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An update: Richmond have all the details, but it's certainly a bipartisan event. Flame departs 5:2opm from the Shrine. https://www.richmondfc.com.au/news/2001087/follow-the-flame-to-the-mcg

Hey Dees - I'm assuming the annual walk to the 'G from the Shrine will happen again this year - I'd encourage anyone who is interested to walk with the flame - I did it last year and it was quite a fantastic experience. Plenty of Richmond supporters but only a small handful of Dees! I'm hoping there'll be some kind of promotion from the Club or the AFL, but from memory, we left the Shrine just at about 5:15, got to the G by 6pm.

More likely a vagus nerve response as part of the delayed concussion. Dizziness, tunnel vision - it can be delated but come on suddenly, and resolve fairly quickly - hence why he looked so great after the game. Hopefully the docs can work it out and it's 'just' concussion.

He may not get much of the ball, but when de does... just so dangerously creative. He's definitely ironed out the debut rookie nerves now. That hanball-tap-handball play he tried with Kozzie...oh man, when that clicks, look out.

Essendon defeated us in last year's Gather Round (why do we get them again?) but it was close. We have a good record at AO. I've seen enough so far this year to be confident that we're not going to repeat last year's result.

K Pickett - fun and dangerous L Pickett - fun and dangerous I actually think half their value is not in what they do, it's in the potential of what they do - oppositions panic when they get near it, Koz especially, but Latrelle looms as just as dangerous with some more time.

Cramp. If you watch the after-siren footage, there's hilarious footage of Melksham joking about it and doing his best 83-year-old impression with Howes (?) going down the race. He'll be fine for next week - he's an elite recoverer.

Exactly this. One of King's key philosophy is flexibility - our 'best 23' will change week to week, and be entirely dependent on who we're facing.

Watching the segment, they seem to define it as how quickly the team played on after a mark/free kick. Hoyne was praising how much we play on with instinct, to a contest, with optimism. It worked against Carlton, but I dunno - it feels a bit too much like the old bomb-n-hope ball movement. I must admit I was surprised to hear we've broken records - I mean, we look fast moving the ball, but not the fastest ever. I'll take the record though!

I genuinely worry how Viney's going to fit back into the side when he's fit... we need his work and grunt, absolutely, but not his kicking.

How awesome is it to see Koz's bullets and deft floaters rather than Trac and Clarry's bombs? It's the biggest difference I've noticed in our game. Intention and efficiency rather than just optimism.

Dig ourselves into a hole, dig ourselves out of it. There was one moment that summed it up for me yesterday - Latrelle injured himself in a pack and with a look of panic, limped off with his hand up, signalling to the bench. He didn't go off - not sure if the bench waved him back, but he ran it off and was (relatively) fine for the rest of the game. Not sure why that heartens me enormously for the whole team, but it does.

The crowd. It took a second for everyone to register it was him but MY GOD I've never heard a louder scream. Pure goosebumps.

Bloody awesome. Love seeing how much a debut means to a player. 🥹

Probably the same height he drops the parmesan onto his pasta?

I absolutely rate clubs who take a 'risk' on young players, particularly Indigenous, who don't have the opportunity to tread the private school pathways in cities huge distances away from home and family. They have it so much harder in many ways. There's countless kids in corners of the country who have exceptional skills and potential, but will probably never get an opportunity.

Koz always talks about the responsibility of being a role model for his younger siblings and cousins back home. You can tell by the beaming smile on his face right now that this is a genius move by the Club; Win for Latrelle, win for Koz. I expect we're going to see a lurch forward in development of Koz going forward too - not necessarily in his onfield game, but his leadership skills.

You're proving my point: unless you provide receipts and evidence instead of merely insinuating this as proof, then you're perpetuating the problem. It's such a lazy ad hominem attack on a player at best, feeding the MFC's toxic culture at worst. Admins warned about this type of rhetoric on this board as recently as yesterday.

If you want to believe Oliver is a no-good loser, you'll see evidence of it everywhere - even when there is evidence to the contrary. Ever noticed how Oliver has round bruise marks on his back and shoulders most weeks he plays? Ever noticed the weekly Instagram posts of Oliver doing hard-core pilates? Constant sign of cupping and fitness training and rehab, off the training track. If you never noticed that, then it's YOUR blind spot. Those that continue to make unsubstantiated claims that insinuate Oliver has no professionalism, no fitness, doesn't rehab injuries, doesn't listen to coaches, is a constant distraction to others are just feeding an incessant rumour mill. It needs to stop. The first core value of MFC is 'Respect', which the club defines as 'Treating teammates, coaches, staff, members, and the broader community with dignity.' Worth remembering.

To a hammer, everything is a nail. You heard what you wanted to hear.

You obviously don’t listen to Max on his weekly radio spot. He constantly talks about our poor performance and how we’re not where we should be. He often talks about how good other teams are and his favourite players ( often not Melbourne players). He also often jokes about Entrecote! How is that not interpreted as ‘disloyalty’ or ‘putting down the club’ in the same way?

But so what if he did reference Melbourne? Are people really that oversensitive? A Melbourne player isn't allowed to talk publicly about the poor performance of the team (geez, I hope Max knows that because he jokes about it on radio every week!). But supporters certainly are allowed to talk about how bad the team/club are. Got it.

Yep. How supporters can take that comment and twist it into Oliver digging the knife into the back of every MFC supporter, thus necessitating his swift excision from the club, is mindblowing.

Go back to the original reporting by Xander McGuire, who interviewed King after the meeting - Oliver was told how the midfield was going to change in 2026, and where he fitted into that, that he'd need to adapt his game a bit to be a bit more flexible in other roles as well as midfield. He was told that there's a chance he may end up playing at Casey a bit. He was also told that if none of that was to his liking (and the club hoped that it would be), then the club would allow/welcome him to explore his options, if that's what he wanted to do. None of it was off-field issues, all of it was football. The media blew it up, Oliver reacted a day after he was ambushed at the airport, and here we are: Jumping to conclusions and can't get rid of him quick enough. A week ago, Oliver had a US holiday booked during trade week, comfortable in his belief that he was a valued part of the midfield and wasn't going anywhere. A week later, he fears the new coach hates him and he's lost his place in the club.

Reports that he did 'not react well, stormed out' come from who? Mitch Cleary. And what did Mitch actually say? That he "took off". Yeah, I'm taking off from work at 5pm today, but not in a huff slamming the door behind me - I'm just leaving. The commercial media have an interest in generating drama where there is none.