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That's right, because no matter how good or bad the players are it comes down to the coach. Your premise is basically that next week we could put the Casey team on the field and when they lose it's Goodwin's fault.

How anyone can watch that and think it's the responsibility of the coach is beyond me.

He lost a slab of pre/early season and has been playing catch up all year. Young players need full pre-seasons or it really sets them back.

Yes, bring in players who can kick.

Windsor has looked a bit more like himself. Unfortunately, so have some of the others ... Tholstrup, Jefferson, Sharp.

Windsor has looked a bit more like himself. Unfortunately, so have some of the others ... Tholstrup, Jefferson, Sharp.

If we lose this (a good possibility for the moment ...) it'll be as much as anything because of our younger players turning the ball over. Jefferson, Tholstrup are killing momentum.

Jefferson. 0 stats. Not sure how much time he gets, with Petty waiting in the wings. Though equally true of most of our bottom 6. Tholstrup whatever whatever long term, but for the moment he just doesn't have a feel for it.

Laughable.

Nonsense. You seem to think that what they say publicly is what they say internally. The club, like all sports clubs at this level, is a commercial venture. They need to sell tickets, memberships, merchandise, sponsorships etc. etc. Do you think even clubs like Richmond or WCE are coming out at the beginning of the season saying "well, it's going to be a shot season, we'll be lucky to win even a handful of matches and will probably be fighting it out for the wooden spoon"? Of course they don't.

I don't believe we misjudged where the list is at, quite the reverse - thus the extensive trades to get into the pointy end of the draft over the past couple of seasons.

You're just showing your ignorance. Do some reading. It's widely known that AFL coaches do NOT have a major say in recruiting, for obvious reasons. There's a great Chris Scott interview out there somewhere where he confirms as much. (Also not limited to AFL, in fact in some sports the head coach has minimal to zero input into recruiting.)

Sporting teams rise and fall. Who would've thunk.

Perhaps. But if that's the case, it should be so that we can get some games into Adams, or even Howes.

Goodwin doesn't make the draft selections, he's but one amongst a number who have input, the call mainly comes from Taylor (National Recruiting Manager).

Funny how when Lever was dropped Howes took his role.

See also Kolt and McVee.

Regardless of what happens to Lever, surely Tmac, Turner and May makes us top-heavy down back?

You're dropping a defender and 2 forwards but bringing in 3 defenders?

Serious injuries will do that to you (see Bowey last year).

For starters, they play completely different roles. If you're talking either/or, then it's TMac for May, perhaps Turner. The closest we have to Lever (intercept defender) would be Howes.

That was supposed to be Ben Brown. Who in spite of everything, wasn't all that old when he had to hang up the boots. Against that, JVR and our other key forwards get to train against May, Turner, Lever etc., and you would think that there are plenty of "learnings" to be had there.

Also shows real ignorance as to what an assistant coach's role is, or even what the requirements are. In any case, you can go through the AFL and there's a big fat zero correlation between having an ex-forward as forwards coach and having an effectively functioning forward line. In fact, if you look through it, there are a LOT of ex-defenders coaching forwards - which of course makes perfect sense. Not only do defenders spend their whole careers working out what forwards are doing, they get to come up against different forwards and different forward systems every week.

Both on and off the field. There's huge Angus-shaped hole in the club, from leadership to the midfield to the list.

I think the idea is we try to find 24 - 26 year olds, players with 4-5 years of experience already but still plenty of footy in front of them. Quite where/how we find such players, especially as most of them would be still too young for FA, is another question.