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I believe our training ground is quite a bit thinner than the MCG. Might explain why teams seem to go around us on the MCG and we always don't seem to spread enough. When you include the lines marked out for running laps etc then this makes the ground even thinner and when we hit the G we can never seem to spread enough.

I've heard that the bye is only in play because of the quarantine restrictions for WA, it's not to rest players just that they won't be allowed out.

In theory, improving our inaccuracy may actually improve our accuracy - our kicking to the wrong position may end up going to right position!

Will suit Goodwin's coaching, we generally don't like kicking goals anyway.

This would have to be the case. I've said this before but I sent an email to the club late last year asking what further or higher membership options I could get, even what type of possible (small) sponsorship I could do. I had to follow this email up with a phone call as no one replied. The phone call went nowhere, was told that I would be contacted re this as I was talking to general membership and had to talk to someone else. Never heard back. I was trying to give the club more money and couldn't!! Compare this to my tigers supporting mate who, on an unrelated call from the club, mentioned he had a mate who was thinking about getting a tigers membership. They took the details and called him within 5 minutes of that conversation, had him the guy signed up in 10 minutes.

I’ve had some time to reflect and believe we are being impatient. We are only 56 years into our rebuild, we’ve got to give it time.

Is he getting even more ball nowadays as teams are happy to let him have the ball as they know he will give it back to them? I know I would if I was coaching against him, similar to why teams don’t man up ruckman, their disposal usually stinks too.

That is our problem right now. Football clubs sell memberships based on hope. We've had some hope at various times in the past but we just seem to snuff out the hope as quickly as it comes around. Even if we were losing but were playing exciting football there could be some excitement around the club and you could sell it to kids and get them on board. We don't have excitement, we play boring football, we continually lose and just seem to fall further and further into irrelevance. Kids, as well as most people today, want things now, they don't want to wait. What new members will accept another rebuild?

I can’t see us continuing as we are. With our performance being a drain on the league, we don’t have people watch us or want to watch us. It’s only a matter of time till we are moved on somewhere else.

Don’t worry. We will learn from this.

I really don’t think that dropping rotations or even players on the field will have an impact. The coaches are so he’ll bent on controlling the game with their defensive measures that they will just lock the game down even more. They have to find a way to incentivise scoring as well as having more one on one contests. How you do that though u don’t know. Personally I think you need to get rid of most of the coaching staff and stop the game from being so overcoached. They would Probably find a way around it though.

With us moving to Sydney and now (presumably) not going to play at the MCG again, probably for the rest of the season, we won't be getting the MCG money now - how much of a bigger dent will that put in our finances??

It probably does depend on whether other games are postponed but it's an idea out there but an unlikely one

I've heard an idea being that the game is being pushed back till near the end of the season, if neither team is in running for finals and no other outbreaks etc then they just scrap the game altogether.

Goodwin still can’t coach. No improvement at all compared to last week. It was like he wasn’t even there!

If they only postpone the game. Come later on in the season, you get a few injuries that aren't major, could you deliberately infect a player so that you get an extra two weeks for your players to recover? An extreme measure but it could be done!

Out: goodwin in: anyone else

We have to sack him but we can’t. We can’t afford to pay him out.

IMO it won't matter what the AFL do to change things. Coaches are so hell bent on trying to keep as much control over the game as they can. Coaches don't care if the game is good to watch, they are paid to win. I think for some of them, winning 1 to 0 would be seen as a big win defensively!. Even last night with about 10 seconds to go and Collingwood had the ball, you could see the first thought was to not give up the ball and not lose the game as opposed to moving it quickly and try to win it. Go back to only one coach, they won't be able to teach the players as well and defensive structures will break down, allowing for more scoring. It won't happen though.

I knew a guy who was really close to Nic Nat and his family, was told at the time that he was only going to stay for the two years and request to go home. He was/is really close to his family.

I also note that Essendon have got lucky, had a similar amount of post season injuries like us last year but they were given 2-3 months which has them all fit and ready to go again. We needed COVID last year!

Was thinking the same. How can they both be playing in dark jumpers with white numbers on the back?

Will be interesting if the league ends up scrapping the fixture and then re-does the 'draw'. With them wanting to then maximise their takings, all the bigger victorian clubs will stay at home and the lessor drawing clubs will be sent interstate. Won't be surprised to see Richmond play almost all 17 games at the G! We will end up playing 8 interstate games... (I've no idea if it is even possible to work it like that for say Richmond and Collingwood but I reckon it will go pretty close)

There is absolutely no doubt that we will be flying and premiership favourites when they cancel the season...

I really can’t see any change to our game. We still can’t kick and have no idea how to go inside 50.