Bring-Back-Powell

Agree with you on stability. It's a pity we had to leave the NSW hub, and a pity we couldn't host Brisbane and Port at Giants Stadium despite them being our home games. We've played out best footy of the year at Giants Stadium and Goodwin appeared genuinely disappointed at having been forced to leave Manly in his post match presser Vs Hawthorn. I had a gut feel that having to establish a second hub in the space of only a couple weeks may have taken its toll on us and we played accordingly against Port. Be interesting to see how Geelong go tonight and Monday as they re-establish at their next hub. Collingwood had an overall poor WA trip after their first (Sydney) hub.

I’m flabbergasted (in a good way) that we could potentially be one of the unassisted clubs. I thought we were a financial basket case? Can we trust Tom Morris?

Melksham's one of the rare players at the club that can kick a ball properly and through the big sticks. He stays.

Surely it's not true that O Mac has been our most recent nomination in 2006. Can't be right. Rivers played a very good debut game and may have been on track for a nomination this year, but couldn't keep it up the following 2 weeks. Kozi may get one later in the year but flashes in and out of games too much. Charles Spargo may have been a little stiff in 2018 to not get one but hasn't had a sniff since.

Good news that could become bad news if he ends up missing multiple games because we didn't take a precaution like all the professional sides do.

IN - Tomlinson, Smith, V'Berg, Bennell OUT - Gawn, O Mac, Hannan, Jones I really rated O Mac's performances against GC and Hawthorn, but he did some ordinary things against Brisbane and was downright horrible against Port. Wouldn't mind giving J Smith some more experience now that finals are cooked (we ain't going 7-2 with a poor %) Hannan hasn't clocked in for the last 2 weeks and has to pay the price. Bennell for Jones seems logical if not like for like. Fritsch will be dropped if he has another poor game this week.

He's not the biggest disaster on the list and does have a crack when he plays, but is he even in the HUB? Has he played a game of footy in the last 6 weeks?

I think the North game will be a good test for us and it's a genuine 50/50 game. They'll trouble us in certain areas. But yeah, if we can't beat Adelaide we're in a world of pain.

If Preuss has played some scratch match minutes then I'd be bringing him as he played his best MFC game as the sole ruck against Kreuzer last year. But I don't think he is in contention. So in that case Jackson takes first ruck with Tomlinson taking 5 minutes a quarter. Tomlinson took some centre bounces in last year's finals series and also may have taken a few also at our MCG games we played earlier in the year. T Mac survives and we revert to a two talls forward line as opposed to the three which didn't work against Brisbane and Port. Looking forward to a little unpredictability. Soul destroying how Brisbane and Port leveraged off Gawn's ruck work. Simply not acceptable from our midfield and coaching staff.

They’ve certainly left us for dead as a club. Very sad, but full credit to St Kilda.

They’ve certainly left us for dead as a club. Very sad, but full credit to St Kilda.

Essendon were pathetic but did have a few guns missing from their best 22 as opposed to us who had 0.5 of our best 22 missing (Not sure if VDB is genuine best 22) We need to cop it from the media and own up to it internally. It was a disgraceful performance Vs Port.

Pert called one of my family members in response to a polite but critical email his way after either the Geelong or Richmond loss. He’s certainly engaged with the members, so credit to him in that department.

Excellent and hard hitting questions by Gibson (unless Mahoney wrote the questions himself). Sounds like 5-5 is the bare minimum after our SA trip. And well done to Ben for interviewing a fired up Steve May last night . Made for very good viewing and Fox footy showed snippets of it today.

Is Peter Rhode still looking for a gig?

I'm flabbergatsed too with Harmes. This is a guy that pretty much got best on grounds in the GWS round 23 and Geelong elimination final wins in 2018. It was looking like the sky was the limit for Harmes. I suppose at the end of the day he was missed out on national draft selection and is playing accordingly at the moment.

Salem was garbage last night. The writer must have like his bleached hair because he literally did nothing all night.

May 6 votes due to his post game interview. Was the only highlight of the night.

Absolutely we'll drop one of Adelaide or North. I'm confident we'll have our obligatory ''backs to the walls" wins in one of the games only to revert back to type the following week. So predictable following this club.

The May interview was the best effort of the night. Refreshing to see a player genuinely angry and upset after a loss compared to the boring corporate drivel that we normally get from the players.

Adelaide may even get their first win this weekend.

The narrative is that we’ve improved from last year, and we probably have, but we were also 3-5 last year.

There has to be a ramification or two following that uncompetitive performance.

I thought T Mac built into the game nicely.

Are they up to the police station scene when they interview Sharon Stone. Much better than watching this crap?