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22 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

If JVR wasn't already a MFC cult legend, he's definitely that now.  Need to feed thIs guy the ball at every opportunity and help him to kick a bag of 5+ goals on the weekend.  Would be the best reward for the week he's just had.

Very proud of the club for not rolling over and taking in on the chin like the AFL wanted.

40 minutes ago, KC from Casey said:

Game over and a win to the Suns

CASEY DEMONS 4.3.27 6.9.45 10.9.69 13.14.92

GOLD COAST SUNS 2.3.15 8.4.52 13.8.86 17.10.112

GOALS

CASEY DEMONS Brown 3 Melksham J Smith 2 Bell Laurie Moniz-Wakefield Schache Sestan Spargo

GOLD COAST SUNS Sexton 5 Burgess McLaughlin 3 Derrington Oea 2 Harrington Jeffrey

BEST

CASEY DEMONS Howes Laurie Spargo Tomlinson Woewodin White

GOLD COAST SUNS Moyle Burgess Andrew Farrar Jeffrey Constable

Disposals Howes Tomlinson Woewodin 23 Spargo 22 Laurie 21

How does White get in the best players considering a lot of his disposals went to oppo

1 hour ago, Crystal Dees said:

Great goal to Laurie. He is really getting better and better as a footballer

 

Maybe he can do a Chandler bide his time and improve

15 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

Would not mind seeing Woewodin playing the small forward role today for a half or so to see how he goes.

Similarly play Laurie on the HBF for a while.

IMO fringe players are wise to develop in say two positions to maximise their chances of a senior game.

I wonder where we will see Joel S play today? Is he the Lever understudy or the secret weapon forward ?

Joel would make the perfect sub can play forward/back.

11 hours ago, Sydee said:

Agree that Joel is a chance if his form remains strong and he stays healthy. He is a bit frustrating because he certainly does have ability and "could" be quite dangerous as a forward if he can stay fit and focused. I thought his kicking for goal was surprisingly good last game also. Presumably he is also benefitting from Chocko's tuition in that space this season.

If he has sustained form, he'd be a great 3rd/4th forward or swingman down back or the ideal sub

12 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

The new AFL CEO in waiting Andrew Dillon was asked about whether he thought a 20th AFL licence was now inevitable once Tasmania was admitted to the competition. His response was that the AFL had, in the past, fielded an odd number of teams so he wouldn’t be drawn into a definitive position on AFL Team 20.

I personally believe that the 20th Team will happen simply because of the additional revenue that a 10th game in every round will bring.

But from where will AFL Team 20 come?

The Northern Territory, Canberra, perhaps another team from Perth or Adelaide or one of the regional centres of WA or SA?

Newcastle Raptors

1 hour ago, John Demonic said:

Great seeing Petty provide a contest, but he understandably has little forward craft or a set shot routine. Can't wait to see Ben Brown back out there alongside JVR 

What Petty gives us that Brown doesn't is second efforts and strength in the contests.

8 hours ago, cookieboc said:

Had no idea at the game what this 50 was for.

apparently, there is a protected area behind the man on the mark, which Lever enters to give away the 50. 

So, is it like running between the mark, a Richmond player could have entered the restricted area behind the man on the mark?

Dumb rule how does it disadvantage the kicker.

9 hours ago, layzie said:

What did you guys think of the umpiring?

Had me shaking my head, thought Richmond got the benefit of the doubt every time two examples out of many were taking the ball off Fritsch when he could've had a goal and Rioli not being penalised for a 50m in the centre of the ground and them getting a goal as a result. In other words the umpires had yellow and black bias. Also why does Martin always get more time to dispose of the ball.

7 hours ago, daisycutter said:

joke, joyce

knew it would trigger mr stone

Just thought of Graham Kennedy.

44 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

Yes!

At this stage bottom 4 appear to be:  North, Eagles, Hawks and GCS.  North and Eagles both traded down last year.  GCS might have an Academy player in the top 5 so may want to ditch their first pick.  GWS hold their own and Richmond's first pick.  At this stage both look like being top 10 picks.  GCS and GWS have shown willingness to be flexible in trading top picks.

Plenty of scope to package our available 3 first round and 3 second round picks.

Too many machinations to guess how we might get to a player we want. 

I thought we have 2xround 1s & 2xround 2s!

1 hour ago, 12345_54321 said:

Melbourne want to keep him and would sign him up tomorrow if they could but JJ (understandably) is holding off talks while his position in the team is still not certain. He doesn’t want to keep playing at Casey or as the sun and knows if he went elsewhere he’d get games week in week out. He has plenty of interest. He doesn’t want to leave, but he wants to play footy. Kade Chandler is in the same position. Plenty of interest, and just holding off to know his place in the team won’t get knocked off once all our big names return. The club want them both to stay. But they also wanted Bedford to stay last year by offering him a 3 year contract. Interesting position to be in. 

I reckon Bedford and Chandler were fighting for the same position.

14 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Choose another sub. Not Melksham 

The sub needs to be someone like a Smith who can play on a tall/short. Melksham whilst a great kick, doesn't get involved enough. He's the icing on the cake type of player. He plays okay when we are on top, but not so much when we aren't switched on. I was hoping that either JVR/Smith would've be given the vest last night as I wasn't confident Tom would play well and with Fritter playing first game back. The only positive is that Melks is 2 games closer to getting 100 games with us. I reckon he'll get there, but I'd be selecting a different sub for the Syd game.

13 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Certainly worked his way into the game as the solo ruck and credit to him. Needs to build some synergy with Trac and Clarry if we’re to win the centre clearances going forward.

He’s going to earn his money this year if Gawn’s out for weeks, but he’d love having the number 1 mantle to himself.

Shrewd recruiting by us. Imagine how we'd be without Grundy now that Max is out 

4 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

naughton is the best tall forward in the competition imo - his reading of the play and ability to take pack marks is second to none

fortunately, he's not the greatest kick in the world

our tall triumvirate of lever, petty, tomlinson worked very well together 

I'd love him at Melb, Choco could teach him to kick.

7 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

Everyone is over here death riding Freo. Meantime I am death riding Port, so Kosi goes to Kochi 

They have no draft capital

16 minutes ago, mo64 said:

I'm in the rather exclusive Bailey Laurie fan club. I thinks he's got some football smarts and is handy around goal. Hope the kid does well, but I think he may be a sub.

I like Laurie is a great kick for goal

Just now, Gator said:

Barassi left before I was born, so I won't include players I never saw.  From what I've heard it would be hard to go past Stuart Spencer, Barassi, and Mueller from year's gone by.

My 5 favourite players:

Flower, Gawn, Oliver, Petracca, Viney (experienced the worst of it)

My weighting is very much based on premiership players.  I never thought I'd see one, so these guys are my favourite.  It's a very easy decision for me over non premiership players.  But if you saw Robbie you couldn't leave him out.

The 5 best Melbourne players I've seen:

Flower, Gawn, Oliver, Petracca, May (not in order)

It's some feat for a non-premiership player to be included, but if you saw Robbie...

 

 

Flower, Schwarz, Gawn, Petracca and Oliver

6 minutes ago, defuture15 said:

Off to Freo training on Thursday.

Hoping to see the unicorn in his natural environment.

Any message you want passed on....that wont get me chucked out or arrested?

Hope he has his frequent flyer card ready, because he'll be in the air much more than had he stayed with us.

8 minutes ago, 58er said:

Sorry what's theBL? 

Brownlow?

7 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Not a bad punt.

Hopefully Freo win that, and we’re in the other prelim!

Hopefully Freo don't make the 8 and we get a better draft pick.

Just now, Jaded No More said:

Swirly wind now 

Appreciate the updates

3 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

screen caps from pert's presentation that is pertinent to this post

 

perhaps worth a 'sticky' in this thread, @Demonland?

Really like the Caulfield option.

On 2/18/2023 at 8:02 AM, Palace Dees said:

 

Does anyone know if they charge to watch????? Members I'd imagine wouldn't pay, but how about the average punter?

On 12/10/2022 at 7:41 AM, JimmyGadson said:

What a strange thread to start on a Melbourne football club supporters forum. 

100% agree