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1 hour ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

James Hird mentioned on today's edition of Footy Furnace (channel 9 streaming show) the following:

"Melbourne internally are quietly confident they're a top 8 team this year"

Make of that what you will.

Quiet, but we will tell James Hird…

There’s no need to speculate with disgraced former Matty Whelan bump recipients; the first 6 weeks will tell the FD where it is at.

1-0 heading into Freo (A), Carl, GC, Ess (N), Rich

Be 4-2 or better and talk to random so-so commentators about quiet confidence

15 hours ago, Dannyz said:

I think the current emblem is brilliant but the use of flamehead and other initiatives is important to captivate the younger audiences.

Emblem?

Logo?

Emblem

Logo

3 hours ago, BoBo said:

We have to sort this out now otherwise Kingy and crew won’t know what to do.

It’s round one… he is months away.

Even before Rd 1 - many of us were trying to explain that if we don’t keep up high intensity in our ability to run off the HB with the ball in hand - and we get timid and inert - we are going to get flogged. 7 goals in 15 mins type stuff.

The reason why it’s about what we do when we get the ball is because the best defence is an offence that can move the ball away from vulnerable areas quickly.

So I think that fans already calling for Lever to be dropped and CJ to be shipped back to Dingley should temper their nonsense while this group gets used to playing like this regularly for 120 minutes.

If your post starts with “my hawks mate reckons” - the you log off, go outside and hit yourself upside your head.

Honestly, what did YOU watch.

Have your opinion based on some reality and don’t be lead around the living room by a hawk supporting “mate” holding your Richard III.

48 minutes ago, Nasher said:

In one of Roo’s earlier goals, he and Mihocek started leading at the same ball. Mihocek aborted mission and blocked his opponent out Roo took the grab virtually uncontested.

I honestly could have cried with joy. Forwards who don’t interfere with each other. What a concept.

I remember that goal and 3 mins earlier JVR didn’t engage his opponent and he went over and spoiled Mihocek. I hope the vision is showed to JVR. It’s the only thing holding him back now, he is injury free, fit, and in a game style that suits him. He now has to be a part of a forward structure that works for each other.

1 minute ago, Fork 'em said:

To be fair I always thought stalling at CHF and waiting for the F50 to fill up with opposition players before bombing it to a pocket was nonsensical.

Absolutely. But if the ‘sense’ is keeping the opposition to 65 points - our gameplan of bombing to the pockets is true to that.

I just meant ‘the handball over the shoulder to get someone into space’ was nonsense at times but players must love it.

10 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

It was too loud for my 5 year old from Canberra. That’s fine. But can they play people’s songs right after their goal? They have a short bell or explosion before the song and it takes the sting out of the… sting.

Imagine Latrelle kicking THAT goal straight into “oops I did it again”…

SCENES

He looks very fit and uses that as a weapon to exploit the space in front of him.

Two things have helped him; the game style is quick and allows for JVR to take out in front without the need to engage his opposition. The second thing is Mihocek; he has come in and moves into the right spots and agitates defenders and engages them to allow for JVR to have space to follow into and/or to avoid having to have players peel off into the contest.

The next step for JVR is to build his awareness of when HE should engage his opponent to return the favour as that will be when we have a dangerous and effective forward line with talls that work for each other and are hard to close down.

Very good win and I really appreciate the game style. It’s hectic and at times nonsensical but it’s the way footy is going off the backline.

The recruits were all great; CJ off the half back was enterprising, Steele was so solid in the middle, and Mihocek is a professional forward that has created a structure for the others to succeed in.

Specifically on Mihocek; he engages his direct opponent and moves to spots that chafe and agitate the defenders to allow for JVR to lead into spots. I can’t help but wonder where we would have been with a player like this once BBB went down…

6 hours ago, Demons11 said:

Gawn is much better when he can ruck 90% of the time

‘And water is wet. News and sport at 11.’

The club would hope to have the next ruck on the list and we should use this year to see if it is Heath. He can also learn to play forward which will be more and more important with these new ruck rules.

But Max and the club can continue to want AA jackets if they want, I just don’t care in a year when we will win 8 games.

57 minutes ago, Melbournepotter said:

Noise after a Melbourne goal ? How about just the crowd cheering and no song.

The silence was more embarrassing than a collection of 80s/90s slop.

Although Daft Punk will be fun with Bayley if he can kick a few…

Contrary to popular nonsense on here they just need to lower their eyes and stop wishing for the world.

No, fans should not be the focus.

No, co-location of the suits should not be a focus.

Get an elite base for the athletes and FD to congregate near where they live and focus on that.

11 hours ago, adonski said:

Lots of Demonland would have subbed him at half time of the 2021 grandfinal for James Jordon, such is their lack of respect for our best forward of the last 5 or 6 years

Hope he lands a supermaxx extension

I’m sorry, I’m unfamiliar with this revision of history.

Seems to be made of straw.

He was excellent in that game.

He needs to do more now that we don’t have bulls in the midfield getting him silver service. Transition off the HB is again - where the game is won and lost - he needs to be better

17 minutes ago, chookrat said:

Is this his way of saying Caulfield is done wothout saying it directly.

The level of self-delusion here is startling.

It’s bordering on fan fiction.

‘No, no, they can’t be incompetent and misaligned… it’s actually 4D chess and they have already done it twice over. Yes, that’s it.’

58 minutes ago, Maximum said:

I'm confused. Will the Casey VFL team and Melbourne AFLW teams be playing games at Waverley Park now? Isn't it surrounded by houses instead of stands? How is it fit for official matches? And how can Casey play in Waverley? Not great for the City of Casey. Am I missing something?

No, it’s the club that’s missing something…

Where has this Culley in the ruck stuff come from?

The fact is that we had two great ruckmen on the list in 2023 and the skipper refused to put much effort into making that two good ruckmen in the team and for him to work out how to kick a couple goals a game and solve our debilitating forward structural issues.

The view that Goodwin should never have pushed for Grundy is spot on but that doesn’t atomise all blame from Max for that sihtshow.

Personally, I would put effort into Heath as a forward ruck for three reasons; rucks that can go forward are increasingly important in a world of rotation limits, Gawn’s successor should be on the list now so let’s play him, and JVR should be given the opportunity to play as a true CHF and work into a game and not be pulled into the ruck.

Good player

On 05/03/2026 at 16:23, bluey said:

Whatever occurs we must not dilute our ambitions to have a ‘State of the art facility’.

Our tunnel must be wide enough to fit an ambulance and two people walking abreast the other way.

Our tunnel must have capacity to fit ten thousand people on a family day tour and to view pre finals training.

The ground must have a minimum of two rows of seating all around the oval.

A toilet block, takeaway coffee and a burger and chips van, taps accessible all the way around the oval and club shoppe

It needs to be on a grand scale, otherwise, forget it.

Yes, good is the enemy of perfection.

And We should always remember that progress is not good enough, and if you can’t fix everything, you shouldn’t fix anything.

And also that having suitable training facilities for elite athletes is JUST AS IMPORTANT as fans being placated with seating for the short period of time that a number come to watch training.

Good player

2 hours ago, BDA said:

I expect the suns to finish top 4 so i have low expectations about this death ride

if they somehow manage to miss finals that would be an unbelievable outcome

hoping the cats can do us a favour tonight.

Can we not call Fritsch a ‘tall’, @adonski?

An angel dies everytime someone says that aloud.

He may play ‘taller’ defensively because he is lazy, doesn’t chase, et al. But you cannot kick it to him like a tall so he ain’t.

I think Gawn should begin to play with an understudy, especially with other forwards injured making JVR someone we should be keeping in the forward line as much as we can.

Heath should play.

He was the best.

My childhood is narrated by Cometti. And Rex Hunt before he was problematic.

“(Name) with delusions of adequacy” after a simple Clanger is a go to in my head movies at the footy.