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TMac has been omitted. Says it on the team sheet. Preferred KPD trio is now Lever, May, Turner. Tom will not play again while those 3 are available unless we come up against a team with lots of tall forwards. "Rested" would imply that he will come back in next week, but I'd be very surprised if that was the case. We always have at least one tall as emergency, so that's his role for this week at least.

Yes, like picking the better team regardless of who you have to leave out.

Perhaps. Depends on how AJ (and Petty) go. Also Jefferson breathing down people's necks, even though there again I'd try and give him a run of games at Casey, he seems to be building.

Emergency. Dropped.

He wasn't rested or managed. If that was the case, he wouldn't have been named in the team on Thursday (see Melksham 2 weeks back). He was omitted.

?? AJ, Fritsch, Melksham etc say high.

Peak Demonland playing out here. So many posters lament that the selection committee don't make big calls, yet when they make a big call we get half the site throwing their toys out of the pram.

He's not being rested, he was dropped.

Presumably Sharp to sub again (given that he was subbed out), though could have been an opportunity to bring in Brown or someone else (??) as sub. Interesting though that they're persisting with Sharp in some form or other. Another that might have earned a call-up is Howes, though unless they move Windsor up the ground or there's an injury, hard to see how he gets back into the backline.

With an almost complete list there is going to be selection pressure and some collateral damage. Tom will be back, though I suspect it's going to depend on the opposition as much as anything. Also suspect that Turner will now always be picked ahead of TMac, and therein lies the problem. Tom's also not always the greatest disposer, and when we're trying for fast ball movement his turnovers can be a bit of a momentum killer.

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Yes, but he's only analysing what we're already doing. IOW, we already have the coaches and strategists who know all this and are implementing it. Also, there's more to being an assistant than being good at analysis and systems - not saying he mightn't have those additional skills as well.

One factor that hasn't been mentioned almost anywhere is that we've effectively turned over the whole coaching staff with either new people or new responsibilities. That was never going to come together overnight. It's not just the players who have had to get used to a new(er) way of doing things.

We're still going to lose games, even "winnable" games, and there'll still be bumps in the road going forward. This year is about consolidating a different way of playing and slowly turning over the team, where progress in those goals has to be judged over the longer term, not week by week.

You'd wonder if he'll ever get it back. Perhaps just needs another pre-season.

Watching this, kudos to the coaches and players. So much playing out there in terms of planning, but especially in execution.

No sense of humour Beezl.

While plenty of reports he's going to Geelong. Like every man and his dog. So many farms, so little time.

On the other hand, if by early next season we're getting the wins and looking more than decent, I could easily see Goodwin getting an extension (if that's what he wants). Too early for a "Give Goody A New Contract" thread?

I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if we make finals. We can perhaps get the wins, but not the %. Not that it'll make any difference, Goodwin will see out his contract ... unless he decides otherwise. He's shown enough already, but just being pragmatic, a) expensive to pay him out b) new admin (CEO & Prez.) only comes in at the end of the season and they'll want to get their feet under the table before any big decisions and c) stability is going to be the name of the game for the next 12 months or so, it's been a tumultuous time.

Lever confirmed that he would be in this week. Well, he kind of did, just that he's ticked everything off and is good to go.

I wouldn't dispute that he was poor, just putting that in context around why they may be persevering with him. Or not. We shall see.

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Coaching 101.

I'm sure he will, but just not sure it'll be this season. We saw last year with Bowey what extended time out with an injury does, and Windsor missed that critical end of pre-season/start of season phase.