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Trac was on Nova this morning and will be back at the club tomorrow on light running duties. He wont be playing this year as he will be on non contact duties until October.

You really are cranky, aren't you? - and that is putting it as kindly as I can. You say $200k as if it is a fortune. It isn't. They have to live their entire lives around football, in their diet, activities, social life, everything. There is often charitable work involved. They go on to the football field and literally risk their lives - ask Trac. They get baked from pillar to post and it is a rare player who doesn't have a"niggle" ie constant minor pain. Which in turn becomes a wrecked knee/shoulder/whatever in later life. Their sporting life is limited to usually no more than a decade. $200k is reasonable pay but not generous. And no, it is NOT right that there should be such vitriol.

Melksham on radio this morning revealed that Gawn has a fitness test today. Also said Sparrow plays a defensive and team role but also needs to play with more freedom without just focusing on his team role, which is why he’s been dropped. Sounds 100% spot on to me.

Love this. Well done Kolt. I think next up is Judd McVee on a 10 to 15 year contract extension please. Thanks Tim.

Big difference between getting stuck into a player based on their form, or something they did badly in a game. Totally different story to call players useless, weak, gutless, a cultural cancer etc etc We all are guilty of getting emotional about the club, myself included, and I am no saint, but some of the utter [censored] that gets written about our players not just here but everywhere online, is downright embarrassing. Just look at the post Melbourne made about Petty's re-signing. Some of the comments made about him were awful. I always try to think to myself if this player was my child, or my husband, would I be ok to read what I write about them?

Do they? As WCW said, they’re kids. Maybe the ‘adults’ on here, most of whom are decades older than these boys, with years of apparent experience and wisdom, could ease up on the ridiculous critical bagging they hand out to these very young men, who are ALL trying to survive in a massively taxing, ultra-competitive sport.

You got this Melbourne, let's go boys!!! Hey Riv, you probably get this a lot, but my daughter thinks you're hot.

They reported on the midweek tackle that Ed Langdon has re-signed pending announcement

It also doesn't matter how much you earn, nobody deserves to be personally attacked for doing their job. You never ever know what anyone is going through in their personal lives, or how what is said about them by faceless individuals online may impact them. I have been around this forum for 2 decades. I still remember fans calling Trac fat, lazy, useless, and wanting him traded as a waste of pick 2. A lot of morons around with an over inflated sense of entitlement and intelligence online.

Bloody Tim Lamb, re-signing all our youngsters. What a disgrace.

Remember the "He'll just want to go back to WA" panic when we drafted him? I do.

He's a mate of mine and is nothing like Sam McClure. He is a genuienly good journo who always triple checks his info and doesn't make outlandish claims

Oh dear, not very resilient of you in the reply, did you actually take it personally, tsk tsk. Note on Demonland, when I used to able to attend training, before COVID [censored] all over my job, both Goody and Greg Stafford were patrolling Gosch's looking for a particular poster to have 'words', I know because they asked me if I knew who it was.

Ken lives on. Good times for everyone who enjoys Port forever doing nothing when it matters.

Again, to bag definition: to criticize or laugh at someone or something in an unkind way Most posters on here will be disappointed if Melbourne lose, and they express it, but there is a small majority that need to bag the players, why, who knows, perhaps it makes them feel better, which as another poster has succinctly put, it says more about them than the players

Is that what has made you the perpetually happy, positive and optimistic person you are today?

You just said in another thread that the only way forward for us is draft picks and kids. So locking away a 19 year old (2 year extension, not 4, btw) who’s had a taste for it and clearly vibes well with the club doesn’t fit that strategy?

And that useless Simon Goodwin who players love to play under.

Tim Lamb haters close your thread 3 young guns here for the long haul

Kynan weighs all of 65kgs and is just on our list. He’s way too raw to be playing in a must win game against a battle hardened team like GWS. He’s a year or 2 away if he’s good enough to keep improving. Racking up tackles in a VFL slogfest is a great effort but it doesn’t make him AFL ready. The FD are doing their job.

I know it is much better for us for the Blues to win, but I can't barrack for them. I just can't. Their insufferable supporters are in full voice tonight, Cripps is a great player but is throwing it AGAIN, and the crowd noise is definitely influencing the umpires. Can't wait for the Olympic coverage to get into full swing ...

The word resilience came up and my ears pricked up. If you want to know about resilience then got to the podcasts the "The Imperfects" Hugh which Van Cuylenberg and a mad Demon tragic supporter Ryan Shelton produce. It is episode 22, and they ineterview Max Gawn. Ryan is starstruck in the presence of Gawn but gee it is a great listen. One theme relates to some Vandenberg bought up and that is how they speak to each team mate which in his opinion wasn't always professional. Team building, respect and togetherness under duress is resilience. Would you abuse your trade, solicitor, doctor or accountant or write bad reviews and post them online. No you would get sued. Read the book "The Red Fox" and see how Norm Smith got the best out of his group. He would belittle them, deride them just as Barassi did as a coach. That style of coaching is dead. Clubs and coaches are much better people managers these days. I can say no more...

Sam Frost gets a game with us today does he? I will call May and tell him he can retire now because FROSTBALL is back.

Karma for the "liar on the line" last year against us. It was a goal.

Best thing about this game umpire 22 is umpiring, and we won't get him tomorrow night

He looks likely to have a very good AFL career. Power, very very good basic skills, and loves the physical stuff. I'm not a huge fan of his posturing and trash talking but love his confidence so I accept them all as a single package. His game awareness and positioning has improved out of sight over this season and I see him in the midfield long term. To have him and other younger players re-signing shows how much they want to hang around. Goodwin might be a boring media performer, but the players clearly love playing for him.

Some of your best work WCW! If we had poster of the year on here you’d be a shoe-in

'Frustrated supporters' need to grow the f' up and get a grip on their emotions if they want to be taken seriously by their community. Finding emotional stability can be tough but that's just how it is so they need to learn to deal with it or find something else to do. One of my pet hates is when people act like jerks and then insist that it is normal so everyone else isn't allowed to complain. It sits right next to 'If I didn't do it, someone else would' in my list of people to drop in the ocean. Also Guillermo del Toro for describing the early Avengers movies as 'cultural genocide' just because Pacific Rim flopped when competing against them. Yeah, it's a long list, but also a big ocean.

Congratulations Koltyn Tholstrup and MFC, love what Lamb has done over the last couple of weeks - Daniel Disco Turner, Harry Swingman Harrison, Caleb Jet Windsor and now Koltyn Kolt Tholstrup. That is such great news, I really rate this kid, actually all of them but this one in particular. Just need to re-sign The Judd McVee long term and get Mr Ed Langdon on board. Do your stuff Tim Lamb.

The Mousepack is steadily signing up for roughly the remaining careers of Gawn, Petracca, Oliver, Viney, May, Lever, etc., etc. - I reckon recognising how valuable that will be to them, both in the moment and for their futures. And then, hopefully, they will become the group their successors want to sign on to continue to play with!

Yeah pretty sure I’d take a player who is rated the second best kick in the entire comp over a bloke who can get 30 but who butchers every possession I thought people have been crying out for us to improve our kicking skills? Now we target someone who would improve us massively in that regard and we shouldn’t ask the question?

A first year player should thank his lucky stars for any senior game time and put his head down like he is doing. He is a skinny kid. His time will come. but feel free to continue to Goody shafting nonsense

Carlton off a 5 day break. Port off a 7 day break. What a joke. Lucky I hate Carlton. Shame I also hate Port.

"When they deserve it". Sounds like the language of a bully.

Bowey, AMW, Windsor, Kolt, Kozzy. If anything, we've net added pace.

Good for you, you’d have to be proud of yourself. Hard, tough, resilient, perfectly thick-skinned of course, and brilliant at heaping pointless, unnecessary s### on any player, whom you don’t know, and never will hopefully, of being whatever type of no-good you want us all - AND THE PLAYERS - to read about. Here’s the thing Cranky. Your bagging of players isn’t really about them, it’s about you.

I’m REALLY hoping we have a first round pick to use in this draft!

First off a big thanks for your Attendance WCW and great feedback it is very informative, reassuring and a bit concerning as well. I love that you have excellent interaction with players and FD, etc, it is nice to get that type of information in your reports. We all want our team and FD to do well and be happy in their environment some just can’t hide their anger or hurt when things go pear shaped. Love that Clayton stories are fabricated nonsense. Looking forward to the videos.👍💕

Great signing! Love what Kolt's already shown in small glimpses. He's got that Trac feel about him, will be a powerful mid-fwd in few years time.

I’m rapt about this. This guy is going to be a gun ❤️💙

Both are signed until 2027, as they both extended last year. I dare say it was a good move to re-sign Rivers before he explodes as a midfielder.

Look at that big grin on Kolt's face! How good! Must be all those culture problems we have 🤭

If Houston has made his intentions clear that he wants out, this will become a distraction for Port Adelaide and they should 100% trade him and offer up their first pick to the MFC to get him off their books whilst continuing to pay a large portion of his salary.

We're picking severely out-of-form players on sentimental value now? Has been horrid most weeks at Casey. Hope not!

I find it best to consult the experts in cases like this. The diagnosis is not encouraging, I'm afraid.

Sheitful choice again. I’d like to see the cash go to an Aussie band every year. Its a uniquely Australian game and the GF showcases our culture only to be fkd up by the touring clapped out acts these Admin dorks choose. Should be a hot Australian act and a legendary act. Sniffers/ Chisels on the same ticket would be killer. Kate Peri FFS what a bland, lame, washed, middle of the road slapper. Next they’ll dig up Madonna. Shame- and it will be a failure- guaranteed.