Gawndy the Great

Throw the book at Josh Kelly and Matt Crouch. Get rid of two of Brayshaw, Oliver or Harmes. Jones to retire. That will balance the midfield. Also do what you can to get in Papley or Elliot. Maybe trade The Mac brothers (Sydney) or Weeds for Elliot.

I dint think so. Coaches work hard for years to get a senior position. It is too late for him, could have maybe 10 years ago, but chose the media career.

I used to play golf with Plapps best mate. He told me that Goody offered his resignation when the players went to the aflpa secretly wrt to the preseason training camp (the one that Melb Storm do) without discussing with anyone at the club. From memory there were only a handful players who opposed (Led by Tmac, included Hogan, Salem and I can’t remember who else). His resignation was not accepted by the club obviously - wouldn’t go into much more detail.

Yep & yep.

Sorry I meant at the game that’s being played now.

Why do the hawks/blues get more supporters than we do?

Viney should have remained the captain. Don’t get me wrong Gawn plays his heart every week out but he doesn’t strike me as leadership material.

We do have to clean out some of our passengers and Bradshaw is the driver of that bus. Question is, is this list salvageable? Based on the passed couple of weeks you’d think so. But i will just never trust this club.

This was a game they knew they wouldn’t win. They subconsciously tanked. The performance was a reflection of that mentality. Even when we were shocking with ball use, we still weren’t this bad. It’s the only excuse I can muster.

I agree. I have left Jones alone to date but geez he looks off his best by some way.

Welcome back boys. Wondering where you were for the past 3 weeks.

Pickett was half his size too!

That spear tackle was absolutely a joke. The sling was more about consistency. Viney was slung similarly earlier in the game and got nadda.

It was the sling tackle in the last quarter. The 3rd quarter was deemed a spear tackle.

Is there a chance he himself has asked to be traded at year end to a team in Perth? Explains the lack of urgency and possibly the reduced game time from the perspective of trying to keep it under wraps which holds his trade value. If it gets out that he wants a trade, we then lose the upper hand.

Mids need to step up but we are getting sucked into the contest and beaten on the outside. I know I’m one eyed but these umpires are killing the game.

Lockhart would match him for pace but he’d need on field coaching/leadership to get his positioning correct. What they do to counteract Gawn will be interesting and I hope we have a plan B to counter counter act.

I was totally think the exact same thing when watching on weekend.

Let’s put em to the swords this quarter Dees.

2 of rankines goals were a touch lucky.... blind snap and soccer goal. Don’t get me wrong he oozes danger in forward stoppages but he exposed our lack of homework (which was hard given it was his first game) - let’s see what he does in the next few games with the extra attention he’ll be getting now.

I’m glad I’m not watching this live. Would have blown a gasket.

Yes there was something very familiar about that Q1 against the blues. That manic pressure was a trademark of our 2018 campaign. All this talk of endeavour and effort not the problem is bullocks if you ask me. I could tell within the first 5 mins whether Melbourne will win a game based on that pressure - it was so entertaining and we had such a good brand. But the issue was that it never could be sustained and perhaps why it’s being potentially phased out ? Or no longer our 1 wood? Who knows - but we definitely play better when we have that defensive intensity.

ANB has 27 touches ... grain of salt.

Fair enough. I genuinely think that the problem is midfield and game plan not the talent in forward 50.

I’d put all my money and trade initiative in more outside run and skill. Isn’t Josh Kelly coming out of contract? The GWS were going to have more salary cap issues right? What other Talent is out there ? Swap Gaff for Brayshaw ?