Rodney (Balls) Grinter

9 hours ago, Tom Dyson said:

also feel the need to reiterate that Max Heath is a behemoth of a man!

So disapointed with the AFL/MFC (not sure who's decision is was) that we are once again playing a home game at Marvel (again against West Coast).

A few years ago the club announced with great fan fair that they'd 'won the war' and we wouldn't play home games at Marvel, but it seems like they have totally capitulated on the issue again.

13 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Maybe cause Saturday evening is past your bedtime.

If we want this club to survive into the future we need to be able keep the Mobs attention (especially kids).
Play fast entertaining footy or die.

Sorry, constant night games are rubbish for taking kids to the footy. Particularly when most with young families live towards outer suburbia these days, your looking at 12:00am - 1:00am until you get home. Doing that with pre-teen kids every week isn't fun at all.

That said, early Sunday afternoon games aren't that great either, because they tend to clash with Jnr footy, which is typically played on a Sunday.

I am so over the AFL constantly scheduling games to suit whatever their TV masters desire as opposed to the real fans. Please give us back more of our traditional Saturday 2:10pm time slot.

22 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

OK, so skip to 2:45 and listen to this bit, lights dim, make the MCG feel like Gorgoroth of Tolkien lore.... Be pretty sweet

Bring it on!!

10 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Gee the photo of Heath standing next to Culley shows how big Heath is. Huuuge.

And he likes a contest apparently.

Which is saying something, because Culley is a big man too and looking totally ripped - obviously kept in good shape over the break.

Wounder how 9thmond Tigers supporters feel about all this?

...I guess with 3 flags in the bag in the last 10 years, they probably don't care.

1 hour ago, Go Ds said:

Can't you guys see the irony? Suddenly 7th and 8th are much lesser achievements. They need to win 5 matches, miss out on a bye and even can have the ignominy of losing a ' final' to a team that managed only 9 or 10 H&A wins. Fifth and sixth will often have a cushy opening final now and they go into week two ... now week three against an opponent that had an exhausting ding dong battle with a top two side. If you change your perspective that it's really the final six now suddenly the complaints of mediocrity disappear. Now you need to come in the top third of the ladder. None of this is perfect (extra advantages for 5th and 6th and two Mickey Mouse finals). But it ain't the end of the world at all. Now.... back to Sesame Street and the Scon...the Biscu...umm that monster that eats baked goods. 🙄

Agree with this to an extent. It now places more of a premium on finish 5 / 6 compared to just 5 - 8. That said, I think those teams in positions 5 - 8 are usually fighting pretty hard to make sure that a) they have a top 8 position secured and/or b) they give themselves a chance to finish top 4.

In some ways, I can live with this and it does somewhat even out teams not making the top 8, because they had a harder H&A draw.

Not that it matters in a way. Finishing top 4 is still the percentage play to win a flag. Still Brisbane won it from what 5th this season - will someone win it from 9th/10th one day?

Would love to finish 10th and knock out Collingwood who finish 7th, just to make them spew.

16 minutes ago, Gorgoroth said:

I never want to see that waste of flesh and bone in a MFC jumper.

Agree to a point. He looks horrible in a Melbourne jumper and don't really see how he fits our list, unless we could some how have him as a rookie or something, but saying he's a waste of flesh and bone is going a bit far. I know he's got a bit of arrogant Yank that you probably couldn't beat out of him, but asides from that he seems to be a decent enough bloke and unworthy of quite that level of vitriol.

3 hours ago, rpfc said:

Hang on, let me get my vomit gif

Can someone change the title of the thread to this?

17 minutes ago, Willmoy1947 said:

Max says thanks guys

Yeah, he's been missing someone to spew on since $cully took the money and ran ... and then broke down.

5 hours ago, Cranky Franky said:

A lot of silly comments posted here.

The Club should be completely embarrassed that it had 2 champion Irish players 40 years ago & has mostly ignored Irish recruits since who have gone on to success at other Clubs.

Another pathetic tale of fail from MFC administration.

Oh please 🙄

Talk about melodramatic.

5 hours ago, Go Ds said:

Our new coach until a few months ago was mainly considered a Geelong person. I'm guessing thus we'll play his old team twice, orbat least continue the yearly 'tradition' playing at Geelong with crowd hoping their team beat their former alumnus.

And hopefully the new coach knows how to play at that [censored] heap ground and can inspire us to win there

As an asides, the was SoS (Son of Serge), we could have Kok

1 hour ago, Gator said:

I couldn't care less about the romance. If he was Pickett's Brother I couldn't care less.

Is he any good is the only thing that should matter.

But if he is good and Kuz of Koz, then - Lattrele, come on down!

Talking of social media changes, a theme I hope is discontinued is those set up segments of the players playing party game type activities (get the ping pong ball in the cup, board game challenges...etc etc). They often featured Max and/or Trac and were so fake, un natural and just completely token time waster type segments 🤢🤮🤮🙄

On 29/10/2025 at 09:04, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

I rang the Club recently to speak to the media folks (can't remember the reason but it was a constructive one) and reported on here. I couldn't get past the membership officer but she told me the media group were 'a team' and different individuals were responsible for different projects at different times. So I don't think there's an AFL/AFLW division?

Maybe the girs are just naturally more fun and entertaining in front of the camera.

As a side note, I still can't understand the hype around Ross Lyon. For a master coach, he's never actually won a flag.

Meh.

We win this game and it's basically a non story. I still would have been [censored] as a supporter. Giving up a 40 odd point lead felt to win by a goal or so would have felt like a loss anyway.

Still think we are closer to a flag than St Kilda. Last time I stated that was at the end of the 2020 season.

10 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Dam Gorringe is cringe AF.

Showing your age a bit there old chap 😜

Cringe is cool.

4 minutes ago, Macca said:

Back around that Lorne camp we were in a bit of a mess anyway

Ox said what he said and probably meant well. He didn't name names at least

Don't get me wrong, loved him as a player growing up and from what I understand he still loves the club and means well, but he's made a habit of being publically overly critical and negative about the club as a media personality, which I don't think is actually constructive.

Surely he could have conversations with the likes of Brad Green etc without airing all his views on all our dirty laundry in the open.

On the topic of social media, while I agree that we want something a bit edgy and entertaining, I think there are lines that a club social media account shouldn't cross.

In the recent trade period, I noticed the GWS site practically trolling us with photos of Jessie and Bedford essentially welcoming Trac and Clarry right at the start of the trade period before any deals were done.

I generally like GWS post $cully era, but these posts really got up my nose and feel they were utterly unprofessional for the club's official site to be promoting.

2 hours ago, BoBo said:

I think Gus would actually be perfect (and Max once he retires) to lean into making shorts that are a bit of a [censored] take or memeing on other teams and at times ourselves. Gus is widely liked and seems to have a cheeky sense of humour so that could work.

Outrage gets clicks, that’s just how the algorithm works (and why the world is hell, haha). So if you can walk the line between taking the [censored] but not being overly vitriolic about it, you can draw in a lot of non-Dees supporters. Gorringe has actually hit that sweet spot because he pots everyone (including Carlton and the AFL) but also praises other teams too at times. A lot of people say he’s a [censored], but that misses the point. He’s a [censored] that gets a lot of engagement which is all that really matters in internet world.

This exercise isn’t about promoting Dees upfront, it’s about getting people to click on a person associated with the Dees that flies the flag, making AFL content, mostly to non-Dees fans. Get people to like a Melbourne supporting person.

I’m a musician and coming back from a few years hiatus, that landscape has changed. It’s entirely social media now. You don’t exist unless you have a strong social media presence. So in saying that, we basically don’t exist compared to a lot of other clubs.

Only my opinion though, I’m deffo not an expert.

Yeah, I like the approach that Dan Gorringe takes. He's great all round entertainment value IMHO.

2 hours ago, Macca said:

The Ox's comments was during an interview with SEN and related to the camp down at Lorne

He mentioned a few times that he had witnessed the players getting up to no good. He didn't elaborate but repeated himself a few times

My reading off of it was that the listeners needed to fill in the gaps as he wasn't prepared to name names or describe what the activities were (that he witnessed)

Sorry, but that's [censored] form from Ox. Adds to the media pile on, tars everyone with a guilty brush based in insinuations. Again coming from the guy could have been as good as Wayne Carey on feild, but that destroyed his own career and contributed to bad team culture that derailed the team.

If Ox has concerns and insights based on his own experiences, by all means raise them directly to the club leadership and board etc, but just adding to the public pile on reeks of him putting his own personal media profile and interests above that of the club.

By contrast, Max is the consumate professional trainer, has what 8 all Australian medals to his own name, a premiership and consecutive seasons where the team was a pace setter of the league and top 4 finishes. I'd also suggest that as a captain/leader, Max's easy going affable style is somewhat ballanced by others in the team like the super intense Jack Viney that has more your Joel Selwood mindset, but perhaps not so much the level of interpersonal skills.