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21 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Didn’t want to start a separate thread for training but loved this from Petracca’s Instagram account. for some reason it’s not embedding. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CJcTcncl56I/?igshid=1jepb2ehmu2at

So Trac is off to Port...... When will our *@#!ing luck change?

 

 

 

 

 

*thats a joke.... dont facepalm me

On 12/19/2020 at 11:18 AM, P-man said:

 

MFC predictions

Ladder position at the end of the H&A season: 7th

Position at the end of the season (e.g. stage of finals): Out in Elimination final

B&F top 5 (1 point for correct inclusion, 1 point for correct place):
1.  Maxy
2. Tracca
3.  Oliver
4.  May
5.  Viney

Leading goalkicker: BBBB

Most marks: Fritta

Best first year player: Bowey

Most improved player: Jackson

All Australian 40-man squad selections (1 point each): Max, Trac, Oliver, May
All Australian final 22 selections (1 point each):

Big Ben Brown will kick his biggest goal tally against: Hawks.

Biggest winning margin (exact guess is 5 points, within 1 point margin is 4 points etc): 84 points

Biggest MFC story of the year (5 points): Home base announcement.

Other MFC predictions (1 point each): At least one of our top 5 players to do an ACL. We beat West Coke in Perf. 

"Learnings" to still be overused in Pressers. Kozzie takes MOTY.
 

AFL predictions

Premier: West Coast

Runner-up: Geelong

Wooden spoon: North

Biggest improver: Carlton

Biggest slider: Collingwood

Brownlow medal: Martin

Coleman medal: Hawkins

Rising star: Rowell by a mile.

1 hour ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

Worth a look..?

 

 

Would prefer to sign Goodwin to a 10 year extension.

22 hours ago, Mdemonski3 said:

We should all be drinking only Aussie wine post China’s attack on our local industry.

looks like I’ve got another reason to drink bleasdale wines as well now!

Agree.

Im a Scotch drinker, and dont have a huge affinity for wine, but i had saved a few links for different wines from Dan Murphys over the last few days for the reason you mentioned. Already searching online for some stuff from our sponsor instead.

Drink up everyone. Oz wines for the festive period !!

26 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:

Still not 100% sure on trading so heavily into this draft at the expense of next year’s first rounder. We can still trade picks, so I wouldn’t be totally surprised to see us make more moves, but the club does seem pretty set on going for it in the here and now.

I am more than a bit interested in what our draft hand ends up being. As others have said, i dont see us taking out current group of picks to the draft. There is plenty of time for JM to get us firmly into the top 10 this year and thats what i think will happen. Obviously he (and whoever is working with him) have been as busy as termites in a sawmill wrangling deals to get us higher into the draft, and there must be a specific target or 2 they have in mind that wont last until the 20's. Seems reasonable imo, especially when you consider that we traded out of the first round next year to go higher this year. The age profile of our list means we need to get in top end talent ASAP and not just do the standard first rounder year on year. We are running out of time to get this list to a flag or 3. Im all for us using this strategy if it means we top up while our best players are all at (or entering) their peak.

 

BTW, i cant help but make mention of Collingwoods trade period. 

What an epic, ghastly mess they have made of it. The one upside for the comp is that it provides evidence that CFC must closely obey the salary cap rules to be dumping so much for so little. If only Geelong would do the same........

Surely he was worth a mid first round pick.

Bloody MFC getting bent over again....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(yeah im joking but someone was bound to say we got robbed. Good luck Mitch)

4 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Didn't someone mention in another thread that Nev was lined up for an off-field role when his playing days were over.  I can't recall who it was but he made mention that Nev was so much loved by the whole playing group and if he was 'retired' or contract 'paid out' it would be culturally very damaging to the players.

If that report was correct what does it say if he goes to Collingwood in a similar role we propose or a Burgoyne (Hawks) type set-up. 

If we had plans to transition him to an off-field role when OOC in a year we can do it now.  We did it with Garland and we did it more recently with Guy Walker.  Or at least formalise an agreement to do it at end of next year.

Nev has so much to offer, so much life, football and community experience we can't let that go to another club to leverage.

He probably still has the burning desire to play senior footy, and we possibly havent guaranteed him that he will get that at MFC. If some other club can help him play more games, im sure the club wouldnt stand in his way, especially if the coin is better elsewhere.

I wouldnt be a bit bothered about him getting a contract at another club to finish his career.

There shouldnt be any doubt the club will have him back when that contract finishes.

As to the bolded part, we shouldnt lose him forever, as long as there is an agreement that we (MFC) employ him after he finished playing for CFC.

I love Nevs guts, but he has more than earned the right to get the best deal for himself and his family at the end of a great career.

Will it be sad to see him go?... Of course.

Will he still love the club?... Yeah i am sure he will

Will the whole Club wish him the best if he does leave?... Im absolutely certain they will.

 

Go for it Nev. There will always be a place for you at MFC when your playing career is over.

 

Interesting to see a few people opine that a failure to make finals next year would be the catalyst for some of our better players to consider leaving.

Have any of you thought that a failure THIS year might have had the same effect?

Im not in the least surprised that rumours are swirling about the players becoming restless. Success is what all of us want.

The difference is that players can go elsewhere to find that success, whereas the fans are stuck waiting for MFC to break through.

Club is at a crossroads imo.

3 hours ago, Pollyanna said:

Hope it tasted nice, he's talking about Brown.

I was well aware of that but thanks for your valuable input.

Just now, Wiseblood said:

 

I don't think he is the greatest fit for our forward line, but the bloke has plenty of runs on the board and you could argue this season was an aberration. 

The big thing will be getting Tom McDonald off the list - do that and we're in the box seat.

Dear lord i just threw up in my mouth reading this.... So 2018/19

We still cant figure out which one was the aberration.

39 minutes ago, Deeko2 said:

My god.... Why didn’t our recruiters think of this earlier??

He’s an amazing player. I want to hate him as he’s a star playing for a team that I’m so over but you can’t falter the way he goes about it.

That contest where he took out three pies players in the air setting up a goal was absolutely inspirational.

One would say, “Hogan like”

No problem, i will do it for both of us.

Have wanted Tippa for a few years. He and Kossie in the forward line would be absolutely electric.

Wouldnt have so much of a need for a power forward if we had that setup. Our forward 50 options are a gaping chasm in our current list.

Fritta leading up the ground further and delivering into the 50 with Tippa on a lead and Kossie scooping up the crumbs.

Sign me up.

Meh.

Spud anyway.

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

I'll leave this post up as a reminder to not bring your personal politics into footy threads. It's fine to say that a player would prefer to leave Victoria to escape lockdown but no need to accentuate your point by bringing the politics into it from either side of the aisle.

After all these years ignoring politics being dragged into threads you choose to react to that one? Cant wait to see what happens next time someone makes a comment about Trump in a footy thread.

5 hours ago, adonski said:

Would actually love to get Polec across, he's a good player that's for sure. The fact Norf are pushing him out the door concerns me a bit, but the fact Norf are pushing Brown out the door shows maybe the club just has NFI?

He'd make us better instantly.

 

Regarding Brown, the fact that North are (seemingly) pushing him out the door shouldnt be a huge concern imo. They are in full-blown rebuild mode and are happy to trade out anyone of value, especially those who are unlikely to be a part of their next "window". Brown in particular is trade-bait because of his age, and the likelihood of adding to their haul of first and second round picks they have/want for this years draft. Aint no way Brown will be playing good footy when North are next playing finals, so now is the perfect time for them to trade him out while he is still a valuable pickup for another team.

We are definitely one of the clubs who would benefit from having him in our forward line over the next few years imo.

1 hour ago, Grr-owl said:

What are these 'personality' issues?

I work with someone who is closely connected to PAFC. I asked that person for their opinion on Polec. I wont print here what exactly was said as they liked him personally, but said that the team didnt exactly share that positive feeling.

Happy to PM if you want. Nothing Earth-shattering, and there's no obvious skeletons in the closet, but there are some  character flaws according to ex team-mates.

Now im still ok if we draft him, because skills.

Attitude is the hurdle.

Has some real "personality" issues and was not highly regarded by Port teammates despite his ability.

Easy to be seduced by the possibility of filling the other wing position, but at what cost culturally?

Hope to hell we know what we are doing if the rumors are correct about MFC making a play.

Interesting how the tone of this thread changed after it was edited to include news of Smith also being re-signed.

Sparrow has shown some good signs and is a handy signature.

Petty looked good forward before his never ending injury. Fingers crossed he comes back fit and firing.

 

Im in the "what do they see in him" group when it comes to Smith.

Third rounder if we are lucky. I like the kid but dont think he has much currency.

Hopefully a S.A. team values him higher than most D'Landers do.

I would prefer to miss out on someone who is good than land someone who is bad.

We need a Stuie Lowe to mark some of our up-and-under long bombs but there isnt a lot of great contested marks on the market. Maybe we would be better off just looking for a couple of decent kicks who can hit a leading forward.

On 9/23/2020 at 5:51 PM, The heart beats true said:

What does that even mean? ‘Support for same day travel and 4 day breaks’?

Does it mean there will be better support around those concepts for the teams involved, so as not to have garbage/unequal games like we saw this year? I surely hope so. 

Probably means that Eddie stated his support for all teams that play Collingwood to be coming off a 4 day break, and those teams have to fly that same day before the game, regardless of where they come from.

MFC's proud recent history.

 

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Dont know about you lot, but im sensing a pattern.

So are we back from Hell yet?

Warms my heart to see that we have finally settled on a home-grown replacement for Jack Watts.

Now we can blame Tom for everything.

:)