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Thread to be renamed "Trade Radio and Chinese Traffic Jam Discussion"

Billy Hartung dropped from Hawthorn's Grand Final team, been the sub for quite a few games now that I can remember this year. While there will be no Sub next year and you'd expect him to move further into their preferred 22 over the next 12 months I hope someone from MFC has got someone on the case. He'd have to feel a little burnt and now would be the best time to enquire - he's pretty close to what we need with regards to outside run and spread.

Damian Barrett's 'sliding doors' piece on AFL.com: MELBOURNE "IF... there's a team we feel is keeping its cards close to its chest as trade period looms ..." "THEN... it is this one. Predicting a massive play from left-field." http://www.afl.com.au/news/2015-09-25/sliding-doors-finals-week-three Hurry up and get these finals out of the way and bring on trade week!

Keep him, lock him in the gym till Feb with self motivation audio playing non stop and then we'll have a player.

Surely St Kilda have enough of the Smaller to Medium size running midfielders in their team already? (Jack Steven, Armitage, Billings, Weller, Dunstan, Geary, Savage). I'd have to think he'd be behind quite a few players by moving to St Kilda.

Would be pretty peeved if he left us after only one year in the job, actually only about 8 or 9 months since he started I think? As a side note: in the same way that we're concerned about picking up an Essendon player who could be potentially banned by WADA in the coming months, how would anyone take on the coaching job with the possibility that the majority of the players could be banned? Tough gig I reckon.

He kicked a bullet straight to Big Jake Spencer who took the grab at full stretch against two Cats backmen in a very open forward line - the kick was absolutely spot on. Pretty sure Spencer went back and kicked the goal too.

Grimes having a blinder so far

Awesome game - both teams scoring over 100 points - happy to watch good hard footy like this. Sad to see the dogs go out - amazing year from them. Crows V Hawks next week? I give 'em a bloody good chance against a sore Hawthorn.

Umpires can't bounce the ball up at the Centre Bounce - only been watching intermittently and they've had to recall every time!

His attack on the footy and aggressive tackling is something to behold. His love for the jumper is so evident in the way he plays and I have no doubt he'll be leading the team in years to come.

Well done to Bernie and Jack - both played with amazing spirit for the pride of their jumper and are now being recognized on a personal level. Speaks volumes about the type of player we all value. CONGRATS!

Thanks again for the updates! Love that Jonesy hasn't won it again (as much as we all love him) - as mentioned if we are going to improve he had to be overtaken. Feeling like Viney might take it out.

Thank you for the updates so far!

Looks genuinely hurt by the Geelong non-contract offer. Wouldn't be a good fit for us but I hope he gets a 1 year contract somewhere else just so I can see him kick 5 against his former club (and hopefully see them spiral down to the bottom of the ladder).

Loved watching Byron Pickett chase, tackle and hurt the opposition, plus score a few goals on the run (if I remember correctly). Big fan of Stephen Powell, Dutchy was frustrating at times but also had a couple of good days out. Huge Jeff White fan, he was enormous for us - still don't think we've seen a player quite like him.

Watched the replay and thought I'd add that Michie found himself in defence a number of times purely through gut running - even got an intercept mark or two. Hopefully thats now the benchmark that he sets for himself because I can see him being a great accumulator of the footy if he can build on his tank and get around the ground more.

Don't want to throw fuel on the fire but here's what a friend texted me a few days ago (I've waiting to see if something like this might happen): "Hot news for you mate... We did a membership poster thingy for Melbourne footy club with jack watts as the front cover. They just rang and asked if he can be replaced. Hmmmm" Obviously it might not mean anything - but if you add that to his unexplained dropping this week then it starts to feel like something MIGHT be happening.

Massive Tyson fan so disappointed to see him miss this game - but given the heavy strapping on his knee and now a hamstring injury (of some sort) I'd be keen for the coaches to put him on ice. We need him back on the same trajectory he was headed on last year and I don't think a few missed games at the end of the year would be a big deal.

Overuse of the footy in wet conditions seems to be a theme for us over the last month or two - definitely a coaching error that should be fixed at quarter time, not let to run on for quarters / games in a row - particularly with this mob who for some stupid reason STILL don't have satisfactory skills at AFL level. I can only hope that Roos is actually forcing a few lessons upon the playing group and taking 'a few for the team' because we seem to be making absolutely simple and fundamental football errors across the board and yet they're not being fixed week to week. If this is not the case then questions do in fact need to be asked. Times like this when you give up your Sunday avo, go to the football (at 3:20?), sit in the pouring rain, pay over $7 for watered down beer, you really begin to ask yourself how you get so sucked in, so fired up - I virtually embarrass myself with how much I yell out at the footy. And for what? The same tripe year in year out, really finding it hard to see improvement and development. Won't stop me going because I love the club too much - but please MFC, please start showing some consistency and a decent upwards trend.

Melbourne Football Club 29 mins · UPDATE: All parking gates at Yarra Park will be open but capacity will be heavily reduced (to around 50%). The MCG recommends taking public transport.

Massive game tomorrow for the Dees: A win tomorrow and we move into 13th and then play Collingwood (11th) next week. Sounds pretty sad really talking about ladder positions at the bottom end but we MUST start moving up.

Something I've seen a lot of in this game from both teams that doesn't feature in our play - tap ons and super quick handballs. They make such a big difference to the flow of the forward attack and unpredictable for the opposition - keep the ball moving when 'posession' isn't really required and allow the players on the outside of the contest to get more time with the ball as opposed to kicking forward under the hammer of a tackle from the opposition.

On the counter attack and we handball to players standing still with their back to the goals causing turnovers. Just kick it!

Terrible place for a game of footy, so bloody windy