Adam The God

In game style, in the way we wanted to move the ball and in margins. Yes, we were struggling to finish off those games, but we have a percentage of 108.7% and a record of 7-8 since Round 6. That is a trend upwards given the previous year. And again, I don't know how many times I have to say it, but I wasn't against the sacking. I don't like the timing or its handling. As for Alan Richardson allegedly being on the selection panel for the next coach, who was the person responsible for ensuring off field matters with Clarry and Trac were handled appropriately and professionally? That's not up to the senior coach. And who is responsible for the wider football department? Alan Richardson. And yet he seems to have got a pass. Mind boggling. I'm sure some of the players won't be too keen on him. He had to be consulted on the senior coach being sacked. I haven't heard a single positive thing about Richo until he has a year remaining on his contract and he's allegedly doing a good job. And thanks to the restructure that Pert did at the end of 2020 you had Richo being moved from Goody's mentor to his boss. Soft cap constraints aside, a toxic and confusing, conflict riddled management structure I would have thought.

He had a larger salary cap, a weirder shaped ground (which could explain the inability of his teams to play the MCG), and practically all Sydney's best players were gifted to him through the academy. He wouldn't have any of that at Melbourne! As for the Blight comparison in 1876, totally different game. I can see you're reaching for another example, because in the modern era, in the 21st century, which is now a quarter of the way in, there is not a single coach who's coached elsewhere and then come to a new club and won a flag. Edit. I'll correct myself. Malthouse at the richest club in the land was the only coach to win a flag having won flags elsewhere in 2010.

So we want to replace a team with clear psychological issues with a coach who oversaw multiple brain melting crumbles on the biggest stage of all?

They've managed to sack the coach, so having an interim everything hasn't been a barrier to a pretty bloody big decision. You'd have to say Smith is clearly pulling the strings and thus will pull the next one with the incoming coach.

Bruce would be high on my list, but I wouldn't really know as I'm not in the industry.

To be clear, I'm not saying I necessarily disagree with sacking Goody, but I don't like the timing or the way it was handled. But we've covered this now.

I think it's a reactionary decision anyway. The net trend was upward in the second half of this season, so they've done it to placate some angry members who have stopped attending because they don't like Goody.

If they'd sacked him in the middle of the year that would have made a lot more sense than waiting until 3 weeks before the end of the season...

The decision shouldn't have been made IMV until the end of the season.

Let him coach out the last three weeks. If they were going to sack him, sack him weeks ago, but instead they've waited until 3 games. It's ridiculous. They tell the players nothing. And then it comes out in the press.

Thank you, Goody. I'll never forget that '21 flag. ❤️

Disgraceful move by a rudderless board. The time for this decision was in three weeks. I had lost faith in Goody to turn the ship, but was prepared for whatever decision the club made. That decision should have happened at the end of the season. I have absolutely no faith in this board or admin to make the right decision. They can't even oversee a FD review properly or ask a CEO his start date before appointing him. Amateur hour. Thank you, Goody for a decade of great service to our club. Despite the lows last year and this year, you have put our club back on the map, my family and I saw a flag we thought we'd never see under your reign and almost always, we've been competitive on field when you've been our coach. Good luck for the future. As for our club, let's hope the board can accidentally get something right.

I prefer the G obviously, but accessibility wise, Marvel is way easier because you can park under the ground. Yes, it's $33 but way easier.

It's become increasingly clear to me that Goody and the FD won a flag in spite of the horrendous off field management of the club. Remembering of course that we changed presidents in 2021. So management did their best to ruin that opportunity too. As far as I'm concerned, we need the club back in AFL hands, because it's clear our ladder climbers sit on our board to further their own careers, with no love for the club (there have been exceptions of course). We've had two recently past presidents that became MFC supporters just prior to sitting in the chair, and a congoline of born to rule board members that seem more interested in what the post can do for them, rather than any incisive strategy and adequate decision making. We've got at least another newly donned board member who supported the Bulldogs until all of a sudden a MFC board position came up.

And the majority of members voted for the status quo. 🤦

I've mentioned this to you before @Lucifers Hero. You'd do a much better job, and for the right reasons, than most Board members. Vote 1 @Lucifers Hero .

Mitchell and O'Meara are the guys they brought in to replace the senior players they jettisoned in the first place.

So who's mentoring the next gen of defender if Lever goes? May has one more year (possibly) left and his leadership style is authoritarian and probably won't fly with younger players. Likewise, we should not get rid of other senior players willy nilly. Hawthorn were in the wilderness for ages because they did that, North the same, and we ourselves know what happens when we clear our senior players and replace them with younger players. All well and good to say we want to get rid of senior players, but you then have to replace them with senior players. Better the devil you know IMO. I don't entirely disagree with you on Clarry, but I think it's still possible he plays an important role going forward. But we need different ideas in the coaches box.

But Trac's game as a forward was always built around score involvements, not kicking goals himself. In the first half of last year when he was on fire, he was kicking goals (see the Carlton game), but his main strength was score involvements around the arc and the pockets.

Because Langdon is an elite winger.

Turner, Bowey, Langdon and Windsor are also untradeable IMO.

You obviously weren't at Geelong or you trade in hyperbole.

Completely agree. IMV it reflects very poorly on our supporters how some talk. Some post as though premierships should be automatic and can be accidental or flukes. God given things. It's ridiculous, naive and/or arrogant in a multi billion dollar industry to think this way. Yesterday's finish was heinous and the last straw for me with Goody, but I saw people compare it to 186, we lost by a kick after the siren FFS. I was at 186 and I was there yesterday. Completely different situations. We should be better than two straight bottom 4 finishes, but we are also not 186 level or even 148 level insipid. 148 was another I had the horror of seeing. There is no doubt our fall from the top has been drastic. However, this does not undo the incredible 3 years we had at the top as pace setters, and no amount of potting in that thread will erase what Goody gave me and many other Melbourne supporters. Something of dreams and something I thought I'd never witness. We may not have been there to see it in person, but we won a [censored] flag. Goody deserves respect for his tenure as one of our most successful coaches and certainly our most successful coach of the last 50 years. It's a huge achievement, and potting him repeatedly page after page doesn't reflect well on anyone. I hope we can manufacture a dignified exit at the end of 2025, he deserves it. But with this administration, I don't trust them to make the right decision on any front. I hope I'm wrong.

Fortunately, my little bloke had no idea what was happening. But the first thing he said to my wife when we got home, who I finally converted to Melbourne this year, was "Melbourne lost". 🤦

Max's tap work in the last was atrocious. I kept saying the same thing. Keep it in close. Stop going for broke in centre clearances.