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Would love another one, more like the traditional family day, I just think given COVID is still hanging around that perhaps the club decided the premiership celebration would cover that base? It's always a great day, my kid and my friends kids that all go along together usually enjoy the animals and the ice creams more than anything footy related though, so I just reckon the big day at the G has given us something unique in that way. That's just my experience anyways. It's just a different scenario to usual unfortunately, so I'll hold fire until I see what the club does to engage kids more once there's more certainty around which way everything is going.

My young kid, who hasn't reached an age yet where footy is a massive interest, is still talking about the big day at the G and how good it was. Club did an amazing job on the day, and I don't recall there ever being 35k at a family day in the past. Pretty clearly that was our family day, and I reckon we've got more excited kids still buzzing from that than the Hawks or Pies do from watching training and seeing a mascot from at least 1.5m away.

Love Petty and I personally would have him ahead of Tomlinson currently just on recent form, but people have forgotten how good Tomo was early last year. He also had the best loss % of defensive one on ones before injury. I don't think you have to be quick or dominate aerially to be All-Australian. There's more than enough players throughout the history of the AA team that point to that too. I don't think he would have ended up AA last year had he not been injured, but you have a short memory if you can't recall people talking about how important he was. Tomlinson, who will miss the remainder of the season with a knee injury, conceded just one of his 21 one-on-one contests this season to have him ranked as the most miserly defender for contests lost. https://www.afl.com.au/news/621252/the-young-forwards-coming-for-tom-hawkins-crown The fantastic form of defenders like Steven May, Jake Lever and Adam Tomlinson has been crucial. https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-demon-denial-why-melbourne-s-defence-is-at-its-best-since-1965-20210420-p57ks4.html Melbourne – Adam Tomlinson Melbourne’s defence are finally starting to find some synergy and after superb performances from Jake Lever and Steven May in Round 1, it was Adam Tomlinson’s turn to impact the contest. While he didn’t light the stats sheet alight, Tomlinson was a rock in defence as the Saints tried to claw their way back in ‘Spud’s Game’. The 27-year-old finished with 17 touches at 94 per cent, an equal team-high 11 marks and four rebound 50s. https://www.aflplayers.com.au/news-feed/stories/unsung-heroes-round-2-4 Melbourne- Adam Tomlinson With Steven May substituted out of the game before half-time, Adam Tomlinson had to step up, suddenly presented the challenge of playing on Tom Hawkins. And he did. Tomlinson kept the reigning Coleman Medallist to only two goals, which forced Geelong to search for alternative options going forward. Tomlinson, despite only touching the Sherrin eight times himself, was as important as any Demon on the ground. https://www.aflplayers.com.au/news-feed/stories/unsung-heroes-round-4-5

Underselling Tomo I reckon. There were stages early last year people had started talking about the possibility he would be AA.

9th in the entire league for average tackles inside 50 in 2021. (2nd for us) But sure, he doesn't tackle.

Probably the most flat out incorrect thing I've ever read here. Bizarre comment.

Another Pert fail... ;)

I don't agree that's his role.

Had 8 tackles last night, 3 inside 50. Reckon this is an overly harsh assessment.

Which is exactly the same as written questions submitted to a 'real life' meeting. There's no difference. An open mic is an open mic whether it's on zoom or in person. Chat function questions = written questions.

I don't know a lot about junior leagues and catchments, but I would have thought Moorabbin was in the Saints zone, not ours? (Especially given it seems the office is at RSEA Park) And that seems to be where the SMJFL is based? Not sure if I'm looking at the right info, but the league I'm looking at has no teams in our catchment zone. https://smjfl.com.au/league/clubs/

Nah I don't follow the junior leagues mate, and nowhere did I mention anything about them. What are the two that we've apparently missed out on? Do you have the data on them as far as how many kids, what areas they're from etc? In what way have they been 'lured' to Dingley? It's not super close to Casey so seems interesting kids would be signing up to play somewhere half an hour away. Perhaps we just don't have the finances and resources to do what a huge club like Hawthorn does? Was only a couple of years ago MFC expanded their junior programs (South East Juniors development program), small clubs can only move so quickly and do so much. There's also all the work the Red & Blue Foundation does including Indigenous and Mulitcultural squads, girls academy, school open days at Casey, and the boys and girls U13s, 14s & 15s program I mentioned above. Just think the narrative that we don't do anything is incorrect and you need to judge it against our position financially as a club.

Alright mate, it's just one preseason game. Put away the chalkboard, log out of footywire and have a cuppa.

We had a similar hitout this time last year against the Dogs. Lots of injury outs, sloppy and a bit lazy at times. Wonder if Selwyn is tapering us towards round 1?

Preseason last year...

Cripps didn't even want to take that 50.

Maxy on yet another poster. Lol.

High on Petracca who came in second.

We look very casual so far, reckon we'll play 1-2 hard quarters for the night and that will do it.

No, that's not the case. Was merely using logic. Apologies for bringing that here.

Yeah, if only we were improving our connection to Casey by say improving facilities, having some kind of family activities out there, maybe even getting the colours and name aligned... Would be amazing hey? And then, imagine having some kind of, say, 'Future Fund', directly in place for planning and investment... Again, amazing right? I guess the only thing holding us back is some kind of publicly announced plan. Something strategic perhaps for the next few years. That would be even better. If only...

https://www.melbournefc.com.au/club/contact

Maybe his brother doesn't want to move to Melbourne?

That's no different to on zoom. Either way they don't know what the person is going to ask.