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I just want to get our method right and get our confidence back. Do that and we avoid a 10 goal loss. Then we can go into the following month of 4 very winnable games: Ess, Freo, Tigers, Eagles before we are tested again vs Hawks, Lions, Swans. We just have to use those 4 games to get our method and basics right. Then que sera sera,.

As Goodwin said yesterday the first thing to fix is 'the method' especially around stoppages. It is up to the coaches to find the best (methods) and up to the players to execute it. Disappointed we didn't do this well enough in the off season but I know we are no where near as bad as we look lately. We will bounce back, maybe not enough to win but enough to stop the 10 goal thrashings. And enough to get some confidence back. A constant video in the change rooms of rnd 23, 2021 should bring back good memories and inspire confidence.

Could someone tell me: which stat shows first touch/possession at stoppage (not necessarily a clearance) which stat shows first possession after the above TIA

Jack continually kicks to the opposition i50. That is far more dangerous if it was from HB especially when our players have started to move forward of the ball to get an overlap chain going. Easy goals for opp. His fwd would play off him all the time. Again easy goals for opp. And who would he be better than: McVee, Bowey, Salem, Windsor, Rivers? The suggestions are like trying to 'hide' him where he does least damage. That is very sad.

Not what the edit of prior posts is for but very funny and not true😉

I don't think people change a quoted poster's words. What they do is highlight particular parts by underline, 'bold' or take irrelevant parts out of the quoted post. To clarify the poster's original post remains as written eg see the orginal BBO post quoted/adjusted. Hope you are keeping well, deeve

Jack was still contracted so there was no need to extend the contract at all let alone add 3 years to 2025. Our position should have been the same as Oliver, Petracca and Kozzie: Jack in under contract he is staying.

Yes

I'm sure they are talking but I doubt it is about sacking a coach, it is a big step to sack a premiership coach with nearly 2 years on his contract when there is no CEO in place and a 'lame duck' GM Football.

Deeve, hate to tell you the ability to edit a post you are quoting has always been there.

Disgraceful comment. Spineless? he had a near fatal injury playing for our club. He carried the club in most games last year before being injured. The club that made him a star, eh?. You mean the guy that got us a premiership, right?. Forget the NSM. He got 10/10 BnF votes from each of the 4 Demon coaches for the GF. If you were there today you must have missed seeing how much he cares. He didn't give up today - many others did.

Folks, Goodwin isn't going anywhere. Our off field leadership is in no-man's land, virtually non-existent: caretaker president no CEO GM Football whose days are said to be numbered. No one is going to make a decision on the coach. They say 'a fish rots from the head'. Well we don't have an effective 'head' right now. Eventually the lack of leadership plays out on the field. More so, with what I believe is a misfit group of coaches.

I truly believe the implementation of a modified game plan is the blind following the blind. Look at the coaching panel. 2 Defenders and 2 bull type midfielders. No ball movement coaches, no tactical experience, limited or no experience in different clubs. I'm not saying a coach needs experience in the area he is coaching. But surely as a collective they should have some experience in the intended game plan. Someone needs to take the conceptual game plan and break it down position by position, player by player until each understands their own role and that of teammates. I'm not seeing that. We are playing like brown's cows and I put it down to poor implementation and communication of the game plan. imv we didn't recruit the coaches we needed.

I'm glad he didn't use the four letter word starting with L ! The players sure didn't show much love toward him or his grand plan. Nor to each other. I was proud of the team in week 1, gave them a mulligan last week; today they were abysmal 😭.

Has anyone been brave enough to listen to Goodwin's press conf. Had to pour🍷before tuning in ... Btw, I am very angry which is not something I experience too often in any part of life.

I made a few bold predictions in the Game Day thread. They were all wrong!!! Except one: that Matty Rowell needed to be minded. He wasn't. He ran free clocking up 13 clearances, 36 possessons, 7 tackles etc etc etc. Why oh why did we not put someone on him. It was depressing watching him just waltz out of the centre with no one near him setting up play down the corridor. FGS if this humble fan who knows little about football can identify Rowell as the danger man why could our coaches not! The only good thing about he game is it was easy to get a seat on the train and arrived home in daylight! Well, Langdon and Langford deserve special mentions.

LOL...so was mine ... meant to be a play on words ... We seem to have our humour antennas out of sync lately ...

The irony is we were the team without match fitness against GWS, let Green dominate and surrendered the game. Every chance GCS are that team today. We need to curb the play makers like Green. Tactically, today I think it will be Rowell especially at CB and fwd half stoppages. A job for Viney and or Swallow ... We also need tactics to stop Mac Andrew copying Comben last week (@Demonstone please note spelling 😁). A good decoy job for Melksham and tell the players to ignore Melksham and keep Andrew away from the play to not intercept. Last quarter fade outs have been our undoing for nearly a year. I truly think that if there are no passengers we have good tactics and we play the full 4 qtrs we will win ... Is that asking too much ... 🤔

Look at the table on page 1 of this thread. George updates it fairly regularly.

On first reading I thought that said no sense at all !😉

Dees WILL WIN by 17 points! Our home ground Suns not 'match fit' - no games played this season; the round 1 training/practice game vs WCE doesn't count. Backs-to-the-wall demons will come out fighting like rnd 23, 2024 Stage set for a mighty come back by our beloved demons! We've lost Lever since I posted the above yesterday but TMac comes in. Play with grit and intent for 4 quarters and I still think we win !!!

Just to let everyone know that the fund raising goal has been reached: $565 added today!!! I'm sure @Demonland will be very pleased. Had a chuckle about the 1 cent added to their donation by one D'lander ! 👏🏻🙃

Like @daisycutter I didn't need to login. I went straight into the Forum and everything went smoothly from there. I use a PC with Firefox. I haven't tried to log out - just in case it gets all fussy and won't let me back in 😉

This is one for @Demonland

Very good point on donation. For those that can https://demonland.com/clients/donations/ and help get to the goal: Raised 1,435.00 AUD of 2,000.00 AUD target