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Oliver is super quick. He'll win a brownlow when he uses his pace on the outside a bit more and kicks as much as he handballs. He could win two or three when that happens.

“The 2015 NAB AFL Rising Star has impressed during recent match simulation, particularly when working his opponent up the ground and doubling back to find space” If he relies on this method to kick goals at Freo he is in for a tough year.

By comparison Hogan took 3 contested marks total in the 6 games against top 8 teams. For those thinking I’m bagging Hogan I’m not. I am on the record as saying Hogan could have kicked 100 goals last season if we used his once in a generation talents properly, which for a 100kg power forward is his speed and strength. He kicked very few goals after taking marks at full speed on the lead and none that I can remember in the big games. Hogan has no vertical jump and will never take many contested pack marks. Weids does have a leap, and already takes pack marks. So for our game style we are already better off. I would however like to see us lower the eyes a lot more in 2019, and bomb it long as a last resort. If we can do that we will be far more dangerous.

I bet he wished he did miss the Sydney game. But the vision of Isaac Heeney’s mark of the year in Q4 says he didn’t.

I included finals.

A 2018 record of 0 out of 6 against top 8 teams with Hogan versus 4 out of 5 when Weid replaced him tells me we might not be fooling ourselves.... Can’t wait to see what Weid does when he and TMac are the options against Carlton etc

No, he’s a natural.

Possibly Bartlett’s idea. He would know a thing or two about employment law and incentive schemes. Both party’s would need to sign the contract so Goody would have to be happy. Surely it would be more like a CEO type contract with a decent termination payout. But if Goody is an optimist he’ll be ok with an open ended contract, as he would be better rewarded if we have success. If he’s a pessimist he would want a longer fixed term contract that pays him regardless of performance. I’ll put my money on Goody being totally happy with an open ended contract and backing himself to be remunerated as a premiership coach sooner rather than later.

I would imagine it’s not easy to get any company to invest $1m+ per annum in a sponsorship these days. Well done to MFC. Hope it turns into a longer term deal.

Indian. Owned by Tata Motors. Aren't Range Rover in the Jaguar group?

Apparently it’s going to be Monday. Maybe the sponsor knows no one is interested in aflx and are interested in any footy related news

I love your posts hemingway. I would imagine this is tongue in cheek. I can't edit it for you, but replace the highlighted line with And of course that fans sometime have better different insights than they do !

If I was a new sponsor, I would be telling the club to wait until prime time before announcing it for maximum media coverage. Not sure when that is but it isn’t December or January, and probably not February.

We were the number one third quarter team in 2018. Number 4 in 2017. Sign of a good coach is one that can analyse the game and make adjustments at half time. He inherited an OK list with some great young talent, but has turned over 20 players (50% of the list) since he started. The improvement of the other 20 has mostly been really significant. The list now is his list built for the style that he wants, and rid of the dead wood and culture killers. He deserves to own it. He's done the hard work building the culture by making the tough calls, even more so than Roos. In my opinion he deserves a 4 or 5 year extension. Injuries and murphy's law mean there are no guarantees, but if Goody can't deliver a premiership then no one can. I'm confident he'll do it.

I guess we have you and the other posters to thank for Goody changing?? Although the thing is Goody hasn’t changed what the game plan is. He has been trying to work out the best combination to implement it, coaching the players on how to deliver it, trading out players that don’t have what is required, and fine tuning it. It is still ongoing. You may call it mistakes but others called it good coaching even after bad losses (special commendation to @prodee). Plenty of others posted some pretty ordinary stuff.

Infinity should step up to be the BOJ sponsor? Roy Morgan produce research each year about car sponsorship of AFL, as the automakers get good ROI from it. Seems cheap for a car manufacturer to not be a major sponsor. If Infinity don’t want it then Pert has history signing sponsorships with car manufacturers.

How true. If players were traded whenever they considered a move home then Gaff, Sloane, and Kelly would be playing at different clubs.

Maybe but I’ll back Max and Preuss to lay more forward 50 tackles than Hogan did last year.

Judging by the number of photos posted in the last 4 weeks of Preuss versus May there is no way that Goody isn’t locked in on Preuss spending time forward as the 3rd tall. Hopefully it works well all season. Will be really valuable in low scoring finals.

SWYL, I seem to recall you have a tv industry background. Any interaction with Pert when he was MD of channel 9 in Melbourne? @rpfc, you sound like an old melbournian upset at losing guaranteed board seats whenever you wanted them. I’m happy those days are gone. I personally think the board and Bartlett have been excellent. He was spot on when he labelled MFC soft on and off the field in his first speech 5 years ago. MFC is no longer soft in either. Everything done by MFC in the last 5 years has been about losing that soft gentlemen club tag, game style, list management, player trades. I can’t imagine prior boards approving tough decisions like trading Watts. For me the Pert appointment is just another decision where the soft option would have been an internal appointment. Only time will tell if Pert delivers which will be almost entirely measured by delivering a facility in the MCG precinct, which he is uniquely qualified to do.

Geez I liked Melbourne 20 years ago. Less congestion, could afford a decent house, less crime, less traffic. Is Adelaide really that good? I’ll have to visit.

I’m happy to argue it Hemingway. Not every investment pays off long term but if you don’t make them you end up broke. In Hogan’s case we got a good return while invested, but now sold that and invested it elsewhere. Jesse was drafted into the club when we were basket cases. Since he arrived we have gone from the basement to top 4. He made an impact as soon as he got on the ground and every year he was here the club improved and he was a part of it. Circumstances (Tmac becoming an elite forward, Weid stepping up at the end of the season), meant the FD were open to a trade. For every go home factor, or top draft getting a once in a lifetime offer, there are the Olivers and Brayshaws that if we didn’t invest in them we’d be back in the cellar soon enough.

Just a turn of phrase La Dee. Who kicks them with Hogan gone is what this thread is about. Point I was making is in big games goals are worth gold, and JH did not impact (9 goals in 8 games). I can see Max being a big weapon for us pushing forward more if Preuss plays. Max kicked 13.12 in 2018. Weid also can take pack marks in a way JH can't. 2 or 3 extra goals from contested marks in big games could be the difference between finishing 5th and 1st. If we keep improving hitting lead ups going inside 50 as well we'll be more dangerous next year than we were this year by far.

Gawns positioning helped but imo wasn’t the most important change. He couldn’t get back when we lost centre clearances. And when we were better at forward 50 pressure and slowing transition out of our forward 50 it allowed Gawn time to get back and bolster up our defence. Earlier in the season usain bolt wouldn’t have had time to get back. It’s evident the club wanted to further boost our defence, but also just as evident that players in our forward 50 who don’t work hard defensively are dropped or shown the door.

The stats you quote are for the entire season and we improved out of sight. Post St Kilda to the prelim we improved every single defensive stat and were the AFLs number 1 defensive team. Lowest points against, lowest points scored from turnovers (that came crashing down in the prelim), 4th lowest scores per oppo inside 50, 2nd best at forcing turnovers from oppo inside 50s (not sure of one on one stats but improved out of sight) etc etc. It was a stunning turnaround, and mainly because of forward 50 and midfield pressure, although Frost was good. Last 2 years when we keep oppo to less than 75 points we are 18 - 0. Average against in the post St Kilda to semi final period was 69 points. With Lever back and May in we will be beasts.... Best balanced team I can remember.