Adam The God

It's way too easy to manipulate mismatches with 1v1 footy. It's why it went out. But clearly the next evolution of footy will be one that slows down the ball movement of the opposition.

After finishing in the top 4 and making a semi? Name a single club that would have done that and succeeded?

I'm the same mate.

I keep seeing this disrespectful nonsense from the constant neggies and it's the most naive,.ridiculous statement you could make. You don't fluke a flag, it is won by many.

Yep, West Coast let it go on way too long. I was staggered to read on Demonland the other day, posters advocating for Adam Simpson. The only experienced coach I'd be interested in who's gettable is Bevo, otherwise we should be looking for a young up and comer.

Chaplin's inability to get our forwards to lead up at the ball carrier tells me he's stuck in the groupthink of the coaching status quo at the club. Bassett might be the better choice.

Our pressure ratings have been ordinary post Round 1, so it's not just the Geelong and Essendon game.

We were brilliant at times in Round 1 against GWS. That is what is so bizarre. Our stoppage game was on, our forward craft was there, our forwards had separation, and ever since three quarter time in Round 2 (although we were low pressure in the first half too), we've been abysmal.

Indeed.

Maybe baby. I'm not sure how the contract stuff works mid-season. Could we go after an Enright or Scott Burns and have them come over straight away?

Yep totally, the vitriol directed at a premiership coach of 10 years at our club is a disgrace IMV. Sure, you can voice your disapproval, but have some respect.

The problem is, we're not going to get our new coach in now. We have to wait until the end of the year.

We tried that last year. Bartel chose Caulfield Grammar instead...

I think there is a valid argument to be made that Goody has lost the players. Not only do we look completely confused for most of the games, our pressure ratings are appalling. There's no way he survives to 2026 and there should be huge question marks on Radford, Jones, Williams and Chaplin (and Richardson) too. I think we're in for a big clean out.

So then you target those two in the trade market, ala Lever and May. Or you play a medium back. Or play White back and bring in a cheap ruck alternative.

I think it's likely Trac and Clarry will go, but good calls on Sinnema, White and Prasad. Also, if we could add some FAs or trades like .ay, Lever and Langdon previously, we're well set up for the future.

Really good post this mate. It's a very solid 22. I'd argue Spargo needs to have a proper pre season. At his best, he's easily in our best 22, bit he's too inconsistent as a result of not getting proper pre seasons. I also think that Langdon could play a role well into his 30s like Sidebottom has. Incredible runner, still. FB: **** Petty 25 AMW 21 HB: McVee 21 Adams 20 Bowey 22 C: Windsor 19 Langford 19 Lindsay 18 HF: Chandler 25 Van Rooyen 21 Tholstrup 19 FF: **** Jefferson 21 Disco 23 R: **** Rivers 23 Kozzi 23 I: Langdon 29 **** **** **** If Kozzy goes though, we look to turn him into two top 10 picks and add to our midfield and forwardline ideally with each pick.

At this stage, I'm keeping TMac...

We do probably need more Pep Guardiola. If you can't hit basic targets, you don't get a game. A few of our guys might be in trouble with that philosophy.

It's about the angled kicks or the short kicks into the hole up the field, and then going quickly when the time is right. I know 4 weeks is a long time in football, but did anyone watch Round 1? It was all on display there.

Crazy how much skinnier and trimmer he looks in those photos.

And my understanding is we don't have a ball movement coach amongst our ranks. A bad oversight that.

I've said this multiple times. Trac forward, Viney forward and Oliver defensive mid with a focus on intercept game ala 2021-2023. I implied this in my previous post... long down the line is hopeless. What we need is Max to impact stoppage. Yes and no, and this is my point. We are strong at creating turnovers (particularly in the corridor), but our decision making and ball use is not good enough. Improve ball use and our fortunes turn.

This is where I sit too

As much as I'm p'ed off about our reverting to the long down the line strategy and already going away from the short kicking game at the back, it's reasonably clear that this is on our senior players in Viney, Trac, Clarry and even Max. Our ball use when we turn it over (where we are often creating more than enough turnovers to win games), is solely on the shoulders of these guys who are being asked to make better decisions with the footy in hand, and so far, they're incapable of delivering. Sure, there's very ordinary forward craft in our front half, but the Geelong game was a very good example again of sometimee having 3 or 4 free forwards to kick to, and instead we pick out a nest of Cats. We've done this every week. We need to find roles for those three mids that maximise their strengths and minimise their weaknesses. Their strength in the stoppages has disappeared in the last three weeks after a flying start against GWS. We need to get back to winning stoppage, but we need receivers for them to give to, or half forwards or CHFs that lead up at the play to give them easier options. And our leaders need to lead and understand their limitations. Our season and Goody's future hinges on Max finding form and better ball use from Viney, Trac and Clarry.