It seems to me that there's something very wrong at Melbourne and if it's Simon Goodwin then by extension it must be Glenn Barttlett and Gary Pert because they are the luminaries who extended his contract by three years in March 2019. (Smells like delusion. Smelled like it then.)
It's necessary in any conversation about the failures of Simon Goodwin to point the finger at Bartlett and Pert. As it surely will be to elevate them on the glorious day Goodwin holds The Cup aloft.
There is some weird *smile* going on down there. And It's about time we started to note it here. (Go for it.)
It was early last year that Goodwin was referring to his team as 'they'. Always 'they' in pressers. It stopped. Little bit of PR down down at Melbourne. Jolly good. But it was odd.
In the wake of the Port Adelaide loss Glenn Bartlett cut loose in the press-
“It was disgraceful. When you pull on a Melbourne jumper, we don’t give them out in Weeties packets,” he told the Herald Sun.
“You have to show respect for the jumper and the fans, and apart from a few blokes last night, it was an insipid performance. It wasn’t Melbourne-like and it won’t be tolerated going forward.”
“The coach and the footy guys need to address it. I am sure they had tough review but we just can’t serve up that kind of rubbish for our fans and supporters and for footy in general.
It was an exercise in 1960s football cliche that more advanced suburban clubs left behind a decade ago. Vacuous but threatening.
It was against Footscray a month ago that the coach took the board down to the dugout and furiously swapped magnets on it, presumably for the sake of the cameras. To be seen to be doing something. He dropped a couple of magnets. Not sure he noticed. The frenzied pantomime went on. It looked like he was terrified.
Nobody likes to fail but to me Simon Goodwin's panic looked bizarre. I felt for him. No irony.
In his postmatch last night does Simon Goodwin aim a brief broadside at unnamed individuals. "We need to get more ruthless as a club." *Who does?* He clarifies "Everybody."
A need to mature is mentioned. Who needs to mature?
In April 2019 Bartlett extended Goodwin by three years. (Bizarre IMO. Some might say generous.) Fifteen months later the same man threatened to sack him in the press. "Won't be tolerated." "The coach."
Is it a chain of threatening cliche? At Melbourne? Does it come from the president down? He anoints, he disgraces. The coach blathers condemnation.
That pantomime on the sidelines. I think it tells us a lot about Bartlett.
And how does all the threatening work out?
It's necessary in any conversation about the failures of Simon Goodwin to point the finger at Bartlett and Pert. As it surely will be to elevate them on the glorious day Goodwin holds The Cup aloft.
There is some weird *smile* going on down there. And It's about time we started to note it here. (Go for it.)
It was early last year that Goodwin was referring to his team as 'they'. Always 'they' in pressers. It stopped. Little bit of PR down down at Melbourne. Jolly good. But it was odd.
In the wake of the Port Adelaide loss Glenn Bartlett cut loose in the press-
“It was disgraceful. When you pull on a Melbourne jumper, we don’t give them out in Weeties packets,” he told the Herald Sun.
“You have to show respect for the jumper and the fans, and apart from a few blokes last night, it was an insipid performance. It wasn’t Melbourne-like and it won’t be tolerated going forward.”
“The coach and the footy guys need to address it. I am sure they had tough review but we just can’t serve up that kind of rubbish for our fans and supporters and for footy in general.
It was an exercise in 1960s football cliche that more advanced suburban clubs left behind a decade ago. Vacuous but threatening.
It was against Footscray a month ago that the coach took the board down to the dugout and furiously swapped magnets on it, presumably for the sake of the cameras. To be seen to be doing something. He dropped a couple of magnets. Not sure he noticed. The frenzied pantomime went on. It looked like he was terrified.
Nobody likes to fail but to me Simon Goodwin's panic looked bizarre. I felt for him. No irony.
In his postmatch last night does Simon Goodwin aim a brief broadside at unnamed individuals. "We need to get more ruthless as a club." *Who does?* He clarifies "Everybody."
A need to mature is mentioned. Who needs to mature?
In April 2019 Bartlett extended Goodwin by three years. (Bizarre IMO. Some might say generous.) Fifteen months later the same man threatened to sack him in the press. "Won't be tolerated." "The coach."
Is it a chain of threatening cliche? At Melbourne? Does it come from the president down? He anoints, he disgraces. The coach blathers condemnation.
That pantomime on the sidelines. I think it tells us a lot about Bartlett.
And how does all the threatening work out?
