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Yeah. I heard Conor McDonald on the Sunday footy Show saying the Hawks last year were training fitness and strength basically into the season starting where as this year they wanted to keep building so they started training game scenarios immediately when they got back.
How the **** is he supposed to tell everyone he loves them from the coaches box you idiot
He needs to stop hogging the bloody pen and let others contribute to the story.
We should start selling those Live laugh love stickers but they should just be Oliver Trac Love and other Melbourne related loves
Now you're living in the gains!I'm glad we had a tagger on Greene otherwise he would have run to 50 and kicked a goal on the final centre bounce.
Goody "losing by 3 is better than losing by 9"
Goody has coached from the bench in the past because he's not a tactical coach and has had assistants that have been in charge of that area previously. We don't seem to have a tactic specialist this year, which is a massive watch for us given every man and his dog could see it's a huge need.
This felt very reactive in 2nd. I didn't like it at all. It was a see-sawing game but deficit never really blew out either way.
Probably the worst person to play loose in defence too.
Yeah if a team has a run on and has kicked the last 4 goals in 3 minutes or something I get it. But **** me, its little wonder we choke late when we have instructions of such a negative mindset throughout the game. Back your guys in to kick a goal late instead of worrying about the Giants scoring. You'd have thought the end of the third quarter in the grand final would have taught Goody something.
Maybe just maybe having no forwards who can run through the middle and playing the same 4 mids in the middle almost all game makes us run out of energy before other teams who flip it around
What you're saying makes sense but it never really felt like we were gassed. Giants have been banging on about how fit they are this year after an embarrassing finals series.
We were killed on transition as well, so fitness would probably be part of it, but our crowded structure likely doesn't help much too. We're also a poorly skilled team trying to play a precision kicking game in an era of fast, attacking, turnover footy. Bit of work to do. Interested to see if it pans out we did something different due to the conditions, or that's us for the year.
I've just never been a big believer that one teams program can be that far infront of another's. There's so much crossing of staff and players they're all probably doing about the same thing for fitness.
Think there are plenty of bad clubs that are often bad because their programs aren't demanding enough. But we've generally prided ourselves on our fitness so I do agree the margins between us and the Giants probably aren't massive. But yeah I do agree we rely too much on having Trac, Viney and Oliver in there all the time. Our recruiting would suggest we are trying to fix that with guys like Langford but it obviously isn't reflected in the games yet.
We've always been killed out the back under Goodwin, that's the achilles heel of a high forward press. I'm not sure about the gameplan, we're not a slow and stodgy as we have been in the past going long down the line but we're still hugging the boundary-line and risk-averse, forwardline is still a dogs breakfast. Goodwin made a big show on 360 of saying he wanted us to play entertaining footy and we'd have some teething issues early in the year so we'll see but we've been burned before on promises of change.
Marks - Dees 84, GWS 56 (Contested Dees 7, GWS 5)
