At the break of Gawn

I sort of feel an incident like this can go only one of two ways; it emboldens us and we go onto having a great season or everything starts to unravel.

Goody admitted on SEN this wee Goody admitted on SEN this week that he struggles against the most experienced coaches (and mentioned Longmire). This game is just par for the course for him. His record is 2-5 against Longmire.

I think part of the poor attendance, even before tonight, is just the way we’re playing. We don’t put on big scores, we don’t belt lowly teams, we were just grinding out wins… and now losses.

Petracca let him know on one of them too. The selflessness sometimes is detrimental to the team.

If you go back to last year, forward connection was one of our main problems during our mid season slump. One of things Goody preached was lowering the eyes, yet this year we continue to just bomb it in forward and try and win a ground ball. Our forwards just aren’t competing enough and we’re not winning clear ground balls. Secondly, our pressure is just way off which I think is hurting our intercept game down back. I’m not sure if it’s because teams are playing keeping offs against us and that’s why our pressure is down but I just can’t understand why we’re not bringing the heat.

We’ve been belted. Only one decent qtr from us.

Agree - quite a few premiership players still there. It's there engine room that really lets them down though. Lots of new guys.

I know it’s only small fry, but we really need to go out and belt West Coast and North. We’ve had a history of losing to teams who’ve had the blow torch on them all week. In terms of longer term prospects, I’d like to see where we sit at the end of 2025. If we have multiple premierships, finals appearances every year and a real sense of confidence going to a game as a supporter knowing you’ll get a really good effort, it will go a long way to removing this veil.

I’m a big Rivers fan. His grand final performance was remarkably unheralded. Didn’t make a mistake. I can’t see him being pushed out. JJ the most likely vulnerable.

Not sure you could call Fritsch’s season quiet, averaging 2 goals game as third tall (if you can call it that) and has kicked a goal in every game so far this season.

From the stands - round 22 2019.

What makes his rise even more fascinating is how far back he’s come from. If we went back to 2014 on this forum, no one could have predicted he would lead us to our first premiership and be considered one of the greatest ruckmen of our time. It’s just a wonderful story.

I’m actually of the view this could be a real danger game for us. The Hawks have usually responded pretty well to a loss this season and they have troubled us in the past. I’ll just be happy with the 4pts.

It would be great if the AFL could adjust Melbourne’s Round 8 fixture vs the Saints. It’s probably going to be billed as one of the games of the season but due to the poor scheduling by the AFL it’s got a 1:10pm Sunday slot on Mother’s Day of all days, it’ll be a poor crowd. I know it’s going to be a struggle for me to convince the wife to let me go to that game and I’m sure many others will be in that boat. Cue the outrage of opposition supporters criticising Melbourne’s fan base when we get a poor crowd for it.

Tmac and Tomlinson both at the airport. I imagine BB will fly In tomorrow morning?

I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if we got rolled on Friday night. The GC game was really taxing and Max Gawn admitted it so. 6 day break makes it tough. I won’t lose any sleep over an upset. We have won 9 games in a row, and we all know how long the season is.

It’s all water under the bridge now as he’s been sacked, but I think the Laidley thing is much worse because the cop obtained that photo at his work which is under the umbrella of private and confidential who then shared it with others. I’d like to think whoever shared Tom’s audio get their own karma one day as it’s done nothing but hurt people and that was the leaker’s full intention.

Our views on what is considered public are very different. So if you sent a whatsapp msg to your partner who then screenshot it and sent it to another friend, who made it public? Was it you or was it your partner’s friend that made it “more public” as you put it? Note, WhatsApp is an E2E encryption messaging app, which is used as a substitute for txt msging. It’s not Twitter.

Two points. It wasn’t a public setting - the leaker made it public. The leaker was also the one who chose to make her orientation public. Tom was wrong to discuss with his friends private information about a colleague but he didn’t make them public.

I think Tom’s comments about his colleague are terrible, but for a private conversation to be distributed without his consent which will now ruin his career is a very harsh lesson. 95% of people on this forum would have said a disparaging comment about their colleagues at some point in their lifetime but the difference is no one was secretly recording them and sending it to their bosses. Even the second video he’s clearly drunk and hasn’t given permission to be recorded. As I said, Tom’s comments in both vids are disgraceful, but I just think it’s sad for society that people are essentially getting fired for saying something in private and then getting it recorded, leaked and their workplaces made aware. This is very different to trolls online who acknowledge that their tweets/posts are published to the internet or even celebrities who made disgraceful remarks on Twitter 10 years ago which are dragged up. Just makes me worried/sad for a person’s right to privacy and one of the bigger villains in all of this is who distributed this content.

Reckon Cal Twomey’s top 5 was almost the same or at least very similar.

Does anyone know where you can find your barcode? At the bottom of the article posted by the club it said if you wanted to upgrade your seat enter your membership barcode on ticketek. I tried using the one they sent me for last year but it didn’t work and I haven’t seen a new one sent to me yet for this year…

Apologies for linking to an almost NSFW website, but this bad boy is what we all want when it’s available. Looks like it comes in Blu-Ray and DVD https://shop.richmondfc.com.au/2020-premiers-complete-season-collection/

I’m going to order this (it’s in Blu-Ray). Why are the Victory packs only in DVD? Why is anyone still selling DVD? https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/afl-premiers-2021-melbourne-demons-2021-blu-ray

I have the perspective that every loss we had during the season was a stepping stone towards our premiership. It’s nice to wonder what might have been if we were undefeated all year, but at the end of the day, the journey turned out how it turned out, and we won the flag.