markc

this place would be meltdown if we paid 3 first round picks for anyone ! 

It was well played by GWS. glad to see it happen 

has anything been 100% confirmed yet ?  

absolute joke, another kick in the teeth for any small business that has managed to survive 

I used to close Grand final day so any staff that followed football could watch the game, since this holiday I haven't. Over half my staff don't even follow AFL, nor care about it. Mind you now that has all changed with Covid and business, I only have one staff member left and she couldn't give 2 hoots about AFL. 

17 hours ago, Elwood 3184 said:

There’s very little strength shown at the very top of the club as shown by allowing the situation whereby we were the club to play Sydney and Freo within 4 days up in Cairns just 5 days after playing in Alice Springs and being one of only two clubs not to have a bye during several weeks of football frenzy. Eddie would have gone down kicking and screaming rather than allow his club to hit the wall and miss a finals series that way. 

 

 The dons game should have been given as a walk over, don't think people realise how much damage this has done now. No other team would have rolled over and played as many games as we have in such short time frames. 

Caro has always stuck the boots in the MFC , every chance she gets. Sure she might get something right but more wrong than right for her. Still trying to get attention and be justified.

yes for a low trade cost and base wages 

he was troubled here also( not as bad as in WA ), but seems MFC did a far better job of handling him. Sadly he lost this support and found his mates and so on back home

Freo as we all know was chasing him for years and made many promises, I think once they got the prize they never backed these up and he's been left on his own. 

Back in the right environment I truly believe he can get back to his best. 

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Outscore them and we’ll win, simple. 

wow thats make the game so simple , so you're telling me if we score more we will win 

dont tell everyone ....

so glad he's been given games in a row , he will get better and he plays more 

I thought he was a pretty good kick , he will get better with more confidence. 

he needed to be told you're in the side for XX amount of time , go for it 

Mick is missing the spotlight again , it smacks in the face off  , crap I need to write something . 

very poorly written , most of which is old news and all of us in hindsight ..... 

Fyfe at pick 20 ....   lets see how many clubs didn't have Scully at pick 1 that year.  

maybe he should have done a article on his time at carlton , every team has a could've and would've drafted this and that player 10 years later. 

he posted on on the facebook groups , he was sitting next to a camera 

said he would do it 

Im sure i can find his name .... 

16 hours ago, Billy said:

Get him off easy street in the media to have a crack at this pile of rabbits droppings of a club

If he gives two hoots he’ll have a crack, apparently was brilliant coaching the all stars back in the day.

Has a fantastic footy brain & a brilliant captain of the club

Unless we can get Clarko ?

no way we get him , PLEASE NO , Garry is all about Garry , everything he has done to help MFC has gone backwards, do not get him to help even pick a coach , let alone coach.  i could honestly say I would leave the MFC, and thats saying something , Ive been here for 50 odd years and came close but always loved and been somehow involved, its in my blood and always drawn me back! sick I know. 

4 hours ago, CBDees said:

Yes but Dusty was never “the Melbourne look” at the time with our blue blood MFC Board. Maybe that had some bearing on the selectors?

yes we never looked at dusty , but everyone had Scully and Trengrove as 1 and 2 . even port offered us pick 6 and 8 for pick 2 

all very good in hinsight

we've had so many players /half stars over the last 50 years that for some reason or another never lived up to the hype 

I will hold my judgement till we hold some little cup up

we have all heard this before , melbourne could be this , could be that . I don't want words anymore , i want to see actions , wins , premierships , simple as that 

3 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Great question - it is what they are being paid this year.  This is what they said in the article:

And when the Herald Sun tasked a reporting team of Glenn McFarlane, Jon Ralph and Jay Clark with building a list of footy’s top 100 paid players this year, two themes became apparent.

interesting then , so these are the reduced wages ? didn't players take some wage cut ?? , time to have a coffee and do some research .... 

and we still have room in our salary cap , to chase another player , so they must have been front loaded to start off with. 

Is this the wage they received last year ?  or does it take into account front and back loaded deals ?  or just the average over the deal ?

1 hour ago, Stevienic23 said:

Woulld kill to have Toby Greene at Melbourne!

we knocked him back 

Roo's said no 

51 minutes ago, Little Goffy said:

 

You'd love him to stop that, wouldn't you?

sorry miss quoted your post

2 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

No, say more because I’m not catching your drift. 

let just say 

I owned a video shop  you know those old things people used to rent to watch movies on 

people rented them 

returned them late and owed money 

48 minutes ago, Pollyanna said:

A David Neitz story from an impeccable source ...

When Neitz injured his neck and was forced to retire he was eligible for an AFL mandated injury payment from the club of several hundreds of thousands of dollars but, because of the club's dire financial circumstances at the time, he didn't take the payout - that's the kind of leader he was.

 

sounds like a nice bloke and he was every time he came in 

as with this story I can say the complete opposite. 

My little video store in his local area is all i will say 

mark

1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Well, well!  Just saw this:  kangaroos-are-shopping-ben-brown-to-other-clubs

Sounds like North will test the water and if Brown gets a package that lands them a 1st round pick they will let him go. 

I believe Barrett is a North supporter so he would have good mail.

Edit:  Thanks to @markcfor info to say Brown is out of contract, not an FA so the quoted post doesn't apply.

sorry was meant to quote your post as well 

1 hour ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Well, well!  Just saw this:  kangaroos-are-shopping-ben-brown-to-other-clubs

Sounds like North will test the water and if Brown gets a package that lands them a 1st round pick they will let him go. 

I believe Barrett is a North supporter so he would have good mail.

"Brown is out of contract at the end of the 2020 season, but is not a free agent"

not sure  how that then will get a comp pick for him ? 

its just  a flesh wound ......

8 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

Oh, but I guess he will always have his millions.

and his Macca's for his dad 

I just hope we leave him in the team for 4 - 5 weeks 

he will have bad patches even games , but he will learn , let him play 

considering how the Media said saints so good , what happened today ? 

13 minutes ago, Grimes Times said:

NO WAY. His teams boring chip kick footy 3 goals last night is a disgrace.. No attacking flair. Picks terrible unbalanced teams. Who plays 5 190cm plus players all in the same back line, including his teams best ruck man. Trades away all his draft picks for NQR injured hacks.

A guy thats won 4 grand finals and played off is however many it was at hawks 

He would turn our list around , we have the players