Ron Burgundy

Perhaps we were trying to tank the game against the Bulldogs too?! Just that no one gave that instruction to Watts - he was meant to kick his last set shot out of bounds on the full, just like half the team did in the last quarter against Freo a couple of weeks ago.

Also had a different haircut back then ...

I don't care. At all. I'm stoked to have Lumumba at the club.

What's Frost's set-shot kicking like?

Very happy about this.

Rivers would've been loyal to the club if given half a chance. Neeld treated him very poorly and the club then low balled him on his contract. That period of time needs to be expunged from the club's history.

I agree. I hate it.

I had thought the point of this thread was to identify/predict which MFC players would have breakout seasons, not who will get recognition by the non-MFC world. For instance, to my mind at least, Tyson (11 Brownlow votes) and Jetta (verging on AA form) had breakout seasons last year - and C&B is perhaps quite right in saying that they still get no recognition by the non-MFC world. This thread is about predicting who will be this year's Jetta and Tyson.

Agree with your first sentence. Not sure about the second. It'll be interesting to see what the non-MFC world thinks of a few other MFC players by the end of this season.

No one is saying he is a 'star' yet - just that he looks likely to be one in the future.11 Brownlow votes last year. The best of his draft. Signs, objectively, look good. And since when has 'getting laughed at' by opposition supporters been the barometer of the accuracy of a fact or clear thinking. Most people in Kansas laugh at Richard Dawkins views on evolution too ...

Probably the supplier ...

I reckon Gartlett and Lumumba will each have a really good year. I'm also hoping that Jack Watts will become our Gunston now that we have, on paper at least, a well balanced forward line: talls and smalls. Tyson and Salem are the running players who seem likely to get greater recognition. And Vandenberg.

Bernie seems to have been 2-3 weeks from about October last year.

I actually think it was, and will prove to be, a masterstroke. Pick 23 (or whatever it was) for this guy, especially in the context of the club losing our most experienced/best defender as a free agent to the Hawks, is an absolute bargain. And we got Brayshaw for that defender we lost, whose absence I don't think will particularly hurt us given the recruitment of Frost. Salem and Tyson for pick 2 was also a masterstroke. The club finally seems to have worked out how to draft and trade players.

Compares pretty bloody well ...

Add Kent and Newton to that list of midfielders.And Stretch, JKH and ANB.

Don't think so. Clark, when firing, is unstoppable. Despite apparent character issues, I would still love the bloke to be lining up for us - alongside Dawes, Hogan, Gartlett, Kent, Watts (our Gunston in this set up). And it seems clear to me that Clark skipped to a more successful club for more money. And that's not to say he didn't suffer from depression, or to trivialise that condition.

I'm just relieved we got Lumumba as part of the deal. Lumumba will be a great acquisition for this club IMO - on and off the field. Absent that, I hate watching Clark dominate for another club. And he will.

Mitch Clark is a gun. His character's in issue, not his playing ability. Franklin and Clark are best full forwards in the comp IMO. He'll kill this year if he can stay fit and, off field, not be a completely self-obsessed [censored] end.

I don't want to ransom our future by paying massive overs for someone who doesn't want to come to us. Especially for a guy who looks like he has a recessive ranga gene. Stuff that.

I agree with your post, except for one thing. And that is - I think Nathan Jones absolutely gets the credit he deserves, certainly among MFC supporters/players etc. He is loved by everyone at this club.

I had thought the Lions were a basket case not that long ago. Now I have them firmly in the eight and definitely on the rise. Things can change quite quickly in this competition - particularly when a club has a CEO like PJ and a coaching staff consisting of the likes of Roos, McCartney and Goodwin. As to free agency - pick 3 for Frawley was to my mind very adequate compensation. Carlton and Essendon no longer seem to be the powerhouses they have traditionally been either.

He has some bloody good players ranked behind him. And, relevantly, this is as rated by the players - not some fat journo. Well done Nate - a legitimate MFC club legend.

Bloody hell.

When did we last win the opening round of a season? Is it something like 2006?