in first quarters.. ha ha ....last 7 finals

There are numerous poor aspects to our game plan, players skills and player positioning that the coaches don't appear to be able to identify - or at least be able to rectify. Playing Jones & Lewis on the wings is one (and Tyson last year), Fritsch down back. Allowing opposition teams to chip the ball and play keepings off against us is another. Not sure why you are so confident they know what the issues are.

And Hawkins goalless for the 3rd week in a row.

But we were told it was just pre-season injuries ....now we find out every coaching position bar the senior coach has been changed...I just don't know who to believe anymore..

We've made more changes than them You don't like research much do you (mate)?

I recall he said he wanted to be a "Hall of Famer" Yeah right

Is there any coaching position that is untouched other than Goodwin? Every position has been changed or personnel moved on. Yet according to some here our performance in 2019 is nothing to do with coaching - its all our injuries and surgeries. Those people look pretty stupid now. This is the biggest 1 year cleanout of coaching staff in the AFL for probably a decade Sadly we are stuck with Goodwin. The cause of it all.

We would still need a coach with a decent plan. We could recruit Jesus H Christ and look like a spud under goodwin

There is re-writing of history going on here - people have short memories. It wasn't about winning the trade, it was about the fact we were so appalling as a football team that we needed to get 2 decent players into the team rather than one. Josh Kelly is clearly a gun and Tyson was 3 yrs into his development. And altho it didn't work out - we did get Pruess - if we had Kelly as a fledgling player there is every chance we would have ruined his career as we have done with a number of low picks and every chance our improvement would have been delayed which we couldn't afford

The AA is a bit of a joke but you're right. Max is clearly the best ruckman with hitouts and taps to advantage. And...the AFL put him on the bench. Idiots

We've been stuffed by the AFL and/or the expansion clubs every time we bottom out

Personally I am glad that the club decided to reset after the bye. It was great getting those two wins agains Freo and Carlton. Made the year really worthwhile and we have set ourselves up for a blinder in 2020. Lets hope we have no more of these "line in the sand" games and "the players take full responsibility" for a complete c*ckup of a season.