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Goodwin gameplan is Chinese water torture. Our players are mentally and physically dead.

Goodwin has killed this team. Purely in a football context (not personally) I hate everything about him.

I wish the club would [censored] him off now but they won't. Maybe mid year. We'll be batting to win a game.

Can't wait for the post match presser. Learnings, territory, game on our terms with a little bit of love and healing.

If it is experience that we want then Longmire is the only option. No to Simpson, no to Hinkley.

Goody loves territory. Scoreboard not so much.

We have 6 months to find a coach, it starts now

Fitness is atrocious, skills poor, transition between the arcs non existent. No football nouse. We'll be lucky to win 5 games this year. The Goodwin gameplan is rubbish. It's a slow death with ageing players. New coach and fresh start needed for 2026.

I think they got tunnel vision on that pick 9 trade. Gave Bombers way too many picks. Will probably come back to haunt us when/if trying to split pick 9. Pick 9 is great but shocking negotiating on our end.

Despite my rant with a few aspects there were genuinely some good things to take out of the game.

That may have been the intimation from Goodwin but surely he should have anticipated that and encouraged the group to keep going. Positive mistakes are better than defensive/negative mistakes as long as you continue to pressure the opposition. Given our defensive game style in general it's hard not to be sceptical.

Flicking the switch from attacking to safe mode plays with players' heada at tines. I'm not surprised we saw some dumb mistakes in the final quarter. Instinct becomes at odds with instruction and you end up defaulting to dumb [censored]. Listening to Goodwin in the after game pressers over the years. Dour, uninspiring summations and never takes ownership. I reckon he has mastered the art of sublinally blaming the players without actually coming out and blaming them. We always need to "work harder". Tonight he said we played too safe in the final quarter. Doesn't elaborate on why though. Leaves us to assume it was player error even though he likely directed that [censored]. Bit of a sly communicator at tines.

Petty 4.13 for the year now. After kicking 12.1 last year, wtf has happened? Technique gone? Mental? Both? Killed us tonight. As a team, 4 behinds in last two final quarters. What message are they getting at 3/4 time?

The AFL is a [censored] weak organisation.

Garbage final quarter. Potentially our last win for the year. Slow, unfit, average skills, no discernable method or team rules, no midfield depth. What a shambles. Goodwin probably happy with himself after that win. Sure, umps had a few howlers but not scoring at all in a final quarter is pathetic.

OK, so Goodwin presser. I'm not going to dissect it but one thing that irks me. He pointed out that Pies are a high pressure team and that we need to execute better under pressure. Fine. Howabout as part of that we APPLY pressure of our own. Pies played an easy, third gear style of game today and won by 8 goals Because we let them.

Our guys don't do physical pressure that well full stop. We don't body spoil. We don't run hard enough straight line at opponents. We corale too much. We don't know the sneaky art of hurting opponents. Ala Moore knee into Petracca. We play happy happy joy joy footy under Goodwin. No wonder Maysy gets so [censored] off.

47 inside 50s 6 goals We were actually 4 from 40 before the last 2 junk goals. I guess there's a bit more to footy than just contested ball and territory hey Simon.

The scary thing is Pies are only in third gear.

Yep, that's the other ramification. We're unwatchable. Even when we win it is a hard slog but it could get seriously embarrassing.

It's a big problem for the rest of the year too. No Petracca is going to show up our serious lack of midfield depth and this diabolical gameplan. Godwin is going to get exposed big tine here.

A few have gone in half hearted here and there but in general it's pointless listing poor players. We are improvising out there, the players have no instinct. We have no system. We aren't drilled forward of centre. Poor skills and decisions are a biproduct of this. Even simple stuff like fisting it on in marking contests up forward for runners to run on to. We don't do it. That spoil attempt by Billings as example, no body on body pressure. Footy 101 stuff. Simon has to go.

Poor old Gawny has to do everything out there. Goodwin and his stupid gameplan has ridden on the shoulders of 4 or 5 players for way too long. They should be a weapon but under Goodwin they are a crutch.

Our senior acquisitions have been ordinary since the 21 GF as well. Dunstan, Hunter, Billings all rubbish. Our list management has been millionaire stuff. Even the best teams replenish year on year with quality. Not us.

11sec, couldn't hold on. With 45sec to go, twice kicking out of defence couldn't get either a mark or stoppage. I don't mind Goodwin as a person, I think he has a high EQ and don't buy any of the culture stuff but he has to go. He's derelict in his coaching duties. Diabolical gameplan and bog average list which has become way out of balance. Totally inept forward of centre. Contested ball and territory is all he has. Nothing about transition, conection, team rules, forward system. When our players get the footy they have to think about what they're going to do with it. When the Pies players get it they already know and are gone.