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The AFL needs to read the room, yet they get that Worm Barrett to put in his sliding doors article how well the floating fixture is working in the same breath he questions where the fans are

I hear a lot coming out of the club usually and the one thing I haven't is the name Jake Waterman. The one name we should be throwing everything we can at. Tells me 1 out of 2 things: Either another off season of disappointing recruitment where we don't identify how badly we need a key forward Or We really want to keep this one close to our chest. If this guy was Victorian he'd be the hottest talked about player. We should we throwing everything we have at him if we were serious. I can't believe we're not and I can't believe we'd identify any other position of need other than key forward

Why are we buying into this media narrative. Melbourne are not a top 5 supported side. Yet our crowd figures are pretty high considering We average 42k per game We played a team that would've had 1k fans max at the ground Dees fans turn up in a season very few players have. Barrett, Morris McLure and co can suck a fat one but laughable Dees fans want to play this game as well. My excuse, a 5 month old to watch at home and a mortgage with astronomical interest rates. Yet I still pay my membership, I'm under no obligation to go watch a football game in 2 degree temps a week out after having covid. If the AFL and it's media worms care so much about crowd attendance, maybe listen to the fans and stop with the floating fixture, the rising tickets costs and bring back Thursday night football. I would've loved to have attended round 24 against Pies, but the fact we still don't know when it is 3 weeks out from the game means I can no longer commit to it. But I can't wait for the media snakes to ask where are the Dees fans.

We're looking at him and some kid from GWS that hasn't played a game Young tall backs are something we're monitoring keenly