Demon17

Talent on every line . AND they are resting Riccardi - Gee they must rate their chances

Fair point but he did show real class at times and a propensity to hit targets. Your right on his journey though just being underway.

Harsh but accurate. This issue that 'blind freddie' could see can be added to the list in general - dominating inside 50's, Taps to advantage for little rewards, goal kicking inaccuracy, failure to hit targets. All since 2017 yet Simon keeps talking without any perceived actions and/or corresponding improvements. I hope we make it , but insipid performances next 2 weeks will put Simon under the Board's blowtoch big time I would have thought and may be a blessing in disguise. Finals this year will be simply a reprieve for the end of his contract.

spot on. He's so skilled that he stood out big time when he has played doing things most of the team can't execute and should be in for that reason alone.

Not necessarily related but Giants have shown their ruthless streak by dropping thir skipper for tomorrow night for form reasons. That mindset really worries me for the game outcome.

Only if doggies lose 1.

Either of your scenarios will be goodwins worst career nightmare. And the Board's for the unbelievable ameuterish contract extension.

And/ or the saints lose both of theirs which is possible. But we need to beat gws

I can't either. IMO the Blues are a poorish team as shown by their appalling 2nd half against the Pies. So they get up and beat the Swans in a huge comeback and just emphasise how winnable the Swans game should have been and exacerbates Goodwins inablility o get the team up for crunch games when they revert to type.

Agreed. The best coach of the last 20 years won't stand for it.

My version of ruthless would have been not offering Nathan Jones a new 1 year deal for the swan song. Goodwin is hypocritcial in this regard. I suspect he has no answers and resorts to jargon because of this. Successful clubs, sort of, in this predicament, kept the head coach and brought in quality assistants and support. I defy anyone to make an argument that our forward and midfield coaches should be retained on 2 years of statistical disasters. Pies brought in Caracella dn Longmuir for Buckley, Hardwick had chanegs likewise.

Easy is how you would have described gws vs crows 2 hours ago. Our big hope is freo knocking off dogs. They have A graders and an impressive young coach in Longmuir

Gws are gone. So where is their media pile on about softness , everything on the line failure etc. Won't happen. Dees knock them off next week will be part redemption for me.

I'm hoping jackson is the tall forward solution. I just don't see weideman making it sadly. Hope I'm wrong and 1 more preseason might see him improve strength wise. Main recruit mandatory is a good forward coach that goodwin will support.

Not 1 player named in AA Under 22 squad this morning.

Do they have the wind?

Sure, but gee don't the Dogs deserve a place in the finals the way they played last night?

This sounds silly commenting on an AA selected player but I think Goodwin has a lot to answer for in Clayton Oliver's development. He personally interviewed Clayton in his Mum's kitchen in the bush before drafting so has been a project player for Goodwin alone. Clayton is terrific and you can't fault his desire and endeavour, but for his early years we were succummd by his stats and gave him a leave pass on all the handballs. This year the opposiiton and media woke up about the ineffecitiveness of many disposals and somewhere a switch was flicked a few weeks ago and he ran harder and kicked the ball out of traffic. Why didn't Goodwin take control of this flaw very early in his career. I ask this in the conext of LT above commenting on can Goodwin coach or not , I agree and this in my mind is a glaring example. Don't get me started on the Inside 50 ratio/conversion disaster

No he didn't. Thats becoming another urban myth. It was changed by Peggy O'Neil and Brendan Gale. and they brought in Neil Balme and the Board remained stable. Brought in Caracella and had a top footiy manager in Dan Richardson Hardwick showed he wasn't up to it and change had to come from elsewhere. He showed his true spots in recent events this year. They had the talent and Hardwick needed to change.

For the past 2 weeks he's spent most or all of the last 1/4 on the bench. So th team has palyed with 3 rotations , assuming no injuries in the most important time of the match. Again, not Nathans fault.

Its not Nathan's fault here. The club should never have given him a new deal and wer'e reaping the outfall of that.

Needs to hand back the keys to the ferrari (to borrow a phrase from Hutchy re: Leon Cameron).

I don't necessarily agree. They got close but lacked class and their system was rubbish c.f.the eagles who seemed to be on autopilot at times. And no Kennedy and no Shuey.

This is a brilliant idea if crowds in Brisbane are limited. Good call TU. Low humidity and conditons if at night.

Laughingly this morning on SEN Kane Corness admitted the umpire was in a perfect psootion and then went on "...but from where I was sitting it looked touched to me..." From his couch in his Adelaide loungeroom. This has to win some sort of media quote award this year surely?