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Is it to be assumed that was with the blessing of teammates?

Checked the club and the Alice replacement game is rnd 23 vs Hawks. No idea how we got to THREE games at Marvel this year. (2 x Away and 1 x Home) iirc correctly, when we gave up the Darwin game (and the sponsorship $) Pert did a spiel on us getting that Home game back to the G (as well as the replacement game for Alice). Somehow it seems we have lost that. Is that how others remember it? I wonder if the club tried to negotiate the venues.

Me too. And enjoyed reading it twice.

loving-my-time-kozzy-s-all-in-as-demons It reads as if Kozzie is still going. BUT Does that not bring a tear to the eye.. Not an easy decision for Kozzie. It will be a very sad parting.

Yes, I remember some strong comments from you. Being close to the club you would know better than most what went down. I find it heartening that you are now a fan. Good on you!❤️💙

Thank you. That gave me goose bumps! And a slight 🥹. My belief in him has never wavered.

Didn't notice their fans He was at the end of the ground so couldn't see the detail. Fend off or Peace sign, either way it was fun to see.

That clarifies why he came straight in without a game at Casey.

I reckon a lot of families treated it as a day out. Met a family on the train in from NZ who had never been to a game and wanted to experience one at the G. The little kids were in demons gear so chatted to them a bit. I was particularly happy for them as the game went on as I was for us all and especially the little ones. They can go back to school feeling proud again!

Talking of the crowd. Demon fans take a bow: Small in number but gigantic in sound and enthusiasm. It felt like a packed stadium.

Two special moments: Viney's side step before acing a goal. Great composure. Kozzie in the goal square with his arm behind him and hand up as if to fend off a Freo player but he knew there was no one there😁. Very cheeky but the crowd loved it.

@Ghostwriter Is @ghost who walks your alter ego 😁? I do say there are some subtle but uncanny similarities in writing styles, humour etc ... 😁 No voodoo dolls please!

Yes, I said we didn't and still don't have the right players. Yet we didn't learn from that WCE experience. At least WCE brought in coaches to help, We didn't. Longmire brought in someone who was able to develop a system to suit their list.. We could have learnt from both and maybe tried something that had a better chance of working with what we have. We could have recruited an assistant coach that had the relevant experience.

Agreed. Simpson said they liked how Port attacked so got Port folk in but their attempts at a system change still failed as they didn't have the right players. Longmire on the other hand got the attacking Don Pyke to 'balance his own defensive' leanings (paraphrasing) and they went on to play in GF, albeit it they wilted badly when they got there.. Who did Goodwin get to help implement a new system and 'balance his own defensive' leaning? No one! And we didn't learn from WCE of a new system without the players needed to execute it. And really if we look at the CV of our assistant coaches they are rather Meh! Haven't looked too closely at the assistants at other clubs but reckon ours, collectively would be close to the worst in the league in terms of variety of experience and directing change. No wonder we are where we are.

I get that fwds haven't been performing but each week we've had at least 2 fwd changes sometimes to players who appear to be in form. It was a bad look last week when only one tall fwd was selected and he was also to ruck then at half time Goodwin said Petty was moving fwd as we needed the aerial presence, something that was obvious at selection. So coaches need to share the responsibility for our fwd line not performing. My main point was the 'revolving door' of fwds isn't helping The New Plan. I'd prefer we select a fwd 7 and stick to them (except for injuries) and persevere until it clicks. It couldn't have been any worse.

I'm glad Goodwin is sticking to The New Plan. It is often said for a team to click (gain cohesion) they need to play together, play together, play together. The fwd 7 players are a revolving door! How can that possibly help executing The New Plan.

tbh, I prefer Fritsch played a full game at Casey to gain a bit of confidence and show form. Very difficult to earn a spot back in half game. As to your question: who knows with selections! It looks random to me with the fwds being a revolving door without apparent rhyme nor reason. Fritsch has his best two weeks in a while and gets dropped! Go figure! btw, I didn't like the heat put on him for the babe-in-arms gesture after his goal last week. I loved it; a nice touch to honour his little one. It is no different than a player kissing their black arm band or pointing to the sky after a goal to honour someone who has passed away.

I calc the average cost to be $190 so the drop in revenue is close to $1.875 ml. On a slightly brighter not, to offset that, the club might make special membership offers to help. And ANZAC and KB being Home games will also help offset the lost membership revenue. It is next year that the $ pain will be felt!

Sadly, I can't see any obvious succession planning to Gawn/Viney. Lets not forget Viney has many years left on his contract. Lever is forever injured and who knows what happens with Trac. tbh I'm disappointed the likes of Rivers, Chandler, Langdon haven't been developed enough that at least one of them joined the leadership group.

That is an interesting point. Not sure showing leadership is auditioning for the captaincy. Would Max give it up? My take is Trac realises someone has to stand up now to salvage what we can from this train crash season but knows our leaders aren't able to atm, be it injury, form, family issues etc. Trac has shown a bit of maturity recently so I look forward to what extra mile he goes to help the team. Cometh the hour, cometh the man!

At this point our dear @Ghostwriter is tearing her hair out, has the voodoo dolls out for you and trying not to 🤮

Thanks for the insight. My thoughts are, in the first round we had 3 tall fwds and their work was quite good. Since then we haven't had three and they've been changed every week. So no consistency or understanding among the fwds. Last week we had one tall fwd who also rucked. Reckon it is pretty difficult to follow training if the players who trained together aren't there.

Fair point. iirc, Gawn was on the bench or somewhere else, May was at the other end of the ground and Lever didn't play.. At half time Goodwin said Petty was moving fwd as we needed some aerial presence. I thought: No Sh---ttt Sherlock! Shame they didn't think of that at selections. Having another tall fwd wouldn't have won us the game but it probably would have helped the score and better value for our 50+ i5-'s.

I agree, it would help if we had tall fwds to mark and if they had leading patterns predictable to the mids On Saturday we had the farcical situation of Spargo and Kozzie trying to contest against two tall defenders. That is on the selection committee.

I agree it wasn't another string not a new bow. The context of the Lewis comment was Yze added another way to move the ball out of CB clearances. Implemented beautifully in the 3rd qtr of the 2021 GF. Somehow we have lost that string that Yze added.