Bring-Back-Powell

If we’re going with the JVR, Petty and Turner combo again (and Jefferson doesn’t come on) they simply need to kick more goals. We were AFL #14 for points which tells me that our 3 talls need give a fair bit more. Particularly Petty who kicked 9.15 from 18/19 games as a forward and maybe 1/2 games as a defender. That is quite frankly atrocious. I don’t know how you spin it anyway. JVR should aim for a minimum of 38 goals but ideally into the low 40’s next year. Turner was probably the surprise packet of the year given we all assumed he’d be a defender this year. 17 goals from 15 games suggests to me that he’s capable of a 30 goals season. He’s a quality set shot. So in answer to the question, the club must be satisfied with their forward stocks and didn’t see the need in recruiting B Graders in the form of Membrey, Day or Darling.

No AFL highlights on the MFC forum for Sharp but there’s a dodgy clip of one of his AFL goals on YouTube. edit - tried to post on this thread but no luck

That's actually his strength as a player. He does something with it. Quality not quantity. His inside 50 entries are elite and something our club could only dream of. I can see your point about Butters, Rozee and JHF getting all the attention though.

Agree with this. Listened to McClure last night who is so desperate for Santa to deliver him the Oliver trade for his Christmas present. Not a word spoken about Oliver last night after dedicating 50% of very show last week to him.

If he's not in the main group on day 1 pre season, then I think we all know where this is heading again. Needs a massive December on the track and avoid soft tissue injuries for the entire summer.

McClure on 3AW said it was completely unfair on all the VIC clubs and could not believe this was going ahead. At the end of the day, it's their home ground. They're entitled to play as many games they like down there. Their home finals get played away from their home ground, which more often than not is their undoing.

Yes please. But I know that ship has sailed. Absolute gun. Reigning 2 X All Australian and has previously kicked the winning goal after the siren from 55 meters out in wet conditions are probably an indication

I'm struggling to see the outrage in this as per above. Means that one more VIC powerhouse has to go down to pay Geelong (eg - Carlton, Essendon or Collingwood) rather than JUST the usual third class citizens like us, the Dogs and North. Having said that, nothing surer than Collingwood playing Geelong once next year, with Collingwood being the home team. Or if they do play twice, Geelong will be the home team.... .....at Gather Round.

Any chance we can trade Tomlinson to Collingwood for a future 4th rounder rather than letting him walk as a delisted FA. I'd actually rather keep him as you can never have enough depth and he'll give you a solid 6/10 performance most weeks when he's recalled to the seniors?

100% spot on with Montagna, but he’d had enough of us by years end, and rightly so.

I don’t see the issue of a token debut in a token game of footy that was round 24. The game was absolute bush league level. We were clearly shooting for a higher draft pick given the high probability that St Kilda and Suns were winning. If we were fair dinkum we wouldn’t have warehoused May and got Lever out of his sick bed. Compare the effort we put in against the Suns compared to the Pies. Therefore what harm would’ve it done giving Sestan or Jeffo a taste?

With the lack of appetite and application we brought into the round 24 game against Collingwood (compared to the prior week) hindsight says we could’ve debuted Sestan and Jefferson for that game to give them a taste of AFL footy against a high quality club.

20 touches and a goal. Quality not quantity?? Who knows, I doubt many of us saw the game.

Not the latter.

Had a read of the Brisbane Bigfooty forum and the overall vibe about Sharp was positive: Reasonably disappointed to see him go Excellent athletically Was said to be dominant in an early season VFL game over Casey which may have piqued our interest MCG will suit his playing style and Langdon could be a good mentor Disposal iffy (but who hasn't got iffy disposal at the MFC) And some here say comments: Apparently Fullarton and his Dad not are not overly excited about being at the MFC. A certain someone that is no longer on the list will be a positive for the MFC in terms of behavioural and cultural issues. The player was mentioned numerous times on their forum.

Collinwood must have remembered Tomlinson's career best game against them in Kings Bday 2023, the one where he got dropped the following week.

He was appointed as interim CEO of Collingwood at the end of 2022 so he's already had exposure to the role.

SEN just interviewed their footy manager Danny Daly. He confirmed that we've shown heavy interest in Sharp and gave the impression that they won't stand in his way unlike another club I can think of. Fair possibility he'll be with us next year.

Hunter signed a 5 year contract prior to the 2019 season with the Dogs to take him through to the end of 2023. Therefore we either extended his contract by 2 further years when he came across to us at the end of 2022 or his solid 2023 season set off a trigger. As for Sharp, his PB at AFL level is an 18 possession 1 goal game against the Suns earlier this year and he also had a 19 possession 3 goal game in one of the VFL finals just gone.

McClure actually gets a lot wrong. In addition to the Harley Reid drafting stuff up that he muffed, he also came up with this zinger almost a year ago in regards to Opening round 2024: ”Tonight I can reveal exclusively on air that the AFL will be sending Collingwood and Essendon up to Sydney for the inaugural opening round 2024 to play Sydney and GWS”

I’ve never heard of a person more desperate for an AFL trade to happen than Sam McClure wanting Oliver to head to Geelong. It’s as if he wants Clarry to go to Geelong more than Clarry himself.

Re the easier fixture: If we had Fremantle's 2024 fixture who finished 14th in 2023, we'd play the following teams twice in 2025 based on 2024 rankings: GWS, Hawthorn, Carlton, Collingwood, Gold Coast and Richmond. Is that really that much easier on paper?

In an ideal world, Jeffo comes into our forward line and produces, and then Petty returns to defence. Whether he's ready for a JVR type 2023 season is the question?

The forward line is yours Shane for the first 3 weeks (provided you can get thorough pre season)

A win over St Kilda on Sunday and we’re back in the finals hunt.