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    MELBOURNE

    Jun 07, 2020 4 minutes

    THE BOSS

    Simon Goodwin

    The disaster which was 2019 was as much a rude awakening for the coach as for his players after what, to that point, had been a steady improvement. Goodwin has at least been open about where things went wrong. A good communicator, he’s still got time to put things right again.

    An unmitigated disaster. There’s no other way to describe Melbourne’s 2019 season, a preliminary finalist falling to 17th on the ladder with just five wins as a long list of players went into a new season underdone, out of touch or both. How Simon Goodwin’s team goes about picking up the pieces in 2020 will be a fascinating study. To that end, the Demons have picked up former Giant

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