Rodney (Balls) Grinter

Bring it on!!

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.

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.

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.