Redleg

I think King is going to be a good coach for us, but he has a ready made excuse for this year if we have a bad season, with so many injuries in the pre season.

Agree, Viney won’t retire. He will strive to play as long as possible and will believe if he misses this year, he will come back next year fresh and ready to go for a couple more seasons. If May retires and McAdam doesn’t get fit, we could have 3 spots and then again TC has a neck injury and at 34 may not want to risk further injury, who knows.

I don’t know, but I don’t think they are in full training now.

With 13 or more players not in full training atm, we are really behind the 8 ball and it is becoming hard to keep positive.

Tom Campbell Shane McAdam Salem AMW Tom Matthews CJ I believe the above also could be added to the list and there are probably more. That is horrendous in a Pre Season and now May not fully fit and with some issues could be another not available.

And of course the long term, high money contract, that would be needed to get him. Not disagreeing, just putting the cost out there.

Would everyone prefer Humphrey, or keeping the picks and maybe drafting another Langford and Lindsay?

That would be great. I could live with no announcement, if they quietly started construction.

Was a very strong Dogs fan and many think he is headed to them.

Yes my mistake, as Mickey has pointed out, it is Finn Callaghan who is Howes’ mate.

I note his close mate Blake Howes signed a contract extension with us last year, just saying.

Don’t we have funds from sale of gambling facilities? We may have to use that while we chase other sources.

No, made late last year.

Last week I spoke to some people at Glen Eira who should know, but didn't really. They said the City of Glen Eira is in favour of us at the racecourse and expected community benefit. They didn't know what the hold up is, but they thought it could be State Government finance as a guess. That suggests that Glen Eira is not involved in ongoing discussions. The school is 100% in favour of the MFC and they are aligned. I haven't heard what the Trust is saying, but it would have been a yes, or no, a long time ago. The people at a committee lunch on a race day at the MRC, were told by the MRC Chairman in his welcome speech that the MFC would be their neighbour soon. Therefore it does seem there is something else stopping progress info and an announcement and perhaps it is in fact the State Government. Obviously there is ongoing discussion about specifics of the project, but I would imagine the reason we are not getting any info, is because of an embargo on it and the likely responsible party for that, does seem to be the State Government. It could well be a condition of their financial contribution, that they control the narrative. That does seem the most likely reason we are getting crickets. If this was not happening, we would have been told by now. A failure of this project after so many attempts, would have to in some way affect the Board's ability to continue, imo. It is probably our most important issue, other than on field success, which is probably affected by this issue as well. I remain in Group 1.

North side close to MRC facilities, which could cause issues and further away from ovals. South side stand alone area away from MRC facilities and adjacent to ovals.

Agree PF, they were extremely callous in the way they treated him. Wouldn't clear him or play him.

I think many are underestimating a happy team, with more pace, playing unselfish footy, under a new Coach and coaching panel, with a more free flowing game style.

Pretty hot at the moment. The banana smoothies must be getting a good workout.

Incorrect.

Agree Danny. You could even say exactly what we would like to ultimately achieve, or are hoping for and then say of course this is subject to further negotiation with the relevant parties, but at the moment all the members are getting is crickets. This has been going on for years and while I am still confident of its success, the club has largely ignored the members for most of that time. This aspect can only be viewed as poor communication with the supporter base. The “ trust us” mantra has obviously worn thin with many supporters, over years and years of failure by several Boards, in achieving a long term state of the art home club base. A photo of a footy with fingers crossed painted on it, placed on the grass inside the race track where the ovals will hopefully be, would even be good at this time. PS. I again have a horse nominated to run at Caulfield on Saturday and if it does, I will try and hunt down a few MRC committee people for any scraps of info.

Agree that the lack of any information from the club is frustrating to say the least.

You can never have too many Lindsays.

Interesting fact for you. If we were prepared to give Tom Flower to Carlton, we would have had Wayne Johnston, the Dominator, playing for us from the start of his AFL career. Tom had played his best game for us against Carlton the season just ended and we obviously thought he would continue, plus we just couldn’t trade our best ever and most loyal player’s brother. Tom was probably an ambit try on, but we never really offered anyone or anything else and so we never got Wayne. Our own WJ identified Wayne’s ability at Prahran, after Carlton had overlooked him for two years.

I now see him playing more like a bigger Fritta, than a key forward bull. No problems with that though.

No you didn't, I have heard that before. While you are Jeffo's number one fan without doubt, I think I was just about his first, claiming he was showing good signs for an AFL career after his first few Casey games. A search of DL will confirm that. Seriously though, this looks to be his big chance after his best pre season, to cement a permanent place in the side and hopefully he grabs it.