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Paul Roos keep saying he is all about his family, his family apparently arrive back next week, the reason I think Tuesday is Paul Roos wants his family there for the announcement. The announcement will be made when the time best suits the club and Paul Roos

No, we look like a club that has won 2 matches this year with an average losing margin of over 10 goals. We look like a club that has won 6 matches in two years with 4 of these wins against Gold Coast and GWS. We look like a club that has falling memberships and match day attendances that play at a 100,000 capacity stadium. In regards to priority picks we are no a charity we are an extremely bad football team that on our performances this year and last alone are in dire need for quality players.

If we get the priority pick this and considering some rumours that are floating around here I believe this will be the great trade for our club Pick 3 and MFC second round pick say 19 to WCE for Scott Selwood and Pick 7 Pick 7 to GWS for Taylor Adams Pick 1 Tom Boyd, he is good, I know we need more midfielders but this guy is the best player in the draft. He adds security that if Clark doesn't recover or Hogan goes home we still have a gun key forward. If Clark recovers and Hogan stays the MFC has the most dangerous forward line in the AFL. We add two quality mids plus another high quality tall, encourage Sylvia to go for a mid, Sylvia will get us band 3 after our second round say pick 20 Imagine a forward line Kent Boyd Clark Hogan Dawes Watts/Howe The best thing about that forward line with the exception of Dawes the rest move extremely well. If we can walk away from the trading and draft achieving has had a massive successful period.

Announcements are about ensuring you have maximum media exposure, I respect Roos for the position on the B&F, it is the absolute closure for 2013 and to thank Neil Craig for his efforts in what has been hell. You then enter into the first week of the finals, the media is all over this from Friday to Monday, 11am Tuesday Roos with his Wife and Family enter the long room for the press conference. The MFC then dominates the media all afternoon Tuesday, Wednesday and if we play the media right announce Ling as his assistant on Wednesday afternoon so we get Thursday as well. Roos and Ling then continue their media for Friday till the following Monday and all of the sudden the MFC has hijacked the media for the second week of the finals. Or the other side he comes out on Friday and closes the door stating he will not coach us. There are two things that we have to applaud the club for firstly, chasing the man they want and hopefully getting him and secondly until Roos went on the TV last Friday no one outside Roos and the Club had any idea that we were still talking, considering he had met our leadership group last week this is a great effort to keep it all under wraps. The old administration would have had it all through the media.

All this hype that his comment has created, what will happen to the club if he doesn't coach. The season has been a disaster, I hope Paul Roos knew what he was saying and the effect on the club that it would have if he rejects our offer. It is now all our eggs in one basket, if it doesn't happen it is going to be extremely hard for the club to move on.

The highlight for me was seeing the old boys come onto the ground. Neitz, Rivers, Moloney, Miller, Ward, Aussie, Whelan, Nicholson. Matt Whelan has been in a very good paddock, I dare to say no grass just pure meat diet. The game, I thought the first quarter it was just going to be a shoot out going through the motions, the the Bulldogs decided to take it serious and we were still in coast mode game was over until big Wil decided to fire us up. Great to see most of our players involved pit bull Viney lives for this and will be his first fine of a few over his carreer, then we decided to take it serious and it was quite a reasonable game. Have to say, I would love for Nev Jetta to get another year and left in the backline. His commitment and hardness is something our team lacks and he can run and carry the footy. I hope he gets another year and is allowed to settle in one position.

3 retired 7 to go Retired: Davey, J MacDonald, Rodan Delist: Bail, Seller, Davis, Gillies, Magner, Couch And one of Sylvia or Watts will leave. Hogan and Clisby claim 2 spots Leaves 6 senior and 3 rookie spots, wouldn't mind keeping Davis as a rookie 5 draft picks and 1 traded in player

It is the end of an era in terms of the complete turn over of staff and we basically will have a new era commencing with a new board, management and footy staff. Whether the next era will be successful how nows. We can't play any worse, can we play better who knows. The last 7 years the club finished off each year selling hope, the potential of the young players, the change that should move us forward and it was a complete false hope. Now the supporters have lost faith and unless they can pull a rabbit out of the hat with something big, they can't sell hope anymore. We as supporters won't buy as easy as we have done in recent years. The next era has to earn back the respect of it's supporters, the club has lost that. Sure most of us will by a membership still, some will attend most matches, but we have lost respect for our club and players, thay have to earn this back.

They are the most underperforming players on our list, so much talent, so much frustration watching them waste their talent by playing like the aren't interested. Credit to Col this has been his most consistant year in the AFL, he hasn't had the 1 or 2 great games like he usually teases us with, this year has been the same most games and just good workman like games.

Why? Even if he has the club would have moved on but by not releasing this it keeps us news worthy. There will be an article tomorrow Roos out for Brisbane but Melbourne still has hope. I love how the club has become open and honest, but also release information that needs to be released rather than being the leaky bucket that we have been in the past.

You will find both Clark and Dawes had very heavy front ended contracts and the reduce each year. I reckon we could afford to throw a 1.5mil + a year at someone if Davey, Sylvia and Watts go, maybe a superstar of the competition free agent that was a passionate MFC supporter. Play him off the wing rest forward, now wouldn't that be a huge win for the club. Great to dream this time of year, the reality is we will end up with 5-7 kids and 5 picks inside pick 21. Priority pick, pick 3, Pick 10ish(Watts), Pick 19, pick 20(Sylvia), but wouldn't it just be great if we have those picks and one L. Franklin, that would get Paul Roos to the club or even maybe a successful premiership coach that played for the MFC that is coaching the top team at the moment.

In Jetta, Fitzpatrick Out Rodan, Pederson Jetta Frawley Garland Terlich McDonald Dunn Trengove Jones Toumpas Howe Watts Kent Davey Dawes Fitzpatrick Spencer Sylvia Viney M Jones Grimes McKenzie Tapscott Like our last game against the dogs take the shackles off and just attack, make it an entertaining game I don't care if we lose but I would love to see a 15 goal plus game again

The fact is it is out of our control, Sylvia can walk and if a player doesn't want to be at the club you need to move on quickly and get the best result for the club. I would hate to see Sylvia go, but I would certainly understand why he would go. Watts on the other hand wants it easy, if he stays great but if he doesn't want to stay we have to get the right deal. The club needs to back themselves if these two want to leave that we get players in that will improve our club, be it established players our young talent. Both Watts and Sylvia are the most frustrating players on our list all the ability to be A grade players but rarely produce this.

The main issue a team has when the season turns bad you stop playing as a team and get more worried about your own survival. It becomes more about the individual performance and I think as supporters we start to look at individuals for the ray of hope but we need a team. For the past 6 years our team just hasn't jelled, we won games on pure talent and attacking footy but any time we had to play team footy we go missing. We haven't been able to introduce a team defensive structure that works, to defend you need to commitment from the 18 players on the ground to work as a team to do this. Today's footy one weak link and you are opened up, every player needs to play their role. So where will our improvement come from, a coaching department that can get us to play like a team and get 100% commitment from the players to play their role. I still believe we have talent on our list but unless we can start playing as a team talent means nothing. Sticking to structures, being commited to the hard stuff tackling, blocking, being unselfish for the benefit of the team.

Find it strange the Watts parents in a Adelaide function. The Watts to Crows got a mention in the MFC season wrap on the AFL website. Any deal would need to include another club or players. I don't blame Sylvia if he wants to go, he has 3-4 years left, we will get band 3 for him which will be about pick 20, thats about right. Of the two I hope Sylvia stays, Watts can go as long as we get the right trade.

Yep, nothing has changed, we hope to get Paul Roos, but if we don't it will be Williams, Eade or Craig. The only thing that has changed is us sounding out Ling for an assistant role, I hope he comes on board.

This is a real test for the AFL, they have bigger issues to deal with at present but as soon as the Essendon saga is completed this will need to be on the commissions agenda. The questions are and the history is that you can't take past actions into account Does winning 2 games and losing in the fashion we have deserve a priority pick? Does winning 6 games in 2 years deserve a priority pick? Does the MFC have a list that can see it improve dramatically to be at least competitive next year? Does the MFC have a list that is capable to be pushing for the top 8 in 3 years? Can the AFL afford to have a club with little hope falling memberships low match day attendances continue to play at the MCG? The last question is a big issue, every club wants to play at the MCG, we get to play there because we always have and it is our home ground, it has been for over 150 years we help build the club to what it is. But history is just that, we can't average 22,000 at the MCG, we can't have 33K members and we can't be the laughing stock of the AFL. The AFL is in a real bind, the founding club is a complete basket case with basically a VFL standard list, no money, supporters dropping off, no Victorian club wants to play us as a home game, we get the interstate clubs as home games because they have to get to play on the MCG at least once per year. Do we need a priority pick yes we do no question Do we deserve a Priority pick Yes we do the light is so dim we need some sort of hope Will we get a priority pick No, the AFL is to gutless to give us one and if they did it won't be pick 1, it will be end of first round.

Would love to see him back, give him a rookie spot, get him over now and into training that will see how committed he is

Watching Davey this year has been good, a couple of times he has just missed a big hit, I reakon last game he is just going to start a monster all in brawl, he will go down swinging, the footage might look like Dale Kickett exploading against the eagles in a western Derby.

Sad to see him go, thought he may have had another year in him. Don't like the heading on the club article "Davey retires from the Demons", that says he is leaving the club to play somewhere else or the club has retired him. Why can't things like this be clean, I know no player wants to retire but it would be nice if our players can retire on their own terms.

What the herald sun doesn't comment on is who we play as home games, Port, GWS, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Fremantle, West Coast, Sydney, North, Bulldogs plus Collingwood and Hawthorn, so 7 home games against interstate clubs and the Bulldogs and North two of the lower drawing Vic teams. The AFL is torn revenue V equalisation, revenue will always win.

I always read that MFC leave Casey in the cold come finals, but this is also the Casey football clubs problem, Box Hill and Williamstown have very strong VFL depth, Casey doesn't they have 6 players that are reasonable VFL league players the rest struggle. They don't have the money to buy a range of really good VFL players, Best, Gent and Pannozza are three that come to mind but there fortune really lies with the MFC players. Which is great for the MFC we get to play nearly all our available players in Casey's VFL team not like Sandy when most of our younger players played a lot of reserves footy. So when we get a run of injuries the depth of Casey's VFL list is tested and unfortunately it will come up short and most likely exit in straight sets. Shame but thats the reality, I fell for Casey because they are in a tough position, if they get good VFL players to the club we shout them down for taking MFC listed players spots, if they don't they expose themselves to being what they effectively are a MFC VFL team with Casey top up players and the MFC will always do what is best for them.

Barrett is a [censored], but I don't disagree with with the point we did this toi ourselves, but do you know what we aren't the first club to completely stuff up a period of drafting, look at Richmond, they had every chance through the early mid 2000's but stuffed up, through early draft draft picks and yes further priority picks they have rebuilt the rebuild and will play finals. Carlton was the biggest draft rort in history, they found a loop hole in there salary cap breach sanctions and were able to have priority picks even knowing they lost there first round picks due to these sanctions. We stuffed up, no one is arguing that but we can't punnish the current administration and future footy department on past stuff ups. It needs to be on its current merit and the likelyhood is we will win 6 games in two years, under the intial system we would have had a priority pick last year and this year at the start of the draft, under the next system we would have received end of first round pick last year and pick 1 this year. The system was changed due to teams having one bad year, this change happened when we started going south, then we still keep sliding further and the AFL change the rules again. I'm not a fan of priority picks but we need as much assistance as we can can get.

Bossdog, I agree on one thing most of our players had a crack yesterday, they all worked hard and considering the injuries we had no one can question most of the players. I wonder if you attended the game yesterday, the way Jack Watts played and the way the coaches allowed him to play was the worst thing I've seen from the club this year. The positioning and the role that Jack was doing was a coach thing and was an extremely bad move, he wasn't a loose man in defense to defend he was put there purely to be used to create attack, we had 20 goals kicked against us it was the poorest bit of coaching I've ever seen. Jack himself refused to compete and that is a real concern he wanted someone to give him the footy rather than win his own footy.

Aaron Davey his our third highest goal kicker for the year behind Howe and Watts, even as a sub he is our most dangerous small forward.