chookrat

I think the problem is that the MRO/Tribunal "review" these incidents with a predetermined outcome in mind and then spend hours deliberating to work out the subjective factors to support their predetermined outcome. The May suspension is fully based on subjective "interpretations" of what the mythological reasonable player would do. I wonder which reasonable player they will use this time.

Interestingly in the four rounds before West Coast we were first in the league for % of marks for kicks inside 50.

Imagine if Goody wasn't really sacked but that the club staged the Board meeting to draw out the mole.

This is where I reckon Simmo or Horse would be good. It is an ideal role for an experienced Head Coach who has had success, is strong on culture, but no longer has the desire to be the Head Coach. Then bring in a Cam Bruce or simarly experienced Senior Assistant ad the Head Coach.

I'm torn on this, on one hand I feel like Goodwin has been badly let down by the Club Administration this year but am also hopeful that the decision was made based on an informed view of how our Footy Department were tracking internally and ability to turn things around rather than a reaction to our win/loss record the past couple of years and the embarrasing 4th quarter vs Saints. The Board had better have a good plan to bring in a coaching group that will being sustained success and not simply make change for the sake of it.

Kenny - no real success Simmo - the reason why WCE are uncompetitive Horse - won a GF with COLA, smashed in subsequent GF's with Academy Players Voss - probably should have offered to swap coaches for 2026 and see what happens I'd look at something along the lines of Cam Bruce with Simmo or Horse as Football Manager.

Re Pettyfor, she was the GM Football Ops and AFLW at Collingwood before joining us so for all we know she was slated for this role when we brought her in as Comms Director. It id not as if we've grabbed a random person from Marketing to run a footy program.

Boys have done enough, need to ease off and look to next week.

This seems good on paper but I'd be wary of the Filths tricks.

I reckon clubs would pay $800k to $1.2m for Oliver with a second to third round pick. While he is not tearing games apart he is still one of the best inside mids and for clubs with such a need he would be better value than an equivelant 25+ year old free agent.

It is also very strange that the AFL CEO met with Bailey Smith to tell him how valuabpe he is to the league. My take is this is a highly inappropriate meeting as the league CEO should not be meeting with players at clubs re their future in the league.

Extraordinary call, I couldn't believe Salem didn't recieve free and then foe it to go the othrr way. Beggars belief.

I heard that Fritsch was upset and felt blindsided about Lever being dropped.

If North can argue that Xerri was reasonabpy contesting the ball then it is not a classifiable offence. Given the action was to run past the ball while swinging an outstretched arm I cannot see how they could argue such an action is reasonable.

Do we make a play for Damian Barrett and Llordo to run our Footy Department?

So if we really click in the last 6-8 rounds including winning our last 3 rounds in dominant displays you would advocate sacking the coach in the basis that we missed finals? I'm disappointed with our inconsistency this year, especially how poorly we have performed against middling sides, but want to see us back in contention next year.

I'd prefer we go after his brother Ben and teach him (backman) how to play as a forward.

I see that as a good thing. Bring him in and whoever is the new whipping boy we can refer to as reek.

Wizard of Koz, if that is your real name, what makes you think our home base plan is falling apart?

We should appoint Luke Jackson as Player CEO with $500k of his salary outside of the salary and soft caps and the remainder as player.

Add to this that Collingwood didnt even make finals after their 2023 flag but get a free pass in the media. They have started well this year but so did we in 2022 and in 2023 we had our forward line functioning well heading into finals but lost Melksham and Petty to injury and Fritch was recovering from a serious foot injury, not to mention what happened to Brayshaw. If Collingwood go out in straight sets this year will the media call for their coach to be sacked? I reckon Goody is doing well coaching a club that lost its President and CEO last year and these key roles are yet to be filled while healing a playing group and rejuvinating our list after what has been a challengjng few years.

The AFL cpuld be creative in how it funds full time Professional Umpires by getting a betting sponsor on board and having tv segments to review umpiring decisions and also allow punters to place bets on categories based on umpiring mistakes and even have the umpiring department sponsor players known as umpire pets.

Thats a laughable excuse. Any club would find the cap space required for a player like Kozzie if he a) wanted to play for them b) the had the picks and players to enable a deal.

Poor form considering tax payers are paying for 30-45% of the cost of facilities owned by private schools through their tax deductable building contributions.

The silver lining is that he will be cherry ripe for finals.