drdrake

I had a trident membership and any time we played a big club there supporters just sat in the reserved seat areas. The only time they were moved on was if the person whose seat they were sitting in turned up. It was a joke and most of the time it was loud mouth young blokes that where fishing for someone to bite. The club couldn't do anything about it MCG staff couldn't care who they let in. Besides the view which to me level two on the half forward flank is the best seats at the MCG, you don't get much else

The only way getting back into Round 1 is trading a player that is worth a Round 1 pick. Really we have Hogan/Oliver/Petracca/Gawn that should get us a top 10 pick, Lever cost us 2 first round picks but we would struggle to get 1 back for him. Out side that we don't even have players that would fetch us a first round pick

Agree with this go low and hard, he either fends you off high or you spear tackle him. Do a Selwood and duck into the hand so he gets you high

Burn number 4 jumper never to be worn again. Bottom 4 here we come

Just not good enough another year of hype with no substance

Need the rain to stop, have zero confidence after the way we played in the rain last week

Keep on Walking, we have all heard that from opposition supporters over the past 12 years, I'm sure some copped this on Sunday

Easy response Hawthorn smashed us and showed us how to play wet weather football, plain and simple we where shocking. We have an opportunity next week to show our response on the ground, our supporters don't want words they want action and we need to deliver week in week out.

Playing in big matches makes no difference, when a team delivers garbage on the field they cop it regardless. Both Melb and Carlton were expected to improve this year and both are well behind on what they delivered in 2017. The Bulldogs copped it for a couple of weeks and bounced back, Essendon copped it, we cop it regularly because we show so much then let ourselves down with insipid performances. We all can cop losing it is part of the game, but the way we lose on a regular basis is like we give up when it gets hard. All I want is players/coaches and officials to shut up and perform, we talk to much and this goes both ways.

Can this be the Shut up game. Every 3-4 weeks after a game like we played v Hawthorn our players and officials face the media, with the same garbage, Not Melbourne Football, we went away from structure, we let of supporters down, hurt our Brand, mentally beaten. Shut up, its ok if you hear that once a season, we have heard it every 4-5 weeks for the past 11 years. I know we have to do media, some of our players have media contracts but enough excuses, shut up and perform

Hope he has another role as defensive coach for Melbourne

I reckon this is Bernie's best role for the club. He tags really good but he is a terrible back man

Freo's big brother will swoop on Hogan. West Coast will be looking at him to replace Kennedy, they will want him at Melb for another 2 years then say thanks very much for developing him welcome back to WA. The only way we are keeping Hogan is by playing finals and not just a side that makes finals but a side that can contend in finals. There is nothing more important to our club than breaking our finals draught

Time to play to our side and stop trying to copy Richmonds style. If we are going to continue to kick long to a contest we need tall forwards to compete, bring in 3 quickish players and 2 talls In: Pedo, Weiderman, Hunt, Hannan, Stretch Out: Lewis, Milkshake, ANB, Bugg, Vince All Vince and Lewis do is fall over. To me the below is a more balanced side. Jetta OMac Lever Hibberd Frost Hunt Stretch Oliver Brayshaw Kent Weiderman Petracca Garlett Hogan Pederson Gawn Jones Salem Harmes, Hannan, Fritsch, Wagner

We are trying to defend the forward half of the ground and we are to slow to get into our back half. Teams can see you get over own forward press and you will score

It takes smart players to do this, which we don't have. They need to stand behind the player on the mark and can only Shepherd when play on is called. It enables the kicker to turn a 50m kick into a 60m play that puts pressure on defensive zones. Easy to defend against man up the man that is going to shepherd, try to stop is where the ball is rather that 60m down field

It is an easy fix, our defenders are playing to high up the ground, the ball is coming out of our forward line that quick that as soon as it does we are done, a 50m kick clears our defenders we are scored against. Jetta played the role last year as that last line of defense 20m behind the last forward. This year he is running in quicksand. We need to defend deeper, all teams are doing it against us basically having 4 defenders across Half Back we push ours forward of center when the ball is forward. Mids need to work harder to defend between to 50m arcs and our forwards can't allow the ball to get out of our forward 50m so easy. We play our best football one on one we are garbage when we are out numbered up forward, it worked a couple of times last year Adelaide game was the example but we are missing Tom McDonald who gives a good contest.

We can go back for 15 years pretty see sure this site was live then plus demonology, it is the same every year mentally weak dumb footballers. Our players are robots programmed to play one way. The conditions dont suit our players cant change

It is wet you cant play over possession handball football. Dumb plain and simple

Thats what i posted i reckon we need a certain amount of cash to fund a new admin training base we need to contribute so the afl local state and federal governments will chip in.

Sorry, we went into debt to purchase these machines but we won't use the money from the sale to pay off our debt. Something a bit smelly going on, I will take a stab at it and this is my take only could be way off the mark but makes sense to me. A month ago we go to the media about establishing a home base and finally bringing our club together. I reckon the AFL, State and Federal governments have gone OK we are in but you need to contribute X to make this happen. We don't have X and can't finance the X amount with our current debt. You know what lets take the Moral high ground sell off an asset get the coverage as a socially responsible community club but more importantly raises the X amount we need to contribute for our home base. To me if you have the money to pay off your debts you do it and save the interest, to me if what the age is stating is correct it will be money in money out

Didn't the club go back into debt to finance the purchase of the Pokie licences. Hope the sale has covered our debt

As soon as you take your mouth guard out to yell at an umpire you will get 50m. He was expressing to the umpire what we all were thinking.

Reading Brent Harvey's comments about Curnow and Cripps being the best U23 in the comp, I think Boomer should have a look at Melbournes U23 side( Cripps is 23 so it is 23 and under) JKH Hogan Spargo Fritsch Weiderman ANB Stretch Brayshaw Salem Hunt Lever Baker Smith O Mac Petty King Petracca Oliver McKenna Balic Johnstone Filipovic Pretty handy bunch with Hogan, Petracca, Oliver, Lever, Hunt with All Australian honours written all over them and I reckon Brayshaw and Salem have the ability as well

Richmond Anzac Eve game. Issue with feet and lower leg injuries it stuffs your whole body alignment up. You start to get over the injury than another spot flares up as that spot has taken a lot of the weight compensation due to the injury. Ankles, Calf, Hammy plus other foot bones and tendons. He will have sore spots in different spots that will worry him for most of this season.