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his fitness base to power out of the contest is clearly not there and it won't return during this season he needs a big off-season to return to the best he can be in 2025

perfect bye content; worth revisiting post king's birthday i reckon in football, just as in life, things are never as bad or as good as they may seem but this is an appalling comment imo agree with the first bit, but to say he's 'destroyed the club'? shocking thing to say

me too and within two years there's going to be many more players on $1m plus a year, with the salary cap set to rise exponentially

plus brayshaw, regardless of what element holds over in the cap or not that should be at least $2m of cap space

i would say... IN (the best 23): van Rooyen, McVee, Windsor also IN: Hunter, Billings, Howes, Jefferson, McAdam, Fullarton, Tholstrup, Woewodin the biggest issue is that all the players we have picked up from other clubs have been nqr; our recruiting via the draft has been sound of those you noted as out, only hibberd, jackson, gus were in our best 23

personally i would doubt buckley is as keen as an observer of the mfc as anyone on this message board he's just a commentator whose focus is on 18 clubs, and as everyone is well aware with a particular bent towards the black and white variety

from memory it was about a month opening round shocking timing

we didn't 'let jordon go' he got offered more money, and an outlined role in a well-coached side so he left

i get that feeling too he's meant to be our skills coach well our skills are appalling

"obliterated in every phase" goodwin not a happy camper

3 losses out of 4 games and the team looks bereft of confidence and the ability to put pace on ball movement - how do we turn that around?

crom have never recovered from the 2017 grand final beating we look like we might be bruised by the 2023 finals losses

i can't get over that he can't kick more than 30m he provides nothing in terms of defensive pressure either very disappointed

the issue with both anb and pickett playing thru the midfield is it means no one provides defensive pressure as a small forward and the oppo waltzes it out of d50 under no pressure i am very concerned about what the filth's small runners will do to us next week

if he's going to hold his place in the afl side, he needs to go back to defence

this is scarily true he started the season brilliantly but has stopped being able to run from the looks of things looks super slow

no need to play two tall backs as they've not got one tall forward OUT: hunter, petty, tomlinson, sparrow IN: jvr, tholstrup, woewodin sparrow as the sub, i guess their pressure at ground level will destroy us; filth by 42 maynard bog

6: Salem 5: McDonald 4: Petracca 3: Rivers 2: Gawn 1: Viney all awful

the sort of result that ends an era we were very good 2021-2023 but it's hard to come back from 90+ point losses mid-season

Gawn is a marvel but can’t do it all Petracca can’t kick - either to goal or to a teammate Viney can’t move away from oppo Clayton’s lack of preseason has destroyed his ability to power out of contests Sparrow is a plodder Playing ANB in midfield has robbed us of his key role as a forward pressure player: ditto Pickett, and neither reliably hit targets by foot There are no other options

midfield doesn't bat deep enough and we have zero run on the outside

appalling skills

hopeless may

be nice if we could hit a target by foot players under little / no pressure failing to hit targets - so frustrating

clear as day even jack riewoldt called it