Harvey Wallbanger

The Club clarified in reference to an earlier article that Pert is no longer involved at the Club.

Start with the Stats File and then complaints about the umpires....😄 An hour done!

In theory the MFC should be "all ears". As a result of the "external" governance review last year there was "a clear recommendation" to establish a Member Engagement Committee - see Brad Green's letter in the Annual Report.

A very good point - the AFL has adopted different "cut-off dates" for annual membership counts and the AFL normally crow about the numbers in September based on the numbers at the end of the home and away season. In George's table (on page 1) he records 67,673 as at end of July 2023 but then also posts a post-July 31 number of over 70,000. Our Annual Report boasted 71,388 (probably a number as at 31 October - the financial year-end), probably because the Strategic Plan had a target of 75,000 - maybe bonuses depended upon it? As has been posted before on DL these "gross" numbers do not equate to the number of individual members, and of course the numbers include junior members.

BRAD GREEN (PRES) GEOFF PORZ (VP) DAVID RENNICK SARAH ROBINSON SALLY FREEMAN (re-elected in 2024) (below elected in 2024) ANGELA WILLIAMS CHRIS BARLOW STEVEN SMITH

Yes - saw that.

Track-watchers will be there tomorrow - appreciate that that is a bit easier than firing up for the pod Andy. Maybe a mid-week pod to allow everyone to take a breath or two? Life goes on....

Reckon I saw Kirkwood-Scott this morning at the Captain's Run. With a carryover emergency required for the AFL, hopefully he is a late in tomorrow.

Don't think Sestan was there. Yes. had surgery - incident at training. Hopefully he can come back for Casey - and they make finals. Casey should win tomorrow, bye next week, then Lions away and Box Hill at home - tough finishing games....

Henderson present, but not selected for Casey tomorrow...

Cold, blustery day with a few Wallabies' fans in attendance. Casey out first, including Jeffo, Culley and Adams. We'll know the carryover emergency when Casey starts tomorrow at 11.05 am. Not much to report really - as Ghosty mentioned, amongst the injured players May was present. Just another short Captain's Run.

I want our players to be smarter than that. Anyway, let's hope nothing comes of it.....

Not sure about that. Riv will probably now get a "please explain" or worse......commenting on a Tribunal decision.

Some camera crews were there.....

Lots not present today - See Ghosty's post above: Absentees: May, Petracca, Viney, Spargo, Turner, TMac, Adams, Campbell, Sparrow, Fullarton, Petty, Pickett, Sestan, Woewodin, AJ. Also no Hore, McAdam or AMW from the LTI (done for the season list). Billings, Bowey, Howes and Henderson all just ran laps rather than joining the soccer, and departed early. Woewodin took a heavy knock during the Casey game on Sunday - looked like ribs/concussion, or both. Max was comfortably nailing his "round the corner" shots. Look for them in a game if he marks close to goal. Injury update tonight.

A simple question for the boys. The coach, in his press conference, was clearly angry with the first quarter effort on Saturday night and also referenced the even more anaemic effort in the first quarter against Gold Coast. Given that someone is accountable for those failures, which arguably costs us both games, who is it? The Senior Coach, the leadership group, the playing group generally, the Head of Football, the interim CEO or the prospective CEO (a bit of tongue in cheek re the last two....)?

And Henderson also listed as injured - but not dealt with in the Tuesday injury report...drops it from a potential 17 to 15 AFL listed....

Thanks Ghosty. Just the named 23 present today. No emergencies present (Howes, Campbell, Petty). I did see a soccer ball, but there was no game - they usually play a game in their recovery sessions. Mostly goal-kicking practice and Max was doing quite well with his "round the corner" shots from short range - less than 40 metres out. It will be interesting to see if he goes through with the change of technique the next time he is close - he may have been encouraged by the one he flushed on Sunday? That was too far out to try his new method. Trac's attempts were looking much better today.

That would be 17 AFL listed players! The Sunday game means Casey should not lose any AFL listed due to carryover emergencies (and a Sunday AFL match next week). Surely we smash a decimated Carlton outfit....

DC, remember we were told it was an external review and from it two new Committees were announced grandly in the Annual Report - High Performance and Member Engagement. How go those Committees?

So we could be worse than 8,000 members down on this time last year......sheesh.

Carlton has a plethora of tall forwards? They had to play TDK up forward last week because McKay is out - Voss rationailsing the move claiming that Pittonet is in "great form" and so shall play the main ruck role......

Just to be clear Beasley only expected back mid-season. She wasn't playing in the intra-club....

Bitter and Turner?

Sunny, then cloudy day at Gosch's Paddock for the women's intra-club. A series of 7.5 minute stanzas. Our list of 32 (on the website) includes Aimee Mackin (knee) and Jacinta Hose (knee and back), who are now on the long-term injury list and won't feature this year, From the final list of 30, rehabbing today were Ryliegh Wotherspoon (a couple of weeks of away off a hamstring), Grace Beasley (to be back mid-season from her knee) Denby Taylor (short-term, ankle) and Gabby Colvin. Sinead Goldrick and Blaithin Mackin also not present today. So 24 having a run. Blues versus Reds, looked like A team of Blues mids and forwards against the Reds containing A team backs, with assistance from the Casey girls (presumably) - 16 per side. New draftees Molly O'Hehir (off half-back) and Maggie Mahony (midfield) both impressed and will be aiming for Round 1 selection. All the regulars were prominent, McNamara, Fitzsimon, Hore, Hanks, Zanker, Chaplin and the talls, Gall, Campbell and Harris all featuring. Great to see Loz Pearce playng at this stage of the season. A bit of a scare when Hanksy left the field (and did not return) which to me looked like a knee injury - others thought calf, or ankle. Limped off but was later doing run-throughs, presumably after knee checks, so hopefully only a short-term injury (with scans likely to follow). O'Hehir and Amelia Dethridge were given an early mark. Had to leave before the session finished but there was a good crowd in attendance, so I expect a few more comments here.