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Funny, I thought of this today when Tom Morris had the scoop on Charlie Curnow’s exit meeting, shortly after it had finished. I’m now firmly convinced that almost all leaks are manager based, who else would be leaking details of that meeting? Unless the club itself leaked, to shut down any thoughts for rivals.

He should be under a lot more pressure than he is

If you already have work there, it would be very hard to choose Melbourne over Brisbane.

I can’t believe someone would watch a footy panel show at 10pm

May’s decline has been more rapid than any of the other big names, he’s barely a shadow of his former self. It’s refreshing to see that we are actively trying to instigate change. It’s also pretty widely known that May has school links with Tom Morris, so perhaps we plug some leaks at the same time

I look at it this way, of those three, who can move the needle for us in terms of influencing a game single handedly. To me, in order, that list is Oliver, Trac, Viney. Obviously, a lot more comes into that decision than purely game day. If we take more than 2 of them into next year, I’d be very concerned.

Campbell is a very solid ruckman, so the help is/was there?

I think one of our biggest problems has been that the players don’t want to play the way Goodwin wanted to coach. Yeh, we were winning games but playing dull, defensive arm wrestles each week would be death by a thousand cuts for a Melbourne player

Even if Bucks doesn’t come, forget Treloar

I’m usually on the same page as you with most things but this I’m not so sure. If you believe Goodwin should have been given his 5th year, since the flag, to carry out his reinvention of our gameplan, how is a first year coach missing finals a failure? Goodwin should be judged more harshly because despite his feeling that we are closing the gap, we were still going backwards in the only metric that counts, wins. Our fitness and skills, which are two of your favourite topics of disappointment, are not immediately changing next year without serious list moves, for which we have no currency. Whoever the new coach may be, they are inheriting a bit of a mess

Wasn’t there some disagreement between them, which ultimately forced Jennings out?

It certainly was, just seems crazy that after the ‘22-‘24 seasons he was still keen on adding more of the same.

I’d love to know how Worpel was going to help us? More of the same, it’s bizarre

This is quite interesting as Lever gets picked when underdone more than anyone I’ve ever seen. In assuming he was really hurt by being dropped but it absolutely had to happen

Perfect replacement for May I don’t know what the Saints are trying to do with all these insane offers but surely the fallout with the current crop will be immense

Two blokes who’s game is based on relentless effort, would be good to get some more of that drive into the side.

I have a mate that’s a Carlton tragic and apparently when Goody was sacked, there was a decent number people wanting Goody as his replacement.

The aging and predictable midfield combination is our biggest handbrake. I think we are still 2-3 mids short and don’t agree that Rivers or McVee are the answer. Koz and Windsor go some way to helping it but Windsor needs lots of kicking work over summer. We desperately need another highly skilled, running mid. Once we can make the opposition defend more, things will open up and the forwards will find space.

Chappy’s presser was a breath of fresh air, nice to hear a different voice and he was genuinely happy to be in the game. A lot to like on a day where we were far from good for many parts

First game I’ve been to in years, it was a valiant effort but the dogs were more polished and I’d say significantly harder at the footy. Both teams made it their mission to kick the opposition as much as possible, so many horrific turnovers. In the end, the dogs better players were just more polished and that was the difference. If we could excise some mental demons, we’d be thereabouts with the other teams between 5-9.

Would have been 3-5 contests in front of the MCC where Sauce beat him. Purely effort related

For me, there has to be a lot of weight on the fact Bucks actively wants the gig. Simpson and Longmire were always lukewarm at best.

I listened to this a while back by chance, it made me really appreciate the journey Bucks has been on post Collingwood - would highly recommend. Out of Simpson, Longmire and Bucks I’ve become reasonably excited at the thought of Bucks coming on board. Initially, I was all in on horse but have swung around

Whilst I agree that the Casey situation is not the best, average wage for these blokes is well into the 100’s of thousands and plenty on or over $900k. There’s an entire nation of footballers that go to work all day, often driving far further than Casey, then turning up to training without fail. I’d bet a chunk of the inner suburbs guys spend longer getting to Gosh’s than it takes to go against traffic to Casey

He’s way too slow (in AFL terms)