rolling fog

Oh Howe!

Beama running a hard tag on Trenners

...Cornelius is getting wayyy too much easy ball

The Longer and Leunberger combo are a real threat!

Jeeeeezzzzzzzz just two steps too far Grimey!

"Byrnes up and about"

Great tackling pressure so far! Special mention to Sylvia and Jones.

I was listening to the Triple M call at the game today and they were onboard Jonesy in a big way. The Chu-man (statistician) pointed out that he leads the competition, the whole competition ffs, in centre clearances. We might have been a bit down on ourselves lately, but this should not go unheralded.

You beat me to it! Lacked some polish today, but that will come with game time. You cannot fault this kid's endeavour! A bit of competition for a spot in the side is just what we need!

Amen!

How would you categorise your management style? Autocratic, Democratic or Laissez-faire?

A section from Rohan Connolly's article summing up the weekend - "From a grippling tussle to health and safety issue": "THE UGLY Melbourne fans were upset after the first-round thrashing by Port Adelaide and spontaneously voiced their displeasure. On Saturday night, the gathering of red-faced fans at the Melbourne race became the province of seemingly every attention-seeker in town who could later be seen texting or tweeting about their 15 seconds of fame. " Apparently he's on the run home with Ox for an hour tonight from 4pm as well...

Magner will go hard all day, if not it's probably because he's come off bleeding after head butting someone - get him in there, what's to lose? Mistakes don't matter, right...???

I think it's been established that the great volume of the mugs hanging over the race and jeering the boys off were not MFC supporters, rather low lifes wanting to get their faces on Footy Classified, 360, On The Couch etc. That said Mitch, I for one will be there with you at all our home games this year! When we get back to the top, and we will - regardless of how long it takes - knowing that you stuck fat during this period will make it that much sweeter. Mitch, your post and all the others are testament to why we are on here and keep getting up off the canvas and going to the footy - defeats are softened, grievances aired and victories are sweetened.

players guarding grass?

Slightly OT (apologies) but did anyone else see some of the coaches having kick to kick during the warm up while the players were in a huddle? I only recognised Leigh Brown reliving his forward line days - probably not the best image to be portraying at the moment.

Good commentator - knows 0% about MFC internal workings/situation. He's attempting hardcore journalism by probing the internal politics of the situation - lots of that around at the moment!

I was sitting on Level 2 of the members and chose to go down to the standing areas of Level 1 for the final quarter to see the 'vibe' of supporters first hand. After the final siren, several groups of MFC and non-MFC supporters went over to the race. I explicitly heard one group say "lets go over to the race and get on 360 this week" - THIS MADE MY STOMACH TURN - for all the reasons already stated here, which don't need to be rehashed. Secondly, I recognised a few people hanging over the race jeering the players of from the TV footage as ex-schoolmates of mine who I know for a fact are neither MFC or Essendon supporters!!! If the media chose to concentrate on this ugly side or our current circumstance (which admittedly it's hard not to) it's only going to get worse and uglier! Did anyone else see the scuffle that broke out in the members just after the players had walked off? I'm not 100% sure if it was between MFC supporters and/or Essendon supporters, so I'd rather not cast false aspersions. That said, when MCC members are coming to blows with one another something is not right!!

Whateley has Schwab in his sights

Well Caro needs to sell papers tomorrow and if that means picking a fight with someone so be it. No point picking a fight with someone (MFC) who is nice, polite and probably won't get too offended by it.

Does the fact that we weren't the arrow, and obviously didn't warrant it in Caro's eyes at least, speak to the overarching theme in some threads of increasing irrelevance in the competition??

Good call. To hear the passion, angst and desire to set things straight in Ox's voice on SEN on Sunday night when he called in is something which seems devoid from the public image of MFC at present. Please correct me if I'm wrong (I hope I am), but I didn't hear Garry calling in to the MMM post-game analysis or even the North vs Collingwood pre-game where they were discussing the MFC vs Port match.

I would love for Nick to point out any fair weather supporters still present at the ground to be able to boo the players off... By definition Nick, they weren't at the ground doing the boo-ing!!!

It's a poisoned chalice for Lyon to get involved in the club full-time. Lets say he turned the club around (James Hird-esque), while those diehard MFC supporters, many of whom populate this forum and many like it and lets face it are currently in the minority of Dees fans, would laud Lyon because we see what we see and feel what we feel at the moment, and as it stands it will take a superhuman effort. Yet those Dees fans maybe more on the periphery of the supporter base and those in the wider football community would view Lyon as just meeting expectations and having achieved what he was sent there to do, not for the superhuman effort it currently is. Now, if he didn't manage to pull off said turnaround, his standing in the media and currency as a "football analyst" is greatly diminished and he would be somewhat on the outer from his own club after going in to fix something that may, especially by his view of the culture and current board/administration structure, is not readily fixable. No wonder he's called THE LONE WOLF.

I would love to know what Schwab and McLardy think the MFC will look like in 10-20 years time? The Ox said on SEN tonight, "today was the worst performance from the MFC since 2003". Did any of us think that 10 years later we'd be in exact same place?