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He needs a full pre-season and 12 months without serious injury.

And that's one of the main reasons we fell out of the finals last year. No Melksham.

Not fitness. Inexperience and missing senior players/on-field leadership.

I'd love to see the Venn diagram of those who complained that Brown was selected last week vs those complaining about him being dropped this week.

Whose leadership and experience we won't be replacing in the short term at least ...

Especially the case with Petty. We have BB, Jefferson, Schache and arguably Fullarton all as KPF's , not sure how we even fit Petty into that group without compromising the others. Not to mention, Casey aren't exactly racking up enough I50's to give Petty a decent look at it. Unless they wanted to play him down back, but that's a different discussion.

At least someone gets it.

No. Because I understand that things happen beyond your control. We were completely cooked by the 22 finals, and in 23 were cut down by injury after injury leading into and across the finals. You need everything to go right to win a flag.

Believe it was 2 x 50m, the second one for giving lip to the umpire.

Nothing to do with Goodwin. Coaches have surprisingly little influence once the game is in play. Which is why you need on-field leadership and experience. Losing Brayshaw, Melksham, Petracca and Lever isn't helping.

Re Petty: No-one's saying the situation is ideal, but he keeps getting a game because we have no other options. Why is that so hard to grasp? He had a serious foot injury which meant that not only did he miss a lot of football/preseason, he's probably working through building confidence in his body again. Perhaps he'd be better off doing that at Casey, but then which big-bodied forward with a bit of aggression comes in? Crickets. No point, moving him down back either, who does he replace? In spite of everything, Tom Mac has been doing (very) well down there, and you start robbing Peter to pay Paul. But beyond all that and getting into the favourite Demonland pastime of speculating without any solid information to go on, I wonder if they don't keep playing him because they understand that if we are to have a realistic chance of going deep in finals we have to have an effective big-bodied forward alongside JVR. Petty isn't that guy at the moment, but he's the only person on the list who could be.

The old Demonland furphy. Ridiculous. Just because you don't understand why the FD are making the choices they are, that doesn't mean that Goodwin is "stubborn". It just means that he/they have access to information that you don't and/or see things differently to you.

Injuries or equivalent. I know you get bonus points on Demonland for far-flung conjecture, but in the vast majority of cases the obvious reason is the reason. As they apparently tell medical students "when you hear the sound of hooves, think horses not zebras". This coupled with the fact that injuries/lack of preseason etc are random events over which we have no control. Trouble is, our species deals very badly with randomness, we need order and control. So we look for patterns where none exist, but at least it reassures us by giving us a sense of agency, of being able to "do something". Even the question here, "who's responsible?" underscores this as it presupposes that someone is indeed responsible, when that's far from necessarily being the case. And I'm not even going to start on how bad we are at distinguishing causations from correlation. It's injuries, loss of players, etc. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

And watch our defence fall apart - and then come on here post-match complaining about Goody playing players out of position.

You're absolutely right. You're guessing.

Not what Petty himself has said, but heh, what would he know.

Seriously?

Or not. Plenty of obvious reasons as to why we're struggling at the moment.

Changing the way the forwards play will do nothing if the mids can't deliver to them.

He effectively missed the pre-season, and has been playing catch-up ever since. Regardless of what's going on with his hand, he's never going to be fully right until next year.

He hasn't nailed anything. All he's done is taken the dots and come up with a story that fits. See below, the one in purple.

Which is why we drafted Windsor, and traded up to get him.

Nicely done, but can't ignore the impact of Academy players (Sydney) and father-sons (Collingwood) amongst that list. Also, can't underestimate the arrival of even a single key player, e.g. Dangerfield at Geelong as a way of avoiding the dreaded rebuild and keeping clubs competitive.

It's an opinion piece from one of their editors and a Dee's fan - not something from their FD. And not any different from anything you're already reading here.

He's playing the best we have. If you think there are players running round at Casey - who have won 3 matches all year - that would make any appreciable difference, there's a bridge in Sydney that's up for sale.