3 hours ago, adonski said:

Bro you've gone VIRAL

Yeah well u know the old saying....."The biggest gamble to take is to take none" And whilst I'm on it!

"It takes a revolution to move a grain of sand"

P.F

4 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

To be fair, Demonland is full of criticisms of Goodwin for not trying different things. It would appear he's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.

LaDee, don't get me wrong, I as much as anyone on here was calling for change, Goodwin has changed up the game plan, and from the small sample we've all seen, I believe it can work.

But surely we can all agree that the Petty forward experiment should be over.

I discussed with my Melbourne supporting uncle that why not try something completely different, try May up forward, he has size, mongrel and can take overhead marks.

May to full forward with JVR and Jeffo around them. He'd give them some protection. Just an idea. Who knows??

20 hours ago, bing181 said:

Petty must be in the last chance corral, or close to it. No idea who replaces him if he goes out, feels like it's just shuffling the deck chairs.

Petty needs to be used as a tall defender only - Turner is good at both ends but why not give him a few weeks as a forward?

8 hours ago, Macca said:

Ban the Bomb

22 hours ago, gngov1 said:

I feel like you can’t have Fritsch Johnson Jefferson and van Rooyen in the same forward line

How would you know? We've never seen it they should at least try it. Melksham is too small to be full forward.

If we had kicked straight all year you we would be a top 8 team. We haven't that's why we are 15th. Petty, Petracca and Gawn can't kick until we can sort out our goal kicking we will be near the bottom for a long time. If Goodwin isn't getting the players to take a thousand shots at goal this week he isn't doing his job.

13 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

To be fair, Demonland is full of criticisms of Goodwin for not trying different things. It would appear he's damned if he does, and damned if he doesn't.

Fair, but a good starting point is not to change the things that are working !

10 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

If Goodwin isn't getting the players to take a thousand shots at goal this week he isn't doing his job.

Quite the challenge to get the players to take one shot at goal, let alone a thousand. Most of them are away on their break. Queensland seems to be the popular choice.

For those attending our Gold Coast match there’s this curtain raiser…

It would be great to have as many folks in attendance as possible. The Casey boys need our support too ♥️💙

On 17/06/2025 at 13:14, Macca said:

Ban the Bomb

Sounds like a very good line for our run-through banner.

Or alternatively all DLers could produce flags with those words as emblems to hold up after each stupid long kick!

That would get the point across to every player!

59 minutes ago, Deespicable said:

Sounds like a very good line for our run-through banner.

Or alternatively all DLers could produce flags with those words as emblems to hold up after each stupid long kick!

That would get the point across to every player!

It's a mystery as to why the players didn't stay the course after being obviously encouraged by the outcomes when we went against bombing it in

The other thing that stands out is that bombing it long is lazy & selfish. A bit like the long ball in soccer ... a relic of the past

Rinse repeat...as a life long supporter I've seen and heard everything I need to hear about this unskilled football club. It's a fail on our key forwards, it's a midfield that slaughter their kicks, it's a group that dont change whatever they are taught, and no coach at our club is capable of fixing players weaknesses. Bottom 4 with this supposed list is a big fail.

There is one guy who is the exception and that's our Captain. The rest are a toss up week to week. Goodwin going into his 10th season and we have won a flag and two top 4 years. Other clubs flying past us in a wasted era, and since Yze left we have lost our edge.

Max will never be replaced and our midfield is running on empty, at best in 2026 we may be a middle of the road team and that will be the end of the Goodwin era.

6 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Quite the challenge to get the players to take one shot at goal, let alone a thousand. Most of them are away on their break. Queensland seems to be the popular choice.

Any player who has travelled to Queensland on their break should lose the right to complain about "too much travel" during the season!

(Having said that, I'm also unaware of any of our players who have complained.)

I would really like some players selected in the forward line that can at least chase, harass and tackle. Again, Petty and Fritta had no tackles but that is expected because they are unable or do not want to chase and put pressure on. It comes out of our forward line to easy unless Kozzy in in there. Don't know if Jeffo can put pressure on if unable to mark but we do need to try some different things. Petty, JVR, Melk and Fritta are slow and have no presence. Opposition just takes it out from them with ease.

16 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

If Goodwin isn't getting the players to take a thousand shots at goal this week he isn't doing his job.

They can take a thousand shots at goal every week without necessarily improving performance in-game.

Doing it in training vs doing it in the heat of the battle/when you're fatigued/under pressure ... night and day.

(Not saying we shouldn't train every aspects of it of course, but from what we know they are, with a specialist kicking/skills coach).

41 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Any player who has travelled to Queensland on their break should lose the right to complain about "too much travel" during the season!

(Having said that, I'm also unaware of any of our players who have complained.)

I too have not heard our players complaining about travelling, except on one occasion when one player wasn’t thrilled about flying to Alice but only because they shared the chartered plane with St. Kilda players.

15 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

1 hour ago, Ghostwriter said:

I too have not heard our players complaining about travelling, except on one occasion when one player wasn’t thrilled about flying to Alice but only because they shared the chartered plane with St. Kilda players.

I'm not sureeeee but I get the feeling that the players might not be willing to tell die hard supporters that attend training sessions their true thoughts on things..

Just a feeling I have, I dknow..

Edited June 18Jun 18 by Howard_Grimes

Didn't mean to quote @dazzledavey36 *

2 minutes ago, Howard_Grimes said:

I'm not sureeeee but I get the feeling that the players might not be willing to tell die hard supporters that attend training sessions their true thoughts on things..

Just a feeling I have, I dknow..

Gee that’s something I’ve never been told before, ever. Oh, except for the bazillion times I’ve been told it by a small number of reprobates here.

Never liked you in your previous incarnation. Dislike you even more in this current one.

Aaaaaaand ignore

Edited June 18Jun 18 by Ghostwriter
Decided not to comment on the poster’s surname and how it’s an apt description

23 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Gee that’s something I’ve never been told before, ever. Oh, except for the bazillion times I’ve been told it by a small number of reprobates here.

Never liked you in your previous incarnation. Dislike you even more in this current one.

Aaaaaaand ignore

I mean no offence, it was a bit of sarcasm.

Appreciate your training rundowns!

10 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

Quite the challenge to get the players to take one shot at goal, let alone a thousand. Most of them are away on their break. Queensland seems to be the popular choice.

Any of them in Byron? Very happy to head over with a Premiership Sherrin for some practice. Threading them through the hoop pines at the Beach Hotel

1 hour ago, Howard_Grimes said:

I mean no offence, it was a bit of sarcasm.

Appreciate your training rundowns!

C’mon Big Fella!!

On 17/06/2025 at 14:28, chook fowler said:

Peace, Man

I dig it.

Keep on trucking

Training times have been posted.

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/teams/training-times

📆 Sunday, June 22

⏰ 10:00am - 10:30am

📍 Gosch's Paddock

🏃‍♂️ Session type: Light Recovery

(recovery from bye!)

📆 Thursday, June 26

⏰ 9:15am - 10:30am

📍 Gosch's Paddock

🏃‍♂️ Session type: Training

Beauty, another full training run.

Must travel in the afternoon, with a Captain's run at Peoples First Stadium Gold Coast, on Friday (just guessing).

9 hours ago, Deespicable said:

Sounds like a very good line for our run-through banner.

Or alternatively all DLers could produce flags with those words as emblems to hold up after each stupid long kick!

That would get the point across to every player!

A suggestion: approach Specsavers to sponsor the flags.

On 16/06/2025 at 10:24, Greg Schneider said:

Jefferson needs a month of footy in the ones, as does Tholstrup, why not see what our first rounders can do when given a proper go at it

And JVR played solely as a key forward, none of this second ruck garbage. Drop Petty and play Campbell as backup ruck.