Dee Zephyr

Check out the ‘Ask The Coach’ segments on the club website over the last couple of months and the same question gets repeated on just about every segment. Why can’t we replicate the game style of 2018? Goody’s answer - “ It’s pretty simple. Teams are defending differently to 2018 and we are working hard on an offence to break those defensive systems down. We think it’s not too far away.” I don’t expect Goody to go into detail with those sorts of Q&As and I’m sure they are working on something but what exactly is anyone’s guess. Apart from the 6-6-6 rule which only comes into play after goals how are teams defending differently since 2018? Someone explain please. It’s hard judging by TV viewing, maybe someone that attends today’s game can give us a ground perspective.

Remember seeing a stat here last week. The team sitting second on the ladder has not won a game in 2020. The curse continues.

The guy looks like he struggles to run at times. Genuine question, is he still suffering some kind of knee problem? He was being managed a few weeks ago.

6. Hibberd 5. Petracca 4. Hannan 3. T Mac 2. Salem 1. Harmes Struggled with the 2&1

Clarry oh Clarry.

Faaark, no one gets body on Lynch.

Bolta the new Rance?‍♂️

Is it instruction to keep kicking to a 1 against 3? Has to be ....you can’t be that dumb

Really? A 5 metre kick and then an unrealistic attempt ..FMD and then Smith

FFS stop going to the bench after kicking a goal.

And game over . Victors 12.8-80 to 8.7-55 Only Tigers’ best and goal kickers mentioned

Richmond FC providing score updates on their twitter page. 3QT: Richmond 7.3 (45) to Melbourne 10.7 (67) As of 15 minutes ago. Woo hoo

Heard one of the Lions’ players speak on the radio the other day, from memory it was Lachie Neale. The main take away from the interview was the point about their style. He said it comes half down to structure/plan and half Fagan allowing them to play with instinct and flair. Important when you possess talented players to allow them to showcase their skills. It’s working a treat up there for the Lions.

I’m on Macca. Actually like the idea throwing up some roughies on here every now and then until spring.

No goalless quarters, consistent effort across the entire game and we might see a win today. Also depends on the C word when moving the ball. Let’s see. Keen to see where Harmes starts today. In the first half last week he started forward a few times, possibly tagging a runner from the Cats’ defence.

Rant for the day. A Selwood/Mathieson clone in Callum Brown. The amount of times he throws his head back staging for a head high free is increasingly annoying.

Absolutely. Watching some old games during lockdown the umps didn’t wait for 8 blokes to gang tackle a player before they decided to ball it up and as soon as they grabbed the ball it was up in the air. On your comment above about the NRL HB I agree, since resumption the NRL spectacle has been fantastic.

Turnovers will destroy you. SPS with a shocker of a kick. No wonder people break TV remotes

Certainly exciting news about our HQ with social club within walking distance of the G, Bartlett sounded confident. Any guesses which areas?

Was listening to RSN this morning and they were talking about a greyhound race that’s gone viral, in particular a dog by the name of ‘Good Juan’. So I looked it up and found this extraordinary. ‘ Winx-Like Numbers’

Come on....fess up, sounded like someone was trying to ring through earlier. Really enjoyable interview gents, great job.

Yep, as frustrating as the modern game. The instinct has been coached out of players. The game looked better when forwards actually ran at the ball rather than running with it. Screw the trend of scoring from the forward half Goody, it’s clearly not working for us at the moment. I don’t fully buy the notion of our boys being that lazy in two way running, what I see is a lot of confusion ( structure/zone wise) when the opposition commences slow movement from the back. If we stand here they are bound to turn it over eventually mentality.

Yes Wise, it’s not all doom and gloom here, I thought we played poorly and funnily enough we still had a chance to win the game when it looked lost. That’s the frustrating part for me, if we can get consistency for an entire game we will be alright.

Amazing how a game of footy can leave you frustrated the next morning. Maybe we should just leave Trac deep forward if we continue not to play Weid. The only one that looked likely in beating his opponent one on one when thrust forward for patches in the third. Surprised to see Gus only play 67%, thought he was one of our better players, he and Trac worked well together in a couple of centre clearances but in order to give Gus more midfield time, Trac needs to go forward imo especially with this shortened version of AFL. Yeah we got close in the end but we always talk about what could’ve been.

Uncontested possessions, uncontested marks, why allow them to dictate the tempo all day especially with shorter quarters. So friggin frustrating, it was evident from quarter 1 what their plan was. Is man on man not allowed anymore?