Grr-owl

9 hours ago, samcantstandya said:

Hopefully they're the typical common yabbies and not some endangered type that'd mean no development is allowed

I think they're orange-bellied yabbies, or something like that....😉

On 14/01/2024 at 19:46, kev martin said:

I'll have go at the Caulfield racecourse.  

Nature reserve, indigenous overlay of plants and landscaping around the existing ponds for the Pelicans and other wildlife.

The master plan indicates it as being a percentage of the area, leaving enough space for recreation. 

I'd assume a lobby group wants it to be the main purpose of the space. 

As I understand it, there's yabbies in that pond...

Oh, ye of the small screens, my 100" projector screen is the screen to rule them all!

I hope this applies for the Digital Memberships through the club....

3 hours ago, No. 31 said:

How the set up at Caulfield might look and function will most definitely depend upon where the MFC ovals & facilities are located inside the racecourse precinct. If you want a mini stadium for AFLW/VFL then I would say Glen Huntly Oval on the southern side would be the best option as you could have stands and light towers (which do not impeed views from the existing racecourse stands) and then have a second practice oval inside the race track. Any cricket or football clubs displaced could get a new oval inside the track area. This would require some additional negotiations with City of Glen Eira because Glen Huntly Oval is separate to the race course trust AFAIK.

Additionally, allowing access to Glen Eira Secondary College could probably trigger governmental funding if done the right way ... 🤔

Oh, let it be so. My kids go to that school and it is sadly lacking in facilities. 

10 hours ago, No. 31 said:

I often catch the Cranbourne & Pakenham Line trains and usually do Richmond to Carnegie in 13 minutes. You won't do Calufield Racecourse to MCG in 10 minutes but you will do Caulfield Station to Richmond Station in about 10 minutes.

Actually, the Cranbourne & Pakenham Line trains will use the new Metro Tunnel scheduled to open late 2024 or early 2025 and will mean that Caulfield will become easily accessible to the the inner north and the western suburbs by public transport.

Right on. And according to the club there is no better option. If there is one, someone should lay it out here. Do a comparison using the criteria Perty discussed at the AGM. Space, accessibility, availability et al., and (I suspect) the biggest issue of all: willingness to cooperate with MFC...

I'm another one in the area. Belly all a-flutter atmo. Great idea. Get it done....

On 05/12/2023 at 16:44, Rab D Nesbitt said:

I think Gawny now has his main res in East Malvern. 

Even Gawn can't afford Malvern.... had to settle for Malvern the Lesser.

On 23/10/2023 at 12:12, Rab D Nesbitt said:

There's no reason to think that Fishermen's Bend won't end up as the same soulless, windswept, high-rise concrete wasteland occupied by short term overseas students that have little or no interest in our indigenous game, just like the Docklands precinct currently is. Anyone that doesn't think this is giving too much credit to urban planners,  developers and politicians. 

Good point. I work in said windswept soulless high-rise wasteland these days with said overseas students. Have made it standard practice to tell them that all overseas students are obliged to support the Melbourne Football Club. I explain that it is a law, and say that they ticked the MFC box on the landing card as they flew in and now must follow through. Doesn't seem to be having the effect I assumed it would, but you never know... 

10 hours ago, binman said:

I've heard they both want to move to Nhill. 

Nah, there's nothing in that...

12 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

Not many 23 year old dudes move to be near their sister

Unless they're from Adelaide.... BROO-HOO-HA-HA-HAAAA! 

Oh...... love an incest joke. Probably won't make it past the mods.... 🤪

On 7/22/2023 at 11:01 PM, ElDiablo14 said:

Is it because Geelong is the country VIC club? Why so much love from the  state government?

Marginal seat. Didn't used to be. Is now.

Great news. 

On 9/22/2023 at 5:08 PM, BaliDemon said:

On 9/22/2023 at 4:51 PM, Deebauched said:

Dew could get a job on a cruise ship out of Florida as an ice cream vendor. 

Dew could get a job as a ship.

32 minutes ago, Roost it far said:

You don't win by luck with chaos entry, the Tiges won the 2017 flag this way.

And the teams responded tactically.... Five years on, we aren't going to win that way. Don't have the right players.

48 minutes ago, Boots and all said:

Chaos ball, as the [censored], BT refers to it.

And then how would the defence set up? Chaos for them; chaos for us, too. In other words, we'd have to win by luck.

The way we attack has a defensive function. It locks the oppo in to a spot they can't get out of. Hence the huge number of re-entries. It keeps the balls in our hand and not the oppo's - with the welcome consequence of them not being able to score - and tires them out. We wear them down with superior fitness and kick goals (most of the time) and win. 

20 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

In my opinion, It’s Fugazi. 

It’s a piece masquerading as insightful, and fails to highlight the times we hit people on the chest, (see all games).

We have a greater number of I50’s typically due to our setup. Thus the scoring rate goes down due to density.

Melbournes approach, staves off quick scoring out the back for our opponents 

By the very nature of a tactic, there are always ways to counter it, and Goodwin aims for risk minimisation - it’s why we have been in the top 4 for 3 years, and with the exception of Essendon this year all games have been lost by less than 2 kicks. 

5 years ago none of us in our lifetime could have dreamed of our consistency… and we have it, yet some are not quite nuanced enough to see why there is the approach taken 

FWIW - The media highlights these things as a simple remedy… and it ain’t that simple because they don’t delve into the costs of changing strategy. 

EXACTLY. Didn't mean to type in all-caps, but that was the way it came out and I'm accepting the Freudian Typo...

The alternative would be spearing it hard and fast to leading players who are surrounded by defenders in the zone (that's what a zone is for) who would spoil it for a quick rebound with multiple options out. To be fair, that's not much different from the situation now, though that difference must be significant in some way, otherwise we wouldn't be doing it. If I was to speculate, I'd say the stats for either marking it or crumbing by blokes running toward goal from the fifty or out the back are better than those for cleaning up after a spoiled lead, offensively and defensively. 

Dunno. What're the stats on our returns from different types of entries in games we win vs games we lose? Not sure it actually matters; missed shots on goal is the most important stat in footy.

Cheers, Champ. Devastated  that I will no longer be able to bellow "HIB-BOW-AH!" at the tele every time he gets the ball...

1 minute ago, Demons11 said:

Give me a f..kin spell you Goodwin haters.  They lost it with to many missed opportunities.  The coach can’t kick it for them FFS 

Two talls in the backline. We don’t win with two talls. 

Wet weather. Play slow. Kick behinds. Lose.

On 8/20/2023 at 3:53 PM, Cheap Seats said:

How old is darling? 

Not telling, darling... 

10 hours ago, Roost it far said:

Whilst I agree umpire bashing is pointless the standard of umpiring across the game is way below standard for the biggest game in town. Then there’s ARC!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARC!

With the caveat that this is mildly tongue-in-cheek and obviously exaggerated, would Binman please explain himself? I took my seat in the top deck of the G — amidst a throng of similarly-bearded amateur tacticians — expecting to observe an outfit at the peak of conditioning whizzing about the turf in uncatchable arcs. But they didn't turn up. In their place I witnessed the stodgy, second-to-it, fumblemaniac leadfoot brigade of the mid-season-preseason struggle to propel the ball over the goal line from 40. Slip n' slide conditions acknowledged, where was the energy?

On 7/3/2023 at 2:19 PM, beelzebub said:

The oddest thing just occurred to me about our game plan.  In a sense its like a picture formed by folding a paper about the middle resulting in a mirror image.

Our foward play is all but exactly what we try to force opposition teams to do. Our defenders deny opponents fowards arial superiority, we force the ball wide to the flanks.. We pressure the ball.  We deny the corridor and rebound into attack...   The most bizarre thing then seems to occur once we get past the middle is we adopt all of those attributes. We try to get the ball from the arial entries  ( aka bombing ) only to end up going into the flanks and pockets ourselves. 

You have to ask....if we dont think having the ball towards the boundary is beneficial for our opponents in their fwd 50...why would we suppose it will work for us ??

We seem keen leading to pockets when really you should be leading out of them.

Strange game...our style of footy.

Occurred to me that the kick into the pocket plays a defensive role. If we turn it over, the oppo is already hemmed in and therefore it's easier for us to keep it in our fifty. My 2c

Debacle in de desert….