Deemania since 56

(PLEASE): Could someone do an analysis on 65. L. Wale-Buxton after the game. I have heard good things about this fella up North. Gets into it and often unstoppable. Multi-pronged skills outside rucking, as well. Fit and fast. Etc. Cannot get to the game (interstate) and seldom pick up a broadcast in Sth Aust.

Hmmmmm....

Not sure that whinging is the matter at hand. Each of us would be the first to openly celebrate and express our delight with the MFC if we did not have to review, analyse/reflect upon another dismal series of performances in multiple areas of the game of football that we only recently considered 'repaired'. In any case, a fully harmonious organisation on a ride on the merry-go-round is not necessarily a healthy one; reflection and the expression of such interpreted observations is akin to the more universal application of desirable standards - new or old - in that search for utopian progress. We are in another cycle, agreed but at the point where more observations than normal are necessarily communicated.

Best wishes, Dunny. You did some great things, very often, for the MFC and tried your heart out to improve the team in those days.

Sunk. For many reasons.

Interesting summation. End to end, it feels like we won't be terribly pretty. Concurrently, it is a worry that we are all considering the likelihood of turnovers and missed targets at this stage of an 'already'-started season; it begs the question: what have we been doing at training in the larger picture?

I am just interested in how much support these players are expected to provide for OMac, distracting from their core roles and functions, their direct opponents and the Whoreform game plan. If it is again 'full-on', then it will again fail whereby clearances will be strained and intercepted. Good luck, backline. Sounds like recruit footballers being exploited as face-savers.

How bizarre can a training session be, reaching dangerously - whether 'supervised' or not - into the training regimens of footballers for the elusive 'fixes' administered by cranks? It is as bad as drug performance enhancement and for the uninitiated, irresponsible. Whatever was wrong with the aerobic and anaerobic methods tried and tested for the past forty years to raise O2 capacity and lactic acid tolerances? 'Oh,' said the FD, 'let's do something different with this pariah of methodology as it sounds groundbreaking. We are only playing with their wellbeing.'

Jurrah was excellent in a short career, he came and went like lightning - he was so fast! He could run a bit as well - all day. I also think he might have been taller than suspected, over 190 cms but it was well-hidden with his 50kg frame. Overall, yep, monoccular, another forward star outside the physical profiles preferred so often, today. To ram home a point: whaddabout the Wizard, Leigh Matthews, etc., etc.

Keep eyes on Buxton, too. Ready to go ...

Yep. Another good 'un.

He does have an incredible vertical jump - and good hands at this stage of his career. These two qualities can only get better, more refined and more appropriately utilised, no doubt, as experience and good development take shape. It is wise to remember that some of the very good - to - sublime markers and aerialists were not talls, did not run miles onfield, and had limited speed. They didn't even have Dec's physical involvement skills, either, yet proved to be dynamic forwards because of good coaching. Two that come to mind: Tony Modra, 188 cm, 93 kg Warwick Capper, even shorter and much lighter

O'Meara's change in line was due to his awareness of Wagner's closing proximity and speed, and the potential to not get the kick for a goal. Good forward work, good defensive work.

That is a good example of this young fella's abilities. Clearly made up heaps of ground and finished just half a pace from wrecking O'Meara's goal.

Regretfully, the leadership is missing and the waning confidence is really the only thing we are likely to see, this year. Its consequences are already on the ladder and are there, to stay. We need to send out - right around the country - emissaries who work in tandem (for confirmatory purposes on a recruit) to identify and nab talent wherever it may lie. The profiles of a great recruiting drive are widespread but we can all imagine just what such personnel will possess - and what limitations they will exhibit. This needs to be matched with a more sustained and in-depth player development process including onfield exposure in our re-building processes and timeframe.

It is difficult to be at a footy match at the moment, with OMac selected. Not sure if we can take another dependency ride on his incomparable idleness at a snail's pace.

Right with you, SK. Was there wiff me Dad. Had a kick inside the fence. Spoke to Norm the Smith, and he smiled. Ate a Four'nTwenty and had a cup of orange cordial. Screamed at the MFC players "Carna Demons!!!" so hard that it took me a week to get my voice back and the kids at Skool called me 'Froggy'. Totally dizzy with the win riding back home in our car - all the way to Glen Iris. It was better than being at the 'G in '56 to watch the Olympic track and field. I concentrated on the drop kick at every opportunity since that day. Thanks for the memories.

At the same time, it must be speculated that the selected team/positions will not be the starting line-up, or will be the same at the end of the first quarter when the MFC is 10 goals behind. Absolute madness but perhaps a blind (certainly not threatening) for the Whoreform hierarchy.

Ken Oath! Honest Man.

Should I have a word to my mate Bruce the Basher and see what he can find out?

The policy of 'playing the kids' actually seems to have been in denial for some time and hence, few are ready. Placing their footballing education and development in abeyance 'for a while'' has actually worsened our current, injury-riddled circumstances and leaves a gaping hole in our readiness for week-to-week competition. Instead of earning occasional kicks and intercepts, these players should be earning their share in a contributory team performance.

You are correct but this process is surely a key part of younger player readiness and hence, a key part of the rebuild. Match-ready players by the bucket load.

Agree. Depth is a myth.

We need experience in our young players; time for them to come into the side in larger numbers - this is a rebuild.

Sobering, sadly. Suspected, too right. Actual wins, anywhere, pathetic.