Dr. Gonzo

Most of those reasons come back to coaching.

We kicked 3 goals in the last 4 minutes. Take that out and your stats don't look so good.

I thought starting Melksham as sub was an inspired choice.

Coming back from concussion.

They didn't even stop to do a proper review. What a shambles of a competition.

Now it explains our forward setups 😂

https://www.archivebuttons.com/articles?article=https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/awkward-scenes-in-simon-goodwin-s-kitchen-and-a-power-play-in-the-boardroom-20250815-p5mn6a.html

What is the reason for Watson being chosen? Where did that even come from? Just having worked/played in dysfunctional environments and being out of the game for a long time isn't enough to qualify someone otherwise we'd have people bashing down the door to join. It's a strange call and even stranger knowing it came at the behest of Guerra, our new CEO who hasn't started yet, who has no footy experience and has links to Essendon being touted as a potential board member in recent years.

Essendon were perennial contenders under Sheedy. When they did have a down year, like 1992, they bounced back quickly. Not sure what relevance this has to Goodwin.

Lewis also understands our playing group and club culture.

On top of that they haven't even had a strategic plan for the last two seasons after failing to deliver on every point of the last one (you could argue they met the onfield performance target but technically they didn't). Some may see strategic plans as a bit of a [censored] and they probably are to an extent but they also provide some guidance to boards around their aims and direction and holds them to account.

I don't mind her either but she (and Sheahan and Greg Baum also) always has an agenda - usually it's the AFL's agenda.

The timing was ok, they probably should have extended him to end of 2025 instead of 2026 in hindsight. What a joke.

Having worked for one in the past I can attest to this.

"Pay out a compo claim or we will stop taking your money" not sure how that would work exactly

Each decision must be judged on its own merits. You can't agree with sacking Goodwin now but then change your mind in 12-24 months time because the new guy isn't panning out. As it stands, the decision to sack Goodwin was the correct one. The team has been going backwards for years. He's only won finals in 2 of his 9 years as coach. We lost games to teams we should in no way be losing to on a consistent basis. It was clear that no matter how much "love" the players had for him they were either not responding or unable to implement what he was asking them to do. He played favourites and was too stubborn with positional changes etc The last 2 years he's been coaching to save himself instead of coaching for the future. The time was right regardless of how upset people (including players) might feel about the decision. The performance of the next coach is irrelevant to whether the decision was correct now. It could be the decision to part ways was correct but the decision on who to appoint was wrong, who knows. I also don't buy the financial argument, we have bled members/attendees and it would have continued next season with Goodwin costing us far more than what we are losing by paying him out.

Goodwin had to go, the performance over a sustained period was evidence of that. The success or otherwise of our next coach is irrelevant to whether that decision was right or not.

We have a decent record against them in finals overall I believe, 2023 being the anomaly. Knocking them out in 88 and 89 were some of my sweetest footy memories as a kid.

Beat me to the punch, was about to write the same thing. Conversely they've only beaten us once, in 1958 🤬

The issue is not my ability to comprehend, it's your inability to hear anything critical about the club. You expressed shock at why we are considered a mess off field, I gave you a raft of reasons. Instead of considering that perhaps the club isn't being run as well as it should be and it's not actually some widespread conspiracy to disparage the MFC you put your fingers in your ears and try to browbeat anyone who provides a response. So who is being daft? 🙄

Keep living in denial mate, problems don't disappear just because you want them to. You want the club to be a success stop tolerating garbage and excusing poor behaviour/performance.

Board leaks, leadership issues, cultural issues, infighting with former staff/board members, public spats with prospective board members, interim President, interim CEO, no home base... That's a start.

How come Peter Jackson made it is his first point of call to ensure information stopped leaking out of the club? Stop making excuses for the club, it doesn't help.

Dannie Seow is on the list, don't ask me why I remember must be the uncommon name http://demonwiki.org/Dannie+Seow