Rodney (Balls) Grinter

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.

Can someone change the title of the thread to this?

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

Oh please 🙄 Talk about melodramatic.

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

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 🤢🤮🤮🙄

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.

Showing your age a bit there old chap 😜 Cringe is cool.

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.

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

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.

I'd be interested to know what he did say, so care to share any key points or links to something that does? That said, I find it very hard being lectured on this kind of stuff by the Ox the way he does. The club wasted so much tallent and oppertunity during his time as a player. Say what you will about Max, but under his leadership we actually delivered 2 - 3 pretty elite seasons that have no equal in my lifetime as a MFC supporter in terms of performance and results. Even though we ultimately fell short in 22 and 23, the club has never been able to put together such a dominant stretch of form and be the force of the competition that we were from the period of the start of 2021 till at least mid way through 2022.

Sorry, but can someone clarify who it is below?

So we'll have JT and DT. On a semi related note of the AGM, I think it would be a great move for the club to make JT a life member of the MFC. ...should nominate him for a knighthood to while we're at it.

Wounder if the AFL rights would permit us to run some kind of doco/MFC themed entertainment peice on Stan? At the very least, you'd expect the standard of our social media and member communications content to improve and be top notch. Given all the rubbish negative media coverage we've had over the past few years, you'd thing having someone with these kind of connections would also be huge in projecting a positive image and rebrand of the club and position us well in the Melbourne sporting marketplace, which could be critical for the club going forward. On face value this sounds like a great appointment to me.

And you're worried about that why? Barossa Valley seems like the perfect location for Dees fans and it's not like we've actually done any good at Adelaide oval during Gather Rd anyway. Us playing one of the Adelaide teams (or anyone other than playing each other) gather round sux as it effectively gifts them an address home game.

Max is our closest equivalent of Dan Gorringe and I think the time is right to give him some more air time in promoting the club again. His Gus and Gawn podcast was always great entertainment and ended for obvious reasons, but I think a remake is there for the taking. Should pair him up with Chin, Jake Lever or someone else in the team with a bot of personality and entertainment value.

Website and socials have been pretty average really since Gibbo left. Yeah, with you on this one - BRING BACK GIBBO, he was the GOAT! Seriously, I thought he was a bit of a weird cat, but actually respected that he did a decent job of bridging old worldly conservative nature of the MFC, while also playing to a younger audience in his own natural authentic way.

It exists. Feel free to contribute: