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I am sick of the JVR bashing on this forum. You try performing in a.forward line that bombs it on top of your head week after week, and being coached by a backman who teaches him no forward craft. Don't be surprised if the way he is playing IS due to the way he has been instructed to play.

How did we win a flag with most of this group? I am convinced the game has passed Goodwin, Richardson, Williams, and Selwin Griffiths. The team has gone backwards at a rate of knots and there is not one glimmer of hope in sight. It's time to cut the head off the snake and get whatever draftpicks we can at the end of the season. This has been a pathetic effort.

Just get a damn forwards coach who was an ACTUAL FORWARD to teach JVR the craft. Chaplin is not the answer as he will show how to defend as a forward but not how to play like one.

Thank goodness there isn't a mid season trade period. Half the squad would request to leave due to not being a Goodwin 'favorite'.

Take the emotion out of it and look at it from a pre and post premiership perspective. It has been chalk and cheese how different his and his support staff performance has been. It isn't only Goody; I'd start asking what Richardson and Lamb have done since the flag. Bad contract extensions, no big fish signed, player and coaching development stalled and onfield performance gone backwards.

Only twelve months.

Only have to pay out 12 months.

No way. Game moves past him as well. Need a young buck who no-one will mess with and commands respect like C. Scott, Mitchell, Kingsley

Is there any chance we could sit back and look at everything that happened yesterday in totality? Six new faces, a refreshed gameplan, playing a team that is predicted to be a premiership threat who had a week of match fitness under them, we led for most of the day, and lost in the last 90 seconds with a play that reminded me of the 1987 Prelim Final. We can look at all the negatives but there are plenty of positives to come out of it. This week will be better suited to what we want to achieve through faster ball movement on a slick deck under a roof. Remember, in over 129 years no-one has won the Grand Final in March!

Don't be surprised if we have a checkered start for the first eight rounds until all the troops are back and the game plan sticks. After that, barring injury we will humming nicely.

The delay to Kentfield's year surly opens up a spot for Culley.

Sharp will be a lock on the wing for the first game. His endurance and workrate are exactly what we need on the other wing if Windsor is going to half back. On another note, went to watch Essendon train yesterday and out sessions had way more running, match sim and full contact within. We train much harder than them but it may have been a 1/2 loading session in their defence.

I just dropped our first round (27 picks in total) mock draft on YouTube. Have a look and let me know what you think:

Here is the article: http://archive.today/7Ns4K ENJOY!!

We don't have Grundy's. Got away with that one as it is between the Pies and Brodie.

Petty- No pre-season Oliver - No pre-season Melbourne - Didn't pick them

I know and I like it. Let's be honest with ourselves that we would not be challenging the top end due to a lot of factors so why not make something of the backend. Can't keep going to the BBB, Schache, Billings well, otherwise we'll lose another Bedford or Jordan.

I feel for the guy as I have no doubt he is trying but confidence in himself and potentially his body is holding him back. He virtually had no preseason and we expected him to dominate from Round 1 which was never going to happen. I honestly believe the club, like Oliver, should not have played him if there were better options available as BBB and Shache aren't it.

I am still amazed that with our midfield capability and connection issues with the forwards that we don't have a midfield coach. Yes, you read that correctly.

You cannot be serious Brownie. If you are, admin needs to ban this person for stupidity.

All I want to know is that after three preseasons we still have no connection between our minds and forwards. How is that possible with all the coaching, training sessions, analytics, etc?

21 years old. FFS! Name another key forward his age we had access to averaging more than a goal game. Give the kid a break.

Not excusing the bad skills in the first half but the hard sessions leading in may have provided early fatigue until they ran it out of their system.

Based off his season so far he isn't wrong.

Where did you get these stats from?