Some common sense at last ! in the best of possible circumstances let's hope Liam is attracting the second or third tall and is not being called on to be our biggest forward target. Enter Clark, Sellar, Martin, Jamar without a total focus on Watts & Jurrah

think about it guys. those names just listed. MFC has potentially(POTENTIALLY), a very, very potent forward setup. get the midfield right and the dees are going to really demoish some sides with that goalkicking fire power. I would love to see Seller put at CHF for a couple of games. he dosent need to do much more than provide contests and lead up, which apparently he was quite good at. with him and Clark taking key backman, watts, howe and jurrah are going to have a field day. Throw Davey in the pocket and thats a fantastic forward setup.

Of course a few things have to go right such as improved delivery, more wins in the stoppages but thats a potential premiership forward set up

Neither was I.

I desribed Petterd as a 'non-key-position forwards with x-factor, that get a secondary opponent on them and can tear apart a game with a few brilliant touches'

pretty sure he fits that description

I would have loved to see Jurrah delivering off half back or on the wing. He has amazing skills but we could not get the ball to him last year and it would have been good to see him used somewhere else. Davey has not coped well with a tag and he would definitely benefit from going forward. From memory he started what is now called forward pressure?

Anyone know how training went today?

Can someone post an update on how Tapscott's travelling?

I think he's the exact type of player that Neeld would love....also would people expect Tappy to get a run through the midfield this year?

mephis, if you are claiming that people want Jurrah not to succeed then you either misread the situation completely or are simply trying to agitate based on some mysterious agenda.

Jurrah was all of the things that you mentioned at various times this year and his previous years (except 'slow', which you must have made up). All of those things relate to his weakness, which is his poor endurance. 'Lazy' - at times, especially defensively. 'No second effort' - often happened. 'Under-performing' - based on his huge talent he often did under-perform based on everyone's high expectations of him.

High expectations are not given to players people don't think are any good.

It was, and remains, a very strange post. Hence my continued/ing confusion.

Agree and well summised Bob.

I don't know one single melbourne supporter who wants to write off LJ. or a just waiting for him to under perform

Everybody loves him and just want him to play to his potential

The criticism of some aspects of his playing has a reasonable basis of justification

What people want is for him to fix up these aspects and be a brighter star - quite the opposite of what you are saying

There is no conspiracy here memphis so stop looking

I think memphis completely misread the tea leaves on this matter.

Found plenty of photos from the session on youtube

A few shots of the new draftees and the permission to train players

Thanks for posting that. The music seriously made it fell like a musical montage from an 80s movie. Love the shot 3 minutes in of our two new man mountains Clark and Sellar standing next to each other.

Quality of the photos is excellent too!

Yeah, nice shots. T may be an illusion, but I got he impression both Fitz and LJ have bulked up a bit?