Deetective Sgt. Taggert

Thanks also to hosts Andy and George and regular ‘caller’ binman for bringing us the demonland postcast each week. Keep us overseas folk feeling connected, especially this year when I couldn’t even fly across the Tasman.

well thank bob that ridiculous season is over.

Can’t see Geelong coming back from here

I heard someone got killed in NYC and they never solved the crime, but you wouldn’t know anything about that now would you titan?

Makes sense. They might also go after brown?

Lock of the week? https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=6MhAmmge-Xk

Yup while those wagners boys might have been considered ripping fellas not really hearing much about them driving higher standards....

How dare you sully my good name!

Only 3 players different for tigers from last years grand final. Always seem to come together at the right time.

Ugh. Richmond again

Carlton haven’t been able to buy success since 1995, and how much time has Clayton had to compare the quality of facilities and the so called ‘blueprint’? I could understand if it was collingwood/Richmond/Geelong but the blues?

Still can’t fathom what Carlton offers over us in terms of likelihood of premiership success.

Any else notice that Schwarz looked like he gave the goal umpire at pat on the bum after goal number 3?

Great news. Albeit the timing is interesting given that the deep dive review is still apparently underway.

Seems like a real solid citizen and just what our forward line is missing. Hope we can prise him out.

Great news. Sounds like they upped the deal to 5 years after the initial offer was deemed to be lowballing him. Heart and soul players are so critical for good driving standards and behaviours. All the best for the next 5 years!

This surely must become an issue for them soon.

Over to you to pull that info together

Agreed. Best speech of the night. I thought it showed class and maturity.

Not if we had actually qualified outright by winning a game in cairns. We could have sent the dogs to Perth and knocked out collingwood...

Pretty sure Adelaide was very keen on Goodwin.

Well earlier in the season the team was likely affected by a lack of continuity in training and matches. So that might explain why it took a while to see any resemblance of a coherent team, which became more apparent in the middle of the season when we got on a bit of a roll. I’m not saying that’s acceptable but clearly many of those factors were out of our control. While the players may have sufficient fitness the tight schedule and travel means everything is compressed, including time for reviewing games, identifying issues to be addressed, preparing and communication messages to players via lines coaches, opposition analysis and strategising, etc. I suspect those are the areas where our footy departments weaknesses have been exposed recently.

Therein lies my point. That the travel exposed weaknesses/issues that were there already and need to be addressed.

It’s interesting because under Goodwin we’ve actually performed pretty well on the road. But clearly this schedule is punishing and I think would have exposed any weaknesses in a number of areas, from the discipline of individual of players in their preparation approach and through to the football department’s planning and operations.

Carlton didn’t deserve to play finals in 2013 either. Just saying...