Gawn's Beard

Yes, or a proper reserves / second tier with deeper squads, or if not a practice squad concept with an inactive list (like NFL). Think of WCE last year for example. Not a fun environment to train in when you’re struggling to get 24 together

With AMW potentially having a season ending knee injury + our experience with Gus last year, this has to shine a light on the current SSP framework. Why is there a need for a cut-off at all until say shortly mid-season bye / round 12? It’s there to replace LTI to ensure equality in the playing lists. It’s not as is a club is choosing from next year’s draft pool but from those in second tier leagues…

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/1695021/jason-taylor-round-1-afl-draft-recap?videoId=1695021&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1732106250001

While I tend to agree, this continually highlights how poor we are at media management. We are the medias favorite punching bag and whether the club are right or wrong on their treatment of Clarry, they can’t win in the eyes of the media. Media management shouldn’t be this hard. You have a strong lead who develops strong relationships with those who are relevant, offer up some exclusives to keep them happy and friendly & make them feel like the most important people in the industry. Then when stuff like this happens, they’ll call you first as they prioritize the relations, or you call them and ask them to shut it down. We’ve seemingly gone down the path of shutting up shop and allowing them to fill the space, which they’ll do 100 times over. Whatever we’re doing, it’s not working…

I’m wondering whether he was even meant to be there? Was he on the MFC table? Lots of photos from the club of Gawn, Viney, Lever & May but none of Clayton. Anyone there able to shed any light on whether Oliver was on the MFC table?

The timing of this stinks. Why is it only now that the AFLPA are getting involved? I don’t want to throw up conspiracy theories, however Caro’s almost throwaway line at the end re “story Christian telling the AFLPA isn’t pretty” makes you wonder…

I think that’s unfair on fans. The club (well at least amongst fans) was largely harmonious until all of this mess unfolded. If (and it is a big if) this talk about Brand Petracca, bigger crowds etc has any truth to it, then it’s a big slap to the face of the fans in particular. His statement didn’t exactly endear himself to fans either, who are understandably bruised over all of this. I’m sure time will heal all wounds etc

Maybe it was the senior players. They could have been trying to salvage the clubs season, talk through how they approach playing group, etc and were getting donuts from Trac, only to then see him post a bunch of social media vids. Would confuse me too

Absolutely I am taking the same view. The fabric of game is being pulled apart. I get why the AFL is going this direction but it’s completely changing the game, and not for the better

Don’t think it’s fair to paint Kozzy with this brush this time around. Was doing what every player should be doing in those circumstances- engage your opponent, get them off balance and win the ball. Only difference here is that Moore disappears through the floor after Kozzy had moved to engage Moore. Once he’d committed to engaging Moore with his momentum, he can’t shift it.

Gary Pert said as much on SEN on Saturday. This will have served as a massive distraction to the Board & CEO over the last 12+ months, not to mention the other ongoing litigation swirling around.

Pert here is on a hiding to nothing. He knows that every person is trawling for headlines so he has to walk a narrow path

I wouldn’t go that far. What do you expect the CEO to say?

Putting a fair amount on the shoulders of the leadership group, who will be “driving the rebuild of the program, led by Gawn & Viney”

“Conversations between [Pert] & Petracca is not about him breaking his contract or being traded”