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A long time supporter/backer of North once told me " North cannot afford to bottom out". That has shaped their recruiting policy for the past 15 years at least. Better to finish mid table than the bottom, because the small supporter base would evaporate. The recruiting response to that is to bring in the likes of Tyson, Polec, Pittard in the hope it can keep them in that mid range. They only get mid range picks at the draft and never some real top end talent. In other words, they are never recruiting and managing their list with the aim of winning a Premiership. Scott leaving will do nothing for their situation.

You underestimate Preuss, moves well for a big man brings ball to ground can take a mark and kick a goal as he helped win our first game against the Swans. Proved to be of value. Big bodied player. Tim can play but l feel that he is a magnate for injuries just can't string games together just one of those players l guess. I am not comparing any player just saying Preuss was missed last night. Hurn or McGovern would have had their hands full. A good distraction. Time will tell how good Preuss will be. The argument shouldn't be Smith or Preuss....both should have played. We lost Melksham, Hibberd and Lewis. Last week we played against a side with 1 ruckman, this week 2.

He isn''t "seemily overly rigid"....he is! I have long said his running technique is fundamentally flawed, and how he has not been given an athletics coach to work on it in the time he as spent at the club is simply beyond me. His first 3 steps are sideways. He doesn't run on the balls of his feet at this point. So he is slow to accelerate, which is why he gets caught. Then because he goes side to side, and he carries the ball with elbows straight, the ball gets moved side to side prior to kicking. That is why he is so inaccurate.

If his contracted salary is not left in the Bulldogs salary cap for 2020 and 2021 this will lead to others rorting the system. Sydney will try to do the same with Buddy's contract if he can't get back on the ground. The Bulldogs and any other club can now go and offer $1M per year to any available player for X number of years and when they fall over before the contract end, "cancel the contract".

Because it is even smaller than our current allocation of space, and is too small for our current needs and there is no more room at the MCG. .

Whatever options are available, stop gap type ones cannot be considered. If you want to see what a 50 year plan for facilities looks like, then have a look at Essendons at Tullamarine. 2 ovals one the size of the MCG, the other the size of Docklands. An indoor facility the size of 4 basketball courts and an administration headquarters. This is the future of what is needed, and it is why Hawthorn is moving. Waverly is not big enough for the future. SO to be serious about the future, a facility needs 10 + acres of space....as has been pointed out by others, that is not available within 10km of the city. I hope that we can secure some sort of government assistance, but a serious amount as well. To get to AAMI, I think we got $2M while RIchmond got $12M, the Dogs gifted land and facilities of $16M. Now Carlton, Richmond, Geelong, St.Kilda are all getting huge handouts. Why not us?

I know the Board has been working on a plan for a long, long time. Unless we can convince Melbourne Victory to move out of AAMI, thereby relinquishing their soccer pitch area outside, where we could build something long-term ( and Large), there are virtually no other options in inner Melbourne. The option ( and I am sure it has been examined) where I think the best chance is at Caulfield racecourse: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/inner-south/caulfield-racecourse-liberals-pledge-425-million-to-ovals-plan/news-story/50702bf11aac868ccf43af8dcf04fa63 Unfortunately the MFC hasn't been mentioned in any articles about this redevelopment, but the land is sure there.....

We are about 8K ahead of where we were last year at the same time: Last year we only added about 250-300 members a week to the end of June, so we cannot expect much more than that to happen. This would give us about 53-54K at season end. A fabulous start to the 70k target, but how much better would it have been with early season wins. Still 8k is nearly a 20% increase from last year....not too many clubs would have done this!

Further details from a previous post: One month to go till the Dees hit Metricon. Our function is very slowly building but we need you to start committing or otherwise. Email: [email protected] with the number of seats you want to book and I will, in turn, send bank details for the payment. Don't forget it will be refunded to you by way of a voucher per person towards food.. this is just to get the bums on seats numbers. Jeff White will be guest speaker and there will be some merchandise available for sale. Raffle alai so bring your spare change! 120 max.. no more can be accepted for lunch so get in . Big game tonite.. Nervous as hell.. Go Dees

4 disposals to half time...perhaps not

Chris Dawes (mark 2)....no

Enough

Whatever the talent that might be available at the mid-season draft, we certainly have to use it to fill our list. Not just for this year, but we will have too many holes which will need to be filled at year end. Lewis and Jones probably not around again. Garlett, JKH, Maynard, Baker, ANB, Stretch, Keilty (R), T.Smith (R), J Wagner, all out of contract, most of whom cannot get a game. And I'm assuming Frost, Weidemann, Salem are renewed. 11 players.

yes he does, and he doesn't know how to lead.

Sydney put up a dodgy TEN year deal to get Buddy. No club, NO club should help them out. Let them bear the consequences. And if Sydney are trying to get rid of Buddy, ask St.Kilda what sort of condition Hannebury was in when the Swans traded him out.

Saints are playing the old Ross Lyon game plan.....strangle the game and keep in touch, hoping for a couple of errors to score. They will never win finals with that type of football as we have seen, but it gets them barely across the line enough times to keep the supporters at bay. The solution is simple: hit them hard on the scoreboard early.

Even the soccer mob are complaining: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/soccer/a-league-players-union-calls-for-inquiry-into-scg-surface-shambles-20190406-p51bly.html

Good to see that the MFC is leading the AFL by getting a microphone among the journalists so we can hear the questions.

Spot on! But while the AFL will never admit they got it wrong ( like the AFLW season and its conference system) I think the next Melbourne player to front the tribunal will have a "more favourable" decision go their way as pay back.

Congratulations to Adelaide for winning the AFLW Grand Final. Without a doubt it was one of the most decisive drubbings of a second rate side in Carlton who should not have been there in the first place. The disastrous 2019 conference system was all there to be seen after Adelaide were able to beat the two top sides in B division by over 10 goals and 7 goals respectively. That's not a finals series and only served to debase the efforts of better sides in the competition. Gil is lucky there are other things going on in the media at the moment, so the scribes have completely missed this debacle.

People need to get over the numbers. The AVERAGE player is from the last CBA in June 2017 is earning $371,000.

It is not possible to read anything in terms of defensive structures from the Richmond-Collinwood game. Richmond lost Rance, their best defender. Collingwood have Cox the tallest player in the league.

Didn't trouble the people going to Collingwood/Geelong or Richmond/Carlton

Still a long way to go for Carlton, but the fact they got within 2 goals in the 3rd quarter has shown the weakness in Richmonds armour. While it was only one game Martin and Cotchin have dropped off considerably from their 2017 form, but they are still very good players. It happens with age. Cripps and Walsh really took it up to them and the clearance stats went Carltons way. It's not the 666 stuff, that is a complete furphy. If Richmond were to lose Nankervis...then they would be really stuffed. The Bloos need to get rid of those old stagers that fill their side before they can become a genuine threat. Jones, Fasolo, and Simpson are just list cloggers...but then they haven't got anyone else at the moment.

The AFL couldn't possibly go for this simple solution. An extra 2 goal umpires with eyes that can see....goodness! Much better to spend thousands of $ on untried untested audio technology and then sit some clown up in a video box reviewing everything and still getting it wrong.