Deemania since 56

Other than the current state of absolute wastage at the MFC, there is nothing worse than a once-hot chip indented with shoe-sole engravings. By the way, these marks on the chips are not griddle lines.

One would think so .... McQueen.

I am not going to buy a membership (renewal) next year in protest of how our Club has neglected and wasted the footballing careers of so many of our players since 1964. This year has been the greatest dread of all - close scrutiny leads me to believe that the Board and the FD are not really serious about success, just themselves and their little empires. The current plans backfired at the end of last season, re-confirmed this season in a glaringly obvious way and provide no indication that continuous growth has been or will be pursued. One summer layoff is not long enough to re-build, re-stock, re-train professional footballers whose practice and development regimens are akin to 'kick-to-kick' runs and giggles.

I'd like to think so, but the team is stuffed in the head with misunderstandings about a game plan, about contested footy, about finding spaces forward of centre, about the positive uses across a game of the wings, about just nearly everything that Goodwin has done; and, as a team, it is exhausted.

Nice idea - if others cannot come to the party. Proven in many ways at the MFC. I'd also link in Jordan Lewis - too talented and knowledgeable to overlook; but if Yze decides to return, all three would be a good mix.

We will be creamed by the Swans tonight, I think. Any team with OMac in it is a disaster - even on the bench or the emergency list.

Because the pies and the beers are good for you.

There is a lot to like about what you have said, Doc.

It had better be a fiery affair - there is some cleaning up to do and the new broom will be needed to get 2020 off to a good start.

Oh, Gawd, no! Possible but not warranted.

Bullocky good pace, eye for a goal, talent to snap early at goal, confident and accurate kick over acceptable distances. Tough tackler. Small, but hopefully resilient. Well done young man to get a game due to ball movement.

Frosty is rapidly becoming our favourite player - for good reasons. Onyer, Frosty.

Elegantly - and appropriately - posited, beelzebub.

Absolutely calling the shots in areas of no concern to his position with the AFL. Not even down the line should a transfer emanate. Must resign or be removed for examples of his leadership flaws across the tenure.

Yes, I'd think. He is more aware now of what he can and cannot do. Also, his awareness of what needs to be done is improved. Good points....

The heart flutters at times, with Frosty, sure. The heart races in sheer admiration of what he actually achieves. We have a really good one in this young man. This year, he has been our KPD improving heaps.

He (Salem) is a midfielder by the traits he displays yet lacks a little physical strength when tackling bigger bodies. He needs to exploit some run away from the congestion, first, and then appear on a lead to space to receive and continue the forward delivery (which he is very capable of doing - particularly with our two space-finders on the space chase in Fritta and Melksham). Swinging Brayshaw and Tracca to half-forward could be advantageous, provided we use their movements to the same roaming effect that the Filth uses with Sidebottom, for example. He moves well from the flanking edge of the centre square to half forward on a deliberate lead - and back again depending on the flow - and seldom is he tagged across these distances. It also provides him with some variable 'square' proximity to the goalmouth on forward 50 entries - again, largely unmanned. The MFC younger fellas found this out last game, and found it too hard to stick with him, as well. It appears to be a very reliable and consistent goal producing routine, actually.

Oh, Dear! We need a brain, first. A fully focussed hard nut with common sense.

These are some of the thoughts that matter for a team in a massive rebuild, such as the MFC.

Goodwin cannot merge a team. His coaching and strategies demand that one individual carry the load when the chips are down or form is once again waning. Fritsch just happened to be the one that day who was able to get the ball and it is bad luck that his kicking boots were muddy when taking shots. There were no forwards leading to space - it is not demanded of them - so Fritta took the initiative and was effective. There has not been adequate kicking practice under Goodwin where set shots and snaps at goal are required; your grandmother would have better accuracy than a Goodwin-coached team. I'd reckon Fritta will do something about his kicking in the search for improved accuracy and reliability - he was once very accurate! Moving to the seniors, he has gained in some regards and lost a few others under Goodwin.

Additionally, Moonshadow, ' ... one more time I'm going to spew up...' is another dumb, nothing phrase that emanates from the intolerant when those of interest confirm generalisations of opinion.

Actually, I am not sure what Goodwin wants. He has led a talented bunch up the garden path for too long now ... leaving most of them under-developed and uncertain of a footy career. He has no breadth to his thinking and his ability to impart that thinking and alternatives for effectiveness seem sadly lacking.

Ridley and Bluey had a good deal in common - both on the field and off the field. Great pair - boy, we could do with some of that quality smaller stuff right now!

Quite a player, great thinker, great man. Vale

A very valid point and it has always been observable - yet on occasion, he drove some great rallies and made some keen decisions. It was consistency and the gathering of statistics for his efforts that cruelled his game; thus, mid-career he began breeding an urgency to 'bomb it long' and let the recipient wear the consequences. Viney was also quick to adopt this habit, at the expense of his 'once'-short passing excellence and rapid ball movement. Too concerned with being a hit man/hard man at the expense of efficient team play was our dual captain.