club hierarchy was still buoyed from defeating Richmond and told MM that wholesale changes wouldn't be made.

Malthouse was given license to make the changes he wanted to make; the changes he thought needed to be made - fitness people, Thomas etc.

I can see Malthouse standing by and letting the hierarchy tell him what to do with the list.

It's very clear how the place is run.

It's very clear how the place is run.

Seems to have been forgotten .
We played against a team playing the footy equivalent of "one touch possession football" in AFL.
HAWKS do it well and slaughtered Freo. Bombers are playing it and killed North and us....
The ONLY. Way to combat it is to play it back, why the bombers played so well against the Hawks.
Whatever we do...have to decide how you want to play and choose the players that suit it....if we want crash bang footy....maybe a team of Robbos is what we're looking for????

Not my thing. The one touch footy style will not really be broken....Hawks were doing it as were Geelong. Thompson has refined it a bit.....go back before you go forward...Hawks have done this for a while. Look at who they have recruited....Lake and Gibson . Players with one and only one talent...picking the flight of the ball....comparatively no skill, pace, kick with both feet, leap, etc etc....

Know what you need to do and get people who will do it.
If I see us playing "a kick to a contest" game to a team playing one touch football....I'll spew up!! Look at the game, look at the Hawks Freo game,
It's no FfFFfen rocket science .

BTW. AFter playing soccer for 40 years I can tell you....it's a strategy that will not be beaten...and has become standard in just about every other sport....

That's a good post Bill...

Judd??? How come he's not Juddles or Juddlet or Judderos or Juddeski or something?

In private and inside the club I can tell you now that they fancied themselves against the Bombers.

Seems to have been forgotten .
We played against a team playing the footy equivalent of "one touch possession football" in AFL.
HAWKS do it well and slaughtered Freo. Bombers are playing it and killed North and us....
The ONLY. Way to combat it is to play it back, why the bombers played so well against the Hawks.
Whatever we do...have to decide how you want to play and choose the players that suit it....if we want crash bang footy....maybe a team of Robbos is what we're looking for????

Not my thing. The one touch footy style will not really be broken....Hawks were doing it as were Geelong. Thompson has refined it a bit.....go back before you go forward...Hawks have done this for a while. Look at who they have recruited....Lake and Gibson . Players with one and only one talent...picking the flight of the ball....comparatively no skill, pace, kick with both feet, leap, etc etc....

Know what you need to do and get people who will do it.
If I see us playing "a kick to a contest" game to a team playing one touch football....I'll spew up!! Look at the game, look at the Hawks Freo game,
It's no FfFFfen rocket science .

BTW. AFter playing soccer for 40 years I can tell you....it's a strategy that will not be beaten...and has become standard in just about every other sport....

Seems to have been forgotten .
We played against a team playing the footy equivalent of "one touch possession football" in AFL.
HAWKS do it well and slaughtered Freo. Bombers are playing it and killed North and us....
The ONLY. Way to combat it is to play it back, why the bombers played so well against the Hawks.
Whatever we do...have to decide how you want to play and choose the players that suit it....if we want crash bang footy....maybe a team of Robbos is what we're looking for????

Not my thing. The one touch footy style will not really be broken....Hawks were doing it as were Geelong. Thompson has refined it a bit.....go back before you go forward...Hawks have done this for a while. Look at who they have recruited....Lake and Gibson . Players with one and only one talent...picking the flight of the ball....comparatively no skill, pace, kick with both feet, leap, etc etc....

Know what you need to do and get people who will do it.
If I see us playing "a kick to a contest" game to a team playing one touch football....I'll spew up!! Look at the game, look at the Hawks Freo game,
It's no FfFFfen rocket science .

BTW. AFter playing soccer for 40 years I can tell you....it's a strategy that will not be beaten...and has become standard in just about every other sport....

I still want to see how the hell WE WILL PLAY...I haven't seen any sort of strategy....the best I've seen is some man on man stuff for about half the time, until then, it's hard to say who we still need or what sort of players we recruit.

And FFS if you put a torpedo to the centre square...you better make sure there's at least a couple if players there who will push it over the back....we've done it three times and kicked it the oppositions tallest player....WITHOUT ours being there???? Copped a goal each time.