frankie_d

This - 100% this. The most important recruit for our flag was Peter Jackson. Ruthless, effective CEO. He sorted out the place off the field, made it attractive enough to get Roos, and then made it attractive enough for May/Lever/Hibberd/Melksham to come. The flag was won on the momentum he generated, and with his departure we've been losing pace ever since. We didn't even appoint his recommended replacement (Josh Mahoney). Then the Board/Coach/President complications. We urgently need a hard headed CEO who will drive the whole club forward. Geelong in their prime, the Hawks, all had this. We had a glimpse of what it could be like.

feels like Melbourne pre Peter Jackson and Paul Roos.

good luck DR. hope all goes well !🤙

it’s pretty miserable up here, isn’t it

Having low expectations makes this much easier to watch

he’s a good footballer

worse

AJ looks like a bloke who knows this is his one chance and he’s not going due wondering. good on him the rest. ugh

AJ good in the centre bounce. repeat efforts.

fritter starting on the bench

serious neeld level sunday afternoon crowd size. 13000 i reckon

I think the frustration with Goodwin is about being beaten the same way for his entire tenure. Put one extra back, play fast, and run it out of the backline. How many times have we won i50 and lost the game? That would be a very interesting stat. But nothing has changed. We had a good enough list to win a flag, until the game changed. As said earlier, we're all tooled up to fight the last war.

“Not at the level” will be the phrase of the day ….

we’re like the british army in WW1. trained to fight the last war. worked in 2021. the comp had us worked out half way thru 2022. and we’re still charging into machine gun fire. In: John Monash Out: Goodwin

i’d take swooper northey’s days in a heart beat

No one bombs it long against us so reduces the o influence of lever (and may). we give up goals to pace

put an extra behind the ball and go fast. the recipe for beating melbourne for the last 25 years

Where were the on-field leaders getting in his ear? Trac, Lever, Max, Viney?? That was the most disappointing aspect for me. The Pies win this game (nearly) every time because they have (had) a rolled gold system for dealing with the last couple of minutes and leaders (like Pendlebury and Sidebottom) who get to the young/new kids and coach them on the field. And why didn't any journalists ask Goodwin about this?

yes. again and again. carlton in the finals. innumerable examples. compare and contrast the pies 2022/3. times excellent coaching in that scenario means you don’t lose

i’m not sure he’s a ruck

i might have this wrong, but i thought we lost out when AJ was rucking. it protects JvR, but he gave away frees and had 5 hitouts.

surely we should be able to defend in the last 30 seconds? fitness, skills or coaching?

AJ trying his heart out, but we are at risk when he’s rucking

with max of, we’veb struggled