dazzledavey36

I reckon Campbell plays. Could be for Jefferson, unless they drop Tholstrup and still play the 3 talls.

"Love" didn't buy us a flag mate. A well structured and disciplined team was what got us a flag. And this whole 'oh but but we won a flag!' Commentary just needs to simply stop. Stop living in the past. Not only was that 4 years ago that happened, but we have achieved absolutely nothing since. There have been changes to our playing list, football department and opposition teams have easily worked us out. The game has completely changed and shifted away from the contested bull at the gate style which made us so successful back in 2021 and our contested mids have been exposed because of it.

Well said. Dont care if the players love the coach. Sick to death of this whole "love" narrative thats been driven by the coach all season. All love has gotten us is two bottom 5 finishes in the last two years. Get a coach like Adam Kingsley who has a good balance of having a good rapport with the players but also a hard [censored] who isn't afraid to pull players into line.

This. Was said on here that announcement was meant to occur two weeks ago? Most reports state that he is not way near close to signing a new deal.

Yet the same big name players are destabilising the club on field and through that its costing us in a drop in memberships and lack of on field success. Im not in the boat of every player should be put up for trade but the following players need to be seriously discussed for trade at the end of the year: Lever, Salem, Fritsch, Oliver, Spargo, Sparrow. All of them haven't played a decent game since 2022-2023. Now history will say that its a rarity that clubs will just trade out 6 players all in the one go, but we would be absolutely silly if these names aren't seriously brought up as trade discussions for draft or trade capital.

If its true that Lever felt blindsided and angry because he felt disrespected at the fact he was even drop then see ya later Jake. Your form has been absolute poor since 2022 and as a leader hes been sub par. Turner has taken his spot anyhow, the guy is a dead set liability as his body is cooked big time.

Difference with Nibbler though is that he use to consistently dominate at Casey racking up big numbers. Everyone could see that ANB had the talent, just needed the opportunity. Even at VFL level Tholstrup has struggled this year and no way dominated to deserve a call up. I haven't seen anything at VFL levelto suggest he'll be a solid 200 game player at the elite level. He'll need to not only have a attitude adjustment over the off season but also come back looking trimmed and fit.

Gotta keep Jefferson in the team.

Yeah I understand. Its the honourable losses thing i hate. To be completely honest, i've lost all interest in the club this year. Im just half expecting these kind of losses now with the inaccuracy and the same usual suspects on high money dishing up the same sub par performances each and every week. Another year wasted and no finals appearance/wins in September. We dont stand for anything as a club and yet still no closer to knowing what's happening with our home base. I'll continue to check results here and there watch it when I can but the emotional attachment of my team losing is not there anymore. I just shrug the shoulders and move on. Taking my 5 year old to his first AFL game next week and will make sure he has the greatest experience he can. Gotta somehow keep the spirits up for the next generation of supporters coming through.

Maybe less time dancing and prancing around pre game in front of the MFC socials and more time focussing in actually contributing out on the field. I have been defending this bloke this year but so far on the value we coughed up for him its been a major disappointment. I'll give him the benefit of doubt because of the injury, but hes looking like a sub VFL.standard player. I was all for getting games into him, but that was with hope that he would start to show incline progression not the other way around.

Well battled. Effort was there.

Maybe the optimism and gut feeling in me think this will be much closer then some actually think.

I was being nice.

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Did Kalani play down back? I saw there were no hitout so I presume they played him down in defence.

Hoping to see more glimpses from our young players. Jefferson, JVR, Kolt, Langford, Bowey, McVee and Lindsay. These guys are the future now and I hope thr likes of Jefferson and Kolt can really start to showcase their talent and show why we took them early. Not only that, its time they start locking down a permanent position in our best 22.

He'll retire i think.

Pies are humming. Unfortunately they're bloody good to watch.

Lever playing loose is the reason he was dropped and why its cost us goals. Spent majority of the game against Port guarding grass and being next to ineffective the whole time. Clubs have worked him out fairly easily and if you can get him body on body he gets beaten easily. Hes become more of a liability as the season goes on. I'd be throwing him up as trade bait at the end of the year.

I'll be ropeable if he is dropped this week. Kid needs continuity and experience. We are out of finals, so get as much game time as possible into Kolt, Jefferson, JVR, Windsor etc and just plan for next year.