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    16 minutes ago, Nasher said:

    Even if absolutely nothing else good happens this year, I hope we rip Essendon a new one to the point where the entire football world calls them out for the pretenders they are, and their rancid, smug fans realise that this is yet another false dawn and that they’re still as irrelevant as ever.

    Please?

    I don’t think they’ve suffered enough yet.

    You make a really good argument... you've twisted my arm - I also hope they fall out of the 8 and suffer further indignity.

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    On 30/06/2024 at 13:51, PaulRB said:

    Not sure why people are talking about our youth in 2025 when we’re still in 2024.

    our young brigade went toe to toe with a very experienced And in form Briscoe outfit and showed they are very capable. 

    I loved the Kolt taking it up to and backchatting Zorko, loved McVee’s chip at speed to Kozzie, and Rivers is a revelation in the middle. They are growing week to week.

    If they continue to build cohesion, belief and form our young brigade may be blossoming here and now.

     

    Yes, very impressive but this place is souring on the leader of our Development academy because “wE dOn’T kIcK sTrAtE!1!”

    Square that circle, Paul. Square that circle.

    13 minutes ago, Engorged Onion said:

    Does the MFC follow Demonland? 
     

    Anyway, they’re putting this out publicly for a reason. 

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    ATTENTION: MANAGE EXPECTATIONS! I REPEAT: PLEASE MANAGE EXPECTATIONS!

    Wardens report to your WIP phones.

    I thought he showed quite a bit. Certainly enough to keep McVee or Rivers up the ground. Same with Taj.

    If this year is not a waste it will be through making Rivers a mid and getting reps into McVee through there. Can only happen by letting these kids shoulder some of the burden.

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    That was a really good performance given where the team is at. 

    But don’t expect that kind of performance (and that kind of second quarter) as becoming more of a regular thing with the youth we have in the side, the injuries we have, and the burden we place on fewer and fewer. 

    Need to keep our expectations in line with reality.

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    8 hours ago, ElDiablo14 said:

    What's the verdict? Rebuild mode?

    It was a very good performance. To play that well, albeit only potent in a 25 min period, with AMW, Brown, Turner, et al in the 23 is really admirable. 

    I hope it may continue but not expecting it to. Too much burden on too few.

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    16 minutes ago, SFebes said:

    I'm surprised those who normally preach xScore haven't mentioned that it was North 62.7 to Melb 55....

    55 against the worst team in the comp
 that’s indicative. 
     

    We are going to slide out of the 8 and we have to make the most of it - get Gawn and Viney some rest, get games into some talent in important positions, and continue with the evolved game style. Use this year to get better next year.

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    8 minutes ago, demon3165 said:

    Can never understand why people get their knickers in a knot when outside people the club comment on Melbourne after all that's what this forum does.

    Yes, and no one gets upset on here when a poster comments on the state of the club


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    1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

    I'm a big believer that 2023 is up there with 1998 as the biggest missed opportunity of a flag.

    All the stats in the land had us pretty much the number 1 ranked team of the competition. 

    This is controversial from my end but losing Melksham from our forward line was a bigger loss then Brayshaw. When he went down our forward line lost all its system and leadership. He was the captain we needed up forward to galvanise our set up and then it's he's ability to engage with the number 1 defender to not only take him out of the game but hurt on the scoreboard just completely hurt us.

    No one will ever change my mind, but absolutely 2023 was the biggest missed opportunity for a flag from our end.

    I agree. I am on record saying I don’t mind this move to change how inert we are off half back but obviously more structural flaws, form and depth are coming into play now. 

    I really think 2022 was a terrible flirtation with our form the way the FD changed our gameplan and restricted it even further from ‘defence first’ to ‘defence only’


    Players en masse develop habits especially when you are winning that are impossible to break - so when we needed to be daring and when needed to calm down and pick our spots and connect (2023) - we couldn’t do it.

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    We are the ones playing him off no pre-season. We are the ones playing him forward as opposed to back. We are the ones chasing another tall back supposedly from St Kilda.

    At some point this may be a sunk cost we may have to move on from but his form is entirely predictable and are options are obviously barren. 

    We persist, not because we want to but because it is our only option.

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    1 hour ago, praha said:

    Really don't care who replaces him but if McAdam plays I'm boycotting the rest of the season.

    WOW, didn’t know Shane had such an impact on us losing by 15 goals. 

    What a neat excuse for everyone else in the team and on the staff


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    On 02/06/2024 at 16:32, Jaded No More said:

    It’s no secret that I’ve been pretty much dead inside when it comes to football since the last time we played this pile of dog [censored] club. I don’t even carry anger or disappointment when we lose anymore. I get over it fairly quickly and my passion for the game will probably never be the same again. 
    Having said all that, I would take not winning another game for the rest of the year, so long as we obliterate this bunch of ****heads next week!

    Are you ‘Jaded’ again?

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    Our midfield is not 15 goals worse than Freos


    That was a whole team debacle. I don’t think we are that good this year. We lost depth, we are changing how we play in the defensive half when we have the ball, we still don’t have a reliable tall, our best midfielder was absent for preseason, some core players are out of form, and we spent the last two years trying to eke out another ‘prelim or better’ performance through dour dumping of the ball to protect the mids (2022) and focussing entirely on a front half game where we were dominated ‘territory’ except in crucial moments (2023).

    We are rectifying some past mistakes with our onfield style of play and I hope we can rebalance our list and plug some easily foreseeable gaps.

    For me, 2025 is a better show but we are running out of time.

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