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On 11/19/2019 at 10:07 PM, Ethan Tremblay said:

Fair enough but since then most (if not all) of the bigger clubs have moved on to bigger and better facilities. 

For all the great facilities Pies have won 1 flag in 20 years....Not always everything but very critical

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I thought it appropriate as we get closer to the real stuff that we revisit some of the Forum revelations (to some).

MFCSS has been alive and well as we count down to our opening game against West Coke.

Among other snippets by the "great unwashed" I've come across is;

Yes, many teams had bad injury runs last year so it is a poor excuse, especially when teams like St Kilda and Fremantle had runs just as bad, if not worse than Melbourne’s and still performed better. Yeah, sure, only the fourth worst on record

They were incompetent and completely mismanaged the timing of all the off-season surgeries. It shouldn’t take 5 months to recover (this one was a real brain surgeon, apparently you come out of surgery completely healed and go straight into full contact drills), from pretty standard post-season surgeries that pretty much every club does with its players. Why weren’t they completed in the subsequent weeks of the prelim final loss? I think it is inexcusable if they are saying this is the reason for the players (all 17 of them) being unfit.

Someone else mentioned Collingwoods run of injuries and the Dogs in their Priemership year. BOLLOCKS.

Some on here have doubts and have been recently hand ringing about our growing injury list. I say they haven't been paying attention.

Max has been quoted as being disappointed he didn't complete the last session of his preseason, (meaning he has completed everything else).

Burgess has been talking about the Klm averages players have completed at the end of November (that we never got close to last year)

People talk about preseasons and don't understand that there are phases and as far as fitness is concerned a great number of our players have completed the vast majority of the program. If you are going to talk about member engagement, I'd like to see some of the comparisons between last years preparations and this years. Some of this may be in the upcoming parts of "To Hell and Back" (not saying we are actually "back". I do hope that will ward off SWYL).

As to paying attention; how many of you took note of Weid speaking about his hips and saying it had been great to train pain free.

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This is what i took away from that graphic.

Clarry still had a good year, off the back of completing only 23.5% of the pre-season. Freak. A Freaking Freak.

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10 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

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This is what i took away from that graphic.

Clarry still had a good year, off the back of completing only 23.5% of the pre-season. Freak. A Freaking Freak.

Would love to see the Forwards and Backs chart as well

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On 11/19/2019 at 9:21 PM, george_on_the_outer said:

Main points:

1. Loss coming, but covered from cash reserves( I’d check this when financials released)

2. Training facility still being discussed with up to 8 government institutions.( Have heard this multiple times before)

3. Injuries were the reason, not an excuse. Of the mids only Lewis and Jones completed more than 50% of preseason.

4. Board were aware of this prior to season, but hoped to have players returning. We just got more injuries.

5. Coaches aware of lack of outside run. Addressed with Langdon and Tomlinson..

6. Greg Stafford to take up goal kicking coaching along with rucking. Beat 3 others viewing for the role.

7. Only 3 players had post season surgery compared to 16? last year. All of those last year were classed as essential surgery’s.

8. At round 22 Goodwin had a review with the players to vent their frustrations with the year. Big positive.

9. Plenty of Muppets asking questions after. They should read Demonland if they want to know the latest about all manner of things. Some must live in isolation with their lack of knowledge about players and the club.

This just infuriates me and highlights the losing mentality of this club

3. Don't bloody blame injuries for 2019s terrible performance. We have a full strength side in with no injuries and are still getting destroyed

4 . Another ridiculous injury excuse

 

5. Tomlinson is rubbish. Neither of these blokes can kick. Why add people to our squad that can't kick when we already have the worst disposal in the league

 

6. How does a ruckman get that role and beat 3 others??!!! Astounding!!

 

7. Yep and we still suck. Injuries are no excuse 

 

8. Well this didnt work. Probably should’ve reviewed the prelim 

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1 hour ago, Elegt said:

This just infuriates me and highlights the losing mentality of this club

3. Don't bloody blame injuries for 2019s terrible performance. We have a full strength side in with no injuries and are still getting destroyed

4 . Another ridiculous injury excuse

 

5. Tomlinson is rubbish. Neither of these blokes can kick. Why add people to our squad that can't kick when we already have the worst disposal in the league

 

6. How does a ruckman get that role and beat 3 others??!!! Astounding!!

 

7. Yep and we still suck. Injuries are no excuse 

 

8. Well this didnt work. Probably should’ve reviewed the prelim 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gSQg1i_q2g

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