praha

Melbourne.

Defensive awareness. Zero. Rather astonishing. One way runners the whole way.

Let's not nitpick now. Goodwin has said similar plenty of times. Look back at his pressers towards the end of last year. After the West Coast game. I'm not a huge Goodwin fan but it's wasy to apply selective analysis.

direct copy paste of quote.

Goodwin said: (Jake) Lever, (Mitch) Hannan, (Michael) Hibberd, (Christian) Salem, (Alex) Neal-Bullen, (Steven) May, (Kade) Kolodjashnij, (Sam) Weideman and (Jay) Kennedy Harris All to come back. Hibberd, Salem, ANB, Kade and Weeds were all in the side when we were arguably playing our worst footy for the hear. Hannah helps, Lever is obviously a huge inclusion, JKH is okay I guess. We have huge depth issues.

Thanks for the vague bs. Why not just post what happened?

I left.

If we had lost to West Coast and subsequently missed finals last year, Goodwin would be out of a job come 5pm. Might be time to start pressuring him.

if that's the case hit the boundaries and for wingman to fill holes in defense. goodwin is a stubborn coach. we play like millionaires but look like unemployed Arts graduates: no promise and no real skill.

And on cue after our captain misses a shot they go and kick a goal.

Typical. Our captain has a chance to kick a goal after 5 minutes of solid play...and sprays it from 40 directly in front.

Steven Febey 2.0 Lockhart has an Andy Lovell quality about him too.

If we hadn't played finals last year this game would actually be Goodwin's last. One of the most structurally inept performances I've seen since the Neeld days. Just an awful coaching performance. On top of that, the playing group appears to have zero urgency, directive or leadership.

Jones is a deadset moron. Demands the ball while surrounded by 5 Giants players. Fritsch is quickly turning into Simon Godfrey 2.0.

Oliver Jones Petracca Garlett Brayshaw Mcdonald all less than 8 Fantasy points.

That was an embarrassing umpiring display. Two umpires needing to be told how to count.

Dumb asses.

16k max I'd say.

please never play that version of our song again.

predict we'll start strong but then go goalless for 3 quarters. giants by 42.

Better hurry up and get to the ground folks. Only 20 minutes until the first bounce and there's only 90, 95 thousand seats left.

Bizarre. 9 days as well. Surely it wasn't just a "wait and see how you wake up oj game day"? If he was still showing symptoms after 6-7 days it's a given he isn't playing. The FD is a joke.

Yes one game behind the records of 7th and 8th but given our %, we would effectively be two games off a top 8 spot. Lose today and we are still three games off. Our poor percentage is basically worth another game. Teams would be licking their lips to play us, because even if they lose against us they don't stand to lose much percentage given we barely score and don't win by much.

May need to take the red and blue tinted glasses off, folks. Daniher lasted much longer, with absolutely disastrous, pathetic performances in 1999, 2001 and 2003. Not to mention: A huge choke and breakdown in 2004 after being 1st after 18 rounds, losing our last 5 games including an Elimination Final against 8th-placed Essendon. Losing 7 games in a row in 2005 after being 2nd after Queen's Birthday, and scraping into finals before getting belted by 70 points in the Elim. Starting 2006 at 0-3, losing to bottom placed Carlton twice (!), gifting them 2 out of their 3 wins for the season, and also gifting Freo their first ever finals win. Topping it off with a lovely 0-9 start to 2007 after going into the season as Victoria's perceived "only hope" to bring the flag back to Melbourne. It was the quintessential Melbourne way to disappoint everyone after being hyped up. Absolutely loved Daniher and what he brought to the club, but, arguably, keeping him on for as long as we did arguably fed into our cultural downfall towards the end of the decade and start of the 2010s. We were extremely top-heavy in the age bracket, recruited TERRIBLY at the draft table, and looked borderland wooden-spoon worthy for large chunks of seasons across his tenure. We were lucky not to finish last in 2003 (the Bulldogs finished last and beat us, recording 1 of their 3 wins for the year, and we only beat Carlton by a goal). Love or hate Scott, he managed to get a pretty average squad to a couple of Prelims, and while they never looked likely to win a flag, they did net some huge scalps during his time, never truly bottomed out, and were consistently solid for the first 75% of his coaching career. Granted it fell apart in the second half of 2016 after being 1st for most of the first half, but his tenure still stands as one of the more successful and consistent post-Pagan/Carey years.

Players named on an extended bench are always listed in VFL teams. Harmes is on the bench for a Sunday AFL team. He's not playing in the twos. Fritsch on the other hand...