Demon Dynasty

It's just another Goody Goody num num. He finds a player's strengths, in fact sometimes he seems to find the team's strengths in terms of playing certain players in particular roles / positions that suit. This might last for a week or two. Maybe even three. And yes there will be required changes for match ups or injuries depending on the week & the opponent. But how many change ups can a player / team handle before the wheels start falling off? And far too often we've seen far too many of these madding changes under this bloke. I heard an interview with a Docker player after their win last night. And one of the question was "what are you enjoying most about this year under Longmuir?" or something to that effect. His response along the line of... "being able to play the same position most weeks allowing me to settle in and learn the role. That's given me alot of confidence when i run out each week". How do you reckon our blokes are coping here under SG's constant change ups?

Regrets signing a four year deal? Maybe changed his mind and was hoping to play with bro at the Dockers earlier than 2023? Biding time till then and picking and choosing how much effort will go in to the next few years? Self preservation if you like. Enjoys playing through the middle. Hates playing anywhere else? Picks and chooses when he goes based on where he's being played and in what role? Who knows. We may have a few who sook it up if they don't get there own way but i'm just speculating from outside the four walls. This all comes down to screening players at selection IMO and making sure we are picking players of character who truly want to take their game to it's highest level. Only picking those who show a genuine drive and taste for wanting to taste individual and (most importantly) team success. We also have too many quiet types imv. We need more outspoken players who will speak up on the field and urge others on to greater heights & perfection. Players who will do all the team things including shepherd, block, run to support, run back to defend, remonstrate more for frees, intentional OOB decisions. Pushing for that one little edge over their opponent and extracting the max they can out of every contest. I just don't see enough of this in our blokes. A few exceptions like May and Ed but most just seem to be happy jogging around picking up their weekly pay cheque and doing just enough to get the odd game.

More enjoyable doing this if we were showing some sort of cohesion and purpose NVROD. Sadly i think the hap hazard performances might be the result of systemic failure within the FD & morale of the playing group in general. I'm a true believer in body language and from what i'm witnessing in the box, on the bench and from the game day footage inside the rooms, my gut feel tells me things are not going well inside the four walls of late. The wheels have well and truly fallen off.

By the time we get around to considering it a possibility Choco will probably be retired...

One out of left field and i don't think he'd cost a packet. Might allow us to afford the payout and move on in the short term. Premiership coach. Seems to be a decent man manager at least. Probably better as an assistant only but would be a substantial improvement on the present and should be able to get the best out of this group. Possibly a bit of a modern day Northey type? Loves his footy, loves anyone involved in the game and presently coaching Werribee. Also running a kicking skills program on the side. That on it's own is a necessity for our lot! Maybe even a mentor / game day mind set / skills coach for the boys...

Weighted Averages up to and including Rnd 16, 2020 Player 2020 Weighted Score 2020 Rank 2019 Weighted Score % Change vs 2019 % Change vs 2019 w/ 20% time adjusted 2019 Rank Change in Rank vs 2019 Clayton Oliver 4.093 1 4.880 -16.13 4.84 1 0 Christian Petracca 3.608 2 2.843 26.91 58.64 9 7 Max Gawn # 3.027 3 3.437 -11.93 10.09 4 1 Jack Viney 2.952 4 3.258 -9.39 13.26 5 1 Steven May 2.752 5 2.618 5.12 31.40 14 9 Ed Langdon 2.740 6 - - - - - Christian Salem 2.693 7 3.658 -26.38 -7.98 3 -4 Angus Brayshaw 2.589 8 3.131 -17.31 3.36 6 -2 James Harmes 2.262 9 4.039 -44.00 -30.00 2 -7 Jake Lever 2.248 10 2.519 -10.76 11.55 16 6 Michael Hibberd 2.244 11 2.339 -4.06 19.92 19 8 Tom Sparrow 2.150 12 1.275 68.63 110.78 37 25 Adam Tomlinson # 1.932 13 - - - - - Trent Rivers 1.904 14 - - - - - Harley Bennell 1.850 15 - - - - - Bayley Fritsch 1.720 16 2.809 -38.77 -23.46 10 -6 Oscar McDonald # 1.682 17 1.956 -14.01 7.49 26 9 Tom McDonald # 1.675 18 2.297 -27.08 -8.85 20 2 Jay Lockhart 1.650 19 1.819 -9.29 13.39 30 11 Oskar Baker * 1.650 19 1.714 -3.73 20.33 29 10 Alex N-Bullen 1.640 21 2.120 -22.64 -3.30 22 1 Nathan Jones 1.638 22 2.907 -43.65 -29.57 7 -15 Mitchell Hannan 1.506 23 1.433 5.09 31.37 36 13 Jake Melksham 1.488 24 2.181 -31.77 -14.72 21 -3 Aaron Vandenburg 1.485 25 - - - - - Luke Jackson # 1.463 26 - - - - - Sam Weideman 1.416 27 1.895 -25.28 -6.60 27 0 Charlie Spargo 1.375 28 1.513 -9.12 13.60 35 7 Neville Jetta 1.355 29 2.264 -40.15 -25.19 18 -11 Braydon Preuss # 1.325 30 1.643 -19.35 0.81 33 3 Kysaiah Pickett 1.198 31 - - - - - Joel Smith 1.085 32 - - - - - Mitchell Brown 1.067 33 - - - - - Toby Bedford 0.925 34 - - - - - Jayden Hunt 0.844 35 2.092 -59.66 -49.57 23 -12 Average Team Score - Top 22 50.699 59.623 -14.97 6.29 # Hit outs to advantage not captured * One match only, not an average Stats courtesy of footywire.com

Rnd 15, 2020 Cazaly's Stadium - Demons vs Dockers Pretty much a repeat of the Rnd 3 match vs the Cats with SG effectively giving up the forward half of the ground and keeping a spare behind the ball early, almost as if he had conceded the match from the get go. And that we did, with the Dockers constantly peppering the goals early and probably should have had a bigger lead at quarter time given the breeze and the amount of time in their forward half. IMHO this is a strategy only worth using to ice a quarter, a game or to maybe prevent the opp from scoring further after a 3 to 4 goal run on. This is NOT the way you want to play assuming you want to win games at this level, aside from those reasons listed. I'm not sure why SG believes this is the way to set up at any stage in a match otherwise. That he does so from the get go beggars belief. But, we've seen it before so i guess history repeats when the coach doesn't learn from his past errors. After the monsoon started, we then continued to look to handball more often than not and look for sharp passing up the line. We also left the fat side open much of the time (our forward half robbed to have the spare down back enhancing this insane strat) inviting them to switch much of the time, which they did. All this happened right from the first bounce, allowing Freo to rack up easy possessions out the back. They had the ball, we didn't. Brought many of their players in to touch and they got their tails / confidence up. Terrible terrible coaching on our part at this level. For an ordinary club at VFL level this wouldn't be acceptable for long, let alone AFL level. After nearly 4 seasons i can only assume he is a VERY poor coach with little understanding of the "why/how & the who" that's required to set up the team to win on a regular basis. A great example of this is to leave Lockhart out and bring Pruess in, leaving us short a small defender down back (weather forecast MFC....anyone home!?) and playing Walters in to some long missing form. Awful awful coaching at all levels including match day selection. The MFC has never heard of using a last minute emergency to cater for the conditions? Our worst team score for the season and our 2nd worst bottom 6 score for the year behind Rnd 8 vs the Lions. Rain obviously playing a part so not taking any stats too seriously here but our team score, allowing for this season's 20% less game time, was a massive 22% off the awful 2019 average and 30% lower than 2018's. Against one of the worst performing team's this season. Finals on the line and can't get over the line two weeks in a row against two bog ordinary teams. Amateur hour from the MFC.... yet again. Player Score Rank Christian Petracca 3.600 1 Jack Viney 3.450 2 Max Gawn # 2.825 3 Trent Rivers 2.775 4 Clayton Oliver 2.450 5 Aaron Vandenberg 2.300 6 Bayley Fritsch 2.150 7 Oskar Baker 1.650 8 Ed Langdon 1.550 9 Jake Lever 1.525 10 Steven May 1.525 11 Sam Weideman 1.375 12 Jake Melksham 1.175 13 Michael Hibberd 1.125 14 Adam Tomlinson 1.000 15 Joel Smith 0.950 16 Kysaiah Pickett 0.950 16 Jayden Hunt 0.650 18 Christian Salem 0.650 19 Toby Bedford 0.600 20 Braydon Preuss 0.225 21 Alex N-Bullen 0.000 22 Team Score 34.500 Top 6 17.400 Bottom 6 3.075 # Hit outs to advantage not captured Stats courtesy of footywire.com

There is no point selecting a new coach until you replace the present hierarchy who failed the club by extending SGs contract for an insane 3 years. That decision alone tells me they are not up to getting the next candidate right either. The club (and it's awful willingness to except mediocrity culture) needs fixing from the top down. Barring a few individuals (underlings) who i'm sure have the right intentions and trying their best, the top brass / hierarchy needs replacing before we start the search or you will only get another poor outcome and we'll be back here in 5 years discussing the same conundrum. Just as we did with the late Dean Bailey, just as we did with Neeld, just as we are now doing with Goody. Actually it will be longer than 5 years. 2 more years of failure under SG. Appoint new rookie/inexperienced coach touted by Pert / board as the new messiah. 2 years contract. 1st year promising so they extend for a further 2 years. Fail. Pert and Co. given the boot / walk after failing again. Appoint new CEO / board / FD and running with same coach for part of the next season/then a caretaker coach for the last part....1 year further. That's 7 more years of ineptitude and failure before resetting the top hierarchy (a la PJ era with help of AFL....again) and starting all over again Have to break the never ending cycle (culture) of failure. Fix the head first or be back here again in 7 years with nothing to show and pretty much the entire existing playing list...done and dusted or gone to other clubs.

Not just Mahoney. Pert needs to go as well. He's been a disaster from day one with his first major effort the signing and anointing of SG into a rediculous extension that has committed this club to 3 further years of failing. This club has stuffed up its coaching selections/contracts on plenty of other occasions but this ranks up there with the best of the worst decisions it's witnessed. The fish rots from the head.

I like the idea but why would he bother coming back to the club that treated him so poorly Dazzle?

Saty's brother?

Christmas!

“It’s great for the Club to announce, prior to the season starting, that Simon Goodwin has signed on for the next four years,” Pert told the club’s website. “It is certainly a show of confidence from the Board, Josh Mahoney and myself in Simon as a coach and what he is producing out on field, but also the culture that he is building in our football department. “This is the Board signing off that these are the people, this is the leadership, this is the program and this is the culture that we believe will take the Melbourne Football Club to where we want to go over the next four years. It’s an investment in those people and the program, so that makes it pretty exciting.” It's time for Perty, Mahoney and all other board members who ratified this rubbish extension to pack their bags and walk as well. They were complicit in this whole extension debacle and the signing of such a long extension on a rookie coach was/is negligent and indefensible.

Who should our next board be? These blokes have committed us to two more years, unnecessarily, of this rubbish. Don't blame Goodwin. We need a new coach but the board must go as well. Useless bunch of nuff nuffs.

gotta admire Ed... one of the few that shows he really wants it week in and week out

Yep we always pull everything out when we're well behind. Thid club is so predictable and easy to beat.

Weid clearly held by the jumper at least twice in that forward contest but nothing. Then of course the tiggy touch to Freo straight after. Jokefest. Why THE [censored] are we still zoning in the wet. Find a man you [censored] IDIOTS, with the ball and / or pressure the crap outta them. Allowing FREO to win the ground balls, dish off and run through traffic with virtually no pressure. Goody you've had years to teach this basic stuff. What the [censored] are you teaching them? It took an age for Gawn to wake up there in the back pocket and finally handball to Hibb but by then Freo had set their wall up beautifully. Max you're ok but FCS don't over think it and think you're a great kick. Just look for the quick handball and get on with it. So much dumbness in this group after 3 seasons plus under Goody its incredible. They all need to own this BS method/way/style and skills. It's not AFL worthy.

Fritta's handball ... why. In the wet thats just one extra too many. Dumb dumb dumb footballer on the ground. One trick pony in the air. Learn how to play SMART ground ball footy FFS as that"s where it spends most of its time!

Viney does some good work inside there on the wing. Handballs to Tracc. Why not the shepherd after that to give Tracc some extra space / time??

That high ball to the 30 meters out.... we have how many smalls in this team tonight and not ONE was front & square. Ball spills to the front...Freo run on to it and rebound in a flash.

Viney how the hell do you manage to pick out a Docker on the chest. Too funny. We just have zero ability inside 50. And of course as i say that we hit a forward on the chest with a laser pass ?

Not just down the line. They are looking to hit up targets on the chest as if its a dry game. Crazy. If you wanna win this i agree with Gazza.... man on man in the 3rd. Shut down this ridiculous loose zone switching that we're allowing and beat them one on one. They are able to switch easy or go through the middle most of the time as they're outnumbering us down back. I would rather lose playing man on man where there is NO excuses. The game is there to be won. Beat your man and leave nothing on the park and you probably win the match. Anything else, any other style in this weather (eg Fritta as an extra down back from the get go!!) is a rubbish method that will let players off the hook and give them too many outs and excuses. JUST DO IT GOODY!

Why are we trying to possess and finesse so often around stoppage YEats? Tap/punch/kick the ball forward or in any direction where you can see space and no opp....and run onto it. Its wet weather footy.

Wow are we ever gonna become the hunters here AS A TEAM. Some good individual efforts but start hunting the ball and carrier and sweat on em. Do you wanna play finals or not?? I would put Vanders on Mundy and make him earn every possi. He's way too loose and racking up too many clean possessions.