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Brent Moloney Departing MFC

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Moloney left with class and full props to him...

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    Good luck to Brent. We have to remember for the past 14 years our club hasn't had a defensive mindset, under Danners and Bailey it was an attack at all cost game plan, we will win games by kicking 16 plus goals a game, the issue was we played teams that had defensive midsets and they stopped us scoring and we gave up often experiencing heavy defeats. Moloney is an example of old school attacking footy, leave him alone and he will get the footy, he will look great but so will his direct opponent. The club this year has asked all players to be defensively accountable, Brent hasn't been able to adapt and in a midfield where he can be the 3rd or 4th midfielder he will be a very good footballer for the next few years, but not at Melbourne he is a senior player that can't do what was required, getting the footy alone isn't enough anymore.

    Hopefully we can get a second band compensation for him giving us a second round pick.

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    Moloney may have left in class, but he checked out long before he left. That wasn't classy.

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    If your definition of "A Graders" is "people who can defend," then half the league must be "A graders."

    Well , obviously not , but we do need about 6 of 'em . Sign 'em up , Chook :)

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    tough and immediate action is required, and removing players is not the answer.

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    tough and immediate action is required, and removing certain players is not the answer.

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    So when did you decide to leave Brent?

    A partial refund of your 2012 wage sounds fair to me.

    Leaves with class?

    No he spat the dummy..left it all to Jonesy.

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    The standards set on the field, on the training track- come from within the leaders within the playing group.

    You can have quality administrators that can appoint people with good "character" in positions within administration or on the board, but a clubs "culture" when it comes to football standards is defined by the professional limits set by the players leadership group or those who lead by example of what's required in terms of a high level of 'performance'.

    It's Neelds and the FD's job to determine who has what it takes to achieve an elite level of compliance. So whilst they can set the parameters, it's the individual players that set the bar level of performance (intensity, effectiveness, efficiency , meet KPI's, consistency) that invariably resembles a clubs culture.

    Rodney Eade is a quality person, Mathew Primus is a quality person, Matthew knights is a quality person, etc, etc...

    It All Starts thru the Board. they Set the tone in Stone. If what they have as an Idea of Good Quality, fails to shake the Tail that wags the Dog, what do you get?

    You get what you asked for & deserve. Decades of weak Football & failings upon failings, adding pressure to survive. You get an almost merger.

    We are Too kind to be ruthless & that starts in the Northern Stands of the MCC, & it spreads out from there. The theme it seems, is to be 'nice' ahead of 'Open', & 'Polite' ahead of 'Honest' !

    It is the Honesty that we sacked,,,, when 'THEY' sacked Smithy.

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    Apparantly Collingwood interest in S. Martin, look like we are sellers right now?

    Hopefully we are buyers in October?

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    Good source that Moloney will end up at Essendon and Monfries at Melbourne, not technically a trade but the same end result.

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    Apparantly Collingwood interest in S. Martin, look like we are sellers right now?

    Hopefully we are buyers in October?

    Got to be willing to sell to buy.

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