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You’re correct…Chandler should have got a Free for push in back & kicked a goal but the goal umpire erred as it did hit the post & he paid a goal. Max didn’t kick the goal

I'm not re-inventing the wheel by stating that to win a GF final everything needs to go right. You need 22 fit & committed players...22 relatively (by finals time) healthy players & a modicum of luck. I have no doubt about commitment but finals time the health of several players & unfortunately our top liners was seriously compromised and no amount of luck was going to change that. To suggest that bringing in VFL players ( & I have no doubt that some will become very good AFL players in time ) would have enabled us to win a GF or even a final is ludicrous. It is actually disrespectful to the players who weren't fully fit and also to the opposition. A half fit Gawn ..Trac..Fritch..& Oliver to name a few would be streets ahead of whoever came in. If Gawn hadn't come up & JVR had come in ...I have no doubt our losing margin would have been far greater. To validate that point..with our best 22 this year..we might see a Chandler or a McVee come in but that would be because a Salem & maybe a Viney are missing so basically our side is the same & our additions have been through recruiting. We could fill 200 pages of theories about who didn't play..who should have played throughout the year but the cold hard facts are 2022 was a year that everything didn't go right. Now how lucky are we as a club & diehard supporters that with everything crossed..2023 looks like it could be a year that everything goes right.

he got a "tap" to the solar plexus from Baker

Not really ..,MCC/MFC membership is generally paid when you pay your MCC membership..the option is there

Goody also said that …

There were 10 players at Victoria House the week before the Swans game. Max alone was there 3 times. MFC won’t use injuries as an excuse and we all know there were many contributing factors but don’t dismiss the fact that we had a lot of players carrying stuff.

Hmm…maybe illicit substances v grog. Whatever anyone’s opinion is on drugs …should they be legal /illegal is irrelevant. At the moment in todays society ..he was taking an illegal substance. I get the “everyone does it etc” however AFL players in general have an extremely short playing career & a 1 strike & the ensuing fallout he will cop as a 20yr old should send huge warning signs to the industry as a whole.

What about Collingwood & the media in general take a good hard look at themselves. He is basically a 20yr old smart [censored] with not a particularly high IQ & if Collingwood had a better culture he would have been told to “pull his head in “ and concentrate on his footy . But no ..,apparently he is a breath of fresh air & footy needs some personalities. You act affronted because inevitably he has gone down the slippery slope that in this AFL obsessed climate can oh so quickly happen. So save your platitudes for the young people who don’t have the network & education around them that you get if you’re an AFL player. Don’t excuse him because “everyone else is doing it”. For mine he is in danger of going down the same path as many other talented young players who have excuses made for them quite simply because they play AFL .

I’ve read this theory on various media outlets over the last couple of months …

We have a fit Ben Brown..Tom McDonald ..Bailey Fritch (our Premiership Forward line) available at this stage. JVR I’m sure will be great for us but he will fight for his spot …

Going …got 2 day pass …accom booked …can’t wait !! Missed so many games over Covid so every opportunity I’m going to try and get there !!

There is a great article on the AFL website detailing how we can take down Brisbane . A good read ! Also another article regarding AFLW membership & it was so disappointing to see our membership no’s considering we are a Foundation team & have progressed to be one of the most exciting teams to watch. The membership is not expensive so let’s hope a lot more supporters jump on board regardless of the GF result!! If everything aligns on Sunday …I have no doubt we’ll be holding up the cup. It would be ironic that if the girls do win …then our men’s & women’s Premiership’s would have been won interstate with very little Melb support ..

Fantastic!!! Amazing football …couldn’t be prouder 💙❤️

We have continued to improve each week & we’re a well balanced even team who doesn’t rely on 3 or 4 superstars to win it for us. We’re a vastly different side to the one who played Bris and Nth earlier in the year . Playing away from Casey will help our goal kicking as well

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Love it when someone does the research and we read the facts. I appreciated this post

The “ brothers “ are absolutely filthy on their delisting & how it was handled

Yes we’ve had that discussion as well …it’s pretty big $ …and hawks are still offering him the opportunity to go into the midfield..two things we are not. So …not sure..I mean Bobby Hill is off to Collingwood after their history which is a lot more recent …

We were his 2nd choice but he wants to play more midfield which we wouldn’t offer and also we wouldn’t match the Hawks $

Next season we hopefully have Gawn with out his ankle injury & the ongoing affects & also his groins were shot so basically he had trouble running & jumping. I’ve also had conversations with Collingwood supporters (not the nuffies) & they def don’t want to lose Grundy. As one said “you build clubs around players like Gawn & Grundy ..not De Goey’s”.

Yeah ..they played like we did last year ..injury free..no pressure …young players running on top of the ground. Let’s see how they back it up next year ..

He got caught up in a boot lace & twisted his knee which turned out to be fine. He got stomped on his foot in first quarter & if you watched the game …never took another mark. I would say that since he still has a metal plate in his foot ..there was probably bruising etc . Long shot to say he has re-injured his foot . No point playing him though …not worth the risk !

I thought we looked like a “tired old bull” last night . We have played through a lot of adversity this year ..apart from the obvious of being the hunted & the hardest draw it has been injuries & the quality of our bottom 6. Last season the majority of these were our younger players but then ANB also had a season which was exemplary. This year our younger players are playing tired or injured ..ANB has been very average & we have had major injuries to key players namely TMac..Salem & Gawn & then JJ who would be handy next week. Whilst TMac probably won’t play ..there is also no way Salem & Gawn aren’t playing under duress & possibly quite a few others. If we had had a fit JSmith or Weid in form it would have helped enormously but we didn’t & the reality is our game plan looks average because a lot of players are playing in different roles. BBrown has been valiant but his strength is not the role he has been forced to play & we play Gawn & Jacko the way we do because Gawn is great but can’t do it all & Jacko has had an average season ..playing injured..& maybe his head not in it but I think he is part of our younger brigade that have not reached the same levels of last year. I don’t aspire to throwing young key players into the fray just because we are so average up forward …VFL is a long way from AFL standard. I think our top talent has kept us in games & we have battled so hard & it’s a credit to finish 2nd. I would love to think we can flick a switch & play like we did last year in finals but not so sure we can do it this year. Hope we do. However still think our future is incredibly bright & if it’s not this year I’m extremely confident we’ll be contesting next year !

We drafted him for 3 years …to paraphrase Goody…to turn him into a MFC player…his expectations wouldn’t have been to play many AFL games…another preseason & we will see if he’s up to it. He won’t be jumping ship because this is what he wants

It’s interesting..Ginivan with 7 positions in a half against Sydney is subbed out with hamstring strain & is replaced by C. Brown who has 14 in a half …but Ginivan fronts up against Carlton the following week & is instrumental in the win against them. Funny things these hamstring strains !!