Demongirl35

Hopefully not an on going thing this year or for the rest of his(Mays) career Makes me want us to make a play for McKay at years end

can tell footy is back. I’ve been stress free for months and now hearing all these outs prior to round 1 is stressing me haha

Fritta is the only one out of the three I wanted to play this weekend. Feel more confident with him in the forward line

Waiting patiently all day having some bevs, then head over to the G with the fam. Can’t wait!!

JVR round 1 Blake Howes mid year and I’m going to throw a Smokey out there…. Deakyn Smith to take over from Hibberd at one stage

The way he acted when he came off seems to me that he does feel like while training and it’s annoying him. Hopefully doesn’t get any worse during the season

I was standing on the sidelines where Trac ran off and he was [censored]. He said “I just want to be able to train properly” in a angry way. Definitely more to it I feel

Is training today at gosch’s? Thinking of heading over if they are

Last year Goody was obsessed with players eventually getting better whilst playing in the best 22 when there was players worthy of coming in and having a crack in the same position. Grundy/Gawn, Tmac, Brown and Rooey is too tall yes but I hope if one or two are left out of the best 22 we can learn to bring in one of them if they’re playing well in the 2nds and someone in the 1s isn’t. It was driving me nuts last year! He was obsessed with keeping the same team every week which I get a tiny bit but if someone is now in their third/fourth week and they’re playing average well they need to learn it’s not acceptable and you will be replaced

Lever or Trac for me in the next handover

I noticed that too when I went to training on the 9th of Jan. we lacked that last year after having it in 2021. Which I do get it, they did just win the premiership and it happens. This year we have a couple of players with points to prove/last crack at it Grundy - point to prove/at the back end of his career. Schache- last chance at it. If this doesn’t work out for him he’s career is done. Melks- Last chance Tomlinson - Last chance with us Chandler-most likely last chance with us I know last year we had a few players in the same position but I don’t think the other players were really motivated but I think they’re hungry again. Lever looks like a man on a mission and he gets really annoyed when he stuffs up and you can see it in his face he wants to make up for a mistake and that’s just at training. May is an competitive beast and hates losing Maxy looks to have found a new twinkle in his eye with Grundy’s inclusion. Tomlinson trained like a man that will not accept being in the 2’s anymore. JVR looked like a young man who knows it’s his time to shine. To me at training it was like they had last year off and they’ve missed it so much and never want to be away from footy again.. if that makes sense.

Pre season team B: Lever May Rivers HB: Gus Turner Salem C: Hunter Oliver Langdon HF: ANB Jvr Spargo F: kozzy Petty Fritsch R: Gawn Trac Viney int: sparrow Grundy Harmes Bowey sub Tmac I’d like to see Petty up forward for a preseason game and see how Turner hold his ground down back. If it doesn’t work then in round 1 you can have Turner out, Petty back in defence and tmac up forward with Gawn/grundy eventually coming in during the game. Need to start getting Turner in there to learn off Lever and may because he can eventually replace May.

I definitely saw ooze there

Great report JVR with out a hair cut in Pettys number took me a while to realise who it was. Max was taking great marks in the forward line but he’s kicking worries me After the drills at the end of the session they did some running and Benny brown, Jefferson and Kyah Farris-White led the way. Was really surprised after the session they had and everyone else looking cooked. One stage Farris-White led by about 10 metres from The group. Pig pulled out of the running towards the end with some sort of complaint Really liked the way Rivers was training also. Seems to have some spark back.

Kozzy, Petty, Hunter and Oliver I haven’t seen also Goodwin I haven’t seen Brayshaw, May and Harmes in rehab from the seniors

Isaac keeler?

I was okay with him leaving and understand but the more I hear him speak about he knew from round 14 after meeting them the more I’m getting Jeremy Howe and Tom Scully anger haha kick in the guts that he still couldn’t give us the rest of the year before checking out

Yeah I have worked at a couple of vfl clubs and know a couple of people who are good friends with some in the afl and the stories are shocking. Lots of money means lots of abuse on nose sugar that’s for sure. I’ve also seen a few afl players out after a game and wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve chewed all their gums from the inside of their cheeks off… pretty disturbing to look at no matter who you are.

Have a friend who works at Essendon who mentioned tippa was going to retire as his heart isn’t in the game and just doesn’t have the worth ethic to train and obviously let himself go abit for football standards.. strange he wants back in

Would we take hunter for Tomlinson? hunter fits need for us on the wing yet Tomlinson is depth .. do we take a player we sort of need over a player who might not get a game again for us

Hoping JVR and disco are regulars next year. This guy started talking to me about football last night and asked who I went for and told him, said he saw Gawn out running on the tan and had a little chat to him when he was walking. Asked about Tracs leg, maxy apparently said yeah he was pretty shot and so were many others underdone but they’re all determined to get fixed and ready. He’s hungry than ever to do it all next year and that they really burned watching this years Gf. The fella said you can see it in Maxys eyes he wants another flag bad. Fingers crossed

Had about 30 people over and watched the game on one tv.. last year they would have watch it on their own. Probably another reason. People going to pubs and stuff

Before last year, watching grand finals made me jealous and made me picture what id think it be like to be at our home winning one. This year, watching the parade (although I’m glad we didn’t get that [censored]) and all the build up, seeing celebrations, bbqs and so on made me burn. I was always 50/50 on being satisfied by our club winning but yesterday made me realise I’ll always be happy for the club but I’ll never be a satisfied Melbourne member until I get to enjoy it ALL! Fingers crossed for a big 2023!!

Turner, JVR and woey id like to see more of next year in the 1s Preseason games and even round 1 I’d love to try Turner, May and lever down back. Petty and JVR up forward. Woey in Vineys spot and rotate off half forward. Rather give it a crack preseason and round 1 then get to the last few rounds and we’re too scared to try anything else even though something might not be working anyway

The question is do they want too? Is that where they want to play Would we be silly not to ask naughton that question and get in his ear. Would make us a much better team than Jackson I reckon