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Whatever posters on here think, yes or no, Melbourne will not consider it.

I am waiting for someone to suggest Melbourne Disarray or Melbourne Chaotic.

I am starting to understand you.

Ah the solution. We play every game at night.

Do we kick well in the dark, because we certainly don't in daytime?

19 celsius sunday, nearly like summer football.

I really like Clint Bartram but unfortunately his disposal skills don't fit into a good AFL team.

He was at the foundation dinner last week and I am sure he was there as a supporter.

That can't be correct as he was delisted by them.

That is why it is funny when we say we should trade one of our players who is not wanted and not getting a game and expect a great deal in return. Incidentally Cornes was still getting a game and is 6 years younger than Junior when we let him go. Lets not also forget Cornes is a premiership player and we don't have too many of them. PS. Cornes is also 4 years younger than Bruce and goes a lot harder than him as well. Not saying we should go after him but he would get in our side as the hard bodied run with tagger.

Lunch.

Interesting the bottom club in the league has apparently told Cornes he is not wanted.

Judd.

For we are jolly good fellows.

We are an inclusive thread and welcome all, even the tempted. You will notice however that the creator of this thread has not yielded to temptation and nor will he. He may visit the evil thread from time to time but never will he contribute. Long live the Not a Scully Thread.

Can people not start a new thread everytime they post. This post fits nicely into many of the existing threads, as do many of the new threads started recently. It makes it hard to keep track.

Gee the Eagles won the spoon last year and now they look good, all in one year. Can we do it next year and rise right up the ladder?

My view on today. We tried hard. We have poor disposal skills, no make that terrible disposal skills. We have no game plan and have been poorly coached in respect to developing an effective one. I am not referring to Viney when I say that. We have not developed enough players on the list, too many have regressed. We have a couple of scared footballers in the side. Cure for a lot of our ills, a top Coach and top assistants.

Agree. However today we won the ball, we just murdered it when we had it.

I'd keep Moloney in the leadership group. Couple of his efforts today were fantastic. Can't just have draft picks, that is part of our problem, you just get younger. If Colin goes we need to get a good player from wherever he ends up.

This is probably not the thing to say on this thread, given I started it by wanting to avoid another thread, but here goes. If we lose you know who to GWS and end up getting shafted in the compensation deal, I will seriously look at whether it is worth giving so much energy to this club. I have supported the MFC all my life and have staunchly defended it and followed it both emotionally and financially as well as being a Director, Team Manager and even recruiter, but a poor compensation result would nearly be enough to finally declare us incapable of ultimate success. If you know who leaves, he will be the only priority pick to desert his club and within 2 years of being drafted. I can live with that, despite the crap we endured to get him and the hope we pinned on him. However if the MFC as a result are incapable of ensuring proper compensation, then I will lose all confidence in them. This is not about you know who this is about us if we have to, getting proper compensation from a parent company that has cut its child off at the knees. We have all the tools necessary to persuade the AFL to do the right thing. We have recently suffered big losses. Membership, sponsorship, donations and attendances are all at risk. I would fight as hard as is necessary. If the AFL indicates poor compensation to us, I would start to threaten to expose some of the dirt in the AFL cupboard which we should know all about. If the AFL retaliated and got dirty threatening us with poor fixtures, I would counter with, "we will expose that threat to the media". Therefore you would be exposing Administrators who are corrupt. Their positions would then be untenable. I am sure the big clubs fight dirty, time we did. Many will say I am overreacting and maybe I am. But in the words of Peter Finch in his last film role in Network, " I am as mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore".

I think I read somewhere he would like to be back in Victoria but you could only get him by doing a trade as he would be a priority for them to keep. You would have to give them someone good for them to even consider it. Maybe they would want a Jared Rivers who is an experienced defender and form Adelaide and even another lesser player like Bate, Maric, Warnock etc. It's worth asking the question though. Butcher, Watts and hopefully Cook, Fitzpatrick or McDonald could solve the key forward positions in the years to come.

Big call.

Looks like at least one player will pull out today with Gawn and Nicholson not playing for Casey.