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“We reviewed the whole last quarter, clearly it was unacceptable. If you look around, if you looked into the rooms after the game [there was] devastation from the players, and I can only imagine from our supporters and everyone involved.
“We knew it was unacceptable.
“Every moment matters, every contest matters, irrespective of the scoreboard. And that’s the type of approach that we need to develop. Otherwise, we keep having inconsistencies.
“Sometimes when you have moments like you had on a weekend in [the] last quarter, it exposes things quicker, so you can do something about it quicker.
“This could be a moment that we look back [that] has been incredibly helpful for where we want to go.”
Melbourne supporters have expressed extreme frustration with the loss to St Kilda. Goodwin was the target of a social media post on Sunday night that sparked a report by the club to the league’s integrity unit.
An anonymous account posted a picture of a car in a car park, with the words: “I’m currently waiting outside Simon Goodwin’s car: Don’t fret Melbourne fans you won’t need to worry any further.”
Security officials at Melbourne Stadium were alerted. The car in the photo was not Goodwin’s, and the car park was not at Marvel Stadium.
Goodwin said the AFL and police had dealt with it, and he wanted to move on from it.
“Your family hears about it, that’s for sure,” he said.
“That’s in the hands of the AFL and the police. Clearly, we don’t want to see that in our game, but I don’t want to make that the focus of today. I want to make the focus of today about our footy club and about what we need to do.”
Amid significant confusion about what precisely teams can do after a 6-6-6 breach when a free kick is paid, Goodwin said the Demons had sought AFL clarification.
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“On a reset clearly they’ve got to reset the field. That was the first thing,” Goodwin said.
“The ruckman has to stand mark, but the players inside [the centre square] can pretty much go wherever they need to.
“There’s a bit of technicality in that. I think every club has probably taken note of it.”
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