Adam The God

We win by 4 or 5 goals I reckon.

Anyone got any other suggestions besides Langdon? He's a turnover merchant.

Show some leadership, Steven May.

I completely agree mate BUT having just watched the video for the first time, does he actually punch him? It seems to me like he throws him / pushes him to the side. Unacceptable to lay your hands on another person, however, I'd also say it's unacceptable to throw beer on someone. Yes, different levels of unacceptability but worth noting. Having said all that, it's a banable offence IMO, because you don't touch another person at the football. And it's more than just a push and shove.

We'll definitely be able to announce 50k at our next home game. That'll be a proud moment as one of many supporters who had stuck fat all these years. What a terrific effort given where we've been.

Thank you, Peter Jackson. Without his help we'd be nowhere.

Oscar was the anchor.

We've changed the system mate. Not only are we not playing 100% chaos anymore, we're playing a deeper zone with the old anchor that we played some games with, even under Roos. Against Hawthorn you need to switch. You need to look for the switch on the MCG constantly, otherwise you simply give it back to the opposition and then get killed on the outside. Pleasingly, we constantly looked for the switch and were set up for it. It didn't always work out but by the final quarter, we'd started to make it work. This caught Hawthorn out and makes us far more unpredictable and tougher to coach against. If this is a sign of things to come, we'll win a few more games. I don't think we'll make the 8. But there are some positive coaching signs. Now we need the underestimated ingredient of returning confidence.

I think we need him across half forward. If he can't get into the game, by all means, through him into the midfield mix, but otherwise, playing him midfield actually means he has less time to pick the option he would from the half forward flank or inside 50.

Yep, congrats, @Drunkn167. Hope he loves it!

I stand corrected, @Nasher. I just don't understand Goodwin's selections anymore. Why bring in Oscar? So he's going to play on Roughead then and Frost is going to play on a small? Surely, O'Brien is playing back? But maybe not, given the omission of Weideman?

Email him then.

Disagree. If the CEO is shithouse, the football club is usually shithouse. Don't get me wrong, I have no idea what's going on inside the football club and do not pretend to. However, to say the CEO has no influence on the on field performance is failing to understand how organisations function. It becomes cultural and the agenda is set from the top down. In terms of speculation, I do find it highly unlikely that we'd go from premiership fancies and top 4 finishers last year, to wooden spooners within 7 weeks, all because of a CEO though. Culture doesn't permeate that quickly. IMO, the reasons for the drastic downturn in performance on field from what I can tell (by what has been said by the club and others connected to it in the media), are varied. From a broken system; players failing to implement the system; players not being fit enough to implement the system; players coming back late because of surgeries; players coming back unfit to pre season; the shortened pre season; potential disharmony amongst the players and coaches; and poor match day coaching. There may well be other reasons not yet revealed, but mid (2-3 seasons) to long term (5+ seasons), the CEO will help shape how functional or dysfunctional an organisation is. In football terms, if the club is dysfunctional off field, it will eventually translate to on field performance. I hope the right decision has been made with regards to Pert. I will wait and see.

I feel like we view footy very differently, mate.

@Mach5 - you haven't heard anything on who we might be targeting have you?

Wow. That poor child looks like a young Hermann Goering.

Luck is a word worth using in regards to May's injury, but so is diabolical. What a massive fail he'll be in 2019. Let's hope he pays us back with interest in 2020.

He's pretty much A grade IMO. He certainly was by the second half of last year.

Loved watching him play when I was a kid. One of my favourites, along with the Wiz. Thanks for posting, @Ash35. It takes me back. Even though he was a butcher, I wouldn't mind having Anthony McDonald's run and carry in the team either. We need a lot more of that. Something your mob, Ash, have plenty of.

I reckon Hore is doing a good enough job as interceptor / 2nd KPB. I reckon we can play Tom forward this week, because I doubt he'd have a match up down back anyway. He's likely to be playing on O'Brien, so there's a chance he could get busy.

Every right to defend himself, mate, but I just disagree he needs to defend himself.

Not sure why we'd bring in Oscar here. Who's his match up and what does he bring to the side that we don't already have with Frost, Hore and Hibberd? Given Hawthorn's KPF stocks are pretty thin, I wouldn't be bringing in another defensive tall. I'd be looking at more pace for the likely Hawthorn spread on the G. I'd be looking at Spargo or Sparrow to replace Jack. Spargo is probably the more likely.

He started forward for a few weeks in a row, but they stopped that because we couldn't get the delivery right. When we start to deliver better inside 50 and set up better forward, Oliver one out will be a dangerous player.

I thought that a moment ago when Thomas was being interviewed at the end of the first half and he said 'with our young group' etc etc. They're actually in a pretty similar place to us. Carlton have Murphy (31), Simpson (34), Kreuzer (30 in 2 weeks time), Jones (28), Curnow (30 in November), Thomas (32 in June) and Casboult (29). So seven players playing today that are 28 or older. In comparison, on Wednesday night without Jetta (29), we had Jones (31), Lewis (32), Gawn (28 in December), Hibberd (29), Melksham (28 in August), Garlett (30 in August) and Smith (28). You'd have to say Jones and Lewis will hang up the boots at the end of this season and Garlett will either be delisted or retired. Not sure how much longer Smith will be on the list and how far is Hibberd from the end? I'd say he's got another two years maximum. How long does Jets have? It'll be interesting to see how we deal with our older players in the next 2-3 years.

Absolutely, defence is a part of the problem. We let them waltz out of our backline at times. I think they let us do it once for the entire night and even from this position, I think we still stuffed up our chance to score, which was pathetic. Against Richmond we failed to lay enough tackles inside 50. Disagree with this. Preuss constantly brought the ball to ground against St Kilda, but we were outnumbered at ground level, because the delivery was simply long and to a contest (usually 3 or 4 on Preuss). We certainly lack contested marks in our forward half, but we also lack instinctive, hard-working crumbers. Garlett is instinctive and can be great on his day, but doesn't work hard enough, regularly enough. Outside of Jeffy, we literally have no other option at the moment for natural crumber. Does anyone know if Bedford is likely to be an option this year? I think this was done to inexperience and a lack of leadership at crucial times earlier in the season. But when it came time to stand up and be counted, our guys did it. And won not one final, but two.