BrisbaneDemon

And everyone thinks the MFC PR department had been a sleep at the wheel, what a beautifully orchestrated positive news story…

Your points above are spot on, what I was getting at the other day, if we continue the chaos football in the F50 next year, we needed to target some forwards who can jump and clunk marks, with our forward delivery in finals, it was too long and high (Moore had a day out), I would love to address our forward entries to fix our “forward line issues”. My frustration is we never get an easy goal out the back, the majority of our shots are from an angle, we never short kick on a 45 degree out of the forward long to move to the defence. We would work so hard and burn so much energy to kick a single goal (or 5 behinds). It would be next to target forward who suit our game style (fingers crossed the 2 newbies are just that)

I agree wholeheartedly mate, the she’ll be right attitude of posters above or go again with what we have and “hope” for improvement is a head scratcher.

💯 we have a forward line issue, BBB & Tmac and add Petty can’t be depended on due to injuries, JVR is only young and is inconsistent, our small forwards can struggle to impact, Gawn can’t kick straight and that leaves us Fritsch and Trac. then we have a system issue were we have unlimited forward line entries to no avail or we mark it on the boundaries. We never seem to get out the back goals like Pies/Lions/Port do as we’re a defensively minded team. if we continue to enter our forward 50 like we have over the past 2 years and we don’t have another tall who can clunk marks and kick goals….. we’ll go out in straight sets again or struggle to make top 4

Sounds like we aren’t addressing the forward line issues. Another year of TMac and BBB playing 10 games between them, An unproven Fullerton. We have lost depth and haven’t added any proven contributors. 2024 could be another wasted year and May and Gawn only getting older. Hard to be optimistic.

Rumour up here is between 4-6 years the Gabba will be out of action for the lions, 3 years to build, it needs to be set up for two years prior to the Olympics as part of their testing and commissioning requirements. Lions and Cricket QLD/AUS are blowing a gasket over it, potentially they’ll just do a renovation and upgrade one stand to add seating.

Sadly I have to agree with you, there’s too much smoke to be nothing…. when playing, he’s one of my favourites. Will be a massive loss.

Yeah you’re right, I completely forgot about the Tassie team….

The way AFL are handing out compensation picks, we should put our hand over for consecutive finals straight set exits, end of round 1 compo? Do you ever think we’ll see a draft that isn’t compromised again?

I was expecting him to turn up with George in a little tux!,

2021= flag 2022= straight sets 2023= straight sets Yze and Richo have been in the box and Goody on the boundary, we will now have to bring in a different person to fill this all important role or Chaplin/Richo moves into that role. I totally agree but that’s a massive gamble to have a newbie in the seat with Goody on the bench. I might be over thinking it….

It was interesting to hear him say (paraphrasing) “at my last two clubs, I was in the drivers seat during game day”. That’s really concerning that Goodwin is on the bench and another coach is running the game, while he has pep talks with the players. As much as I hate the bloke, there is no way Chris Scott would do that, you can see him and the other coaches changing their style throughout the game from the box.

Interesting that he’s the only one posting….

We also need to address the kick ins and the total lack of offensive options, it’s either: 1) long bomb to Gawn to the left 2) short kick to the boundary to Salem/Bowey to the left 3)the clearly telegraphed long bomb to the square to Gawn

I’m all for some new forwards, but the game plan will need to be tweaked, it amazes me how hard we have to work for a single goal, then the opposition gets two easy ones out the back (against our biggest weapon our defence). I could count on one hand the amount of easy goals we got in the second half of the season. I don’t think we got one out the back in the finals, Pickett, Chandler all have speed, we must push back so hard to cover defence that we lose that options, which means we lose finals by single digits…..

The cop outs to top all cop outs. If that has seriously come from within the football department, they should be sent a please explain, moved on from their position. That has made me more angry then losing the game on Friday night!!!

Not bad trolling from a 40 year old virgin….

There were about 6 players who were more concerned about helping their knocked out mate, then flying the flag. They had their priorities right. Viney, May, Oliver, Petracca, Pickett, Sparrow, are all hard nuts

I’d like to add the “method” of kicking it into the forward 50, Viney, Oliver, Trac, Hunter, Langdon all just bombed it long and high 30-40 m out from goal all night. To have 30 more inside 50’s, we only needed 7 more points. it would be hard work being a forward with our delivery, we have been saying the same for the past 2.5 years but nothing has changed and we have lost personnel. Still seething from last night sorry

It’s bad enough seeing Collingwood win, Carlton is right up there, I had to turn it off, I was waiting for Cripps to thank the boys in yellow for getting them over the line tonight….

He was groggy on his feet walking off the ground, that ain’t ribs!

The bull [censored] free kicks in Carlton’s favour, from the umpires (AFL) need to stop next week. The critical calls against Sydney and the non calls for Sydney was laughable.

Heartbreaking footage, great win by the boys but that has overshadowed the performance. Hoping for the best but fearing the worst for poor Jake.

The Gawn/Grundy experiment doesn’t work, Jacko was more mobile and could trouble the scorers, JVR needs to second ruck with another forward option for the remainder of the season unfortunately.

Cripps teared the 4th qtr apart, he won them the game in the first 5 minutes of the 4th qtr. why was t Petracca and Kozzie out in the ball in the 4th? Carlton deserved the win, the were first at the ball, to have Paddy Dow dominate in the middle is a wake up call to our midfield.