KLV

Fwiw, BT agrees

Who was subbed off?

Insufficient intent decisions are pure pantomime. The crowd decides.

This is a copy and paste Everyone knows a tradie who thinks they know everything about footy. There just aren’t many like Jason Taylor, the former air conditioner technician turned master recruiter who is one of the main reasons for Melbourne’s success under Simon Goodwin, particularly the drought-busting 2021 flag. Taylor joined the Demons from Collingwood after the 2012 draft and helped transform a once-underperforming club with a mix of brilliant first-round selections – including Christian Petracca and Clayton Oliver – and shrewd later choices such as Alex Neal-Bullen, Bayley Fritsch, Harry Petty, Trent Rivers and Kade Chandler. He and list boss Tim Lamb have become arguably the league’s leading list management duo, with the aid of a series of underlings. Lamb’s aggressive trading style has delivered repeated wins for Melbourne, from Steven May to Jake Lever, plus the deal with North Melbourne that allowed them to choose Kysaiah Pickett. Taylor’s imprint was on the Demons’ statement victory over Geelong at the MCG on Saturday night, with top-10 pick Caleb Windsor and rookie-drafted defender Judd McVee among the standouts. Another senior newcomer, Blake Howes (No.39 pick in 2021), also continues to make an impression down back. Top 10 pick Caleb Windsor celebrates a goal.CREDIT: GETTY IMAGES Melbourne selected Windsor with the second of their first-round picks across two years – untried tall forward Matt Jefferson was the other in 2022 – from the Luke Jackson trade with Fremantle. Jackson was another outstanding Taylor selection at No.3 in the 2019 draft, the same one in which he brought in Pickett (12) and Rivers (32). Windsor lined up on Jeremy Cameron on a wing to start the match and read an ensuing stoppage quicker than the Cats superstar before setting up Fritsch for the game-opening goal. It was one of his nine score involvements for the night, to go with a career-most 18 disposals, eight intercept possessions and six tackles. The sweet-kicking, fleet-footed Windsor and ex-Saints recruit Jack Billings have so far kept Lachie Hunter out of the senior side, and the evidence is resounding that it won’t be the No.7 pick making way. McVee, an ultra-composed defender, might be the best young player no one knows. Thirteen of his 21 disposals were kicks against Geelong, and he went at 92 per cent efficiency. There’s a reason they trust him with kick-ins. Judd McVee is efficient by foot.CREDIT: AFL PHOTOS Taylor’s consistently excellent hit-rate is what separates him from his peers, but there is one big miss that blots his copybook. He called out Sam Weideman’s name at No.9 in 2015, one pick before Harry McKay and three ahead of Charlie Curnow. Weideman is now at Essendon but stuck in the VFL, whereas Carlton’s McKay and Curnow have three Coleman Medals between them and will occupy much of Goodwin’s planning ahead of Thursday night’s blockbuster. Meanwhile, the Dees are still trialling their ideal key forward set-up, with Petty, Jacob van Rooyen and mid-season rookie Daniel Turner performing well as the aerial targets on Saturday night. Taylor is backing van Rooyen – who has drawn David Schwarz comparisons– and Jefferson to be Melbourne’s long-term future in attack, hoping they avoid fellow first-rounder Weideman’s fate.

Would have expected nothing less from Scott

Hi guys, looking forward to another great podcast. The stat that we had 5 players with 10 games or less, and McVee with not too many more, is just so heartening. The fact that these guys, Windsor excepted are “no names” as far as the afl industry is concerned, gives real confidence that our beloved dees have finally matured into a modern great club. Your thoughts?

And these guys, Windsor excepted are off the radar to the rest of the afl, meaning they are not high draft picks, not making headlines, but developing into important players for the dees. Fantastic!

wow, he’s a surly bast*rd, isn’t he? you’d reckon he could crack a smile since he’s so convinced they were just a bit off tonight but still nearly won it.

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He articulates the bewilderment most of us feel about decisions the AFL make. Hamish is calling out the emperor with no clothes. Nothing will change and more of us will become jaded and cynical and finally disengaged

True, but it’s hard to see any improvement. Clarkson is a mere mortal, it seems

Hi LH, this kid is beyond hilarious, just soooo cute. Who is he? And what’s the story? Do you know? thanks ❤️💙❤️

I’m not scared of the cats, we’ll pop their winning balloon and win by several goals ❤️💙❤️

One tip right this round. Sydney

To top off the weekend, just need Geelong to win 🤮

Coming here to metaphorically vomit. Saw the score Collingwood v Port, with port comfortably ahead, only to see later the unfortunate result. Now I tune in to Carlton v gws, last time I looked gws comfortably ahead, and now same flipping thing happening. with Essendon winning last night, making this a putrid weekend of football.

Hey guys, thanks for the pod, listen every week, maybe not quite to the end every time 😉 just read that Brisbane had a specific plan to pierce through our defence, by forcing us to defend the short lead-ups, and therefore opening up their forward 50. this sounds too simplistic to explain our woeful performance. What do you think, should we be worried?

Dees - out of sorts

But… best of luck to you Kolt!

Could there be a more unflattering photo?

Sums it up perfectly only thing I’ll add, the Maynard incident last year and what followed will never be forgotten wrt Collingwood

We call Melky , Lord Melksham

Yeah, that’ll work…

Always weird that we question selections, inferring that we know more than the coaches and selectors.

My husband barracks for Carlton and over the decades of our marriage I have really tried hard to like them. Unfortunately, I have failed at this miserably.