Thoughts on Goddard today?

[TheExtractorFactor]

Nothing would please me more than a teammate giving him a bake for a change but they never do. Stand up to him someone

 

[catpremier 07]

About time someone gave danniher a bake.

 

[Art Vandelay_]

Elite Bigfooty posting.
Two pretzel references and a crying pic on the first page. Well done all.

 

[Chuckie357]

I'd be distraught if I saw one of our senior players interacting with teammates like that. Especially right after the half time break where they should have all come out the race unified.

He's a narcissistic w***er. He served his purpose during that dark period but he needs to be taken off their list ASAP as he is toxic for culture and unity.

Never seen players so obviously look at a teammate like he is a shit stain on the team mid game.

So how did you feel when figjam chrome dome gold digger ablett pushed payers and carried on like that a few years ago?

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

There are ways of saying things.

Not that way. It actually hinders others performances.

I dunno

Heater is famous for it and there are numerous instances. He famously unloaded onon Tomlinson at QTR time against the Pies in 2016. That actually marked Tomlinsons transition into a good KPD, from a talentedbut frustrating player we struggled to find a position for.

I agree in the sense it's better not done in public, but sometimes it's urgent. It doesn't mean there's an internal feud.

 

[adammania9]

If players have enough of him, I wouldn’t be too surprised if there were a mid-season sacking. He clearly doesn’t have great relationships with those around him and at 32 or 33, probably doesn’t hold too much value to the club anymore.


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[VL3OJ]

There are ways and means to deal with team members not putting in. You can yell at them once and that would be fair however to, in front of millions, devalue team mates on TV and do it time and time again is a management technique that can be inferred as bullying.

What does Goddard hope to achieve in the short term at the end of the quarter? How will this be taken into next week and if the season is poor, then towards the end of the season?

My tip is that he wont be playing seniors from round 17 onwards. No real loss

 

[Danger!Selwood]

The time and a place for those conversations is in the rooms or at the club during the week, not in front of 91k at the ground and a few hundred thousand watching on tv.

I think it could have been Tom Harley who made a point of ensuring teammates didn’t bake each other on the ground, or even show any negative body language if a team mate chose a wrong option or made a mistake. There were many Essendon players today with arms out, having a sook if the ball didn’t get kicked to them. Not a good look.

 

[Jedi Tiger]

Better captain than Dyson.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It will be passed off as 'he plays with passion' but I thought he was awful today. He is the sort of guy who can be a negative influence around the club and it might be time for them to ease him out of the side or talk to him of a mid year retirement.

It has been a problem for a long time but today was just very, very poor. He made plenty of mistakes himself but is the first to be critical of others.

A bad influence around the club? What the hell?

He was one of our best today against an avalanche coming out of the middle.

He’s like Nick Maxwell in that its his job to run the backline. Opposition supporters see him pointing... um, that’s his job. Of course he gets too fired up sometimes, that’s him. Off the field he’s completely different.

He came to the club and landed in a ****in terrible situation through no fault of his own, and has been 1st, 3rd, 5th, 4th and 2nd in the B&F. He had every right to crack the shits with his situation but instead has stood up and been a vital leader. He’s been enormous for us, we couldn’t have asked for a better recruit.

In 2016 they put the interim captaincy to a vote of the players and he topped the poll almost unanimously. Must be a terrible influence.

What a stupid post.

 

[royeca]

People been living under a rock? Has been doing this for years...

 

[Ancient Tiger]

Hinders some peoples performances. Some people take it well. Was pretty usual when I played footy
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Science shows that people go into self preservation mode. In football terms that means playing safe.

That's exactly what Essendon players started doing more and more.

 

[doppleganger]

Graduated head of the class at the Nick Maxwell School of Finger Pointing.

Maxwell would point and give direction, but he was a great leader and he would win contests and out his body on the line and do all the little team things.

BJ just sits out the back chipping across goal to his other seagull mate in Hurley, and then is critical of other Bombers.

 

[I Lost My Keays]

One of my most hated players.

 

[TheKanga]

Collingwood would have loved to see Essendon fighting amongst themselves while piling on the goals.
There is a time and place and that wasn't it for Goddard to start blaming.

 

[ScoobySnacks]

Classic BJ. Gets super stroppy at team mates despite the glaring fact he played a garbage game of footy that was mostly backwards kicks and turnovers.

Flog.

 

[BOMBERS 4 LIFE!!!!]

You can bet that Goddard would have been the only player in the change rooms after the game pissed off wish his teams mates showed the same passion

 

[3rdManUp]

Hold on to your snacks people, Bj on the warpath

 

[LFC2010]

You can't play Port Adelaide every week.

 

[PP34]

He’s a dickhead and it’s not a good look but honestly there’s bigger problems at the Bombers to worry about.

I can’t blame him for being frustrated. They’ve barely improved in his time there.

 

[Oliver09]

He's a do what a say not as i type. I can cop a bloke like zaka running around getting easy kicks he is what he is but to see Blowhard Goddard run around pointing the finger? Wouldn't get a game in 93 or 2000 let alone 84-85 he's a front running squib

 

[maddog37]

Petulant, arrogant self styled martyr. No good.

 

[beema limapep]

Pretzels.

that is all.

 

[ESKIE]

Awful look baking your team mates him & zaharakis arguing you can tell his team mates don’t respect him

 

[Macpotata]

Good on him. The campaigners played like shit, call them out. Goddard was alright so had every reason to get stuck into them.