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Have the assistant coaches for 2018 been finalised?

A goal kicking coach should be a priority.

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Hope we get Caracella and Lepitch !

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4 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

No updates as yet on the clubs website, Rawlings is still listed as the Defensive Coach.

Last place to look! The Club website still has Garland as a player FFS! ?

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5 hours ago, Big Carl said:

Have the assistant coaches for 2018 been finalised?

A goal kicking coach should be a priority.

I agree. Despite coming first in goal kicking accuracy, we should sack the goal kicking coach. 

While we're at it, we should demand Jack Watts back from Port, get back to the two draft picks we gave up for Leaver, and dump Lewis back on the Hawks and for them to return the packet of chips we gave them for his services.

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I hate to burst your bubble - you can become a neater kick over time but there is no 'kicking coach panacea' out there.

If you ain't a good kick when you enter the AFL, you are likely to remain so.

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In reply to CBDees - I had to twice contact the dolts at the Club website to get them to update it.

They still had Roos as coach and only Jones as captain. and this was around Round 3!

Don't know what they do there but they don't seem to be paying attention.

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2 hours ago, doug williams said:

In reply to CBDees - I had to twice contact the dolts at the Club website to get them to update it.

They still had Roos as coach and only Jones as captain. and this was around Round 3!

Don't know what they do there but they don't seem to be paying attention.

The list of players on the MFC website still has Watts, Kennedy, Spencer, Garland, White, Hulett on our list and omits Lever and Balic. Even if Balic and Lever haven't numbers yet, they should appear! ? Maybe we need to employ more dolts??

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3 hours ago, doug williams said:

In reply to CBDees - I had to twice contact the dolts at the Club website to get them to update it.

They still had Roos as coach and only Jones as captain. and this was around Round 3!

Don't know what they do there but they don't seem to be paying attention.

AFL is now a 365 day a year industry.  It’s about time the MFC spent the money to keep its website up to date daily.  Very ordinary when delisted players are still on clubs websites.  Lift your game in the website area MFC.

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1 hour ago, Soidee said:

AFL is now a 365 day a year industry.  It’s about time the MFC spent the money to keep its website up to date daily.  Very ordinary when delisted players are still on clubs websites.  Lift your game in the website area MFC.

The season is still 5 months away and the final list lodgement is a while away, obviously you need the website to tell you who is on the list

Money goes to FD first

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47 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

The season is still 5 months away and the final list lodgement is a while away, obviously you need the website to tell you who is on the list

Money goes to FD first

That comment makes zero sense.

There's an entire media/social media team employed by the club on a full-time basis.

It's a pretty simple thing to update. It looks very ordinary and only adds to what is already a fairly vanilla website compared to other clubs.

I just looked at Collingwood's and they've updated theirs. Pretty easy.

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3 hours ago, stevethemanjordan said:

That comment makes zero sense.

There's an entire media/social media team employed by the club on a full-time basis.

It's a pretty simple thing to update. It looks very ordinary and only adds to what is already a fairly vanilla website compared to other clubs.

I just looked at Collingwood's and they've updated theirs. Pretty easy.

Whinging about website is the thing that makes no sense, if you need to check out players and pictures thereof, you are not much of a supporter, but then again we are talking MFC supporters

We got extensive coverage of trade week and other important news like the Redtails alignment, player bios meh!

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4 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

The season is still 5 months away and the final list lodgement is a while away, obviously you need the website to tell you who is on the list

Money goes to FD first

that is an example of where we are as a footy team. Are we waiting for Aunty Beryl's young nephew to finish his VCE exams so we can get him onto the job after his McDonald's shift !!

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20 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

Whinging about website is the thing that makes no sense, if you need to check out players and pictures thereof, you are not much of a supporter, but then again we are talking MFC supporters

We got extensive coverage of trade week and other important news like the Redtails alignment, player bios meh!

FFS Saty grow a set! The MFC is not infallible. It is an entity, an organisation. Mistakes will be made - in admin, in drafting, in game plan, in rehab etc etc...  Shite happens.

It is actually ok to criticise ............... in fact it's healthy.

As for the highlighted comment. There are members and supporters who cannot get to training or even games regularly, or maybe never, who value and need this information. They should not be belittled or undervalued. 

Constant carping and sycophancy is of no value to anyone.

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C'mon Uncle, surely you attend every training session and know every face. What kind of weak supporter are you (despite contributing around $1000 per year to the club and attending games regularly, incl interstate)?

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58 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

C'mon Uncle, surely you attend every training session and know every face. What kind of weak supporter are you (despite contributing around $1000 per year to the club and attending games regularly, incl interstate)?

Well clearly Moon , I'm  " not much of a supporter".

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2 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Well clearly Moon , I'm  " not much of a supporter".

We're all supporters of the MFC, Uncle. Who are we to judge others on the degree of their support? 

 

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3 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

Whinging about website is the thing that makes no sense, if you need to check out players and pictures thereof, you are not much of a supporter, but then again we are talking MFC supporters

We got extensive coverage of trade week and other important news like the Redtails alignment, player bios meh!

You’re ill.

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20 hours ago, rpfc said:

I hate to burst your bubble - you can become a neater kick over time but there is no 'kicking coach panacea' out there.

If you ain't a good kick when you enter the AFL, you are likely to remain so.

Rubbish.  It's a myth of the coaching industry that you can't correct a bad action.  It takes work, yes, but it is by no means impossible.  Richmond did it a few years ago.  They noted that the best teams tended to kick the ball on a lower trajectory resulting in less flight time, so they embarked on a club-wide mission to change the way their players kicked and get them kicking lower and harder.  Given the abysmal nature of our team's disposal I think it would be well worth the money to get a specialist in to do what they can. 

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4 hours ago, Diamond_Jim said:

that is an example of where we are as a footy team. Are we waiting for Aunty Beryl's young nephew to finish his VCE exams so we can get him onto the job after his McDonald's shift !!

I thought where we were at was because of on field performance, coaching and development and all along it was the website

Answer redraft Joel Macdonald as a coach, he'll have it fixed in no time, laughable

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Does anyone have a Solution ?

1. try ringing the club and asking if you can take over the running of the website

2. Ask the club for the email or phone number for the person/team that are responsible for the website- then contact them directly

3. Ask someone else for ideas

4. Does anyone else have any ideas ?

 

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9 hours ago, RalphiusMaximus said:

Rubbish.  It's a myth of the coaching industry that you can't correct a bad action.  It takes work, yes, but it is by no means impossible.  Richmond did it a few years ago.  They noted that the best teams tended to kick the ball on a lower trajectory resulting in less flight time, so they embarked on a club-wide mission to change the way their players kicked and get them kicking lower and harder.  Given the abysmal nature of our team's disposal I think it would be well worth the money to get a specialist in to do what they can. 

‘Not impossible’

’it takes work’

’get them in to do what they can’

All of that, yet my view that one is ‘likely to remain a bad kick if you entered the AFL as one’ is ‘rubbish’?

I am not going to sit here and read posters thoughts about getting a kicking coach in as if that will have a wholesale effect on the team. It won’t. A coach will help a couple of younger ones but over time and possibly to their immediate detriment as they reconstruct their action. 

But, yeah, rubbish...

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