drdrake

Let the Victory play all their games at Telstra dome, you hear many AFL clubs say that the break even point at Telstra dome is around 30,000, I would assume the Victory would be the same, why wouldn't you want to fill a 20-25,000 stadium every single week get a good return rather than be concerned about losing money if you don't get above 30,000 people at Telstra dome. Scrap it all, develope a new stand at the existing Athletic track, that can hold the Storm and MFC Admin and Training Rooms, where not going to use the playing arena anyway, and donate the savings you will have to the MFC and Storm.

Why is the 2007 family at the Junction Oval? Why can't we have it at the MCG or the parklands around the MCG? Pick a day when there is no cricket on, there are plenty of weekends between now till the season proper starts and have it at the MCG. Plenty of parking easier access with public transport and it is our home ground.

I think everyone is rating Fremantle to high, they have made the finals only twice, the only reason they finished top four last season is because Melb, St Kilda and Collingwood dropped the ball. They still don't play well away from home, although they are getting better, they have to play the Eagles twice at Subi, these games may determine where they finish. If they can win one they might finish top four. Eagles St kilda Melbourne Sydney Adelaide Fremantle Bulldogs Geelong

Interesting article in the Herald sun today about the Dockers. As a MFC supporter the thing that stood out to me was the statement that LG Sponsorship of Fremantle is the most valuable football sponsorship in Australia, across all codes. How valuable was assesed would be interesting to know. I wonder where our deal with Primus ranks.

A couple of points on the above, I think Yze is in competition is with Pickett not Robertson, both Yze and Byron go missing and can be very lazy footballers. Do you want to retire David Neitz at the season's end? Neita is turning 32 yo his domain should be from the goal line to 35-40m out, if he has to lead up like Barry Hall does up on the wing and working hard back the big Neita wont see the season out. Bruce as a third tall defender, you may as well put Yze back there, Bruce is a soft fringe player, put him on a player that likes body contact and they will kick bags on him.

With our list now giving us a few tall defender options I hope that we never see Miller back there again. Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Miller only join in full preseason training late last year due to OP or some other injury. I like the idea of the three talls in our forward line Miller playing his usual lead up role Dunn working around the 50m arc with Neita behind him, Robbo floating around Davey on the ground crumbing front and square and not up on the wing, Pickett or Yze rotating through the other spot both extremely dangerous on their day, try stopping that forward line. Ward should only be a back up option only, it is time for Bell or CJ to play ahead of him. Jones, this guy will be a big player in our midfield this year, he was so impressive last season that I can't wait to see him play in 2007. The hardest decision is if to play Holland, Bizz, Ferguson, Warnock or Frawley. Holland got smashed against the saints last year, the only way I would play him if he can play on Gardiner.

B Whelan Carroll Ferguson HB Green Rivers Bell C Johnstone Mclean Bruce HF Robertson Miller Davey FF Dunn Neitz Yze R White Mcdonald Jones Int Jamar Bate Sylvia Pickett

One thing White does and Jamar to a certain degree is when they win the hit out cleanly it usually is an effective hit out to our advantage, that is the key stat, a ruckman can win every hit out but if it does give your team a advantage it is pointless. It would be good to find a stat for all the competition ruckman for this.

It reads a lot better then 0 disposals in two grand finals.

Isn't it funny how three years ago no one wanted to draft skinny quick aboriginal kids because Leon Davis couldn't get a kick in games that mattered. Bring in Davey who has dominated since his arrival and now every club is looking for that type of player.

Its a shame Brad Millers ability as a footballer rules him out as a captain, I think he has most of the attributes to be a captain but is missing the one big key that is to be able to turn a game and dominate. A captain has to have a tough presence about them. Besides Junior who is a bit old to be our next captain, the only player in our leadership group that is tough doesn't take a backward step, can turn a match as he did against St Kilda is Brock. IMO this guy has all the attributes of being a great leader. Hopefully Neita can captain until the end of 2008, then Brock is our man.

His claim to fame prior to Hawthorn was coaching a Stawell Gift winner, I can't remember which one it was mid 90's. I trained as a sprinter for a few years and I remember going to a Hawthorn/Melb game and Hawthorn did sprinting drills as a warm up, high knee lifts, bounds and a few other things I had a good laugh and knew we had the game won because they would be spent after doing this. Conditioning coaches that have a sprinting background have not had a lot of success at AFL clubs. It is hard to go from training someone to be fast for a certain distance 100m 200m 400m to coaching football teams it is constant running with short bursts. As previous posters have said the Hawks soft tissue injuries where high when this guy headed them up. Hopefully he has learnt new training methods and trains them as footballers and not sprinters. I am really concerned about this appointment, especially the issues we have had with OP to our younger players over the past 2-3 seasons.

These are good decisions to be made, I think our forward line can set up as below Miller Davey Pickett Dunn Robbo/Neitz To create space for Neitz and Robbo, play two CHF, Miller playing his usaul CHF role up high leading onto the wing, with dunn behind him lead around the 50m-60m area.