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"He said to me and the playing group, if he could pick the Melbourne footy club up and place it in Adelaide he would be playing in the red and blue still." Really says all you need to know about the guy.

Well played on the thread title Nascent 😀

Looked great in print.

Yes please. Pace to burn

Maybe Tommo? That's about it though yeah.

For everyone talking about the game style right now both good and bad I have an question for you and I'm keen to hear the responses: - Would you like to see us attempt to play an attacking, free flowing, 'through the middle' style of footy and see us try to develop this even if it means potentially being smacked by 10 goals plus? OR - Do you want to see us go up there and put up a fight with the strangle approach we used against Port? It won't be pretty but if executed we may lose by a small margin or even get a win. Keen to hear your thoughts.

Not to mention the desperation to play through the pain for fear of letting everyone down as I imagine this would have been his thinking. Can't wait to get him right again.

Thought you meant the cavalry on the horizon for a moment there! 😝

Excellent. Time to put him on ice. Have a breather Clarry and then get stuck into a ripping pre season.

I love the idea of marketing the hell out of it and pumping up the 'putting one over the old enemy' mantra. If the club's comms knows anything about the majority of our supporter base they will know that this would resonate. I also think a win in this game is something you can take into the off season and build confidence. I'm just not so sure on the Brayshaw one, it just doesn't seem like he's comfortable with anything like this right now. Would love to see it though.

I believe that was me and I definitely see your point. While I do respect the approach of not 'meddling' in issues that relate to the day to day football ops, I believe that the club needed to go hard at the AFL after that verdict. It did feel like we were walked on.

I'd say he's just signalled his intentions for the moment Moe. Unfortunately for him this has been leaked out. We could absolutely hold him to his contract and for many other players I'd expect it but I can't see the club doing that with Alex, not after everything he's given us. Good footy clubs do the right things for good people, Nibbler will be a Demon for life.

I've actually considered that DD! Heard people rave about them plus it would be pretty easy to get onto the bike track where I am. Sure is a big gap between those and the bloody scooters!

Haha yeah bit of a footnote in history JD. We traded him for something like pick 45 so he could get more game time elsewhere. The Scott Thompson one did hurt. It all came together before he got hurt in that 04 season, we got Beamer out of it but Scotty was a super player.

Driving in Melbourne stinks right now. I drive 7km every morning and it can take anywhere from 25 minutes to 45. "Take PT then!" Sure why not! What's that? You mean without a car you can't carry more than 10kg of stuff? No worries, I'll just leave the fabric samples/computer/gym gear/anything else bulky at home. Also after an 9-10 hr day there's nothing better than adding another 30 mins on top of that faffing around waiting for buses/trains. When I'm on my death bed my biggest regret will be that I didn't spend enough time on my daily commute.

I don't think we'd play hardball either, what's the point? I'd see it as a Peter Walsh to Port scenario. I do wonder if he can adapt to another side's system easily as he's just been so perfect for ours.

In December I thought top 4 was out of the question. After KB I thought that finals were out of the question.

You lose stars, you gotta make new stars.

In what way would you say his kicking skills are excellent? Macrae's MO has always been as an accumulator that struggled with foot skills and especially penetration in his kicking. Matthew Lloyd once said about how when he came to the club he had to re-learn how to kick off a witches hat because his ball drop was that high. He's improved quite a bit over time but He's probably as good a field kick as Oliver.

As said earlier in the thread, you can never have too many mids that can't kick. Although he did go to school with Viney, maybe a good way to keep him.

I haven't felt this bad about leadership going out the door since Junior Mac.

One positive is that so many are positive in the Nibbler trade thread and wish him the best.

Have to agree, I think this was happening whenever it was happening. Life..

The memories last forever

Imagine having your eulogy written by Demonland..