Lord Nev

Only said he wasn't 100% mate.

He's definitely not 100%, let alone 110%. Get the feeling he'll play though.

Good to see a Demon has come out to attack the sling tackle farce and defend his player... (Kind of) 'Every club is confused': Beveridge wants clarity on 'dangerous' tackles

Yeah I'm just guessing. It's the only 'logical' explanation I can think of tbh. Not great.

Guessing it would be Mathews? No wonder we're a confused mess on the field. Not only do we have (IMO) a poor stable of assistant coaches, but they're seemingly moving around and have changing responsibilities.

We did challenge both the Neal Bullen (albeit no appeal) and Langdon ones. Either we're not defending very well or the system is a farce. I know which way I'm leaning at the moment.

Landgon and Dalhaus ended up with the same punishment. Staggering.

I think he should be held responsible for what he says whether it's prepared or not. The bloke is the CEO of (arguably) the biggest sporting club in the country. Would have thought bringing up a serial killer is one of the first things you learn not to do when talking to the media (if they don't already realize how incredibly offensive it is).

Someone needs to actually have a serious word to the Tigers. We've seen the stuff happening onfield with staging and punching etc, then we had Dimma's poor comments about Schwarz (particularly poor given it's the same club involved with Shane Tuck, Danny Frawley and Reece McKenzie) and now their CEO has made an appalling comment comparing Lynch's treatment to that of serial killer Ivan Milat. Imagine being the family of one of Milat's victims and being reminded of the horror and tragedy because an [censored] CEO thought his undisciplined forward was being victimized like a murderer. Absolutely pathetic coming from someone spoken about as a potential replacement for Gil. Read here: “Tom plays it pretty hard and he cops a lot, he plays a physical brand of footy, but the scrutiny and the attention he’s received, it’s outrageous,” he told 3AW Sportsday. “I can’t believe it, it’s like he’s Ivan Milat,” Gale quipped, referring to the serial killer who took the lives of seven backpackers in the early 1990s. ‘Like he’s Ivan Milat’: Tigers CEO stunned by ‘outrageous’ criticism of Tom Lynch

Michael Christian has to go.

Yep, all good points (although I wasn't the one who raised the government aspect). I should have been clearer, I didn't mean what I wrote to be just about anonymous racist comments, it's about a broader issue of the moderation and responsibility of the social media companies. And I don't think social media companies will act due to the articles, more that once action starts to get serious in demands being made of social media companies; the media, public and documented cases are already there to support the cases brought against them.

Any inside goss on what went on there DD? Seems like a strange one, contracted for another 2 years apparently. What's Solo's go? Strengths? Don't know much about him as a coach. Also just quietly, really hoping we have another crack at a certain Hawks assistant this year too...

I just don't think we're at the stage yet where it's a minor thing that can just be deleted and ignored. IMO the reason these things are raised when they happen is to build the pressure on social media companies to begin to act. They are notoriously poor at recognizing this behaviour let alone acting on it. Someone reported the racist comment made but Instagram came back with 'this doesn't go against our community guidelines'. The AFL are already trying to raise the pressure on social media companies to be more accountable, and they're not alone there, so to me; the more times it's raised the more pressure goes onto them to actually address it properly.

Damian Carroll Don't know a lot about him I'll confess, but 10 years in charge of development for the Hawks is a pretty good resume. Assistant coach cull: Hawks, Suns make tough decisions

Have some business connections (in a second hand kind of way) with a few AFL clubs and the word going around them is the Gabba is a certainty.

Don't really know what else can be said anymore. Just wanted to put it here so us supporters know about it and can get around him in whatever way we can. Melbourne stands with Kysaiah And in Sir Doug Nicholls Round too.

One of them is also the only VFL/AFL player to be arrested for something they did on the field. You just proved everyone else's point.

Won't go into who obviously, and I know the usual posters will line up to have a crack at me, but a current players family member told me after the Doggies game that at stages during the game that player and another one (both of whom are 'best 22' players) were on the bench just totally confused and getting no instruction at all from Goodwin. Obviously from that I've expanded that out, but hearing it reinforced things I already thought.

Clarry was in the clear, sure, but he was behind Petracca, so Trac had the decision to play the odds or to handball over his head. He made the wrong choice. He shouldn't be crucified for it given it's just one example and he's having a great year, but it's caught the eye of Melbourne people somewhat because it's so emblematic of the club's attitude for so long. We just too often look like a confused team that doesn't totally understand what we're mean to be doing, and the players don't get enough instruction from Goodwin during games IMO. There seems to be this attitude of 'we'll fix it during the week', but by then the impact and opportunity to change it is already gone. This is where we start to miss someone like McCartney IMO. Down on the bench providing experience and advice, giving instruction during the game. Not saying we should get him back btw, just saying I think this is a weakness in our coaching structure, game day and head coach.

Jordon's out for a month and Jones is right to go apparently. Sparrow a month also. Gawn back in. Jacko for about round 18. Round 14 Injury Update | Two youngsters sidelined

He didn't say 6 month contract, he said a 10-12 game, half season contract.

I didn't write the article mate, but if you take a breath and read it again you'll see it doesn't say that Jones being out made it compromised, it just says the lineup featuring a lot of tall and mid sized forwards left a lot of the pressure on the shoulders of Spargo and Pickett. If you read my post you'll see the point I was making was about having a smaller, quicker forward line with less mid sized forwards.

Agree with this. I'm hoping we go for another small or two in as I think we have too many mid-sized forwards in who don't pressure enough. Also, this is from SEN today: Prior to the Bulldogs game, Melbourne had settled on a forward mix that provided marking targets and defensive pressure. The late change due to Nathan Jones’ quad injury brought Mitch Hannan into the side, and the Weideman-McDonald-Fritsch-Hannan-Melksham mix was unable to pressure the Dogs’ defensive half attack, leaving too much to Spargo and Pickett. In their third quarter burst, the Dogs kicked four of their six goals from defensive half chains, as the Dees were unable to pressure the Dogs switch. A slightly smaller and more mobile forward mix will create more defensive pressure, as it showed in the Dees impressive win over the Pies. The teams on the fringe of the 8: Where they're strong and where they must improve

Mahoney said on the broadcast it was tightness and thought he'd be right for this week. (Granted Mahoney isn't a doctor, Jones hadn't had scans, and neither can predict the future tho)