praha
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We had someone to help alleviate the physicality focused on Gawn. His name was Brodie Grundy. Every player gets targeted in some way to nullify their potency. We have built our gameplan around the dominance of our ruck. This has now been figured out by the opposition. The only way to counter it is to ease the pressure to free him up. It worked in 2021 with Brown in the second half of the year, and a fitter McDonald. Schache is a feather, and JVR lacks ruck craft. The media made us believe that *getting* Grundy was the mistake. It's going to quickly become evident that getting *rid* of him was. I sure do hope Fullerton can stay on the park. Otherwise it is going to be a long season. -
Goodwin picked Schache over Grundy in a do-or-die semi final, but then never played him, instead stuck with Tom McDonald, who is still on the MCG right now completing a 180 degree turn some 6 months after the game ended. AND THEN he traded Grundy, before picking Schache to play *against* Grundy as the backup to Gawn, the role Grundy was originally recruited to Melbourne for. Only for Grundy to smack them both. You couldn't come up with a more Melbourne storyline if you tried. 2021 is such a pipedream. Only Melbourne could [censored] up having two AA ruckman
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Interesting stat I saw on Twitter. Since we lost to Port by 50+ in 2020 we've only lost one other match by 30 or more points (Freo at the MCG in 2022). We've also only lost 24 games out of the past like 96. It is an outstanding record but it does have me wonder what it's all for. Feeling we are in for a tough, long season. I just can't see us pulling a Geelong or Hawthorn and suddenly coming good. I don't think Goodwin has the coaching prowess and I feel we are a bit too raw still. The confidence is there but I think this mob needs a revolutionary leader. Someone to really inject some fresh ideas. We've got another season of this to look forward to and to be quite frank it's not appealing and not good for the fans. Tonight was ugly and we simply aren't ready. I hope for Goodwin's sake that this doesn't snowball into another 2019 because he won't survive.
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Gameplan won't matter if the club's leaders persist with their delusion and naivety.
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I'm pretty disappointed and disheartened. I can't really support certain individuals given this happened on their watch. I think someone needs to take accountability here because it's a trend, and individual players are continually scapegoats. It's symbolic of a cultural trend and the longer the supporters put up with it the longer it'll fester. If the club falls away this year then the CEO, Board, and Coach should all resign. Seems pretty harsh but the implications and accusationa are following this club around and so long as they are still at the club, every single little that happens at the club will be blown up. I'll be there day one (not day 0 because flights were too expensive), but I go in pretty [censored] off overall with the club. I feel like the premiership window has slammed shut now for at least a few years. We need to fail quickly and get beyond this bump. Pretending it doesn't exist is just making it worse.
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Gee the pressure or Gawn is already evident. Such a colossal error giving up so early on Grundy. Gave in to media pressure. Pace is still an issue because structurally we play high pressure which is vulnerable on the turnover and doesn't let us take advantage of the pace we do have. No matter how quick you are, if you're playing a kick behind on the transition you'll never catchup. It's a Goodwin coaching speciality and has been since 2017.
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look I'm one of the worst posters on here but this is ridiculous.
