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Should have realised it was an 'emogi typo' as I've never seen you react or comment negatively to any posts. Thanks 😊

@DeeZone I greatly value your opinions so wondering what shocked you about my post. Cheers.

He was a very strong CEO of the Players Cricket Association. Fought a very tough and times acrimonious battle with Cricket Australia over player contracts. I'm guessing he is a no nonsense sought of guy.

I'm glad he is talking to fans. For me the elephant in the room is what happened to the FD review? Are Crowe and Shand doing the mentoring consulting jobs we were promised? So am disappointed there is no update on the review and on which things he listed in a pre Xmas letter have or haven't been implemented. And how further implementation will help us get better That isn't asking for anything confidential. The President commissioned the FD review, it is up to him and the CEO to ensure it is implemented and if it goes off the rails to make sure it gets back on track. To me it looks like the review has gone off the rails and no-one is monitoring its progress. Or was it just a PR exercise to quieten the masses and the media.

I'm ok with the soccer but not if at the expense of 'touching the footy type' training. Undoubtedly, we do skills training but clearly not enough. Maybe keep the soccer, scrap the' train in their own time' stuff and do more touch-the-footy stuff, and do it leisurely but importantly nail every kick and HB as Graham discusses.

Extract from an interview with Jack Graham of WCE, when discussing they have one day less training than at Richmond, because of travel. At Richmond: “But probably when we do have the sessions, you know, we’re touching the footies enough ... The fundamentals, even if it is a low touch session, it’s like all right, boys, we’re not going to be going quick here, but let’s make sure we hit every handball, hit every kick. So it comes back to the little things.” It makes me wonder whether our players having training sessions on their own, away from the club has contributed to our apparent poor skills. Poor skills quickly becomes lower confidence, poor decisions etc. We aren't as bad as we play! Could 'poor skills' be as simple as we aren't touching the footy enough at training?

I have edited my post to make it clear the rumour has been refuted.

As noted I was referencing a prior post where the poster clearly said 'allegedly'. Good that you clarified the situation.

It was mentioned as 'alleged' in the third para of the post I quoted and I qualified my comment with 'if'.

I noted elsewhere in this thread why Goodwin lost me after last night. I agree this is not the time to change. It would be a knee-jerk reaction and look like optics management. The Board would make better use of their time asking why the FD review implementation has gone off the rails. imv it is imperative we get a CEO before acting on the coach. We just can't afford to have our total management chain in caretaker mode. I think we should ride the storm until then which hopefully is before the bye. Then the CEO can act on the coach. btw, poor form if Bickely (premiership teammate of Goodwin) relayed a private conversation. Edit: the rumour about what Bickley said has been refuted in posts below.

I'll also be there, Jane.

That is how I heard it: looking after himself. And he said (paraphrasing): it isn't about me, it is about the club, these players. If he has gone into self-protect mode is it any wonder the players are doing the same on the field. Oh! My kingdom for a CEO!

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@Demonland I just noticed this feature is back. Thanks!

Until last night I was in Goodwin's camp. But not after these: At half time he said: Petty is going forward as we need the aerial presence. NSS!!!!! That was obvious on Thursday night. In his PR several times he put it all on the players: not enough fight. "...but we need to show more fight than what we showed. “We did it for a quarter, that’s all I’ll say. We did it for a quarter.” Sure they didn't perform to the level required but no need to rub it in or publicly shame them. In his PR he said: it isn't about me... King rightly took issue with that. I have this sick feeling Goodwin has gone into self-protect mode. And, I no longer trust his decision making.