YesitwasaWin4theAges

Gawn is our El Capitano and our Best Player, Followed by Clarry, Petracca, May, Lever in no particular order. He's a two time best and fairest, All Australian and needs to be paid accordingly. My guess is he's thinking about doing a Dusty and let his football do the talking in a Contract year. With all that has happened in the footballing landscape with footy cap restrictions, a 2-3 year deal would suffice. I would have him at around 800-850k a season, length of contract completely up to the powers that be. Other clubs like Carlton and Essendon can offer him a mammoth contract that we can't compete with, it's about offering a contract that values his worth to the club, this is key to be in line or slightly above May, Lever Big Ben, Tmac etc. Im hoping the club have a strategy to have similar Contracts for Trac and Clarry on parity with Gawn, they are the pillars of the club. If the club low ball him or we fall into a hole on-field he will take top dollar being offered. Both Carlton and Peptides would have been trickling in his ear since last year about a massive deal and other deals thrown into the mix.

Great top that is Alex, unfortunately i can't help mate. While this thread is open on this topic of merchandise, i was after an adidas jacket worn in the 1988 season. If anyone knows of this jacket and anyone willing to sell that would be greatly appreciated a Large would suffice.

Its in the genes to play in the forward line, amazing what a new environment can do.

Would love to see Clarry pushed into the Forward line for resting spurts if his shoulders are up to it.

Good observation Daz.

Going from the pictures, Big Ben trained in sneakers, might not be ready to train in boots. Doesn’t look like he joined in the main session. Could be wrong just my observation.

Plus the two players coming off half back through the guts also benefited us. Since 6-6-6 we haven't been the same.

That Zanker's a superstar, not a bad sort too. How bout we put them in for R1. Spirit, Desire and determination in abundance tonight, super performance.

Unfortunately this is going to be the case going forward, comments like McClure's will only intensify after a couple of dodgy performances. I hope this doesn't happen for the sake of the club i love, but the wolves will be waiting at the door for Goodwin and Co. The only club in the competition without a purpose built complex/Facility that houses our whole club administration and all that jazz. No Casey /Gosch's Paddock aren't purpose built facilities for our club. This is a contributing factor not the only factor in our weak culture spiritually, team harmony, whole club togetherness. This is not a cop out for what the players are producing from a footy perspective far from it, but is the group excited about training down at Casey? or walking 300 meters across Gosch's paddock to go to and from our changing rooms to go to training. So what are players like Clarry and Trac thinking when its contract time?stay at the MFC because of our great culture its a club which has great facilities where we walk 300m to train or travel an hour to train at Casey. These will be real life factors for these two and our other young guns going forward. Theses are the little things our club unfortunately has to contend with placing us futher behind the 8 ball. When will this ever change? could still be years away. Culture is all encompassing, its not just on the ground and with in the playing group, its your whole entire club. Yes the MCG is our home ground and was our "home" a long time ago but we've been soulless for long enough. Welcome to the ugly side of our club culture.

Petty has got to play Forward, we need another target form permitting.

We Sure did. Not sure how long the Tomlinson project down back is going to last for, $500k a year as a third tall looks laboursome and very slow to react, very problematic going forward. Gawn, Lever and May are the only players in our line up who can take consistent pack marks. Jackson and Tmac have to start clunking some around the logos and in F50 to release some of the pressure on Gawny.

Fritsch kicked well today i thought, what game were you watching, our most dangerous forward.

No memberships being sold today.

Freo absolute specials for R1.

Vandenberg, Baker, Tomilnson, Jetta, Jordan, Sparrow, Hunt, Bedford not up to it.

We can not and will not defend against teams who short kick to maintain possesion. Making Tim English look like a leviathan of the game, FMD. Our disposal has not improved one iota. Our Forward line and entry into the F50 is just pathetic. Playing for draft picks again.

This is really a pissy poor effort today. Really depressing stuff. Sad thing is this is only pre season.

Understand we have some personel issues today, but there are some serious alarm bells ringing. Our distribution out of the back half is terrible. We look so slow with our movement. Clearance work no existent. Yze would be fine tuning his Ideas for mid season i reckon.

Are we playing them twice?

That's a good thing.

[censored] off Gerard.

Geez, why can't this club gain any sort of momentum, something always f's us in the brown round hole.

My heart goes out to the kid.

I might of missed the commentary and comments around our fwd mix. How did it look and perform? 3 smalls, 2 talls and Fritta the hybrid? Did the mix change much during the game? When were we at our most dangerous what did our forward line consist of? Feedback greatly appreciated.

Only got to see 10 mins in the 3rd with a petracca snap the highlight, promising signs but let's just keep in mind it was a practice game. Sounds like a solid hit out but in most of these games there tends to be less defensive pressure applied than a season AFL game.