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One of the best mid sized forwards over the last seven or so seasons

Long may his outstanding contribution to our forward line continue

such great listening, except for @george_on_the_outer throwing it back that windsor was set to play half-back again? don't think so!

9 minutes ago, No. 31 said:

Just now I was dusting off my Navy Blue beanie and trying on for size in anticipation of the MCG game tomorrow evening and then like a thunderbolt it me, this is merely a nefarious scheme designed so that Carlton cannot easily draft a potential star, in Cody Walker, relatively cheaply like Brisbane, C'Wood, GC Suns, Sydney and the Doggies have in recent times! [shakes fist towards the direction of Docklands] 😁

easy solution - finish last, get him at pick #1?

9 minutes ago, dazzledavey36 said:

I am a regular music concert attendee and I have never one ever heard or seen a football match played being played in between songs.

Bizarre comparison.

clearly you don't have kayo on yr phone...

2 minutes ago, binman said:

Well that changes everything.

Koz is 100% gone. If you think otherwise you not only have your head in the sand, you are in total denial.

I think we should start a Koz is 100% gone thread and hyperventilate and panic all season.

Pass me the lighter fluid so I can set my hair on fire, and perhaps a hard hard too to protect me from the falling sky.

i love the smell of mfcss in the morning

Flagmantle trade request incoming

24 minutes ago, Demon Disciple said:

Yes Guerra seems to do well at the talking part.

Meanwhile, Steven King seems to be one who will let his actions do his talking. I favour the latter.

both behavioural types are fine as long as the result is positive

6 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

We'd be stuffed if we didn't have max out there. We don't have any obvious leaders coming through & he is an outstanding player on field.

It's going to be a sad day when he finishes

it's not often that the greatest player in his position, ever, retires

we've been so lucky to have him as a player and a leader

6 minutes ago, Dees051321 said:

Notes from Dees CEO

One last challenge for our club to call itself premium club (Caulfield)

Happy with Casey but can’t hold hole club 

Don’t have own space and gym at aami with other sports teams

Want football and business come together 

Board hard at work getting closer working with state gov, closer than ever before but still not close enough to announce

Always look at other resources

Delicate stages with state government 

Focus on how do we secure Caulfield and 

Somewhere between 3-5 year window hoping to be done (Caulfield) being approved and built 

In Paul’s mind - no reason melb can’t be the biggest in afl with name. Proud history but we need to create our next price of history which starts with us. 

Another comment asking about how he though Clayton and Christian went on the weekend 🙄🙄

Filling mcg on a weekly basis, playing fun and exciting footy. Have a lot of fun this year.

so we're 3-5 years away from being 3-5 years away?

a lot of waffle and not a lot said by stephen smith here https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1967897/letter-from-steven-smith-2026-season

looks like changes are incoming: https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/the-afl-is-about-to-shake-up-the-draft-and-it-s-set-to-cost-the-blues-a-record-price-20260306-p5o87l.html

Key points

• The AFL wants to protect the integrity of the draft – keep top 10 selections available to the teams that finish in the bottom 10.

• Clubs matching bids on draftees will likely have a loading on the points they pay, weighted according to where they finish on the ladder.

• Clubs would only be able to use two picks to match a bid – meaning that if they finish high on the ladder, they would likely have to give up existing talent to get enough points.

• Carlton, who want to land father-son Cody Walker this year, prepared for this scenario when they traded out Charlie Curnow, nabbing Sydney’s first-round picks for the next two seasons.

• If the proposed weighting had been in place in 2025, the Lions might have had 25 per cent extra in points (for example) added to academy prospect Daniel Annable’s price, making it harder for them to match the bid that came for him at pick six.

4 hours ago, Bombay Airconditioning said:

They’d be mad to, he’s only 23 and is the son of a club legend. But they are in trouble in the coming years. Yes they’ll have a lot of cap space free, will they throw ridiculous money at Butters and Bailey? Interesting to see how this plays out.

can't remember who posted this originally on here, but i always think of this screed published in 2025 when people talk about clubs tumbling into trouble...

It’s over. At some point the analytics told the AFL that 85% of its audience aren’t going anywhere - regardless of results.

Huge, monumental spectacle is what the AFL wants its brand to be. Why spend decades building up half the competition when the other half already provides everything you need?

The smart big clubs woke up to this a while back. Collingwood’s list strategy is diabolical on paper, but they know they’ll just top up on talent because the system is built to sustain them. 3 of Geelong’s 4 best players came from other clubs.

This year was the least competitive season of AFL ever. The top 9 teams were decided by mid April. Thats 5.5 months of meaningless footy for half the clubs. The Age report on how poor this season was because they aren’t feeding directly from the AFL trough. Everyone else just happily follows the talking points, or else they might not get a good free suite at next years Gather Round.

It annoys me enormously that 2025 will be a huge financial success for the AFL because its overall product has stunk this year, and the guy leading the organisation never really wanted the job, and clearly has no vision for the future of the game.

This is all part of the problem. It continues to succeed in spite of itself, because we love the game too much.

the stand rule has gone from making it 18 vs 17 to 18 vs 16 cos any time two players hear 'stand' they freeze on the spot for fear of giving away a 50 - as the season goes on it'll be relaxed, guaranteed right up to the point where it costs a 50, a goal, and a win in the dying seconds of a game later in the season that decides whether we make the play-in tournament or not; my mfcss is a-tingling at the possibilities!

last touch between the arcs was effectively what they were doing for the last couple of years anyway; now it's just removed the grey

the centre line in the centre circle for rucks is proving interesting already; a couple of times last night tdk delayed his jump and cameron went up with knee out to brace for impact, and got penalised as such - certain he'll try the same vs gawn this week

1 hour ago, Demon Jack said:

Darcy Wilson is a shadow of the player he was in his debut season.

he reminds me of jack grimes - gets a lot of footy boundary-side and proceeds to spray it out on the full

1 minute ago, 3KZ is Football said:

I will be very disappointed if we cannot match the Saints next week, as long as the TEAM has the right mindset...

we'll run out of legs i think - 2 preseason hitouts followed by 1 real game vs 1 and a bit preseason games will be telling

shirley marshall needs to come off for an hia

5 minutes ago, BoBo said:

Who’s better out of Pendles and Danger?

pendlebury for mine

i think he's the best player the filth have had across the last 50 or so years

dangerfield is not even the best cats player of his time period there

18 minutes ago, Nascent said:

Not like this they don't.

Give it time

30 minutes ago, Nascent said:

We are just a couple seasons away from the forward line doing choreographed dances after a goal.

they already do that with the celebrations

5 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Terrible score review.

Yawn. Apologies if my observation of Albo being boo’d on the big screen hurt your feelings.

isn't every pollie boo'd at nearly every public appearance?

i certainly can't think of any that are cheered outside the likes of russia, north korea, etc.

hogan - riccardi - gruzewski - brown - stringer - plus cadman and daniels to come in is quite the potent - and tall, with the exception of daniels - forward 50 for gw$

5 minutes ago, The heart beats true said:

All players should collectively choose ‘Take me home, country road’ as the only song to play after each goal.

If the AFL want music let’s simultaneously make it meaningless, and ruin the fun for Queenslanders.

happy with this

43 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

who is Australia sending to this comp?

travis bazzana

12 hours ago, Nascent said:

So this is happening.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1966125

"With fiery visuals, player goal songs and a demonic ‘Acca-dacca’ inspired soundtrack featuring in the pre-match festivities, fans are in for a hell of a time when they attend a Melbourne home game this year."

Songs after every goal à la Brisbane, with the first goal of the game decided by fans. Gameday is going to feel different.

this is as-directed by head office

every club will have it

ghastly

17 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Loads of empty Suns' seats.

AFL give them everything but they still can't draw a crowd.

Crowds are irrelevant at the end of the day

It’s about broadcast rights; 4 teams in NSW and qld are integral to that