Goodwin under pressure.?

[Shooter#17]

I posted a thread about 12 months ago calling for heat on Goodwins job. 12 months on and the cracks under his tutelage are becoming enormous, albeit for a short time last year where the side got on a roll.
He has what many think as a very talented list but his lack of any gameplan other than win the contested ball and bomb it forward (to a side with no small decent small forwards) is clearly showing.
How long until the footy world wakes up to his capabilities?

 

[Catsnlakers]

Going to be a fair pay out considering he just signed on for another few years.

 

[projectv]

Six games ago the guy was coaching them in a prelim, but ok.

 

[longsuffreosupp]

Should be laughing that he's got another few years. Currently has an Ad-hoc back line, so best to wait until he has the full complement on the park.

 

[markm106]

I wouldn’t mind a bit of pressure being applied in regards to our regression and lack of game plan. Watching live today saints had a great zone and structure. Our lack of ability to counter this made it look like saints had extras out there.
Goodwin was creative before 6-6-6. He had success with players running off the back of the square. But he seems to be struggling to come up with something now.

 

[blitzer]

Don't reckon he's under pressure this year. He's got some credits in the bank from last year and has his contract locked in which Melbourne would not be paying out. I think they'll get it together eventually but it may end up being too late.

 

[Shooter#17]

Six games ago the guy was coaching them in a prelim, but ok.

You need to read the post more clearly. Poor coaching has been covered by a good list and a hot streak for a month late in the year. Let's not forget they were no certainly to make the finals at round 21. Played an ageing cats and injury riddled Hawks then absolutely demolished by the eagles.

 

[Johnny Karate]

Our system sucks and is being poorly executed. Pressure should come on him, the assistants and the fool that decided locking him in for four years was a great idea.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

I feel like a supporter criticising the coach belongs on the club board.

 

[Shooter#17]

Our system sucks and is being poorly executed. Pressure should come on him, the assistants and the fool that decided locking him in for four years was a great idea.

I felt the extension was a mistake at the time as the season hadn't even started, starting to look like an absolute howler...

 

[Shooter#17]

I feel like a supporter criticising the coach belongs on the club board.

Rather an impartial view from neutrals.

 

[HurleyHepsHird]

He and Paul Roos helped pull Melbourne back from the brink. Are you really contemplating moving him on after a bad start to the season? That's absolute amateur hour thinking.

Melbourne, like Carlton will have to, had to learn to win. It's a young club, who rose quickly, with a lot of big heads. They probably didn't handle the prelim to well, made worse by their first short preseason and the scars to older players who have fragile faith in the team. When that huff and puff got dented they lost confidence.

The knocks have come, but all it takes is one good game. A back to basics, contested and attacking game like they played in 2018 and things will click again. So maybe you don't make top 4 this year, but bounce back next season. Goodwin is a tactically clever coach, but still inexperienced. He's learning on the job to and will figure out what's going wrong.

 

[projectv]

Rather an impartial view from neutrals.

I gave you an impartial view from a neutral and you told me how I was wrong.

I think he's done a pretty decent job considering your club has been a basket case with a shit, losing culture.

Yeah, they only just made finals - I had them pegged for missing out for sure, and I was proved wrong. Won some big games, got smashed by the premiers. That's a great learning experience.

Sydney were 0-6 a few years ago and still made finals. Your season is far from over.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Goodwin is a tactically clever coach.

Based on....??

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

Dees with a huge hitout advantage but nothing to show for it.

Please explain.

 

[4tone]

Wheres poor old Dezi. I told this bloke the Dees sucked back in January. The Dees have got to be paying the maximum cap money with their top 10 at the club, only Gawn and Oliver earning their keep. Got rid of the FF no thought of replacement, midfeild one gear only and dont kick goals, shit load of cap money spent on a broken unfit backline. This club has serious issues. Its was clear as day to some, yet all the experts tipping the flag, FFS. Go the mighty Pies

 

[Johnny Karate]

His plan doesn’t work at the MCG. We’ve won 13/28 games there under his tenure. 3 of those were against Carlton. One was against Gold Coast at their lowest ebb last year. One was against the wooden spoon Lions in 2017.

If we move our home games to Docklands and get in cahoots with the non-Vic clubs to allow the Grand Final to be played outside Victoria or failing that play Carlton in a Grand Final he might deliver the ultimate.

Something drastic needs to change. Good teams aren’t easybeats at their home ground. Good coaches don’t implement systems that fail consistently on their home ground.

 

[Catsnlakers]

Rather an impartial view from neutrals.

The one observation I have made ( only my opinion of course ), was the club looked back on last season in a bad way. The narrative was how “successful” 2018 was, clubs like the hawks or my club in the past see a prelim as nothing more than a missed opportunity. I sincerely do hope the Dees can end up winning one, but the mental baggage from last year’s prelim disaster has clearly lingered.

 

[Isaac Cumming No 1]

Rather an impartial view from neutrals.

Well you've got more faith in human nature than I do. That's probably a good thing.

 

[Tulip]

Unfortunately our CEO, who Collingwood laughed out of their club two years ago, signed him up for four years. Not that he’d be sacked, but four years?

The fundamental problem with Goodwin is that he’s surrounded himself with yes men assistants with very few runs on the board. Hopefully the broom is swept through his department end of year. I mean, Max Rooke? Troy Chaplin? Laughable.

 

[Podsnap]

Arrogant kids thought they could just turn up and make another prelim. They'll fix it and be strong again, its just a matter of whether they can turn it around this year or whether it will take a year to catch up.

 

[Plugger35]

Melbourne looked really disorganised in defence, they gave us so much space, there was a passage of play where we had 5 blokes queuing up for a goal.

They might be missing May and Lever but we are missing Carlisle and Roberton and our defence was still more organised than them.

 

[demon21]

Arrogant kids thought they could just turn up and make another prelim. They'll fix it and be strong again, its just a matter of whether they can turn it around this year or whether it will take a year to catch up.

Only if it was that easy, More to it than that.

 

[DeZi]

Wheres poor old Dezi.

Sup you called?

GO PIES!!!

Think you meant Dez! ??

 

[Anja_Nees]

Plenty of sides have dropped back for a year or two after a big jump before getting back on course. Geelong did it in ‘06, Dogs and Saints in ‘07, West Coast in 2013, Richmond in 2016.

Wouldn’t write him off because of this year. It’s extremely disappointing nonetheless.