layzie

I dont usually go out of my way to support ex players but I can't help but admire what he's done. Really happy for him

Dogs look cleaner and move with purpose. We're doing a lot of kick and hope stuff. If Pickett doesn't get it through the middle then I don't see a meaningful kick into the 50. Frustrations boiled over when Melksham was on his own with about 10 metres on him and all that was needed was a dink kick over the top Petty has dropped a few bit as mentioned by others he is still giving us a target to kick to. JVR in the ruck too much and Max forward doesn't fill me with hope. Seasons cant end soon enough.

He's also dropped 4 or 5 he'd usually take

Petty cant catch a cold

Melksham was fuming and rightly so

Just lazy uninspiring football

We look like a losing side

Undisciplined, lazy football

Come on Fritta

Dogs looking slicker

English is torching us with those field kicks

Joke

Wake up Adams. That was park football stuff

Totally

I'd say it would be horses for courses depending on who we get and their experience. For instance if Longmire does come, I'd wager he's picking his staff or at least has a very serious say in it.

One of the stranger contract decisions we've made in recent times.

I would love to see Cameron Bruce back at the club in some capacity. Development coach/assistant at Hawthorn during the 3 peat, some time at Carlton and Lions midfield coach since 2022 overseeing big change. I reserve the right to be way off base with this, but I always thought he was someone who left the club possibly disgruntled with the way the club was treating their senior leaders at the time ie. Junior, White, Robbo, Yze. I would love to see this come full circle and for me would be the most exciting addition since Yze returned. Someone from the Clarko/Fagan tree is always a plus as well.

A good slant on it LITD. Something I had not considered.

"Football doesn't wait for anybody.." Never a truer word spoken..

Coming from someone who was willing to go to GWS back in the day, that actually concerns me. If this opinion forms part of the general perception around the league in regards to our list, culture, home base and so on then we should probably be taking notice and getting our heads out of our rear ends.

Congrats Ed. Great athlete, great player and most importantly great guy. I will be pretty disappointed if he doesn't play till 40.

Do people still write letters to clubs to show their gratitude? Or is it all just tweets and Xboxes now?

This is an extremely underrated comment. We chose to distance ourselves from the Jackson brass and I was never sure why. It would be wrong to say that Pert didn't have some success but after where we had come from and having had to start from a long way back it could have been beneficial to see Mahoney installed in that position and let the ship sail on with what we had built to that point. A sliding doors moment. There's only one person who can explain the thought process behind this decision and I doubt we'll be hearing from them anytime soon.

I'm feeling more and more that the likely outcome is these two being at MFC next year. The one important day that I am looking forward to: The day the new coach has their first formal conversation with one Christian Petracca and one Clayton Oliver. Cards on the table, vision and plans for these guys how they fit going forward. If they buy in then the challenge is for the coach getting them back to somewhere near their best.

We need him. Probably need him healthy too.