Redlegged

Well put.

Better players might help.

FFS Can we give it a rest?

Good player. Saw him kick 7 from CHF one day. Became a top class full back. Good administrator. Urbane, polished, but not weak.

Could do a lot worse. I'd rather have Trump for President than Lyon. Sorry. Upon reflection...

God there's some sad negative [censored] being spouted on this thread tonight. Time to close it down.

Can't stand Whateley. But he conducted the interview fairly. Let her hang herself, and seriously damage the club in the process. It was a performance she will never recover from.

All true. She began the interview somewhat flippantly and soon drifted into incoherence, with a touch of arrogance thrown in. It was a total shocker, no getting away from it.

It's impossible at this point to predict where all this is headed, and how this shambles will be resolved. Review or not, the club will be unstable for months. The likelihood is that Petracca will leave. It's likely that no big name players would be induced to go to Melbourne in a trade. This means going for high draft picks which also means a club Petracca doesn't want to go to. Where Goodwin sits in this is equally impossible to predict.

What a sensible, perceptive comment. Spot on. Not good enough.

That Swan and whoever anonymous else at Collingwood allegedly didn't like Pert several years ago isn't relevant. As said. Champ.

This is true. Neither she nor Pert are to blame for losing for 4 finals straight, for the appalling game day mismanagement of the final v Carlton, for the Grundy debacle, for weird player positioning (Petty) and a game plan so boring and predictable you'd have to be a masochist to go and watch. That's largely down to the coach. Mind you, Roffey is his biggest supporter. She goes, he won't be too far behind.

Stupid to use 'they' when you are talking specifically about an indigenous player. Think it was just ineptitude, but you can bet a big deal will be made of it. Just another element of what was a PR calamity

Anything about the 'they' remark? Because I can tell you, it will cause a furore.

Had wanted Roffey to speak. Now I wish she hadn't. Abysmal. The reference to 'they' always getting homesick. Unbelievably inept. Expect a [censored]. Now seriously concerned about the club.

Who cares what Dane Swann thought of Pert? Has no bearing on anything. Just peddling scuttlebutt.

I tend to agree. Melbourne play a dull, defensive game. No wonder we can't generate crowds. Similarly Goodwin's pressers are stupefyingly dull. Much of the time is spent praising the opposition. It's woeful. Overall, the club is always on the defensive. Very good article on this in today's Guardian, by Jonathan Horn. Very good writer, about the only one covering AFL.

What the [censored] has Kamala Harris got to do with it? Ludicrous analogy.

I am now liking Pert even more. You're scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Good question. Who the hell is leaking this stuff? And why? It can't all be a media plot. Hard not to escape the impression the joint is run by buffoons. An impression reinforced by Goodwin's feeble, platitudinous pressers and a president who appears to have taken a vow of silence.

If CPs central grievance is the club's mishandling of his injury any claim would have little chance of succeeding. The AFL ok'd the protocols followed at the time. And there is a mass of published evidence where he expressed no hard feelings about it. Add to that a mountain of communications he had with Goodwin in the weeks following...all positive, according to Goodwin.

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Hard to imagine a more catastrophic cluster×××× than Melbourne over the past three years. Some bad luck, yes, but an enormous amount of self-inflicted damage. It's really quite pathetic. At the moment, it seems that the slate needs to be wiped clean...and that probably begins with the coach, who is implicated in most of these calamities. I wanted to have faith in him, but the faith has gone. As for the silent president, Roffey. Hmm.

Jefferson=depth, based on hope. Still way off and maybe will stay that way. Nonetheless, prefer Petty in defence, though he's been pretty good lately.

Stop talking common sense. Dangerous on this site.