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The G was literally shaking that night when Jones and Hannan kicked those goals.

That's the reality pure and simple. Unfortunately Kate doesn't realise this.

What on earth are you talking about... Did you actually read that I wrote and the point I'm trying to make?

Thought Tommo was actually solid down back....

Its a combination of both she was referring too. As clear as daylight. She is clearly asking for more noise as highlighted below from a quote of her from thr age. The comments below wasn't actually from the function. She clarified this to the Age journo when they reached out to her this week. “I think Melbourne can and should be a big club on and off the field. We have seen our membership grow to record numbers over the past few years and we are on track to reach 75-80k members and I want to see that number continue to grow. I always had a great rivalry with Pies on the field. Let’s add the membership challenge to that great off-field rivalry.” Roffey went on to explain that her remarks should be interpreted as a call to arms for Melbourne supporters. In 2023, the Demons had 70,785 members to Collingwood’s 106,470, while . “The crowd at a game makes a huge difference – especially a loud crowd that gives their team 100% support. I’m not sure the fans realize how much of a difference it makes to the players on the pitch – but it means a lot to them. When the MCG is full and our members make a lot of noise, it gives the players a massive boost on the field. “I will continue to encourage every Melbourne supporter to play their part by turning up to games, being louder in the stands – and behind their players, whether the team is five goals up or five goals down – because it matters . “I think Melbourne can and should be a big club on and off the field. We have seen our membership grow to record numbers over the past few years and we are on track to reach 75-80k members and I want to see that number continue to grow. I always had a great rivalry with Pies on the field. Let’s add the membership challenge to that great off-field rivalry. “The crowd at a game makes a huge difference – especially a loud crowd that gives their team 100% support. I’m not sure the fans realize how much of a difference it makes to the players on the pitch – but it means a lot to them. When the MCG is full and our members make a lot of noise, it gives the players a massive boost on the field. “I will continue to encourage every Melbourne supporter to play their part by turning up to games, being louder in the stands – and behind their players, whether the team is five goals up or five goals down – because it matters . We get good numbers to games already in my opinion and I think we do well enough to make noise. She thinks it's as easy as coming to games and making noise at all opportunity. Sorry Kate, it doesn't work that way especially when you're 5-6 goals down with a game style that is not overly exciting for fans to watch. Still gets the wins but it's boring to watch. At the end of the day the wins is all that matters. Exactly what kind of fan engagement do you want during games?? Seriously, you're there to watch a game of footy, not a super bowl entertainment.

Of course they do it best... they're 30k bigger supporter base then us and as expected, louder then us. We cannot compete and her expectations of thinking that we can do so in this current climate is ridiculous from her end. It take years to build this kind of supporter base. Both you and Kate are also missing the point in that Collingwood game style and ours is stark different to why they probably get loud as well during games. Collingwood play a high offensive game style that is exciting to watch where as we play such a defensive and in football terms, 'boring' style this is hard to cheer loudly especially when you're kicking 2.8 in a half of footy as we did last week. We had numerous of games that were on display last year and some were certainly hard to watch. She needs to temper her expectations and appreciate that supporters are being as loud as they can be. And seriously, out of all clubs she was to heap praise on then I couldn't think of a worst organisation going around especially as they are also the same club that forced a demon legend to retirement.

Considering they have about 30k more supporters then ours then Roffey is completely out of her depths with reality. Of course Collingwood supporters would be loud. Her comments are a kick in the guts for demon army and loyal supporters who are there weekly cheering all the time.

Have you heard anything?

Same. At the end of the day, we know Brown is cooked, but he's still going to drag the number one defender regardless because on a good day he can be dangerous with his reach. There were stages last week Sydney's talls paid no respect to Schache and used McCartin who's their best defender on JVR which clearly wouldn't happen if Brown was playing.

Good spotting.. *alley

What a name... Feel like this function is right up my ally.

Can't stand the whole poor me mentality on here. Has it been a challenging off season? Yes absolutely.. has it been the worst in our time? Nope, we've gone through the whole Troy Broadbridge death, tanking saga and Jim Stynes death in one hit which I think was more significant then what we've just experienced. In my opinion the club has handled the Clayton Oliver situation incredibly well and they need a pat on the back for that. Does that mean we need all articles out there saying what a great job the club had done? Nope, i would rather be winning games and Oliver playing a big part in that. Results will speak for itself. Anyway enough of that, let's smash those Swannies!

Were you you living under a rock? The media scrutiny on the whole Essendon drug saga was the biggest media scrutiny I had seen in the AFL on a club alone. They literally had cameras parked out the front of James Hirds house from dusk to dawn and nearly drove him to his death. It was constantly front and back page of the Herald Sun for two years. Both Melksham and Hibberd have been quiet vocal around the intense media scrutiny and the toll it had not only on their mental health but their personal lives as well. The whole Wayne Carey cheating scandal was a close second even in the day and age where social media wasn't a thing. It was certainly one of the biggest and scandalous stories we've seen. To think we've copped as much scrutiny as these other events is just laughable. It doesn't even compare.

If the AFL want to make a statement on a head high bump then this is the perfect case study right here with this incident. You'd think 6 weeks at least is a starting point.

Please do not drag me into your guys high school gossip [censored]. Prefer to talk footy thanks. Sort it over a DM you two.

Watched the Sydney game against Brisbane and Ladhams was far away the better ruckman between he and Grundy. Grundy ran around looking like he lacked the required match fitness.

I have done this kind of drill previously at semi professional level a decade and a bit ago and it's absolutely not as easy as it sounds. Depending how many repetitive efforts it can be a taxing drill and I'm glad he's getting a solid workout in.

Tom Sparrows first quarters stats.

Yep. Absolute no arguments whatsoever, you play your three defenders. Two teams that played off in the grand final last year had 3 tall defenders playing as did the previous year and so on. The game isn't changing to the point where teams are going away from this, if anything the secondary ruckman that can rest up forward and hit the scoreboard is where the game is shifting towards and you'll find this year a lot of teams with for the 3 tall forwards set up.

If you're banking on another year of heavily realying on Max, Clarry and Petracca to carry you throughout the year again then you're on your way to being cooked lol.. (team, not you). Gawn is another year older with far less support then ever before, Clarry has missed a whole summer of training and right now is trying to bank in as many K's as he can before round 0. It will take him a few AFL games to get him back to being match conditioned etc. Any sport science guru will tell you this. The difference between this year and now is that previously we've had genuine midfield depth like Harmes, Jordon and Brayshaw who could straight into the midfield and play big minutes in there as a cover. If a Petracca, Viney or Oliver goes down for a number of weeks with an injury then we're asking a lot from the likes of Pickett and Salem to play bigger minutes and I'm not sure they could sustain it for longer periods of the game. Hea certainly all of that. But he's also been trialled previously in the midfield in the past (2018) with little to no success. Hopefully because he's matured since and has gained more experience he'll be much better in that role, because right as we speak, we absolutely need him fit for the whole year.

Not sure how you can name Salem, Rivers and Kozzie as 'bloody good midfield' options when there is still a lot of unknowns on whether they can step up when needed. Sparrow I would say to some degree hasn't exactly taken the next step in proving he can become a quality midfielder in years to come. He's a role player who needs to lift his numbers and input and not continue to live off averaging 16-17 disposals per game. Based of what I saw against Richmond I saw nothing in his game that suggest he's improved. Now I'm not using that as evidence to suggest that he won't improve this year but he absolutely needs to step up now with Brayshaw gone. He's got all the tight athletic tools but we barely see enough of it. Rivers has only had minor spurts in there and taking him away from our backline does leave it vulnerable because he is just as good down back. He's the one out of the lot I see transitioning well into full time midfield role similar to what Elliot Yeo did when he started off as a defender in his early days. Kozzie is very unknown still. Barely used there last year and doubt he has the tank to to play big minutes in there. Good for short bursts, but against the top sides like Collingwood who are elite at two way running then he'll need to step up in that area. Like Rivers, you're also taking his strengths away being an elite small forward because no one else in our teams comes even close to his level up forward. There is zero evidence to suggest Salem can step into the midfield role and be successful. Goodwin has already trialled Salem as a starting mid in early 2018 and he was pretty ordinary so they had to move him back in his natural position down back We've also trialled the two tall defenders thing and it simply does not work. One of the most bizarre coaching selections moves I saw was certainly not the not using Josh Schache sub but going into our first final against Collingwood with May and Lever as our only tall defenders. What was even more bizarre is that Goodwin admitted sometime last year that he prefers the 3 talls down back as it gives some like Lever to be released as the roaming 3rd tall. That final against Collingwood we butchered up that team selection that badly that they had no other choice but to play Rivers on Dan McStay all night which completely took away his running game because he had to play a full lock down role. Never again.

Would be throwing everything at Finn Callaghan at the end of the year. Big bodied midfielder who's going to be a star of the competition.

Zero compensation. Missed the SPP deadline by a few days unfortunately.

Devastated. He's also made the right decision.