Bring-Back-Powell

Round 14 2017. The night he played a game the likes of Fyfe, Dangerfield and Martin dominate, as we had one of the all time great wins of this club. Would be amazing if he can return to that kind of form after a (touchwood) finally strong pre season.

I suspect you’re correct in that Kardinia Park wouldn’t work for our supporter base. We’d be lucky to get 6,000 against an interstate side down there. I was just wondering if we or another VIC side would get a guaranteed cheque for hosting a game for the city of Geelong. GMHBA stadium is expected to have a 40,000 stadium so you’d think there’s opportunity to play more AFL games there than just Geelong’s 9 a year.

And yet some people around here wouldn’t even have him in our best 22. Would walk into anyone’s best 22 with his crisp kicking and goal kicking nous. Players that would feature in other best 22’s. Gawn - obviously. Melksham - as mentioned above. May - one of the better full backs in the league. T Mac - 50 odd goals despite missing the first 5 games of the year gets you a gig. Oliver - one of the best young mids in the game. Does things others can’t. Maybe: Brayshaw - 25 odd Brownlow votes gets you a gig but I’m hoping he’s not going to live off that achievement for the rest of his career. Very good midfielder who once had a 37 possession 3 goal game. Poor 2019. Salem - has a good shoe but tends to fade late in seasons. Lever - A former All Aust 40 squad member who’s an excellent interceptor of the pill. Hasn’t shown anything near elite in his time with us. Fritsch - This season will prove whether he’s the real deal as a full time fwd presumably. Needs to kick 40 to be considered a gig with the big boys. Apparently Richmond and Collingwood have kept an eye on him if your believe rumours. Petracca - Has elite traits but just goes missing after playing a blinding quarter. Will 2019 be his year?

Complete hypothetical here, but if we were to transfer a home game or 2 to Kardinia Park and/or Casey Fields would we make a guaranteed profit on the game? Might be heading that way if we make a series of losses.

MCG home games: Gws - 30/70 FRE - 80/20 Rich - 20/80 Port - 60/40 WB - 50/50 Coll - 30/70 GC - 90/10 St k - 50/50 Syd - 60/40 Carlt - 70/30 I say we go 6-4 in our home MCG games. Need to then beat dons and hawks as away games. 8-5 at the G. Need to then beat Saints at Marvel and then win 4 of 7 interstate to guarantee finals

The club (and us supporters) will surely be asking question of Weid this time next year if he’s had another injury and form riddled year. Big concerns if he’s still needing Casey to re-boot on multiple occasions. As for the draft, it will be interesting to see how Georgiades turns out. I guess it’s a little disappointing the club didn’t get what they truly wanted.

He's faded badly in seasons 2017 and 2019. Will obviously start next year in the best 22, but needs to work on his consistency for the entire year.

I'd have Mitch Brown and possible even Petty ahead of him. I'd have more confidence in those 2 contributing more.

The second poster in the off season to suggest Melksham isn't good enough to make the best 22. Unless you guys are predicting a sudden downturn in form next year, Melksham would be one of the first picked. Infact, I'd go as far to say Melksham is the best kick at the club. Seen those inside 50 bullets he's capable of and the classy goals he kicks. We sorely missed him last year as we slumped to a 2-8 record without him.

Let's start the improvement by beating perennial mediocre sides such as North and St Kilda, as well as avoiding 9 goal losses to bottom 4 sides under lights at the G. Once we can achieve the above objectives I will contemplate the possibility of finals.

Be interesting to see how Petty goes up forward as the number 3 key fwd behind T mac and Weid/M Brown. Remember the games he played up forward he only had Preuss, Smith or O Mac as support - none of which are (were) any good as forwards.

Could not possibly agree any more. The Carlton game this year completely summed up our reliance on T Mac. An in form T Mac kicks 6 goals to 3 quarter time and we're flying with a 30 point lead. He then gets injured, misses the last quarter and we get outscored 5.4 to 1.3 and almost lose the game. Then of course we lose the remaining 7 games in his absence. Excellent balanced report. Certainly a lot more critical than the other reports but that's fine.

I doubt anyone around here needs apologies for providing us Demon tragics with MFC related entertainment.

Mr Demonland can you please prepare the 2010-2019 ladder for Kardina Park/GMHBA. I'd say we'd be equal top with one win.

Yes exactly. McCartney implied (in a recent SEN interview) that the coaching staff thought we were poor on the most part against Hawthorn in the semi and the writing was on the wall after the game. I doubt however that they predicted we’d amass a half time prelim score of 0.6.6.

Agree with both delistings, however both can consider themselves a littler unlucky considering Josh Wagner received an extension. Could have easily re-signed one of the two and delisted Wagner.

I wonder if it was a genuine de-listing or a mutual parting of ways. Still reckon he had a little left in the tank and at worst would've been handy depth for our small forwards.

Was that the side that lost by 58 point in their one and only final and didn't get an ounce of scrutiny from the media. Meanwhile the year before we lost a final by only 8 more points (despite winning 2 earlier finals) in hostile territory and extreme heat, and the media portrayed that loss as a crime to humanity.

I wonder who the four poor buggers are? If Buckenara's on the payroll he'd have Harmes as poor and Josh Wagner above average.

Yes, Fritsch looked like a fish out of water when they inexplicably threw him up forward late in the season,

I definitely have that feeling too. I hope it’s not Petracca as he has more weapons and point of difference than Brayshaw.

1. We finish 11th with a 10-12 season. I simply can't predict us making finals off a 5 win season and playing largely disgraceful footy. 2. We'll beat the mediocre side that made us look like fools last year - St Kilda, North, Sydney. 3. Harmes to stick it up Cornes and make the All Australian squad (but not the final 22). He's making exponential improvement each year to the point where he dominated a game of footy and got the 3 BL votes against Hawthorn this year. 4. Petracca to have a career best year with 30 goals as a hybrid mid-fwd. 5. Gawn to be the sole ruckman in the AA side and proves to the footballing public that he's the clear number one. I'll take Gawn's ruck-work over Grundy's 50 taps straight to the GWS midfield in the prelim. 6. We'll no doubt get our fair share of injuries but not to the extent of 2019. 7. Bennell to make his MFC debut in round 11 against Hawthorn. Our first "away game" win to them since 2006. 8. Langdon to be an excellent recruit. Tomlinson not so much (already incurring an interrupted pre season) 9. We'll be around 9th-11th on the ladder all year. 10. We finally get that elusive scalp against one of Richmond, Collingwood or West Coast. But only one of them.

Unfortunately Hibberd’s approaching 30 and his best day are probably behind him. I thought he had a poor 2019 and just seemed really off all year.

Plans to be in full training by start of Feb 1 by all reports. Could a May 3/ Round 6 AFL return be too unrealistic. Two months of full training. 4 games at Casey?? At the very least he should be in the AFL by the mid season bye if all goes well.

I’m assuming this selection is based purely on the infamous Sydney round 22 game when we literally ran out of key forwards (apart from Keilty who wasn’t AFL standard) and the list management department were made to look like fools in that game. We can’t have a repeat of this fwd line again: HF - Petracca Melksham ANB F. C Wagner Fritsch Chandler You’ve rightly pointed out his flaws, but for someone that kicked a bag of 4 in a prime time Friday night win this year (and two 3 goal games), I think he’s a pretty good depth pick up.