2 minutes ago, praha said:

Make of this what you will but there is a lot of angst at the club at the moment. Lots of commercial and "coterie" frustration due to the club's performances. This stems from a brand of football that is unattractive and not bringing in fans to games. Additionally, ratings have been dismal for Melbourne games, which will likely see the club relegated to Foxtel next season. This is leaking out at the same time of murmurs about Viney and Petracca... very random criticisms of Pickett... ongoing talk about Oliver. There are media darlings that are planting stories to help ignite change internally. Where that change will be I don't know. 

But I am still dumbfounded that some here thought we would escape all of this after two straight finals exits, and the performance of the past 12 months.

This is a colossal fall from grace that no other team has experienced this century. If we'd started the season like we ended it, we'd be bottom four. And we played our worst football before Trac was injured.

Getting ready for a bumper off season.

Gee given the last two finals " campaigns" and this season,  MFC has escaped pretty much bruise free publicity.

No one cares!

The disconnect predates the aftermath of the King’s Birthday game.

Pretty sure I have been intimating that there is discourse within the playing group for a while…. Not just Trac.

21 minutes ago, Canplay said:

Tim Lamb has created a mess -  7 years for Clarry who wasn't meeting standards, got cheap and didn’t throw $1m at Jackson straight away, long term deal for concussion history Brayshaw, Grundy trade in and then trade out to premiership contender, doesn’t retain Bedford, Jordan or Hunt but brings in rejects Shake, Hunter, Billings and McCadam…….  Bloke has a big trade period ahead if he’s to undo this mess.

Sadly that pretty much sums up the last 3 years 

i still can’t believe the idea that our list is lacking in skills!! 
The people responsible have to go, and quickly. 

13 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Tom gets his “news” from here.

Let's face it. Who is happy with the direction we've taken this year?

If anyone is, I want what you're having.

No-one would be happy with how we've gone and it's a known fact that Tracc's family were not happy either after his serious injury.

The only solid thing that Tom Morris has is brown, smelly and comes out of his mouth when he speaks.

I don't think Christian is going anywhere but geez we need a big shake up and refresh now.

Edited August 12, 20241 yr by Brownie

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Said in another thread that there were some unhappy players at the club. Trac was one of them.

Regardless of what some people on hete think that every single player is happy at our club and for the coach, well they arent, that's the reality. 

Some are happy, some aren't. That's footy clubs for you.

The club handled the Trac situation poorly and the family are still not on great terms with the club.

From a players parent I bumped into a few weeks back.

If this is true would rip the heart out of the club... please listen to the members and sort this [censored] out

I’m not going to say where I heard this but….

he wants out unless Petty gets moved into defence.

5 years on his contract. We basically him so fans can relax because it would need to be a great deal!

Just now, The heart beats true said:

I’m not going to say where I heard this but….

he wants out unless Petty gets moved into defence.

I don’t know if this is a joke or serious 

4 minutes ago, praha said:

Make of this what you will but there is a lot of angst at the club at the moment. Lots of commercial and "coterie" frustration due to the club's performances. This stems from a brand of football that is unattractive and not bringing in fans to games. Additionally, ratings have been dismal for Melbourne games, which will likely see the club relegated to Foxtel next season. This is leaking out at the same time of murmurs about Viney and Petracca... very random criticisms of Pickett... ongoing talk about Oliver. There are media darlings that are planting stories to help ignite change internally. Where that change will be I don't know. 

But I am still dumbfounded that some here thought we would escape all of this after two straight finals exits, and the performance of the past 12 months.

This is a colossal fall from grace that no other team has experienced this century. If we'd started the season like we ended it, we'd be bottom four. And we played our worst football before Trac was injured.

Getting ready for a bumper off season.

“A fall from grace no other team has experienced this century”

You can’t be serious, 3 top four finishers in a row including a premiership.

So what do you think about Collingwood & Geelong missing the finals after a flag

Can understand that this year has been a disaster in all forms though & s#*t needs to be sorted 

4 minutes ago, IRW said:

Gee given the last two finals " campaigns" and this season,  MFC has escaped pretty much bruise free publicity.

No one cares!

Last off season was almost exclusively about Melbourne.

3 minutes ago, OhMyDees said:

Much of the stuff reported on about the Bulldogs turned out to be true. They haven't done much since this moment. And they still might miss finals.

9 minutes ago, praha said:

Make of this what you will but there is a lot of angst at the club at the moment. Lots of commercial and "coterie" frustration due to the club's performances. This stems from a brand of football that is unattractive and not bringing in fans to games. Additionally, ratings have been dismal for Melbourne games, which will likely see the club relegated to Foxtel next season. This is leaking out at the same time of murmurs about Viney and Petracca... very random criticisms of Pickett... ongoing talk about Oliver. There are media darlings that are planting stories to help ignite change internally. Where that change will be I don't know. 

But I am still dumbfounded that some here thought we would escape all of this after two straight finals exits, and the performance of the past 12 months.

This is a colossal fall from grace that no other team has experienced this century. If we'd started the season like we ended it, we'd be bottom four. And we played our worst football before Trac was injured.

Getting ready for a bumper off season.

Yep. I heard a lot of the above 12 months ago, so in some ways i am glad that it is beginning to surface 

These issues do not sort themselves out, hopefully the Board are getting together right now to start thrashing it all out 

Up to Page 6 within the 1st hour, could be a world record.

4 minutes ago, JJJ said:

The disconnect predates the aftermath of the King’s Birthday game.

Pretty sure I have been intimating that there is discourse within the playing group for a while…. Not just Trac.

This discourse of apparent dischord, perchance could you share in what areas it lies? List management/trading, team selections or positioning, parts of coaching (strategy or people or both?), standards? 

Trac at least you don’t have a 5 year contract at Essendon…

1 minute ago, Superunknown said:

This discourse of apparent dischord, perchance could you share in what areas it lies? List management/trading, team selections or positioning, parts of coaching (strategy or people or both?), standards? 

Someone dm me the goss! Won't share with Tom, promise.

Just now, Billy said:

“A fall from grace no other team has experienced this century”

You can’t be serious, 3 top four finishers in a row including a premiership.

So what do you think about Collingwood & Geelong missing the finals after a flag

Can understand that this year has been a disaster in all forms though & s#*t needs to be sorted 

The fall from grace comes after the flag. Hence the fall from the "grace". 

Also we didn't finish top 4. We finished 5th and 7th. And didn't win a final in that period. Geelong has missed finals twice in 17 seasons. Collingwood has played in 4 Prelims, two Grand Finals and won a flag in the last 6 seasons. On top of two Grand Finals and a flag at the start of last decade. 

Really is that the comparison you're making?

3 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

I don’t know if this is a joke or serious 

It’s a joke about someone inferring in another thread that Petty forward was a reason why people don’t go to games.

12 minutes ago, praha said:

Lots of commercial and "coterie" frustration….

This is an underrated factor. A lot of large financial contributors in the Coterie etc are also player sponsors and friends with the families of the players.

It’s a leaky ship at the moment.

1 minute ago, The heart beats true said:

It’s a joke about someone inferring in another thread that Petty forward was a reason why people don’t go to games.

I knew it was a joke. Gallows humour

1 hour ago, DistrACTION Jackson said:

Well Morris did say he hasn’t got a problem with the coach… I’m not sure what he means by direction of the club. If it’s to do with finishing 13th I can confirm that 66k members are also unhappy with this

The Board needs to sack the coaching team, pronto. The Board needs to then initiate their own hari cari forcing a full re-jig of their members.  Tracca is the soul of our Club alongside Max and Viney. 

29 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

It’s time to hear from the President and the CEO…gone underground since the summer sagas

The president only appears in front of the camera's when she's got something positive to announce. She'll be staying in her Toorak bunker for the foreseeable future. 

Seems odd. "Has no problem with the coach but is troubled by the direction the club is taking".

One might almost think that there is a powerful faction of self-aggrandizing old gits who are happy to tear the club down just to win an argument against all this new-fangled modern touchy-feeling (and probably woke) rubbish Goodwin has been leading.

One might almost think the players prefer the 21st century to the defective out-of-date masculinity tropes the rich geezers keep pressing for, and they are beginning to realise if they don't stand by their premiership coach, the whole professionalism of the club will be whittled away.

I'm only speculating, of course.

It’s ok we’ll always have our covid cup