The Chief

Just waiting for Siegfried to get onto the coaching panel.

My daughter attended this morning, enjoyed the session, particularly pleased with getting some attention from Gus at the end. She mentioned Harmes looked a bit sore walking off at the end, did any other track watchers pick anything up with him?

It wasn’t just the poor goal kicking that kept Cats in the game, there were a number of easy marks dropped inside 50 (Petracca comes to mind) and poor decision making/poor kicks to leading players inside 50. Hopefully nerves played a part in this and they will be a bit more settled this week.

About to arrive at the Duke for a few calming pre-game Boags.

Had placed JKH in the ‘delist’ basket earlier this year, but think his last few games show he has a future at AFL level, though it still might not be at Melbourne. Thought he was a standout at training this morning. Showed a fair bit of speed, which was a bit surprising,, and very good disposal skills, when disposals from a lot of others was sloppy. During the tackling drill he nailed numerous physically bigger players and Viney looked slightly annoyed when JKH wrapped him up in a strong tackle that Viney tried but couldn’t break. Based on recent game and training form, he’d be pretty stiff to miss Friday’s game.

Brad Green was also there with his sons watching.

Tried using the email link via PC for about 2 hours and got nothing, but then got tickets by using the link from the MFC app on my phone

Looks like it’s sold out. No tickets coming up under ‘best available’

Umpiring is fine, win the contested ball we win, umpires irrelevant

To this point, after the game yesterday on the 2nd deck of the Southern Stand there were 2 Melbourne supporters involved in a push and shove and throwing verbal abuse at each other. They would have been in their 50’s. Not sure how it started but you’d think they would both be asking themselves later how did they get into that situation? How could they make such fools of themselves? What if things had gotten out of hand? There’s a few ‘moments of madness’ that I’ve been involved in that I’m not proud of, but luckily no lasting impact on anyone else. Passion, emotion, excitement, bravado and a whole bunch of other human foibles can result in situations that we regret and wish we could take back.

Understand the monetary rewards for the club in more night games, but as someone who prefers to attend games over watching tv, it’s going to reduce the value I get out of my membership. I guess I’m in the minority, but afternoons (preferably Saturday) is the best time to attend. Not only is the quality of footy better during the day due to lack of dew and reduced ball fumbling, pretty confident average scores for day games are well above night games. Day games also are much better for going out with family and friends afterwards to celebrate a win with drinks and dinner and still get home at a reasonable time. Money overrides everything and the attending spectator is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

Will Harmes be late out?

Bernie has been a great contributor during tough times, but he’s rapidly declining now. Lack of an obvious replacement at Casey is his best hope for continuing this season. What’s his contract situation next year?

Been in Darwin for the week, enjoying the monotonous great weather, blue skies and heat. Really confident we’ll win tonight and looking forward to seeing AFL footy top end style.

On that performance can’t see him being recalled. His only hope is that our inability to get crumbing goals, makes selectors take a punt that he’s ‘learnt his lesson’.

Had some contact with Pert when he was at Pies and I was working for a major sponsor. Fair to say he doesn’t lack confidence. Surprised at this appointment, but for the sake of MFC wish him all the best.

Think out of our options, Frost would match up best on Cox. Good jump & reach, and will run off him with ease.

Not just a champion footballer, but a great man. Congratulations Neita.

Sorry, just saw it’s only for the last month.

Are these stats for the season or just the last 5 weeks? How can our average points for be 133? Our season aggregate score is 1086/10 games = 108.6 avg and Richmond is a close second at 1010/10 = 101 avg. We’re travelling ok, but looks like some selective number crunching.

Might still be carrying a grudge from his jaw accidentally hitting Rod Grinter’s fist.

During Lever’s interview on SEN this morning, mentioned that Melksham is the standout boxer at the club, and quick to rip his shirt off to expose the rig.

Totally agree, who cares what they think and just enjoy the ride.

NRL heading for TV ratings win over AFL At the season's halfway mark, the NRL is eclipsing the AFL as the most-watched football code. http://www.theage.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/nrl-on-course-for-tv-ratings-victory-over-afl-20180527-p4zhsd.html?btis AFL no doubt paying the price for poor Friday night scheduling, but also constant media commentary on poor state of the game.

Love watching Carlton’s version of Groundhog Day, unable to find a way out of the endless wilderness. Hope it continues for evermore. Like others, I can’t forget their arrogance when they seemed to play finals throughout the 70’s and 80’s, mainly due to the money they could throw at SA and WA stars. Just the name John Elliot still grates. Their predicament makes you wonder if there is such a thing as karma.