Bring-Back-Powell

AFL website reporting Carlton and St Kilda could play Thursday night.

Melksham has to go. 3/3 horrid performances. How does Goody get the best out of who I thought was our best field kick in the side??

The board will sell this as a re-build (we’re tons younger and inexperienced than Geelong ) as they can’t possibly sack Goodwin given the financial plight.

Who was the genius that decided to experiment Harmes as a midfielder today?

Seems like we’ve been the younger side in pretty much every games since 2008...

Agreed. It hurts watching the game at home.

They’re saying low grade at this stage so he’ll be borderline to play us in 2 weeks.

I know you mean that in jest but it bugs me that whilst 99.999% of Victorians have done the right thing and made all the sacrifices these past few month, just like you Queenslanders, we are the ones that miss on going to the footy. I heard one of your politicians say that Queenslanders have all done the right thing and now deserve to go to the footy. Well so sure as hell have Victorians despite a minority spoiling it for all.

Perhaps ring the club and they may assist? I doubt tickets will be sold to Victorians for obvious reasons. Edit - checked your profile and you’re from the GC, so you might be in with a chance.

They’ve been a disgrace since COVID-19 became an issue and I note that they’re the only state that isn’t assisting Victoria in their current testing blitz.

I was calling for a stand alone weekend while other sides have their mid season break and this article suggests it might happen. Hopefully we avoid a mid week game.

Howe to miss 2-16 weeks.

Probably the same thoughts about other states copping a COVID outbreak like we’ve got (given the rest of Australia’s lack of empathy and sympathy towards us) You obviously wouldn’t be happy if Howe’s our for weeks but at the same time you wouldn’t be upset for him either.

Might be one of those injuries where it looks worse than it actually is.

I thought Jetta was a bit stiff. The only time he lowered his colours in rd 2 was when he was on McKay who’s about 38 centimetres taller than him. I’m open minded about the changes, but it does seem very experimental at this stage. I hope the small forward line pays off. Hannan hasn’t fired a shot since late 2018 so he’ll need to perform on Sunday.

Agreed. At first I was disappointed that he was rested but now fully understand why. Playing a player on severely restricted minutes who also can't or won't provide any defensive pressure is not going to help us win a game. What happens if we cop an injury or two early? I'm looking forward to Bennell's career at MFC, but we need him playing 80-90% of games, not 50.

I want 4 points as much as the next bloke but I'm glad we didn't go down that path of sooking it up or going to the courts. We've been a laughing stock for too long and we need to earn our 4 points, rather than get them on default.

Agreed. Particularly if he had a good intraclub.

Yeah against the Hawks. Kicked 2 in a semi final as an 18/19 year old kid which is a fair effort. I've been as guilty as the next poster around here to bag him, but he's obviously got some attribute in order to be on an AFL list, I just can't put my finger on what it is.

St Kilda - 7 straight weeks in Melbourne.

What specifically? Surely not the bit about Clarkson being a better coach than Goodwin?

We should've kept Frost. End of story. The reason we let him go is because he was going to play at Casey at the expense of May and Lever being in the side- was the accepted consensus. That's a poor reason as he's not far off May and every bit as good as Lever as an AFL footballer. I'm surprised his shut down job on Ben Brown in round 23 last year didn't trigger the minds of the MFC brains trust that he should have been a priority signing. He's been outstanding for Hawthorn in their 3 games. Probably because that mob has a far better coach and a far better list management.

I heard he’ll be spending time on Hawkins and Rataguela.

We play better at Etihad than the G.

St Kilda - all 6 games in Melbourne to start the season. They better cop it in the neck in the second half of the season.