Chook

I rewatched the game last night and TMac's performance was absolutely sublime. He's far ahead of Tomlinson imo.

At times he sounded a little bit like he was calling a horse race, but overall he was miles better than anything we get from Channel 7 and most of Fox's big name players (e.g., Dwayne Russell and the like).

I've seen a couple of the 4K games as well on Kayo and it's only marginally better. I have very good eyes and am a stickler for this kind of thing. 1080p Kayo vs 4K Kayo is not worth an upgrade.

Brisbane getting smashed. You love to see it from the 2024 premiers.

I think someone said he had his worst game ever. His first 6 weeks or so for Melbourne before we accepted he's an intercept defender not key defender were pretty bad.

Just pretend you won't care till we win a final. That's my strategy.

I'm frustrated at my favourite player from 2021 what can I say? I think the criticism is legitimate, even if he's not literally as soft as butter is (that is very soft, admittedly, in this weather).

I think we can make judgments about 1st-2nd year players at the club but yeah, nothing this year is going to matter a whit to me until we win a final.

There's a certain #2 he reminds me of as well, not having been there to see it in person admittedly.

He's still best 22 but the problem for him and us is that he can only play one role that we know of, and he is soft as butter. The wing role in our gameplan needs to make contests, and you can pretty much pen him down for losing 75% of his contests. I still have nightmares of his game against Sidebottom in the finals last year. I say this as someone who thought he was our most important player in 2021.

Caleb Windsor is one of the best talents I've seen come through in years. He's going to be an absolute star.

Come on it's Collingwood surely. Even if it wasn't Collingwood before last year it has to be them now.

Probably slipped on the Toyota logo.

Not to make the non-MFC thread about us, but the speed teams are playing at this season is worrying. I don't think we've got the capacity to adapt to this with our list and gameplan. Might be a long one this year.

Welp. Some serious soulsearching required by this club after tonight's performance. Feels like a continuation of the end of last year.

Jack Viney you absolute king of Melbourne.

Unless you want to pay 2 million dollars for 2 ruckman, most clubs just have to deal with a bad 2nd ruck.

Jeez Bowza, that was courageous. Hopefully it's just a bit of nervous damage (otherwise known as a stinger).

There you go Fritta!!! That's how we do it.

Damn that was class from Judd McVee.

Gawn needs to meet him halfway. If Gawn is remaining stationary and Grundy is simply taking the available space then fair play. Gawn needs to be more proactive.

Goody should put him on early in the 3rd for Laurie. Why wouldn't you exchange an ammo's level player for a proven silky mid with great skills?

Disagree. Players are having cracks at goal and missing when they should be handing it off to players in better positions. That's nerves. They all want to be the man to fix our forward line issues, when the way to do it is to hit someone in a good spot with low pressure on them so they can kick it. It's not a hard concept to grasp but in the heat of the moment we all seem to go to pot and spray it.

Thank god for our full forward and centre-half-forward Eddie Langdon and Jack Viney for kicking the goals for us tonight. Honestly lads that was atrocious. Surely this isn't the gameplan? Either the players are absolute morons or the coaching staff are. I don't care which but we need to figure it out pronto.

Where are the deft knock-ons and measured kicks into the 50 we saw plenty of vs Carlton when there was nothing on the line? I think the players freak out under pressure and revert to garbage habits. Strange for a premiership winning team but I guess that's where we're at. Ultimately these bad habits are the fault of the coaches though I suppose.