Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Ab out ffing time

Ducking or incidental high contact - some common sense please.

I thought that was just a little rich from Dermie

23 free kicks to 11

Getting seriously shafted by the umps

Goal to the mullet

Best mullet in the team

I'm not quite so optermistic, but I think we could have a meaningless 100 point win tonight.

Yeah ... nah. That would be gutless, dishonest and frankly really bad leadership. Say what you will about Goodies coaching prowess, but I really don't think that kind of behavior is in his DNA.

It's gone a full 180 with Trac. While he is proving that he can play predominantly as a mid and providing pleanty of drive from that part of the ground, it has somewhat deprived our forward line of a strong marking option and a player that can bullock his way through traffic and kick a good snap goal. It would be good if our mids were given the licence to change up what role they were playing in-game so that the Trac weapon could be used where it is most needed. Similarly, if the opposition's midfeild gets on top like it has in the past few weeks, Harmes should be thrown into the midfeild mix and perhaps let Trac play forward.

As a bit of a segway, I think I'd be happy enough to trade Brayshaw to Freo to play with his bro, if we got a fit and switched on Jesse Hogan back in return (there was rumor of Jesse wanting back to Melbourne/Vic earlier in the year). I honestly haven't followed Jesse much in recient times, so don't know if this is really a realistic assessment or not, but our forward line did function so much better with him, that it could be a trade that made sense to both parties. Perhaps even if Hogan is a little NQR physically, we can get Darren Burgess to work some magic on him.

Sorry, but this seems such a contradictory statement. Doesn't the fact that we didn't pick up said 5th rated player at 9 mean that we actually rate him that much in the end? I've been moderately impressed with Pickets kicking skills, my main criticism would be that he doesn't get enough of them, but it's still pretty early days.

The other thinking I've heard on Jackson is that he is so mobile he could almost be played as a ruck rover, which having watched him play, I'd say is pretty on the money. And what's to say that we couldn't play both Max and Jacko, a bit like Cox and Nic Nat?

Max is 28. It typically can take at least 3 or 4 years for a ruckman to mature. I think the timing is about right.

I think the ultimate aim is to get an elite ruckman.

Probably too late to cast votes for Thursday's game and not really a game that casting votes for anyone much was palatable, but I would have had Steven May right up there, along with Max and probably Lockhart in there somewhere. The other I'd probably consider putting in the votes somewhere is Melksham, I think he has been starting to exert good influence in games over the past two weeks. After somewhat shaky starts, where some questioned their worth I think both Lockhart and Steve May have been showing their quality and value to the team over the past couple of weeks in particular.

SWYL, sorry, but read the tread - it's all about Qld MFC members just wanting at ticket to see our side live more than once or twice a year that we normally do - obviously we are not in Melbourne. I really do feel for you and all my freinds and family back in the motherland in Melbourne, having to suspend key social/economic aspects of your lives again can't be much fun. But your endless OTT comments about COVID-19 are starting to wear very thin. I'm not offended, I just think your position lacks logic and common sense. I'm not a science/COVID denier by a long shot, quite the contrary. But to infer that people in Brisbane should all stay at home and not attend the footy, because Melbourne is having an outbreak and one person I SA tested positive is similar to saying the whole world should have shut down and gone into lockdown when parts of Africa had an Ebola outbreak a few years back - it's all about testing and risk management. I was actually sick a few weeks ago, had a test and it was a virus - the Rhino virus, not the Rona. Lots of people with symptoms up here are being tested and testing negative, so I'm not super concerned at the moment. Maybe in a few weeks that will all change, but until then, it is what it is. To me getting 500 people in a crowd creates a far better atmosphere than none and if that 500 can be 1500 to accommodate all the MFC Qld members that would like to get a ticket isn't really that much to ask in the scheme of things. Anyways take care buddy and GO THE MIGHTY DEMONS!!

Apparently 7000 people were allowed to attend the rugby at Suncorp on Friday just gone.

https://www.afl.com.au/news/453826/queensland-crowds-are-go-2000-in-for-gabba-metricon Article states that of the 2000 seats made available, 1850 were provided to Lions members and sponsors etc. 50 were provided to Eagles members and 100 to the general public. So why the bloody hell should the MFC have to go 50/50 in only 500 available seats for our home game against Port - it's rank.

Yes, you are in the minority. I really don't get the 'zero' crowds at AFL games thing at all. Yes, there may be 3000 people there, so theoretically I might have a higher chance than staying at home with my other 4 family members. However I was probably only exposed to 4 - 6 individuals over the whole time I was there. The crowd was sparce, I washed my hands well. Probably the biggest possible exposure I could have had was if one of the food and beverage people were spreading it, but food vendors are still allowed to operate everywhere else. I bet you would come into contact with a heap more different people on your supermarket trip than me watching the footy on Sunday night. I'd be far more concerned about going out in Fortitude Valley where they allow big crowds of inebriated people mingling willy nilly with little regard for social distance, hygiene etc. I get why it probably wouldn't be such a good idea to have a capacity crowd, but 3000 people in a stadium that holds closer to 30,000 isn't the drama you are making it out to be. And there are stuff all known cases in Qld. If there were Melbourne like problems I could see where you are comming from. I respect that we need to take sensible measures because of COVID 19, but there is sensible and there is illogical.

I've see Annastacia getting on the news quite a lot lately spruiking how the AFL grand final could be held in Queensland. Well if she bloody well wants it, then time to start looking after the actual supporters of the game and not just be in it for the TV exposure for Qld and the brags. ...oh, and BTW, there is an election comming up in Queensland Annastacia, in case you didn't realise!

This also begs a few other questions to me: 1. How many SEQ based MFC members are there and; 2. Why only 1 free allocated ticket per member? As part of my Interstate membership, I previous recall getting two or three free members tickets to MFC home games in Melbourne. Since there are no games in Melbourne and not likely to be, why can't the AFL extend this to those able to attend or otherwise Melbourne home games in Qld? This is rank arrogance by the AFL asides from TV rights, footy club memberships are one of the things that keeps footy clubs and the AFL afloat. It would be far more ecconomical for me to purchase one or two individual game tickets than spend my $100+ dollars per year for interstate membership. The AFL is shiiting on the people that keep it great. Furthermore, real crowds make for so much better atmosphere for TV broadcasts than fake sound technicians canned applause. Come on AFL, Gabba and QLD gov - get with the program.

I actually have a feeling this is a Gabba thing. Work colleague of mine is a WA Eagles member working in Brisbane for a year. Couldn't get tickets to an Eagles game at the Gabba (the Eagles balloted for their Qld members, but wouldn't let interstate members in on that either), but he no problems getting tickets to Carrara/Metricon. Like you I attended Metricon on Sunday and there were way over 500 people there. I like the Gabba, but Metricon was actually far easier to get in and out of for me driving - can the MFC please request that the rest of our 'home' games be played at Carrara so that more MFC members can attend? P.S. I'd also like to be going on Thursday night, but my wife is working, so daddy duties beckon, but I'd be ropeable if I was able to attend and couldn't go.

We should somehow get someone on the Captains Run pod cast with Max Gawn. Maxy is the peoples captain and I'd feel confident he would go into bat for us.

An absolute joke alright. Went to our 'home' game on Sunday night and was told they were expecting to get a bit over 3000 people. I don't know the final numbers, but I suspect the 3000 was about right. Of those 3000, it felt like probably 2800 of them were Lions supporters - so much for it being our home game. If the AFL are saying they are only prepared to release a total of 500 tickets to other games featuring all interstate teams: a) That's totally rank and yet another example of the AFL doing over the top favours for interstate expansion teams; b) 490 of the 500 tickets should be released to the home team first to at least give them some chance of something vaguely representing a home game. Port have plenty of home games in Adelaide. The MFC is getting totally bent over here.