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Tipping related - on the AFL website 2% of people have tipped Melbourne, assume all 2% are Melbourne supporters (myself included) Deelusional?

Arsenal also have too many defensive midfielders and can struggle to create at times if their sole creative midfielder is having an off day. They also don't have a prolific Centre-Forward. Familiar scenes

Still curious if theyd consider M.Reid and a nice Pick for Kozzie.

Just depressingly from a short term POV, we could be 0-5 by the time they're all back in the team. (Also could be 2-3 etc but I am scared and sad etc)

Good thing i'm not on a Manchester Untied forum as well tbh

Smart to send it before we play down in Geelong though aha

McVee a big out for this reason, hopefully Miers/Stengle dont have a field day.

Agreed his form hasn't been ideal, but even last week he could have kicked a couple of goals, still had a decent amount of score involvements etc. Not sure a spell in the 2s will get him to drastically change the way he plays the game, as frustrating as that may be for some. He'd go down to Casey kick a bag and then come back the same player.

at least he can't kick it to himself at every opportunity like the rest of the team do.

Me watching our midfield the last 2 weeks Somebody's gotta set the tone out there boys, somone's gotta F-word set it!

The article does say that a lot of hawks are over performing their contract value.

On the flip side, he kept getting the ball to be tackled. Not sure if it is a communication issue or him not being up to the speed/intensity of the adult game, this will improve. Would like to see him get a few tackles as well. He may not be the quickest, just need to compliment him with players with different skill sets.

in Jones' defence, whilst he may be the midfield coach, we don't know how much autonomy/direction he has for the role. But we've gone from a contested beast to 16th in tackles which is sad and 18th in clearances. Is it older legs, have they lost the spring in their step?

Re Butters: Multiple club sources have confirmed Hawthorn, Richmond, Essendon and Collingwood are all preparing to make serious plays for the 24-year-old, who grew up in Bacchus Marsh and played under-18 football for the Western Jets. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/this-port-star-is-contracted-until-the-end-of-2026-but-victorian-clubs-are-already-circling-20250331-p5lnz8.html Doesn't look great for us then.

Think twice we've been burnt by early injuries possibly messing up plans for returning players. Round 2 - Jeffo injury in first quarter meant Woey came on and Spargo had to play a full game Round 3 - XL injury after 2 minutes meant Melksham had to come on and basically play a full game It seems the MFC way is getting minutes into players in the first team, but it's sort of backfired a little the last 2 weeks - especially games where we've run out of legs in the final quarter.

Reckon a dozen is an understatement for 2025 tbh

Hawthorn have done well under Mitchell but it's been a clear and well done re-build Drafted in - Barrass/Chol/D'Ambrosio/Ginnivan/Meek/Gunston (again) Free Agents - Amon/Battle All doing a great job in the team - compare that to our Free agents/players drafted in. They've also drafted well with Watson, Weddle and others Obviously they had a much better cap position to enable the rebuild but they've targeted well for the gameplan that SM wants to play, we're doing it on the run with trying to re-set and re-build

Was Windsor about? @Harvey Wallbanger And just to put everyone's mind at ease about these full time footballers, how long were these warm up/recreational games of soccer.

Well posted @Lucifers Hero Was happy with his performance, almost had 2 goals. Most contested possessions and clearances for us from a second gamer in hist first start is quite a stat. 90% kicking efficiency a nice change for our mids as well. Will need to adjust to the tempo/speed/awareness of AFL footy, was caught holding the ball a few times . Would like him to get a few more tackles as well.

The old gameplan had balls yeeted into the F50 and even if we didn't have the mark, we'd bring the ball down to ground for the small forwards. But last few weeks we've just been kicking to 2 on 1s and giving them intercept marks. Will improve with Turner in the team knocking it down to Kozzie. Pity we can't put AJs aggression into Fullarton.

It doesn't help our first few games have been against teams with lots of young pointy end first round midfielders who have exposed us. We went all in on our crop (Viney, Brayshaw, Petracca, Oliver etc) in search of a second flag. Obviously some things have not gone to plan but the midfield re-build is underway with Langford, Windsor, Kolt and Lindsay etc

Doesn't help we've come up against a bunch of talented young Mids but very disheartening so far seeing teams cut straight through us in the middle with the players in our squad.

the mood around me in the mcc on Saturday was very low, even early in the game. Everyone seemingly Deemoralised

Keeps scoring and they won’t need Pickett

3 weeks for Mansell, always interesting when the AFL make an example of someone, we’ve been on the other end of this a few times.