Fork 'em

There's a reason our crowds are poor. Just awful football to watch. Even when we were winning.

Ahhh Gary. We have been "See what happens" going forward since Goodwin took over.

Agree. Always remember seeing these clips. The difference between Jones and Hodges communication skills is stark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vO1icLm_Zk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl8UeyJDufQ

Here's an idea. Just change the name. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nn6H5pv7ky4?feature=share

I want Goodwin gone as much as anyone but this is Essendon. One of the absolute must win games of the season. The knives can wait .... For a couple weeks.

Tough to have a glass half full attitude when we've had forward line entry issues since before Goodwin took over. How often have we been far ahead in F50 entries and still had our pants pulled down. As for cleaning up basic errors this has also been an ongoing issue over many years. Remember Goodwin was all about chaos ball and nothing has changed due largely to none of our players having above mediocre kicking skills. Can you name one for eg that you are confident when he has the ball will hit a leading player or kick a needed goal? I'm thinking maybe Harvey Lanford being our best bet and that's damning purely cause he's in his 1st year.

In a nutshell .... To turn the game into an ugly rugby scrum in order to limit the opposition from scoring heavily against us. Scoring ourselves is a distant afterthought but it usually involves more rugby scrum till we can get it within' range of a snapshot under pressure from a pocket. And when in doubt, kick it on Gawns head and hope we can create a stoppage for a ball up so we can start another scrum. Hope this helps.

I'm not even confident we can hold these kids to this basket case of a club.

Just thought I'd pop in and say I been tellin' ya Goodwins gotta go for years. Had the opportunity to build this club for future generations but blew it by boring us all to tears with his mind numbingly ugly game plan. And now here we are, about to battle it out for the bottom of the ladder again and due to his delusion hand over our 1st round pick to Essendon. ESSENDON .... My god. There isn't even a silver lining.

Skills lettin' us down at crunch times.

Kids the best player we got.

Couldn't agree more. Well I could if you added the overrated Salem and his "elite" 20m lollipop passes. 100% should still have Jordan who he didn't even manage to sub onto the ground during the GF and Bedford who also only managed sub games. Enticed Grundy to the club and then gave up on him after about 3 games. Treated all 3 players like garbage.

I don't care what anyone says. Goodwins gotta go. Every pre-season he tells us we're gonna play differently and every year we dish up the same god awful garbage. It's his list he's assembled who cannot hit a target if their life depended on it and his game plan that is just horrendous to watch. Keep him and we'll die a slow agonising death as a club. He's a one trick pony and his pony is dead.

Barrassi, Pagan & Malthouse off the top of my head. Different clubs tho'.

How long do we have to keep watching this garbage. Till the club has withered and died a slow death. Sack Goodwin tomorrow.

Need to remember we're also in the entertainment business. You aint gonna inspire many kids to support Melbourne if we're boring them to tears. As I stated earlier, same with getting primetime games, bums on seats and selling memberships. Big picture stuff.

May kicks out to left flank to Gawn which results in a ball up. Ball finds it's way rugby maul style till we get a man open at half forward. Wait till forward line is choked full of players and then put it on Gawns head in left forward pocket. Scramble around, snap shot from boundary line surrounded by opposition ... Point. Repeat. I also remember one of the players after the ANZAC eve game stating on TV in '22 that we aim to make the blockbusters as boring as they could after slowly choking richmond to death. Another game Kozzie Picket was asked about our suffocating game plan, his reply "It's all about defence really." And Goodwin KPI for all games was to keep the opposition under 60pts. Problem was we only needed to kick 61pts ourselves. I dunno who the hell you been watchin'.

And that's how you put bums on seats, get primetime free to air games and sell memberships. Something that's completely lost on Goodwin and co. We've wasted most of our window playing boring defensive uninspiring footy.

No Bont , no Dogs.

Was demonstrated at a wedding I attended once. The brides family was all Essendon and the grooms all Collingwood. At the reception a Collingwood/Essendon chant started up with both families trying to drown each other out. Gotta say the Collingwood side looked as they were straight out've the movie Deliverance. And I sheet you not the MC was an actual clown, make-up, clown suit, the works. How apt.

Forget Carlton. I only watched the highlights but can see their small forwards absolutely terrorising our backline. And I've never seen a collection of "Look a' moi" posers in all my life.

I hope you're right.

100% Both supporter bases are interchangeable nuffies. Collingwood are special tho'. Went to Victoria Park once. Walking up to the gate I had a retarded bloke in a black'n white wheelchair tell us to "Fork off Melbourne." while flipping the weirdest bird I'd ever seen. For a kid raised at the MCG I was flabbergasted. Then had to watch 'em overrun a 27pt 3/4 time lead. I thought the Zulus we're comin'.

Beat us to another flag.

I'm surprised coaches don't put a stop to celebrations like it due to injury risks TBH. Remember Roos ripped Petracca a new one for doin' his ankle playin' basketball.