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This is me, pretty much, although Salem ain’t a forward Key defenders - Turner, Petty, Adams Midsize - Howes, Rivers Runners - Rivers (can play both roles imo), Bowey, Salem, McVee The issue we have is that May and Lever both remain senior players under contract Can’t play them plus Turner plus Petty / Adams / Howes then the runners

Bill Guest said it best - anything east of Central Park - the Burke Rd / Wattletree Rd corner - is too far I still think of Chadstone shopping centre as being ‘ages away’

whoever is coming in needs to galvanise the group, develop the culture, and go from there it's a big ask given how consistently awful the majority of the last 60 years have been

he still won't be a free agent at the end of the contract in 2 years time he could be the firt $3m a season player if he continues currently growth trajectory

Huge get for them, if true

Tim ‘Oprah’ Lamb strikes again

Easy to argue he is a midfielder

currently unsigned at chicago, looking for a long term deal tim lamb, do yr thang

if we could ship out petracca for jackson i'd be ecstatic

i felt the same way when chaplin said he didn't even want to apply pretty odd to not even want to go thru the interview process as someone who apparently has senior coaching ambitions

he confirmed that he would have a chat if we approached him, which i thought was a strange way of phrasing it how about all these wanna-be coaches actually WANT to apply, rather than be approached?

because they were trying to fasttrack his development wrong move, clearly same with never giving spargo a run of games to get into form, and lever the same even may yesterday looked rusty as all get out early days, and was slow and a step off the pace after 3 weeks out with concussion / suspension

go back a few years...

one of the best wins demons have had all year, against the formerly ladder-leading hawks 12.16.88 to 9.11.65 a dominant performance after quarter time final stats: my best, based upon stream viewing: 6: billings 5: spargo 4: bonner 3: laurie 2: tholstrup 1: fullarton it feels strange to say this but... fullarton should be perservered with, as a tall defender option he's been great the last month of footy

lovely pass from tholstrup moving at pace thru the corridor to paddy cross casey the dominant team since quarter time

sinnema looks a smart footballer great to see him kick a goal on debut

some excellent pressure at the moment casey are good to watch - so competitive

that maggot just inserted himself into the game we're lucky they didn't goal from it

riley bonner with candy and goal

wow some first rate pressure there el jefe with a snap for goal and it's back to a point the diff

that was a cracking mark from spargo, and of course he converted from the angle fullarton needs to remember he's a defender first a foremost

all the scoring that end

how significant is the breeze to the right of screen?

well, technically, it all goes back to the mcc the 'separation of church and state' put us in a state of uncertainty and the terrible governance and decisions by boards fraught with infighting having recruiting zones adjusted and being a rabble on- and off-field for the majority of time for the last 60 years put paid to any ability to build a supporter base whilst we have, apparently, a wealthy supporter base, as per jake niall's series of articles our rich base doesn't stay rich by donating their money to a meaningless thing like a football club in a domestic sporting competition like the vfl / afl one thing compounds the other which contributes to another which informs the former failure begats failure there's no one 'silver bullet' for our malaise being a minnow of a club is a fraught existence - it's why the likes of us, aints, footscray, north, and even interstate second-comers like the pear and flagmantle, not to mention meaningless franchises like gc17 and gw$ are only intermittently successful over the course of this time period not being 'up' during the dawn of tv viewership from the 70s and 80s into the 90s was a disaster for any small time club

the melbourne football club's nomadic existence