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    3 hours ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

    Barely a player on our list that hasn’t been written of by Demonland in their first few years- including players who have left the club and are player regular football elsewhere.

    ANB was a liability.

    Beford was not a ball winner.

    Jordon had no weapons.

    Don’t get me started on the impatience with Gawn, McDonald, Brayshaw, or the huge error of drafting Kossie over Weightman. Gameday thread in Petracc’s first game referred to him a a one speed ‘plodder’.

    Most kids take time; few burst out of the blocks and sustain it. Some will make it and some won’t, but two thirds of the way through their second year, following a massive injury lay off is too early to make a statement one way or the other.

    Of our many issues, Kolt ain’t one of them.

    Think you are missing the point - which is that Kolt has been woefully mismanaged this year.

    He was rushed into the firsts with no form & not much fitness.

    He should have spent a month at Casey building up both.

    This is a dreadful way to manage a young player.

    Lindsay & Windsor & McVee have also been poorly managed this year.

    1 hour ago, Adam The God said:

    Cranky, this is a thread to celebrate Clarry's 200th. There are plenty of threads to critique his performance and the club's. Show a little bit of respect.

    2 hours ago, Adam The God said:

    Cranky, this is a thread to celebrate Clarry's 200th. There are plenty of threads to critique his performance and the club's. Show a little bit of respect.

    My discussion was with Picket Fence who claimed Clarry was better than Barrassi.

    1 hour ago, Damo said:

    86 the poster.

    Since Day One this bloke has given me the tom t!ts. I changed my name from Franky almost immeditaly to dodge flack. CF Never had a good thing to s

    1 hour ago, Damo said:

    Exactly what in my post is incorrect ?

    We are currently a bottom 4 side & Clarry is being paid $1.2M a year & delivering about a third of that in value.

    On 13/07/2025 at 22:19, DubDee said:

    I'd like to see Lindsay have a week off/at casey. He is clearly spent after 20% of a preseason

    Kolt and Sparrow out too

    Only talls to replace them makes it an interesting week.

    Do May/Petty come in? if so, for who?

    One thing is for sure, whatever the selection committee decide, Goodwin made a mistake

    Your comments about Lindsay & Kolt seem obvious to most commentators & supporters in fact everyone bar Goodie the đŸ€Ą

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    53 minutes ago, picket fence said:

    OUR GREATEST IN ORDER 1,2,3

    1 ROBERT FLOWER

    2 CLAYTON OLIVER

    3 RON BARASSI

    CLARRY CHOO CHOO just sensational for a host of reasons, a once in generational player, let not trials and tribulations of recent times diminish how great a player he was and still is!

    GREAT MFC CHAMPION of the ages!❀

    He's miles from top 3. To put him ahead of RBD is shameful.

    Way behind Stynes, Alves, Lyon, Hardeman, Wells, Jones, Neita & several others.

    Still bombs away over the forwards heads - perfect punching practice for opposition defenders.

    And in 2024 & 2025 he's been bog ordinary.

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    I wonder how much selection integrity counts towards team cohesion & confidence in the coaching group.

    Most supporters were perplexed when Tom McDonald was dropped despite solid form.

    The continued selection of Windsor & Tholstrup despite playing poorly is also mystifying & it looks like Lindsay needs a rest as well.

    I'm not a fan of Jack Billiings but after a month of good form at Casey it's hard to understand why he is not selected.

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    11 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    That's an embarrassing segment by Goodie the đŸ€Ą.

    Most of the players he mentioned are stalling, struggling, or have gone backwards

    Jeffo, Johnson, Henderson, Tholstrup & Windsor.

    Just more spin.

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    The AFL have shamefully allowed player interference to go on without reprisal.

    Players attempting to mark are interfered with all the time. Max gets interfered with at almost every marking attempt.

    Every good ball player gets grabbed and held and impeded at every contest.

    Wrestling happens at every ruck contest.

    Watching the 1964 GF was like a breath of fresh air. Players went for the ball not the man.

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    36 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

    Yes, some of you can stick to the topic. Currently 175 pages of people sticking to the same topic: everything Goody does is wrong. It is SOOOOO boring.

    Almost as boring as the Conga line of apologists telling us what a great job he's doing

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    19 hours ago, Demonstone said:

    Well done to the coach today. A further extension of his contract would be appropriate.

    He has to be reappointed. Then when Tassie joins we can go from the 18th most inaccurate team to the 19th most inaccurate team.

    A proud trajectory started in 2022.

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    56 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

    I am not in the ‘sack Goodwin’ band wagon but if we don’t go 4-3 in the last seven I’ll be pretty disappointed

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    If we lose to this north line up missing three of their top handful of players I will probably climb aboard

    Not sure there's any room left in the boat

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    37 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Ok I’ll get off this thread now. Both PF and Beelzebum have vowed to not post in this thread should Goody be our coach in 2026, which he will. I’m happy. 😁

    Don't worry I'm retired so I'll be happy to continue to post & hold Goodie the đŸ€Ą to account.

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    1 hour ago, Neil Crompton said:

    Talk about misery loving company.

    This thread must in some way be cathartic for you guys ‘cause I’m reading the same shiite over and over and over and over again.

    Either that or you just luv sticking the knife into anything MFC related. But that cannot be right because we all love the Dees don’t we!?

    Please tell me what your intentions are next year when (if) Goody is still coaching us. Is this thread going to keep on keeping on for another year? If so I won’t be reading it. I value my sanity too much.

    The Goodie acolytes will keep their Conga line going while those that care about the Club will work for what's best for the team.

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    1 hour ago, seventyfour said:

    Why do people say this like winning flags is easy. It drives me nuts.

    How many have Brisbane won recently despite being a top team for years? 1.

    How many have Geelong won recently despite being a top team most years? 1.

    How many times has Sydney won from their last 5 times playing in that the GF? 0.

    How did Collingwood go after winning in 2023? Didn't make finals.

    I've lost hope & so have thousands of other supporters who will not sign up or attend games.

    Reminds me of 1976 when a late run saved Bob Skilton who should have been sacked but was kept on & wasted all of 1977.

    12 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

    We were competing for them. We made the final 6 instead of the final 4. It’s worse, but not that much worse.

    If we’d lost consecutive prelims in 22-23, this board would be saying the exact same thing about Goody: “won a flag then couldn’t even win a single prelim”.

    @seventyfour is right. Winning flags is hard. It’s frankly insane how many people on here roll out the whole “we should have won multiple flags” line. At the end of this year, at least three of the following will be true:

    1. Collingwood will have won 1 flag from 4 seasons under McRae, despite having a stack of talent and a dream fixture

    2. Brisbane will have won 1 flag from 7 seasons of finals, despite their incredibly talented list

    3. Geelong will have won 1 flag in the last 14 years under Chris Scott, despite being in the Danger/Cameron/Stewart era

    4. the Dogs will have won 0 flags in 9 years despite having a list and midfield depth to die for

    Jeez the Conga line of Goodwin acolytes & apologists is pretty resilient - reminds me of the Rev Jim Jones episode.

    FWIW my mates who have been members for 50+ years now refer to him as Goodie the đŸ€Ą

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    23 minutes ago, DubDee said:

    I acknowledge we’ve been poor, lost finals and can’t kick for goal to save ourselves. And the issues have been around for years .

    Goody is absolutely accountable for the good and the bad

    I just don’t see the need to say it constantly

    The problem is costing us in rebuild time and $$$.

    We are going backwards or marking time & among the supporters I know (50 or so) many have lost hope & won't attend games or upgrade memberships until Goodwin goes.

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    1 hour ago, DubDee said:

    You don't think Ross Lyon had a talented list?

    Their 2009/10 team was excellent, better than our 2021 list imo

    Of course Lyon had a talented list but you totally ignore the completely wasted years & failures under Goodwin.

    Goody arguably had the best defence, best midfield & best ruck in the league for 4 years.

    You also ignore the fact that the problems that surfaced in 2022 are still obvious in 2025.

    Goodies explanation is usually a half arsed joke about Choco working on our goal kicking.

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    3 hours ago, Fanatique Demon said:

    Known as Sticky Fingers, Brian Dixon could catch a greased eel in a blizzard. Probably the best mark of anyone in his era.

    He gave a speech at our high school. In it, he said an opponent asked him why he was on the left hand side of the ground when he was a right-winger.

    RIP Brian.

    Think you are stretching things a bit here FD.

    He had long arms like Robbie & was certainly a very good mark for his size but no way was he the best mark of his era.

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    1 hour ago, Doug Reemer said:

    If you look up Simon Goodwin’s Coaching record.

    His Winning percentage is the same as Ross Lyon’s. Yet he gets none of the same respect Lyon does.

    He has the 3rd highest winning percentage of any melbourne coach to coach 200 or more games.

    This puts his coaching record into perspective.

    https://afltables.com/afl/stats/coaches/coaches_idx.html

    The difference is Goodwin has wasted a very talented list. 1 Premiership when we should of had 2 or 3.

    2017 was a disaster for the Club. 2019 & 2020 were totally wasted. Ditto 2022. 2023 he was unlucky.

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