Dee Viney Intervention

I think so. Tairon is a bit of a gentle giant. Stingrays staff were wanting him to play with much more physicality. Stingrays boys were put through a pretty brutal pre season training campaign. During one of these conditioning sessions at Seaford Tairon as well as another player collapsed both were taken to hospital. I think Tairon would struggle with demands of AFL football. If he slides he may be a rookie or late pick selection.

I am very open minded about who we get as our next coach but am leaning towards Buckley. I would ask 2 questions during the interview process 1/ How do you view our forward line and what would you do to improve it 2/ How would you improve our mid to forward line connection. whoever gives the best answers then give them the job. I don’t think we are that far away if we can solve our forward line efficiency. It is our Achilles heel.Has been for years.

For me Robbie Flower just shades Max. If not for injury I think would have been Jackovich. An absolute freak that had it all. Sincere apologies to the Ox.

Why bother, he’ll only be called for a trip anyway.

When Langdon goes to Daicos and the Collingwood players come for him to protect their player which they will I want to see some pride and passion from the Melbourne players. Stand up for your teammate and your club. If I see post game cuddles and jumper swapping with Maynard or Moore that will just about do me.

The Eyebrow with legs has done it again. Quirk. Melbourne Storm are one of the best run sporting organisations in the country. I dream of the day we are as well run and as successful as they are. Sure is. Elite player development, leadership and player culture. A real benchmark. The only thing we have in common with the Storm is that we too have breached salary cap ohhhh and we share AAMI Park.

The Eyebrow with legs has done it again. Quirk. Melbourne Storm are one of the best run sporting organisations in the country. I dream of the day we are as well run and as successful as they are.

I hope AJ is first name on the team sheet for this game. Lock him in a room at Casey and feed him raw meat. Two people I have in mind.

Ultimately this is the right call as we need to go in a new direction, interesting timing and handling though. Forever grateful for 2021 to share that moment with my daughters was incredibly special. Thanks Goody, maybe a minutes applause at the 21 minute mark of the first quarter would be a nice touch and then we can look forward to a new chapter. Go Dees!!!!!!!

Will be intriguing to see our selections for “touch football this week”

Great article thanks for posting. Change is clearly needed. The only members of the coaching panel that have been regulars are obviously Goody, Chaplin and Chocco. Bassett, Jones and Russian are new to the panel. For me Goodwin needs to go. It is unfortunate but the time is right and the longer he stays I believe he is slightly tarnishing his legacy and harming his chances of future employment especially as a head coach as our losses keep mounting. I just hope it is done respectfully and that he is not made a scapegoat. In my opinion we need to also move on Richardson and Chocco and thank them for their services. Tim Lamb should also be looked at. You could also look at Selwyn but that is a hell of a lot of change. I would like to see Enright as head coach with Bartel as football operations manager with any further changes to staff be on their needs or recommendations or to comply with soft cap. The players also cannot be absolved as well there needs to be some big calls made in this space as well.

The lack of awareness at this club is alarming. The amount of “red time goals we concede. You just know it’s coming. The opposition player that has a day out against us eg Moir. In fact I would Love to see a stat of Rising star nominations when Melbourne was the opponent. No game management, no awareness of the clock or situation. None. Surely this is trained, surely there is some scenario based training. Repeat stoppage, chip the ball around even if just for a minute or two then long down the line near the boundary. To have Kossie on the bench at that moment of the game. To give away a 6/6/6 with that amount of time. That kick was only going to go to one player in the forward line and we couldn’t identify that. The club has to act, there must be change. I wasn’t alive to see the Red Fox but to think we once sacked a coach, a multi premiership coach, a legend of the club because to finish 4th was not good enough for the Melbourne Football Club. It is a no brainer. For the good of the Melbourne Football Club it has to happen. To do nothing and maintain the status quo is a lack of awareness and quite frankly a lack of courage and leadership.

Andrew Dillon is the “Bonnie Blue” of AFL CEO’s in that he’s managed to [censored] the game more times in record time.

Remember we are building something. Leaving no stone unturned. We will not waste a day, a second , a training session. Reeks of self preservation. However the player also needs to take responsibility for putting his hand up if not fit to play. Trac has some form in this space. In 2021 we were selfless as a club. We have gone away from that and we are now where we are. It’s incredibly disappointing. Use the rest of the season to look at the list, try players in different positions. Do something, anything then at the end of the year we need to make changes to the list and staff. It’s clearly not working. It’s time to be brave and make some big decisions for the good of the club. Stop being so stereotypically conservative.

Would rather Max Gruzewski from the giants. I don’t want a swing man I want a specialist forward that will lead, launch at the ball, bang some bodies and kick straight.