Mel Bourne

I too wouldn’t mind seeing that, but not so keen on swapping for TMac. I just don’t think he’s got the necessary foot-speed to keep up with young gun forwards all day.

I think that missed goal against the Crows in Darwin last year really rattled him. The media made a stupidly big deal of it - cameras capturing his emotional state in the rooms, opinion pieces by journalists saying the club showed him too much empathy. It was a bit much considering his was just one mistake of plenty at the hands of his teammates through the night. But I can’t recall a game since where his performance well and truly left that night in the dust. Possibly nothing in that observation. But it’s also possible that it’s another example of our inadequacies when it comes to managing the psychological aspects of the game.

Yes, he has the *potential* to be a star. Why would you suggest otherwise? For somebody who made their debut last year (and came through the ranks quickly), he showed a lot of class and composure in some big moments. I’m excited to see what he can offer the club with his first full pre-season behind him.

Agreed, they aren’t. But he’s not going to become that star by watching from the sidelines.

Lockhart is far from a fringe player. He has the potential to be a star player. Jones is taking up his spot in the team these days.

Some fairly intense Demonlanding going on here.

With all due respect, the claim that players are coming to play for Melbourne because of Goodwin needs to be substantiated. I have never heard that reason mentioned by any player in public before, and I’m struggling to think of why any player would actively seek to be coached by somebody without any major (coaching) achievements to their name, and who’s team is not exactly setting the league on fire. I’m not saying that he’s necessarily repelling players, but attracting them? Nah.

Yes, I watched that genuinely hoping that I’d see a side of SG that was at odds with the public persona. It wasn’t really there, was it.

It would have to weighed up between the cost of paying out Goodwin vs the cost of a mass exodus of members. If we have two non appearances in finals 20/21 I honestly don't know if I'd bother anymore. Tough thing to admit to after close to fifty years of being a supporter. In the final few minutes of last night's game I had a brutal reckoning.... I really do love the club, but we have consistently been the worst Australian Rules team I've witnessed in my time on earth, and that [censored] gets genuinely tiresome.

What is this “progress” you speak of?

Yze. Has been studying under Clarkson for eight years now. It's time to bring him home.

Simon Goodwin out. Adem Yze in. Make it happen, dark overlords of thine miserable pit.

Look he’s rubbish but at least he’s expensive.

We should replace all of our players with those guys from the first quarter.

If you regard chickening out of a question with childish, cliched insults “winning”, then yeah I guess I “lost”. Anyway, you’re about to become the first person I’ve ever put on ignore here, and ignorance will indeed be bliss.

Dude. Enough. You’re embarrassing yourself.

Always best to avoid the twittery #MAGA jargon, if possible.

The poster is literally saying “defund the ABC” and you’re telling me that nobody here is saying they don’t do anything well.

You’re suggesting Sky News is an impartial news source. The same Sky News Which employs Andrew Bolt and Chris Kenny to voice their “impartial” views to the country on a regular basis. That Sky News? FMD.

So the 4 Corners story which instigated the Royal Commission into aged care wasn’t enough to convince you the ABC is a worthwhile entity?

Let me guess....property developer?

Most DJs turn to water if presented with more than two stereo channels or a gig that that they haven't pre-loaded onto a USB stick, but it really shouldn't be that hard for a professional audio engineer to mix better than last night's game. I dunno, maybe booing/objection sounds have been banned due to creating negativity/hostility towards the umpires or something. Pretty silly though, as that is a huge part of the game's atmosphere whether the AFL like it or not. The missing crowd-outrage from some of those free kicks (and unpaid ones like Lynch's mark in the last quarter) were extremely weird and gave the game a very surreal feel, and made it almost seem emptier than a game with no crowd noise. I think they should hand out 100,000 remote control devices to the public with "hooray", "boo", "ball" and "are you f*&^ing kidding me?" buttons.

That game was haunted.

“You need a tracker to track him” - Wayne Carey

People say the world started turning to [censored] when Bowie died, but I think it was Dennis Cometti’s retirement that got those wheels turning.