With the latest Bulldog (Griffen) requesting a trade, it has made me think about how good it has been to have a stable club.

In this Jackson/Bartlett/Roos led club, I feel a sense of calm and stability.

Its been a long time since there has been:

1. No unwanted leaks of information
2. Such united faith and adulation in our CEO
3. Such united faith and adulation in our board.
4. Clubs that are not Melbourne looking like basket cases.

To see players wanting out of clubs like Essendon, Geelong, Collingwood, Doggies and the coaching debacles of Adelaide and Gold Coast, it makes me feel great that we know who our coach/es are for the next 5 years. We've got a core list that is slowly building.

A long way to go to get the wins on the board and get within premiership contention, but its just a big sense of satisfaction that our backyard is in good hands.

Its rather pleasant to not be the basket-case of the league anymore

Go Dees

Its rather pleasant to not be the basket-case of the league anymore

Go Dees

I'll be far more satisfied when we win more than 4 games, but it's a good start.

I'll be far more satisfied when we win more than 4 games, but it's a good start.

True, but you don't win games without being stable on and off the field.

I'll be far more satisfied when we win more than 4 games, but it's a good start.

Have lost a game yet in 15 !!

its also good to see players wanting to come to MFC without paying massive overs

Its rather pleasant to not be the basket-case of the league anymore

Go Dees

What makes this statement even more interesting (and I agree with your sentiment) is that we have lost Frawley and Clark, and even with them leaving I don't think the media has attacked us AS a basket-case not being able to hold it's players... These guys have left for whatever reason floats their boat, but there is still the underlying feeling that the footy dept has everything under control and has a plan for the club that it is sticking to.

What makes this statement even more interesting (and I agree with your sentiment) is that we have lost Frawley and Clark, and even with them leaving I don't think the media has attacked us AS a basket-case not being able to hold it's players... These guys have left for whatever reason floats their boat, but there is still the underlying feeling that the footy dept has everything under control and has a plan for the club that it is sticking to.

i think there is also an understanding in the medja that we "managed" their exit

Have lost a game yet in 15 !!

That was due to the great war !

Oh you mean 2015 well our list will solve that one fairly quickly.

I think we counting our chickens a little early.

However it is welcome that the Club is not the focus of the media attention particularly when we continued to shoot ourselves in the foot so often in public.

its also good to see players wanting to come to MFC without paying massive overs

Who wants to come to MFC? Garlett and Lumumba....wow how amazing, both of whom were discarded by the previous clubs

No big fish despite holding pick 2 and 3 and loads of salary cap room

Leaks aren't the only thing that have stopped.
It seems cronyism for the most part has ended. That probably wouldn't have happened if the AFL hadn't sent Peter Jackson.
In addition to this, sheer incompetence has taken a holiday. We have gone through the list of disasters that have occurred before on this board countless times. I see no need to do so again.

Leaks aren't the only thing that have stopped.

It seems cronyism for the most part has ended. That probably wouldn't have happened if the AFL hadn't sent Peter Jackson.

In addition to this, sheer incompetence has taken a holiday. We have gone through the list of disasters that have occurred before on this board countless times. I see no need to do so again.

That's a bit unfair on Roos.

That's a bit unfair on Roos.

Not sure if you are taking the pizz there rjay or are serious. It's hard to tell on the net!

In case you are serious, I am not referring to Roos but the concept of incompetence. I hope you aren't serious....

We have gone through the list of disasters that have occurred before on this board countless times. I see no need to do so again.

Could not agree more. The expectation that things will go badly because they always have flies in the face of the most recent evidence. Many posters - I won't name any today - obviously get off on pouring scorn from the heights of a self-constructed dunghill.

Not sure if you are taking the pizz there rjay or are serious. It's hard to tell on the net!

In case you are serious, I am not referring to Roos but the concept of incompetence. I hope you aren't serious....

No not serious, just he is supposed to be on holidays. Like a lot of posts 1 + 1 = ?

No not serious, just he is supposed to be on holidays. Like a lot of posts 1 + 1 = ?

Thank goodness for that. I thought you were joking but there have been times on here I have assumed that and the perceived joke teller has been dead serious!

Who wants to come to MFC? Garlett and Lumumba....wow how amazing, both of whom were discarded by the previous clubs

No big fish despite holding pick 2 and 3 and loads of salary cap room

Not happy with Cross, Vince, and Tyson?

Garlett is a good little forward and Lumumba is a very good player.

You really have been going thread to thread just spilling your battered psyche all over the joint.

Stuff doesn't work out; clubs can't agree, make weights don't want to move, the AFL imposes a draconian trade ban on a club...

If there are players that we couldn't convince - perhaps our 56 losses since 2012 is the cause of that?

There is no doubt that as we acheive success mor eplayers will want to come to the Dees. We were lucky with the recruits in Roos first year. This year has not been what we wanted but still no disaster. I rate Lumumba and Garlett is exactly the type of small forward we need.

Get in the Premiership window and we will have our pick and hopefull Chip is siting at the bottom half of the ladder wishing he had stayed.