Maybe next year

6. Gawn

5. Petracca 

4. Oliver 

3. Viney

2. Langdon

1. Weiderman

6. Gawn

5. Viney

4. oliver

3. Hannan

2. Petracca 

1. Salem

1 minute ago, BW511 said:

Milkshake and AVB must be very good trainers

Agree.  Melksham is apparently the forward line leader so he was always going to be given more time. AVB may be given the license to kill mad if he can regain his form of years ago can be a bold selection. Personally though I would have dropped him and brought in ANB. Overall I’m happy with changes

34 minutes ago, Tarax Club said:

ANB is capable of kicking multiple goals. Given the team's dearth of goal kicking contributors and two victories in 12 months of competitive AFL football. His input could be valuable. Mention was made during this week's podcast of the famous 2015 victory at Kardinia Park  without Jesse Hogan. ANB in his third game of AFL seniors kicked three goals. Fast forward to round 2 2020, during the dynamic first quarter and a half against the blues. ANB scored two goals and significantly contributed as the forward line 'architect' in at least one other goal scoring assist. Yes Nibbler has his detractors here, but when he is on song, within the compass of his attributes, he is a worthy contributor.

Agree. His first quarter against Carlton this year set us alight. He drilled passes into the chest of several players. Unfortunately like many others went missing for much of the game.  Worthy of a game more than Hunt and Melksham and dare I say Kossie. I think Kossie will be good but atm he is too flashy and I saw some selfish acts on the weekend.

6 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Before saying it's "another poor decision by the club", let's think why that was done. Some possible reasons (stated with no evidence, just brainstorming ideas):

• there's a limited budget and the club can't afford to take everyone
• related to the above, within the budget allocated, the club wanted some of the players with young families (such as Jack Viney with a newborn) to be able to bring their families with them, so diverted dollars for this purpose
• the players left behind won't play any senior games in the next 5 weeks anyway
• with no possibility of any seconds matches while in a hub, the players left behind may be better managed with "intensive coaching" in Melbourne
• the players who won't play a game might have been considered to be disruptive (through boredom, for example)
• the money saved by leaving a few players behind might allow the club to keep some other people (coaching or admin staff) employed
• etc 

 

We’re talking about 8 players for 6 weeks. I don’t think that will impact the club financially as much as losing members for crappy performances.  One would hope a happy list would perform better regardless of the coaching.  For the record, long term injured players I agree should not go.

1 minute ago, BW511 said:

The poor buggers that got left behind would be spitting chips

 

They should never have been left behind in my opinion. Another poor decision by the club. Creates a divide, now can’t properly train and shows no concern for those players. They should have been given a choice.

Apologies if this has been discussed elsewhere but the media has highlighted a new tactic used against Melbourne; hiding.  Seeing Jack Higgins hide behind lever and Max Gawn kick to a nearby player upset me in two ways.

(1)  Max laughing after kicking it in a way Higgins could steal the mark.  Any mistake should not be worthy of a laugh or smile. I’ve seen players pound the ground with their fist after making a mistake. Don’t smile, apologise or act upset even if you’re not.

(2) How can a player be so stationary that another player can hide behind him? Why wasn’t Lever moving to give an option. 

These are 2 senior players and leaders of our club.  This was my worry about Gawn as captain.  Gives the impression he doesn’t care enough on the ground.  We have no leadership and have had none for years.  It is no coincidence our best football was when we brought in senior players to lead on the ground (Cross, Lewis, Vince).   Where is our leadership development. Maybe Jim Plunkett should spend less time on zoom calls and more about developing leaders in our young players. Time to start training Sparrow, Rivers, Jordan on becoming effective leaders. 
 

sorry for tirade. Still really upset.

We would not be able to afford either. I am not in the each Goodwin camp either although I am approaching it. I am hoping to see a coming of age like we saw with Hardwick at Richmond.  If we were to put money into any other coach, I’d go Chris Fagan. He’s done wonders at Brisbane. He may want to return to Melbourne.  

1 hour ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

OUT:

Rivers: has showed some good signs and I'm confident he'll be a player.  With some errors creeping in, needs to take a break and develop and freshen-up away from the spotlight.

Smith: He has his fans on here, but I'm not one of them.  Bringing in Oscar as a stopper should free up Lever. 

vandenBerg: Huge fan of his, but he's not making a big enough impact.  Can hurt the opposition with his tackling, but doesn't hurt them with his possessions. 

Hunt: Not a natural ball-finder and therefore needs a lot to go right for him to have a big impact.  Plays a similar style and role to Hannan but, as Hannan kicked 3, Hunt goes out.

 

IN:  Jetta, O.Mcdonald, Bennell, Weideman

 

FB:     JETTA                 MAY.                LEVER.  

HB:    SALEM.       O.MCDONALD.    HIBBERD. 

C       LANGDON.     OLIVER.      TOMLINSON.

HF:    BENNELL.    T.MCDONALD.   BENNELL. 

FF:     PICKETT.      WEIDEMAN.        FRITSCH.  

Fol:    GAWN.          BRAYSHAW.     PETRACCA.  

Int:     HARMES,    HANNAN,   VINEY,     LOCKHART

 

THIN ICE: Pickett, Lockhart, Melksham.

Jamie Bennell is no longer at the club.  Harley may be good but there is only 1. I think it’s Melksham you want. Similar team to mine. I’ve kept Rivers I’m to give him one more week.

I think we will be playing on smaller grounds so quicks not as important.  We need talks in forward line.  Jones to be given games to get to his milestone and for him to play forward. He’s a good kick and reads ball well.

Ins  Jetta, Bennell, Weiderman Jones

outs  Hunt, AVB, Lockhart, Smith 

last chance: Pickett, Melksham 

B:   Jetta   May   Rivers

HB:  Salem  Lever  Hibberd

C.   Langdon.  Harmes   Tomlinson

HF:   Petracca.  Weiderman.  Bennell

F:   Pickett.    T Mac.   Fritsch 

Foll:  Gawn   Oliver   Brayshaw 

int:  melksham   Viney.  Hannan.   Jones

13 hours ago, Nascent said:

We could probably predict the most likely candidates based on the selected 22 today + emergencies and likely additions.

22 from today vs Richmond

1. May
2. Salem
3. Harmes
4. Petraccca
5. Viney
6. Lever
7. Brayshaw
8. Gawn
9. Oliver
10. Hibberd
11. Langdon
12. Melksham
13. Hannan
14. Tomlinson
15. Vandenberg
16. Rivers
17. T. McDonald
18. Hunt
19. Fritsch
20. Pickett
21. Lockhart
22. Smith

Emergencies

1. Spargo
2. O. McDonald
3. Jackson
4. Brown

Next 7 likely candidates

1. Jones
2. Bennell
3. Jordan
4. Weideman
5. Neal-Bullen
6. Sparrow
7. Jetta

In the Mix?

1. Bedford
2. Pruess
3. Baker
4. Chandler
5. C. Wagner
6. J. Wagner

Unlikely/Injured

1. Bradtke
2. Dunkley
3. Kolodjashnij
4. Nietschke
5. Hore
6. Petty

Replace Jordan and ANB with Bedford and Dunkley and I think you have it right.  If one of the players in Viney, Jones or Jetta don’t go for family reasons then Jordan and C Wagner are next in line.  I personally think the whole group minus injured players should have gone up to at least have the team morale improved a little and avoid a divide within the club. Even on Survivor no one likes to be left behind in the reward challenge. I note most other clubs are taking their whole group. 

6. Petracca

5. Oliver 

4. Salem

3. Gawn

2. Langdon

1. Rivers

2 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

Nibbler anyone ?

Yes for me. Not skilful but gives his all and has great endurance

7 minutes ago, JTR said:

9 news said visiting friends

Spargo - 2 weeks

Pickett - 1 week

I’m not complaining but why would Spargo get 2. What was the difference?
 

Interesting dinner conversation at the Jetta house tonight. If the friend is a girl friend or boyfriend, it’s all good........just saying

Just now, Salems Lot said:

in a year when we have faced up to so much disappointment & negativity, is there a chance we could keep our individual tiffs and tantrums to a minimum.  I am sure that it will make DL just a little bit more bearable when all I need is score updates and match day feedback

 

Agree totally!

I’m assuming this is not televised anywhere.

25 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Would add one other point.. the Casey ground needs serious work on its drainage. Took a good walk around the arena at quarter time. In many parts you just sank into the turf. Not really AFL standard.

Agree. I walked across the ground and it was terrible. Felt liked it had rained non stop for the last couple of days.

Heading home. Too disappointed 

They kick a goal. 7 pts at 25 min mark. Unlikely now

Casey goals - all tied at the 20 min mark.

JKH just did some nice things since my last post but I don’t change my mind

For anyone upset that JKH is not playing tomorrow you just need to see him at Casey. I’m really disappointed in his game. He’s pulled out of a number of contests and gives up on the chase too quickly. Combine his skills with Monroe’s endeavour and we would have a good player.

The Cats with the first in less than 2 mins. Casey could not hold tackles and the Geelong player runs into an easy goal

3Qtr time

casey: 4.7.31

geelong: 3.10.28

lucky to still be in it but Geelong will have a 2-3 goal breeze coming home. Hutchins and Monroe playing good games. Smith and Spargo our next best. Spargo’s Silly mistakes downplays his game. Hardly saw JKH that quarter and it’s been a really poor game from Maynard today (I’m disappointed).  JJ had a better quarter that one.

Completely outplayed this quarter. Our midfield not providing any run. If I see Spargo handball to another teammate with a Geelong player right next to him I’ll spew up.

The cats missing some easy goals against the breeze (1-2 goal breeze)