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They didn't goal in the 3rd qtr

Just catching up on some old news, Didn't Mick Malthouse predict the 2022 flag for the Bombers?? Bwah ah hahahahaha 🤣

Libba only attended 1 centre square bounce. Unusual given he was the no 1 clearance players last year. It seems that Smith has moved from Wing to centre and Libba may be on the outer a bit. He certainly got very little of the ball Maybe he was playing a defensive fwd role

The Dogs are in trouble. Their coach has lost it. Their club is leaking If their mids aren't on top they can't score Their defence is scratchy. Their fwds are not good without Bruce (Naughton excepted) When the Umps stop the free kick love fest they are cooked.

The rule was brought in to stop players charging front on into a player that was vulnerable - hands outstretched going for a mark. Fair enough. Smith turned to go for the ball - you could see he thought about going up for a spoil and then stopped himself. He was stationary when Weigtman barely brushed past him. He wasn't impeded or 'blocked' as you say. BS free every day of the week. Virtually every commentator agrees. You are out on the wrong limb here.

You're kidding with this surely? Lets have another rule No planting yourself in a threatening manner. FFS

The very first centre bounce of the GF Stef blocked Gawn who threw his arms out as if to say WTF?

Smith actually was stationary and Weightman made the slightest of contact with him. Appalling free

Based on limited information shown it seems there were vast difference in coaching styles Goodwin, tactical, well drilled, encouraging, reinforcing, calming and confident. Everything was about structures, discipline, energy and going back to what they had learned and what they knew had worked so well for them Bevo seems much less so of that and more emotional, John Northey style, encouragement. Less about structures and more about 'throw the ball around', 'take some uncontested marks' type instructions. Interesting too the complete confidence that Goodwin had in his team in the box to analyse and recommend tactical moves. As one who wasn't a Goodwin fan early on it shows a remarkable trusting management style that appears gets the best out of all the assistants

https://www.afl.com.au/ondemand/original/501407/sound-the-alarm?episode=1#2021-afl-gf Here it is: Awesome! 4 quarters of magic.

Spoke to a few club people about this. We need to bide our time. Its all happening behind the scenes but the club can't say anything lest they upset one of the 20 or so stakeholders. Part of the problem is that there are so many fingers in the pie with regard to getting sign off. Melbourne Parks Trust, Olympics Park Trust, the City of melbourne, the State government, the Tennis Centre trust etc etc. There are 3 separate Ministers that have to sign off any proposal and given its location there are no votes in this at all for the Govt. We have all heard it before but I am comfortable giant strides have been taken towards a solution.

Given the Top 8 statistically doesn't change much after about round 8 or 9 surely this is just another money grab?

Very good speaker and representative of our club.

Rowan Marshall at 15? Above Jack Steele even? Slobbo write this in his bar seat in the inverloch pub again?

"Never believe everything you read on the Interweb" - Abraham Lincoln

We have thankfully moved beyond the 'how many stats did such and such have' Thats why we are a good team Having sat in the coaches pre-briefings before I can tell you first hand they don't give a tinkers cuss about how many stats you have. They want pressure, team acts, leading to space, spreading a defence, being accountable for your man etc etc most of which you don't get any statistics for. Its on;y because we now do team things that we have improved out of sight. A focus on personal stats just shows people don't really understand how good teams operate.

They'll say "What's a dictionary?"

My kids asked me what unfurl means!

He has already proved you wrong. He played until round 20 and we did OK.

Much easier to watch if you play it at 1.75X speed

We did kick 4 g 5 b in the 1st qtr don't forget when the heat was at its highest.

Our backline wasn't in trouble up to 20 last year when he got injured. Swing and a miss from you

Good to hear the players and club owning it, learning from it and hopefully moving on regardless of how cooked it was on the night

A true original that wasn't afraid to be himself. An old fashioned larrikan. That's a character that seems to have disappeared.

Smith is not the answer. His lack of footy nous costs us more often than not