Great Northern Summer

I cannot remember for the life of me the last time a player playing for a Victorian team requested a trade home to South Australia. Truly bizarre. Maybe Wanganeen? It just never really happens.

No, somehow managed to avoid that. I know that’s more common but more healable too.

I suspect Spargo has achilles tendinopathy. It’s a pain in the neck of an injury. I’ve battled through it for a decade, being a competitive runner. Generally it’s an ‘over 30s’ injury so he is very young to experience it. It can be season ending and career threatening.

Troy Wilson was even worse than both of them without doing anything. Half a dozen blokes ended up with long term injuries colliding into him in his first season. Noting, he didn’t play for MFC, but was a legend.

I'll put an asterisk next to your comment and one next to mine *In my opinion...

John is a regular contributor on one of the Melbourne Football club supporters facebook pages. He's certainly very very passionate about the club still and follows every moment.

Avoiding Collingwood was hardly an issue. Trying to forget about it now. We should have won that game. If we did finish 2nd we would have played the Lions anyway, at the MCG, which really wouldn’t have been any easier. Especially when we can’t kick at goal.

Going to be a bit petty here, but I preferred the numbers overlapping the red on the back rather than sitting completely below it all on the navy. It's what I grew up with and what we had until a few years ago (maybe 2017?). We should go back to it.

Unless North fold and offer picks 2 and 3, i'm fairly certain Reid will end up with us. WCE are just posturing. Like a previous poster or two said, there's absolutely no reason for WCE to deal before draft night. The top teams rely heavily on their absolute top end talent. This will certainly help us contend during this window if Reid is like an Oliver / Daicos / Ashcroft and ready-made straight away.

More I think about it, I really wonder whether a million dollar salary for five years and doubling the salary has suddenly made him ‘home sick’?

Let him go. Cash up now while we can. He’ll spend the rest of his career perennially injured anyway by the looks of it. His media expose today was pathetic and disrespectful to the club and fans. Hope the club calls him out on it and he avoids tearing up.

What you really mean by this is that Adelaide will get a special one-off concession from the AFL tomorrow as a result of its bungled Sydney loss to include one of either Gilbert or Adrian on its list, and it'll be that McAdam they'll be trading to us, not Shane. Seems fair to me!

At least it would be unlikely to cost $450 million!

Good outcome for us if it eventuates. Not only gets a road trip out of the way when we didn't play the week before, a week of sometime early in the season will also give us the chance to re-energise. A clear advantage to the four teams playing.

Cornes compared the Dunkley situation to Petty. There's a few differences that don't make it totally comparable - - Dunkley was in the last year of his contract; Petty has two years left - Dunkley was 25, Petty is 23 - Dunkley being more at the peak of his career than Petty is - Petty is more important to Melbourne (as a potential key forward) than Dunkley was to the Bulldogs (who have numerous midfielders)

I know. Leave aside the details and finer print, I'm just saying they're probably worth about as much as each other. Harmes at his peak probably had more strengths than Jordan who's relatively vanilla, but Jordan is younger...

About on par with Jordan, which 38 is

His first six kicks in his career were all free kicks in a match against us at the MCG from memory. Not one of them should have been paid - all dropping the shoulders. On that basis, it's against my principles to take him on :-)

Yes, I'm being serious. That man bent over backwards for me personally with my sporting injuries. I fully believe he was not involved in the Essendon drugs saga. He's one of the most creditable people I've ever met. You wouldn't find anyone that knows him that would say otherwise.

Fair call. She's no Bruce Reid though! He was the greatest.

Why a big loss? I'm sure we'll have a very competent and capable sports medicine doctor joins the ranks next season.

With achillies tendinopathy, probably a bit of a stretch. I know exactly what it's like!

Looks like he wasn't there according to earlier comments. I didn't watch it.

Did you know something the rest of us didn’t on 16 September in relation to (4) above @KingDingAling?

You either missed my point or I didn't explain myself clearly enough. If the latter, I'll clear things up now. Of course we would get 11 home games in Melbourne if we chose to call time on the Alice Springs game. No club plays 11 home games at the MCG, even Richmond and Collingwood are forced to play home games at Docklands, but that wasn't my point, whether we play 11 at the MCG or 10 at the MCG and 1 at Docklands. We play a certain number of interstate games a year - all bar one being away games. We play a certain number of away games at the MCG and Docklands. My point was that one of those 'away' games at the MCG or Docklands would probably end up being interstate if we pulled out of Alice Springs (for instance, against Hawthorn), so we would in effect play the same number of interstate games, whether we kept the Alice Springs game or got rid of it. I hope that clears things up and show's that my opinion probably does have some accuracy to it. Well it's not really an 'opinion', it's a suspicion...