15 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Tell you now. Melksham will be here.

Who are you and what have you done with the real @Willmoy1947 ?

I can't see a single reference to "maggots" in that post. 😁

Essendon for their second rounder, hopefully we get back our first rounder (fingers crossed). OR we get one of their defenders plus their second rounders.

5 minutes ago, junk said:

Essendon for their second rounder, hopefully we get back our first rounder (fingers crossed). OR we get one of their defenders plus their second rounders.

No

20 minutes ago, junk said:

Essendon for their second rounder, hopefully we get back our first rounder (fingers crossed). OR we get one of their defenders plus their second rounders.

Only way we get back our 1st is if Petracca is traded

I want to know, where does Fritta go to the barber?

His hair is elite and never misses a beat.

Going nowhere.

In his current form, he is exactly the type of player we need more of; crafty and skilful while still doing the necessary team stuff.

19 hours ago, John Demonic said:

Only way we get back our 1st is if Petracca is traded

Petracca is worth 50% of his value last year

The club has snookered itself by delusional view the list was great

It's not!

2 hours ago, speed demon said:

Going nowhere.

In his current form, he is exactly the type of player we need more of; crafty and skilful while still doing the necessary team stuff.

Exactly, he is one of 3 blokes we have in the team who is capable of kicking more than one goal a game including melksham . Imagine if fritta is traded and kosi gets injured we would be lucky to kick 5 goals a game.

We need to trade in and draft goal kickers

5 minutes ago, zoe1617 said:

Exactly, he is one of 3 blokes we have in the team who is capable of kicking more than one goal a game including melksham . Imagine if fritta is traded and kosi gets injured we would be lucky to kick 5 goals a game.

We need to trade in and draft goal kickers

Our key forwards this year have kicked more than 2 goals on just 2 occasions. Petty kicked 4 against Freo. Turner kicked 3 against WCE and was then sent down back to save humanity. Arguably, the worst output from KPFs in decades.

53 minutes ago, Jjrogan said:

Our key forwards this year have kicked more than 2 goals on just 2 occasions. Petty kicked 4 against Freo. Turner kicked 3 against WCE and was then sent down back to save humanity. Arguably, the worst output from KPFs in decades.

consistently

His last few seasons have been a direct reflection of the team in general. Just hasn't competed hard enough and hasn't been prepared to do the sacrificial stuff. He was one of the key reasons for our finals success in 2021 because he put his body on the line and applied pressure...and lo and behold not only did it help the team but it helped his own output too. Has seemingly been unwilling to put in at that level since.

This is another example where it is in the control of the players themselves. I'd like to think he's smart enough to correlate his best football with his most physical and team oriented period. Or even take stock of how much his efforts in that period helped the MFC achieve something great and recognise that it really should be the baseline.

I also would like to think the leaders in the playing group have been on him about the physicality and sacrificial stuff...and simply demanded it of him. But have they?

6 minutes ago, rufus said:

His last few seasons have been a direct reflection of the team in general. Just hasn't competed hard enough and hasn't been prepared to do the sacrificial stuff. He was one of the key reasons for our finals success in 2021 because he put his body on the line and applied pressure...and lo and behold not only did it help the team but it helped his own output too. Has seemingly been unwilling to put in at that level since.

This is another example where it is in the control of the players themselves. I'd like to think he's smart enough to correlate his best football with his most physical and team oriented period. Or even take stock of how much his efforts in that period helped the MFC achieve something great and recognise that it really should be the baseline.

I also would like to think the leaders in the playing group have been on him about the physicality and sacrificial stuff...and simply demanded it of him. But have they?

Did you watch the game last night?? He went in hard, showed all his old skill, and was among our best 3 or 4 players.

15 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Did you watch the game last night?? He went in hard, showed all his old skill, and was among our best 3 or 4 players.

Yeah that was great. But what about the prior 3 years? Where has that been? This is the absolute root cause of what is wrong with this football club. The absolute root of all of it. Too many people prepared to make excuses and/or prepared to accept less than what should be the minimum expectation of these guys.

Not going anywhere apparently.

Phew....

58 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

Phew....

Forget List Management. Username Management sorted.

Fritta is going according to a reliable source. We need currency.

3 hours ago, Demonland said:

Not going anywhere apparently.

Glad he’s staying.

So:

Petty, Oliver, Kozzie, Viney, Petracca, Oliver again, Kozzie again, failed to know ANB was leaving til the day it happened, now Fritsch and despite our board having a “six week” long discussion on Simon Goodwin’s future and eventual sacking no leak til the day it happened. I don’t think the media know anything about the internal workings of our club, operating at 0% accuracy currently.

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Forget List Management. Username Management sorted.

Yep. I lament the loss of James Harmes, but am too lazy to come up with something else.

26 minutes ago, deejammin' said:

Glad he’s staying.

So:

Petty, Oliver, Kozzie, Viney, Petracca, Oliver again, Kozzie again, failed to know ANB was leaving til the day it happened, now Fritsch and despite our board having a “six week” long discussion on Simon Goodwin’s future and eventual sacking no leak til the day it happened. I don’t think the media know anything about the internal workings of our club, operating at 0% accuracy currently.

In what world is reporting linear and binary?

The constant obsession with self-victimisation r.e. the media on this forum is petulant.

FYI - Oliver himself stated that he was put on the trade table: Clayton Oliver says he ‘doesn’t blame’ Melbourne for putting him on the trade table last year

Edited yesterday at 03:451 day by BLWNBA

1 hour ago, BLWNBA said:

In what world is reporting linear and binary?

The constant obsession with self-victimisation r.e. the media on this forum is petulant.

FYI - Oliver himself stated that he was put on the trade table: Clayton Oliver says he ‘doesn’t blame’ Melbourne for putting him on the trade table last year

In the AFL media landscape reporting is extremely binary, players are almost always “gone”. I’m not going to re-litigate the Oliver one with you again, he’s still here, there’s been 8 times in the past 2 years a large amount of the media landscape has reported several players are leaving our club and they are yet to get a single one right. Not one. Even the obvious ones like Jordon, Bedford and Harmes were reported relatively late. Grundy is the one exception and I think we know he was leaking that himself. I don’t think they have a good source inside our club on the trade front, and the evidence supports that.

I also think there has been a clear bias against our club since a couple of people left in 2021 in certain parts of the AFL media but that’s not what I was arguing here.

Edited yesterday at 05:341 day by deejammin'

5 hours ago, Demonland said:

Forget List Management. Username Management sorted.

Well there is the hairdo as well

Ask yourself this:

What’s he worth to a top 8 team?

Will he be playing footy when the Dees are likely to contend again?

Will he play a proactive role in developing / leading our young players in the near term?

I’m a bit on the fence with Fritta. He has value either a MFC player or trade wise. So we have to ask ourselves what value does MFC need more of? The same holds true for all senior players if I’m being honest. You are either accelerating our transition by getting us more picks or developing the next crop through leadership.

On 20/07/2025 at 11:06, speed demon said:

Going nowhere.

In his current form, he is exactly the type of player we need more of; crafty and skilful while still doing the necessary team stuff.

He averaged 2 goals a game and still had a poor year. Not sure he can be easily replaced

22 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

Well there is the hairdo as well

This is easily the most critical characteristic of the Hair Goat's persona. On a weighted comparison scale, it's footy nous .49 and hairdo .51.