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58 minutes ago, waynewussell said:

Sucked in by a quick media grab. Clayton was responding to a question about club training resources. His answer was quickly interpreted as his feelings about the club in general.

It is literally what he said in response to the question "you are also meeting the Pies sometime up here, what do you like about them?"

(having just finished meeting GWS, whom the facilities question was about, not Collingwood).

He could have answered that question about meeting the Pies without mentioning the MFC at all. There was no need for it and it was a clear backhander (imo) that was reflective of his feelings and state of mind at the time.

This argument has been done to death though, so I guess lets just agree to disagree.

15 minutes ago, picket fence said:

And just on this it says PLENTY about the club and its opinion of Clarry!! An all time great of the club but rather than retire the number for the year out of respect, we just hand it over. Appalling to say the least!

"What do I like about Collingwood? Well, they are better than Melbourne, that's for sure"

Dead to me

19 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

How did Wet Coke let this man go?

He literally just fell in our lap.

As a big bodied mid they wanted him in the middle, but viewed him as too slow and not able to read the ball quick enough to make up for the lack of pace.

He played a handful of games before doing his ACL, which kept him out for close to 12 months.

When he came back Harley Reid was there and given WC already had a few other big bodied types he couldn't get back into the side.

From what I've seen so far I don't see the issue with his speed.
He is certainly not "slower than an average ruckman" as some Eagles fans have suggested.
Off the mark he actually looks quite quick. He can obviously take a grab, looks pretty clean below his knees and kicks ok.

So I'm not getting it either.

Maybe WC just couldn't figure out how or where to play him?

Enter Sandman has been the best one we've had imo.
This years one (whoever/what it was) was awful.

Moronic.

Teams finishing 7th or 8th now have to win 5 games to win the flag and are at a huge disadvantage to 1-6 who all get a bye anyway.

All so teams 9 & 10 who are highly unlikely to do anything in finals can be "engaged" for an extra week.

The delusional narcissism in this place is getting out of control

Demonland =/= all Melbourne supporters.

CEO letter is a weird thing to nit pick

37 minutes ago, picket fence said:

WHO??

Comical moustache and TV commentators always go on about the size of his hands. Thats all I've got.

I don't get all the carry on about picks getting pushed out due to father/son or academy selections.
eg picks 7/8 going to 11/12

Academy and father/sons aren't players we or any of the other 16 clubs would have had access to, so what difference does it make?

We still get the 7th and 8th crack at the best of what is available.

1 hour ago, WERRIDEE said:

How do we become like them? If they had a draft their performances would have evened out. Their performances are amazing they make a grand final every 2 years. We train with them we must get something out of them. They never go down they replace stars with stars Slater for Papenhauzen, Ado-Carr for Coates, Cronk for Hughes, Smith for Grant and their big blokes are monsters. Surely we can get something out of them.

Coaching and culture.

They have a long standing habit of turning relative plodders from other clubs into very very good players.

2 minutes ago, Harves said:

I saw Clarry at the cafe before, he gave me a big hug and we talked about his contract and yep he’s said he’s to explore his options

Was it funny in your head?

9 minutes ago, Cossie_84 said:

A mate just sent me this, up in the melb CBD haha.

"The issue

What does a one-pan Honey Ginger Stir-fry and the next Adelaide Crows premiership have in common?

Christian Petracca.

We want him. We need him. Let’s get him.

You don’t have to scroll too far in the AFL app stats to see it: Adelaide’s record-breaking plummet from minor premiers to straight-sets heartbreak wasn’t just bad luck. It was a lack of midfield class. It was a lack of experience. It was missing On Trac.

And the rumours are swirling again, that Christian Petracca, Norm Smith medallist, A-Grade midfielder, masterchef, wants a fresh start. What better place than Adelaide?

We’ve got Tasting Australia. We’ve got the Central Markets. The best seafood in the country (with a tasty side of algae). And best of all, you’re kilometres away from the sheer arrogance of Collingwood and Hawthorn, or the farm-loving Cats.

It’s time to right a wrong. Danger sold his soul to the dark side in 2015. Now we can finally replace him with an A-Grade midfield star.

Christian Petracca. Let’s get him in Crows colours.

Sign up today, and then it’s over to you, Reidy"

14 minutes ago, demoncat said:

It’s Lamb’s job to make players seeking a trade want to nominate us

If we can’t judge him by players we’re linked to not choosing us, what can we judge him by?

Paying overs in trades?
Losing players we shouldn't like Bedford?
Three year contracts to guys like McAdam who can't get on the field?
Even considering an old cooked spud like Mihocek?

I'm not a massive fab of Lamb, but trying to make players nominating other clubs his fault too is a stretch.
Is TDK also his fault? What about Worpel, or Draper, or Oscar Allen?

6 hours ago, demoncat said:

Lots of Saints fans seem to think he’s a lock to come to them

Really hoping he nominates us - if not it’ll be another in a long line of Lamb failures since 2021

Players nominating for other clubs is now Lambs fault too?

NWM 1000000% definitely deserved the 3, but Viney had 16 tackles in that game, which is huge.

8 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

i actually think simpkin is a seriously underrated player

i'd rank him alongside merrett - great player who does not have a 'winning' impact upon games of footy, if that makes sense?

he's a midfielder pure and simple; they tried him as the gut-running half forward and it didn't work

Simpkin is exactly the sort of player most here would be complaining about if he went elsewhere and played well, while we brought in someone else like McAdam or Sharp.

"Asleep at the wheel"
"Sack Lamb"

etc etc

3 hours ago, OhMyDees said:

Having a 10 year coach isn’t a prerequisite in my view and anyway we don’t have King probably until the GF weekend anyway. We would have lost nothing by waiting.

We could have lost everything by waiting.

What do you think every other guy on the short-list would have done once they figured out it was Buckley's job if he wanted it, but they were going to get dicked around till the end of the month to find out?

We'd have been left with no one except Buckley, who would probably still have half an eye on Tasmania anyway.

Then come his GF timeline (and after more time for the AFL to get their hooks in) what if he turned it down?

We'd be back to square one. Probably even worse than square one cause who from our short list would want to come back, having already been told we didn't want them?

We have made the right call.

9 minutes ago, bluey said:

Trading in and out every other sides duds every year, now that is tiresome, futile even.

Until that "dud" is a D'Ambrosio or Voss or Martin or whoever and they play well in their new location?

Then what, we revert back to the "MFC is asleep at the wheel" angle?

On 03/09/2025 at 10:39, William said:

An interesting red and blue situation has arisen in Newcastle.

Basically, for those without subscriptions to the Herald, the story is that the Newcastle Knights sacked their coach recently after a series of poor performances.

First resonance with MFC.

Then the preferred candidate who is proving to be very successful in the UK league is being forced to undergo a ‘process’ where a series of current assistant coaches are also being interviewed.

The well-performed senior coach who has the inside running has now indicated to the Knights more or less that it is insulting to make him compete against unproven assistants and that he will not consider the position.

The pressure is then on the Knights to truncate the process and just announce him already.

Second parallel with MFC maybe.

Buckley spoke about participating in the process and didn't seem to have any issue with this.

He actually sounded quite interested in going through the process as he has never done it before himself, having simply being handed the keys last time

1 hour ago, Deez21 said:

Yep, just like nibbler wanted to go home after signing a long term deal

Absolutely nothing to do with jumping off sinking ship

You're correct. Absolutely NOTHING to do with it.

But hey, if you don't know just speculate right? 🙄

2 hours ago, Dingo said:

Spoke to a very well connected Swans supporter this morning who said that too.

Swans regard Goody as a very good “Strategist”

This cannot be accurate. The Demonland brains trust and this very thread says so.

3 minutes ago, picket fence said:

By any metric our last 4 seasons have been a failure! It's all about RESULTS!

If you're drawing the line at the end of the 2023 season I'd agree with you.

Any earlier - as I have outlined - and you are plain wrong

13 hours ago, picket fence said:

You reckon Simon Goodwin would have coached us to wins is delusional at best and manifestly ignorant at worst! Simons record in 2021 was sensational, his record since has been abysmal... get the rose colored glasses of my friend and reality will be laid out in front of you!

50 minutes ago, picket fence said:

I'd like to know Ghosty why the vomit emoji with this post?

After the premiership year we finished top 4 in both 2022 and 2023 and never left the 8 the entire time.
We were the only team to do that and as a premiership team that everyone was trying to find ways to stop that is an incredible effort.

Obviously the finals in both seasons were disasters and there were a number of reasons for why each of those campaigns turned out the way they did.
Some of which was 100% coaching (and selection), but there was a LOT that had absolutely nothing to do with that.

It delusional at best and wilfully ignorant at worst to pretend those two H&A seasons never happened and say that Goodwins record (and by extension the teams record) has been abysmal since 25/09/2021.

4 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

Remember that really small window of time when some desirable players (Lever, Langdon, May) wanted to come to Melbourne?

That was a nice time.

You must forget all the outrage here about how they were no good and we paid too much them... 🤣

And gems like this piece...

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-2020-steven-may-trade-to-melbourne-ben-king-gold-coast-suns-afl-draft-jake-lever-adelaide/news-story/8e637f7fd21a66c35c2ea6fb9230e030

Dual premiership Kangaroo David King, in particular, remains flabbergasted as to why Melbourne has apportioned such a large percentage of their salary cap to defenders May and Lever when other clubs – and even other teams in other sports – would usually pay big bucks for stars that impact the scoreboard.

“If you’re going to spend the bulk of your salary cap behind centre – so in the back-half – no other team does that in their competition and no other team in any code does that around the world,” King told Fox Footy’s The First Crack. “You spend money on strikers, guys that can hit the scoreboard, full-forwards, centre half-forwards or gun midfielders.

“They’ve gone May and Lever as part of their big spend, who are very good players, but what influence can they really have on winning games of football?”

David King - July 7th, 2020