layzie

Like an off beat blues musician, they move a little differently these types.

I feel like this milestone needs some amazing Clarry artwork by a talented creative.

It's such a long season, they'd be having to answer the same questions every week. The forgotten part of this is the members, you need to sell hope to them. Telling them that the season they've paid up for is effectively dead at Rd 2 would be a pretty rude shock to some when the game is their main passion in life. They made bold moves which may end up being the incorrect moves but tanking? Surely not.

Omitted for who?

Agree. Thought Tommo got swept up in the overall bad performance, made some mistakes but did another serviceable job. Appeared to spend most of the night minding Hipwood who had 7 touches and no goals.

It would be the perfect sliding doors moment to lose the wood we had over one team but take another team's wood over us away from them.

Like it or not, it's a good headline!

Not fussed, we produced a rising star award winner 2 years ago so must have been doing something right.

Whatever it is I don't want it.

Right in the kisser.

I gotta ask one thing about the reserved seat members because we were in the gun a lot on here last year. What is an appropriate number of games for a reserved seat member to attend each season? I go every home game but if I ever have to miss one for good reason am I going to be thrown into the worthless reserved seat member category? The guy I usually go with had a baby last year and now gets to about 1 in 3 home games after having attended regularly for 5 years, is he scum?

You good with spreadsheets RPFC?

Is this the 'lay off us we're turning up' thread or the 'come on you lazy so and so's get your butt to the games this is embarrassing' thread?

Watched his highlights on stats pro before. Really struggled to cover territory and the only time he was outside the 50 was when he was in the ruck. Need to get to the bottom of it.

It's a good stat. Wonder how the extra game will play a part?

How bloody good is Clayton! I've never seen anyone play a better first 150 games than this guy. Pillar of consistency and hopefully a future Charlie winner. Good on you Clarry! Edit: That image will be his statue outside the G one day..

Personally I don't look at the ladder till about round 8.

It's a real 'Moneyball' approach that looks like it's been created by a computer. There's every chance this becomes a step back to go forward year for them. A lot riding on this derby.

It's just so obvious that this method is not how you take a club to the next step. Those 20 gamers you mentioned were big contributors in 2022, especially Acres. With a list profile at the stage theirs is at, that many changes can upset the mould and take time to reset again. Then to go out and throw the money bags out there who is really only high potential who doesn't address a need. They weren't crying out for a ruckman and he doesn't fix their forward issues. I just can't see how this can be seen as an organisation making good and sensible decisions in line with the vision of a club yet to break their duck. I see it as a club that was on the way to building a 'bloods no DH' culture and overnight has pivoted to the old fashioned Carlton mentality and caving in to the shiny object syndrome.

It's pretty crazy though isn't it, the only players with over 150 games experience on the list are Breust and Wingard. Just 4 others with over 100 games.

It was the best year of his career bar none. The intent he played with off HB and some of the crazy good efforts in 50-50 contests at pivotal moments really helped set the tone for our season. Incidentally it was the round 8 game against Sydney at the G that I remember so vividly when it comes to Hunty's season. It was a real tough game and there was a real question about whether MFC would step up or step down in those last 5 mins and he had about 2 or 3 'all-in' commitment moments that could have gone either way. It was that moment I knew that our club was fair dinkum and our mentality was set. Very much a crucial part of our success.

You'd think the commentators would bring it up in a game! 😉

This was the most fumbly Melbourne performance I've seen for a while. Obviously in our efforts to clear out of the middle we weren't clean but it was more than that. It seemed like every time there was an opportunity to move the ball fast there was something that would slow us down whether it was a handball to someone's shoe laces, a guy fumbling an easy receive and being forced to mop up, or a fairly routine intercept mark being dropped and gifting the ball back. We always just seemed a step short. The Lions on the other hand looked so slick with the ball in hand and did all the little things well. How does something like this happen? There has been some talk about the conditions being humid and slippery, would that really be the only reason considering this is a deck we looked silky smooth on only 6 months ago?

Couldn't be an Yze without a bit of X-Factor.

Didn't get to pay close attention to him on Fri, is it the off the mark movements that he's restricted in or did he not cover his usual territory as well? Or both?