Agree with everything that has been said above ........... very exciting times ahead for the MFC (which is a hell of a lot more than what many of us were saying after round 22, 2008!). Well done to Bails and the rest of the FD.

Over the next few weeks, several very difficult (and final) decisions will have to be made about who of the existing players won't be with us next year. I'm glad that they are not mine to make.

Hit the nail on the head. Who we're going to get is relatively easy (the priority being to increase our forward-50 entries); the hard part is who we're going to lose.

Edited August 30, 200916 yr by Akum

Hit the nail on the head. Who we're going to get is relatively easy (the priority being to increase our forward-50 entries); the hard part is who we're going to lose.

After 3 years on the bottom i don't think it should be that hard.

I am sure the FD have already worked it out.

I've been waiting for today for almost three years.

Back in '07 when it was clear everyone in the side, including some of the coaches (all of them?), would be moved on, I remember thinking it would take us 3 end of season delists to get a fresh start.

Bailey now has a list he's more or less recruited himself.

The worst of our bottoming out has happened, and it's now time for phase 2 of DB's coaching stint (ibid whyyoulittle)...

We will have losses next year. Some of them will be by more than 10 goals. But the worst is over. Now we get to see the team we'll be following for the next 10 years. Even though they won't be winning too many games next year, it won't be nearly as painful as '07-'09.

The three worst years of footy following I've done, and MFC is still here.

Go demons.

Good work Dappa Dan.

I agree with everything you say. I have not suffered as much as some of the LONG time suppoters (old farts) but the last 3 years have been terrible. Upwards from here.

Good work Dappa Dan.

I agree with everything you say. I have not suffered as much as some of the LONG time suppoters (old farts) but the last 3 years have been terrible. Upwards from here.

BTW Mr Morton How are the Redlegs Going? I saw a lot of games on tape last year, followed Taylor Walker quite closely.

BTW Mr Morton How are the Redlegs Going? I saw a lot of games on tape last year, followed Taylor Walker quite closely.

Good old flogging last week to bloody North, and a bye this week. We sit 7th and top 5 is the bench mark in sanfl. For what it's worth out U18's are not doing very well either. I think we are 6th ot 7th but i'm not sure on that one.

Great year from Brett Zorzi as expected. Seen a few games of Panos in the Reserves and looked OK.

Good old flogging last week to bloody North, and a bye this week. We sit 7th and top 5 is the bench mark in sanfl. For what it's worth out U18's are not doing very well either. I think we are 6th ot 7th but i'm not sure on that one.

Great year from Brett Zorzi as expected. Seen a few games of Panos in the Reserves and looked OK.

Bugger i enjoyed them beating Port in the finals last year. Was almost Queens Birthday!

After 3 years on the bottom i don't think it should be that hard.

I am sure the FD have already worked it out.

Probably a case of "we can't get rid of everyone at once, so who are the players we have to keep for another year?"

I'm so glad I will never have to go to a game again and hope that my team loses. There was an a-hole of a St Kilda supporter in front of me yesterday, making fun of us all every time they kicked a goal. Just the kind of loser I'd love to turn on if we could win.

Right on! I'm pretty pumped for next season. I was a little ashamed cheering an after the siren loss... No more long term sacrifices.

The worst does seem likely to be all in the past and finally knowing for certain we have the first 2 picks is a massive relief. With a lot of recoveries on the injury list, this year's batch of draftees and a few of the young guns from last year's draft getting full pre-seasons under their belts, I think we are every chance of making the finals next year or atleast coming close.

Hopefully we have rid the club of the near enough players who gave us hope and then fell in a hole when it mattered most. For the first time in more than 20 years we have genuine depth and it won't be the same 22 players picked week after week we can actually look forward to thursday night to see who is in the side. We can drop players who don't perform and promote on merit, no more favourites and form is the only reason you get a game.

We could get in to the finals next year and that's what we should aim for, bugger 10th or 12th.

It's fairly lame if you ask me.

Aren't they all?

I just like it because it allows us to think of DB's reign as in three sections. The first is the last couple of years where we were in a lot of pain. The second where we develop and get beter and better, winning a few more games each year. And the third is finals. When you put it like that, it might be just the thing to shut the DB haters up.