Deemania since 56

Should have traded the Weed, kept Frosty, cleared the lower list. Time for a TMac ultimatum at FFwd.

Still agree with this summation ... I'd reckon he is more than handy if he makes progress on last year. Hard work and close work will bring this improvement.

Nietschke has been injured for a full year; however, he was displaying some real competitiveness, movement skills and presence at the ball prior to that injury - mainly in a training scenario - and came to the Dees with a positive reputation to match. If he has overcome the injury and is able to resume a full training agenda, the young man could be very handy indeed.

Problem is: We still have OMac. The MFC should have attempted to off-load him. I cannot see him being any value - just a permanent option (not a necessity) for Casey.

'...has the potential to become a fantastic AFL player. I see a lot of similarities to Bachar Houli...' Well posited. Just a bit more of the run, run, run into spaces where other teammates can predict a possible delivery. Perhaps, two. Has better disposal skills than Houli, at that.

Greater loss (Frosty) than Hogan had been. Some of us liked his football so much we regarded him as an excitement machine. What a terrible loss.

I sat back during a couple of moments in many games last season. I watched various opposition teams move the ball quickly against us, creating a somewhat lethal and often, direct line to goal. Things were predictable against the Dees, particularly when OMac was on the field. Several times, Gus was nowhere near the ball - occupying other duties with his direct opponent or providing additional coverage for things that he (and all other Dees supporters) could see and hoped would not happen in that passage of play. Amazingly, Gus dropped his one-to-one role and went after the ball, the clearance, the turning of the tables. He backed up the errors and inconsistencies of his teammates, repelling, driving and clearing - single handedly. That is good enough for me. He is a real footballer.

Kinda agree, Rusty. Now that the two wing-type recruits have been nabbed, it will free up Harmes quite a bit for this to occur at 100mph. Harmes is often potent; Harmes is very likely to become more potent with constraining positional roles (and ever-changing at that) being removed. He can at times be very ordinary - but I do suspect that he will be a 'freer' player with the wings better covered up and down the ground. He is, after all, a very good leader to the ball, and can find space to exploit.

Got a feeling that Harmes is going to be in for a thriller year - a game-changer, and loose cannon, friggin' good footballer and his class will rise.

I'd allocate OMac an immediate F or worse...

For starters, I'd see him as a half-fwd flanker with an eye for some midfield duties in the clearances receivings....

Possibly, Papley may be capable of: (1) form and consistency improvements, and (2) changing the effectiveness of our goal-scoring and forward line in general. However, what is there to say about the young 'uns that we attracted last year - a swathe of smalls each attracting comments to indicate goal-scoring aptitudes - and of these new players, surely we must have some confidence in their improvements for 2020 and beyond, and start working (developing) them into training regimens for such an outcome prior to the season beginning. A great forward is for pick 3, not for a small.

Just returned from Russia and China ... what good news to come home to ... he'd be a real asset the the Dees some of the '...just what is needed...' outside and forward line assets. Can see him teaming up well by foot, too; might herald the end of the era for long bombs.

Run to space, be it frontal, sideways or backward. Anticipate to create. Drop the Jones/Viney/Clarry 'bomb' syndrome.

Seems as though most of the jury is justifiably content with such an assessment. Cam was the man, when he was required as most other pillars failed.

There's no place like home for Fritta. Bayley Fritsch reflects on his own season + getting back to playing as a forward. There are a 'few' other points that the DL brains trust have been attempting to get through to Goodwin and the MFC Board for some time; Fritta - playing as a forward - is just one of hundreds of these insights.

Almost a non-event in this household - been that way for quite a few weeks, now - off o/seas in minutes. If we do not get rid of Goodwin, OMac (x 2) and Viney, the levels of current interest will not change, just like the pre-determined rejection of an MFC Membership for next year. Depressing, disloyal, selfish and morally gnarled as it might be, I feel justified after supporting this Club since 1956 (my earliest memory of 'supporter-status') to only one premiership back in '64; but, it is more than a mere premiership, isn't it?

If the head aches, the body suffers...

Not Schoenmakers, too old, not that great, loses his bearing for half a game quite regularly.

He does move beautifully and kicks with a natural style rather well.

Oscar Mc ain't up to it - and so Tom Mc ain't interested if his brother doesn't get a game? He has stated that in the past.

A merger is on the cards? Footscray, North, Hawthorn, whoever?

Brisbane for me, too. Just a dream but their form is almost complete. Will miss the finals - because the Dees are not there this year after such early-season anticipation ... still, I will be boarding the Trans-Siberian railway in Moscow for Vladivostok, then China by air within seven days ... so it will be a good distraction from the season horribilis. Enjoy the finals, folks and dream.

Getting it correct, not extending or further enhancing a millstone around the MFC neck, attracting patrons and patronage, and creating a recognised mecca for the public that is not so dependent on gambling opportunities is a very big expectation. Has the time for Club-related venues run its course? Is such a venue really necessary?

It is busy and crazy, and confusingly unreliable. Send out The Ox and Davey - go north, south, east and west. Pick us another Ox, another Davey and while you're at it, another Neitz. There must be a Tulip hiding in the local leagues, as well. Find him.