Rodney (Balls) Grinter

55 minutes ago, Nasher said:

Staggered that we can’t find a place for TMac in the side. There has to be a role.

Sign Melksham for another three.

Seriously for the love of God, just play T Mac every game between now and the end of season if he's fit. Way more impactful than Lever is at the moment and deserves to end his career on a high if he doesn't go round next year (which I feel he possibly could, but probably won't).

8 minutes ago, layzie said:

Very happy with Bayley Fritsch's game today. 3 goals and 21 possessions (career high?). Found space and his instincts were to help the team today.

One slight worry - 0 tackles and 4 pressure acts. When you're finding space and getting opportunities like he did today then you don't worry about the defensive side, but he is not going to get the space he did today against a lot of the other sides in the competition. When his leads are blocked and the forward 50 marks aren't happening this is when most of us notice the lack of defensive pressure and being able to offer something other than his 1 wood. I hope we can see more of this from now till the end of the season, or just keeping hitting him lace out.

I honestly thought both Fritta and Tracs lack of defensive intensity in the first quarter was woeful.

Did think they somewhat redeemed themselves by the end of the game, but seriously when we were on a hiding to nothing after 4 losses on the trot, you'd hope they would have showed a lot more endeavour and despiration - it's almost like they think that's beneath them.

If they want inspiration, just look at T Mac up the other end of the ground.

11 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Xerri had no reason to put his arm out like that. He lost the contest already.

I don’t think he meant to knock him out, but he did and for that he gets 3-4 weeks.

Kozzie got 3 weeks for something that was a clumsy footy act. Xerrie should get 4 - 6 weeks. But he won't.

43 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

18.11 on the windiest of windy days

Go figure right!

The joys of following the MFC. Lol

5 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

T Mac has been a good inclusion

Just about BOG for us at this point.

Has anyone got some tissues for @picket fence ?

Seriously Petracca, Fritta just let them walk the ball out of our forward line, no pressure.

Not good enough - how about a bit of desperation?

Pertracca is just hanging out for loose balls in the forward line.

Drop them both and let them rot at Casey.

Think this is an important game for morale.

My take on the past 3 - 4 weeks is that while we havent exactly put the cue in the rack, we've been happy to prioritse blooding new players and perhaps being willing to cop the hits on the scoreboard in an attempt to persevere with ball movement methods in game conditions.

Comes a time where loosing week after week has a debilitating effect and we really need to get another win on the board.

9 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I would’ve had Kolt as sub but I can see Windsor as an effective sub with his run and dash in the last quarter.

Yes agree effective, but wasteful.

2 hours ago, Graeme Yeats' Mullet said:

Melbourne App doesn't show me my Membership Tickets for this game...

Anyone else have issues?

Good old fashioned plastic membership card never let's me down (except for the two I lost at the start of the season 🙄)

8 hours ago, Chook said:

I would shake my head and wryly laugh if/when our backline actually functions better with Tom McDonald.

You mean like it was before we dropped him?

3 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

I got them at $4.50 (I back against us every week and have done for almost 10 years). But I’d never say Go North. Shame on you, BDA! 😂

Yeah, like tipping against your side, you don't mind loosing the cash if we win and at least you have the consolation of the bet if we loose.

1 hour ago, jackaub said:

can we go for him in stead

What we don't need on here i another messiah addition to distract the club

If White is pick 30 or so and has what we need don't pick him because of his name please?

Pick 26 was pretty good for Jack Viney.

I see similar in Kalani to Jack, in so far as he has grown up loving the club, wants it to succeed and being mentored by one of it's greats. I know Taylor and Co do highly value attitude over talent and I think Kalani has alot going for him in this respects.

Similarly, I don't think we should undervalue father son players being invested in the club, as opposed to being just the first team that drafted them out of the U18s.

The draft can be something of a lottery anyway.

14 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

It sure is. And my name’s not Ron 😁

Now you're getting the hang of it Ghosty and my name's not Ron or Rod!

On 28/06/2025 at 16:27, Fork 'em said:

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https://youtu.be/OJOfk4ZTjBo?t=42

You can actually purchase them straight off the internet here: https://splashswimwear.com.au/products/aboriginal-flag?srsltid=AfmBOoqJZzfOpZM2ehyikc0H3WqkWgfd3kV1Ppz-1gwVH3LmdzrroGN9

On 02/07/2025 at 09:42, Demonland said:

Just don't tell Jed Adams

22 hours ago, Anti-Saint said:

The MilkShake is a remarkable athlete.

In his 30s (turns 34 next month), post the setback of missing the premiership, The Shake has played some of his best footy deespite numerous injuries he keeps on "frothing-up" (unlike milk for a cappuccino as you only get to froth this milk once!).

No wonder he cramped as he's not had a run at form having played 11 of our games with a few out with injury.

I hope we "Do The Shake" in 2026 IMO.

100%

I think put T Mac in that same category.

Guys like this are worth their weight in gold for club culture. We're not too top heavy with aging players, so I'd be giving T Mac and Melky another gig for as long as they're still wanting to play and producing the sort of form that has them on the cusp of senior selection, which it certainly still is in both those cases.

On 20/06/2025 at 18:16, dazzledavey36 said:

He displays run.

His kicking is poor. This isn't hard to see.

Right now, its on par with Jayden Hunt who was horrible by foot. Hopefully Windsor can I.prove on that.

Deriding Hunt like that is harsh. Hunt was a bloody good kick for goal and could do some good things on the burst as well. Take a look at that last few minutes of the game against Carlton a few years back when him, Kossie and Melky basically won us the game at the death.

Was pretty good Al round in his last year with us and would have been a premiership player bar injury a few games out from finals.

On 22/06/2025 at 10:45, Mouseymoo said:

Can we trade JT for a guy that can identify forward talent?

Identify forward talent - what Kozzie, LJ, Fritta, and JVR aren't enough?

I guess you want JT to control the forward entry so it's not just bombs to dead pockets and loose men in defence as well.

5 hours ago, Demonstone said:

Not quite, Mr Round Objects.

We swapped our 2025 first rounder for their 2024 first rounder and used that pick on Xavier Lindsay.

Bomber fans are enjoying the death ride this year and look like gaining a high draft pick out of the deal.

However, in an apparently weakish draft with many Academy/NGA selections, we already have Lindsay on our books with a year of development under his belt.

Ah, I see. Regardless, their pick still being tied to our lader position does put some imperative to finishing as high as possible regardless of making finals or not.

Having Lindsay with a year of development is already a victory I agree. I think we've usually done pretty well with Taylor trading up the order.

1 hour ago, ijustwannaseeaflag said:

May is conceding on average 3 goals a game this year. He is in decline

We rejigged our game plan somewhat to be less defensive, so I'd put the additional goals conceded by May down to that. Maysie is still a gun and we're definitely a better defensive unit with him in the side.

As far as I understand we swapped our first round pick for this year with Essendon, so finishing higher than them on the ladder would count as something of a victory if that's the case. Kind of like a reverse mini Freo death ride.

Is he a red head like his old man?

If so we'd be loading up our backline with a couple of them when you include Bowser.

2 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

I thought that that father / son prospects were also eligible to be drafted by their northern academy teams as a way to make up for the fact that these expansion clubs were too new to have any of their own father / sons.

Definitely not true for Brisbane and Sydney, but may have some legitimacy for GC & GWS. Still sux that we're potentially on the short end of the stick again.

2 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

Yeah its definitely a leg-up on the comp those northern academies. They 100% should be scrapped. It is grossly unfair.

The argument that the northern clubs are trying to grow the game doesn't equate to "we get first dibs on all talent that comes through". Half those boys are playing in the VIC Coates league anyway.

I can see a benifit for those father/sons players to participate in the academies as a measure to lift the elite standards of the academies overall, just that they shouldn't be eligible to then draft them.