Bring-Back-Powell

When a listener called Dwayne to take him to task about the Jackson comments he absolutely confirmed that he didn’t believe Jackson would make it as a ruck. This was seperate to the above recording you provided. That’s what prompted me to start the discussion.

If we get scheduled at the MCG round one I hope it’s against a low drawing opposition so nobody misses out on a ticket.

I can understand the rationale behind Melksham behind 3rd on the list as kicking is the single most important component of football, and Melksham setting up someone for a shot on goal is a thing of beauty. However he was so poor this year that one wonders if he’ll even get a regular game next year.

Ahh yes. Mods, please change the date to 3 December if you wouldn't mind.

Was listening to SEN and Derwayne mentioned that Jackson won't make it as a ruck and the only way he'll carve a career in this league is if he's played exclusively as a key forward. Is he jumping the gun? Does he have a point? Was Jackson that poor in his one game as starting ruck V's North and as a relief ruckman in his other 5 games? Be interested to hear what you all think his best position will be. Thought Russell was being a little too harsh on the back of a 200cm kid having a 6 game taste. ADMIN EDIT: Here is the actual audio. ADDITIONAL ADMIN EDIT: Found the call:

We paid far too much for Lever and his reputation (based on his 2017 season) exceeds his on field performance. Frost at Hawthorn was just as good as Lever this year. However, Lever's ability to position himself and take a clutch mark in close games is impressive and important.

O Mac seems like the ultimate confidence player. When his confidence is sky high, he’s leading a defence that concedes just 6 goals in an elimination final win over Geelong. When his confidence is rock bottom he’s sent down to full forward just to stay out of the way in a dismal Sydney Swans loss in Cairns.

I feel Simon's at the top of his coaching game and has hit a real sweet spot in his development, particularly during the last season and a half: 1) Swinging Bayley Fritsch from defense to attack in a shock move during a late season 2019 game against the Dogs and having the courage to keep him there for the rest of the season, when nobody else could fathom such a positional move. 2) Taking Harmes out of the midfield in round 23 2019 and enabling his career to further flourish in a multi positional role, rather than simply tagging the opposition's best midfielder such as Lachie Neale. Good thing Lachie didn't get the 3 brownlow votes when we played them this year...oh wait... 3) In a further cutting edge bombshell, he elected to throw Melksham in the midfield for the last 2 games of the season for an impressive return of 12 and 8 possessions. I'm not sure if he was tagging that day, but I'm sure he would've been a far better option than Harmes regardless. With cutting edge tactical moves such as the above examples, I don't believe ladder finishes or finals exits are true indicators or KPI's to assess Simon and ultimately setting a pass mark.

I would replace 40 with 30. With lower scores these days, less and less players are kicking 40 a season. Come round 8 and if he's kicked just 5 or 6 goals, he can hand the keys over to T Mac or M Brown. Should be having at least 3 shots at goal a game given he'll be getting the number 2 key defender, and kicking his 2.1 or 1.2 per week for a total of 33-35 goals for the season. He kicked 1.0 in the last 4 games of the year. That was unacceptable.

Is this a bitter blow for the club?

At the end of 2019 I would've been doing cart wheels at the thought of winning 1 final and bowing out in the semis. However, seeing a bog ordinary side such as St Kilda win a final over a side that went to sleep for 2 quarters suggests that winning one final isn't that great an achievement. He'll certainly survive if we make the finals, but I'd love to see us start beating the Richmond's, Geelongs, Brisbanes, Ports and West Coasts of the league - go 50/50 against those mobs and eventually make and lose a prelim in respectable fashion. l'd call that a successful season IMO.

Finals at the absolute bare minimum. However the club will have a big decision to make if we get pumped in week 1 finals and have a record of say 2-7 against the top 8 sides.

Good stats there. I'm surprised McKay only kicked 2 more goals than Weid, as I though McKay had a much better year than Weid. Hipwood is over-rated except for the game he kicked 5 against us in 5 minutes in 2019. Schache has been a poor selection pick 2. Himmelberg had a poor year by his standards but is a good player.

I'm not an ANB fan (except for in 2018) but he did actually play pretty well in the last couple of games and kicked some ripper goals. I'm OK for him be on the list.

As per the thread title, he's very much welcomed at the MFC.

It's most certainly still deliberating but he gets a resounding credit in the bank for picking Oliver in that same draft. At the moment JT overpaid but in fairness Weid isn't yet in his mid-late 20's which is the prime years of an AFL player. We can make the final judgement in a few years.

No. A top 10 key forward draft pick heading into his 6th season of footy should be assuming the number 1 key forward who attracts the opposition's premier defender, ie - Darcy Moore or Harris Andrews. And we as supporters should have complete confidence that a highly fancied top 10 KPF draft pick will absolutely thrive in that role by season 6. The fact that we got Ben Brown kind of sums up where the Weid is at the moment. A handy second or third KPF but, no where near ready to be "the man".

The fact that a proven good and integral part of our side was playing suburban QLD scratch matches by the end of the season was an epic disappointment. Not sure who should cop the blame? Goodwin for playing him in a non preferred position or Harmes for not adapting.

Is the best full back in the league. Stops the premier oppostion forward and is a high possession gatherer and efficient. Moore - 13 touches a game Andrews - 10 touches a game May - 16 touches a game Probably lost All Australian because Gunstan and Lynch got a hold of him in the early rounds.

Sadly we got flogged by the Pies in round 2 by 106 odd points and round 17 by about 9 goals. We didn't play a Queens birthday game that year. North played Freo at the G that day. We beat Collingwood by about 8 goals in the 1996 Queens Birthday, in another terrible mid-late 90's MFC season.

Wow you're keen. 1997 was an absolute debacle of a year, after such a promising round 1 win over the reigning premiers in North Melbourne on opening night (who remembers the days when Carlton and Richmond didn't have a mortgage over the season opener?) Not sure if we were injury riddled or didn't have the talent but we were putrid that year and copped some awful floggings. Rare highlights of that year were beating Richmond on a Saturday night the week after Balme was sacked, stunning Carlton after a month of floggings and knocking Freo out of the finals in the last game. I would say 1997 was our second worst season of the post 1987 ERA behind 2013. Perhaps 2008 was ever so slightly better than 1997??

I agreed with the shortened season but I didn’t agree with the shortened games/quarters. The shortened games cheapened the product IMO.

Gil got an unprecedented amount of credit for getting a season competed but at the end of the day we were the only code in the world that shortened all of their games and minimised it’s product.

It was absolutely brilliant to be honest.

Don’t like it at all but until a vaccine rocks up, then you can’t really argue with this approach. Hope we play a low drawing team at the G in round 1, so most if not all fans can attend.