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I don’t often agree with Kane Cornes

But he said until MFC club stop being run by its high priced players there going nowhere.

I think his on the money with this one

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    45 minutes ago, Go Ds said:

    No, you can't claim losing Treloar was a good idea. If someone's started betting on roulette and is losing a grand or two each month it can't be claimed he's a brilliant punter because he's in a better car (which is because his salary went up 100k you don't know about and nothing to do with his punting losses)

    I think you are going out of your way to miss my point.

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    2024 was the time to start the rebuild. The off season will make or break and 2023 should have been ours. But we must adapt and quickly.

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    I know we love trading back into the draft with future picks and I usually love it. This year we just have to keep that 2026 1st round pick, commit to a year of playing the kids with a new coach and copping a year or two at the bottom. Maybe try for the mini draft picks tassie will have our something I don't know, but embrace the slide and inject ample youth.

    I've previously largely felt a whole rebuild wasn't necessary but now I see it as the only way out.

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    2 hours ago, Norm Smith's Curse said:

    2024 was the time to start the rebuild. The off season will make or break and 2023 should have been ours. But we must adapt and quickly.

    I think if we had started the rebuild last year the club would have been destroyed by the chaos and mayhem surrounding it.

    The club this time around have no choice in the matter now.

    All avenues regarding trading to our club and out of our club must exist at the end of this season.

    But a new set of eyes (coach) must be cast on this list, Goody is too close with all the players now and what has transpired in the off-season with all this player empowerment sh yte must ceast to exist.

    Lamb, Richardson, Griffiths all assistants must all leave the building at seasons end.

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    On 23/07/2025 at 10:02, KozzyCan said:

    Agree. The game hasn't gotten too fast for Oliver, he's lost a bunch of pace.

    They guy literally can't kick or has zero game sense or footy IQ. I don't know which one it it but the last qtr clanger (not just him but he's a marquee player) explain why we are so poor.

    No care and useless out of contest.

    Embarrassing

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    8 hours ago, CRomey said:

    I know we love trading back into the draft with future picks and I usually love it. This year we just have to keep that 2026 1st round pick, commit to a year of playing the kids with a new coach and copping a year or two at the bottom. Maybe try for the mini draft picks tassie will have our something I don't know, but embrace the slide and inject ample youth.

    I've previously largely felt a whole rebuild wasn't necessary but now I see it as the only way out.

    We also really need to start taking our second and third round picks into the draft and bringing in competitors who can add to our depth, or unearth and identify some draft targets in this range. We've previously done quite well at this, but I think we've come undone recently with being so intent on trading up the draft order and sending these selections out the door. We've picked a horrible time to bottom out with the looming Tasmanian concessions - very MFC of us.

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