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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.

Just now, DubDee said:

Relax guys 

We won the inside 50’s

She’ll be right 

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.

4 hours ago, bush demon said:

The bottom line out of all this may well be that any medium or smaller club (not under-written by head-office) by definition has a bad culture. 

Correct.

Yet if you have massive racism issues like Pies or Hawks, no culture issues to speak of.

Mainstream footy media is [censored] weak.

At some point the AFL will send out the memo to the media outlets to STFU about all this stuff as it is detracting from finals.

2 hours ago, BAMF said:

I know this will fall on deaf ears right now, but that was a cracking game. Both teams had so many missed opportunities. 

We had so many young players, we were always going to fade late. 

Disappointed with the result but proud of the team. Lots to work on though and a few clear gaps still in the list.

Vent away demonlanders!

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

16 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:

We have a lot of young and inexperienced players when the pressure rises many go into their shells and play the safe option. They stop taking risks

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.

4 minutes ago, poita said:

We've got 6 home games to come this season. These last two weeks will cost the club millions of dollars. 

Yep, that's the other ramification.

We're unwatchable.

Even when we win it is a hard slog but it could get seriously embarrassing.

5 minutes ago, SFebes said:

Viney - 1 clearance

Oliver - 44% KE

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.