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Its not actually. Business is business. We're no different. Those that remain consolitary to their lot wither. When has this club ever been particularly entrepreneurial ?? Oh woe is us...its a competitive market ..woe woe. I have news. It always has been. ..always will be. . I have no illusions about where we are and why. We seem a business over bloated in some departments, poorly able in others and currently back on the bottom which always entices people and money ( not ) Our core business is football. If we arent any good at that everything else become 2x 3x Yx harder. Ive not only embraced where we sre in the pecking order...i get it. What your good self and others dont get is capable business finds a way..or dies. Which do you prefer. And before you trot out...but our way is whoring our games to the NT consider what that actually accomplishes for iur core business ? Nothing...and i defy anyone to prove otherwise. ....not lovey dovey motherhood statements etc...but how it actually betters our football results. We need to be far cleverer. Taking the "easy money" is short sighted. Whilst i dont particularly like pokies it was foolish to truncate that scheme before you have its replacement on stream. Bit like shutting down power stations too early. Sounds marvelous to the ignorant...but in reality you're shooting yourself in the feet. For a club with supposed blue chip connections ive never really understood why we wallow. Again we need to be far cleverer and lateral than we are. And for the very reason you seek to deride...because it IS hard out there. You know the Billy Ocean lyrics im sure...

Clearly people (some) don't get victim mentality. We act like centrelink recipienta. Its embarrasing. Clever business peo pl e find ways. We obviously arent as clever as some

Time to leave.......the NT It really does nothing for us. If its about money then the club gurus need to get a wiggle on. Either we get serious about football..and about resources or we just continue to street peddle ourselves. Time to grow up Melbourne. ..find your feet or just go home ( where ever that is )

Careful....you'll be ostracized and become quite lonely reeling off such reasoning. Totally agree. This is a professional sport. Yes there's much passion and emotion but its a level headed approach that wins the day. If our list was actually as good as we'd supposed then Chunk wouldn't get a look in next year but its obvious the midfield really needs a bit of a makeover; as much style as personel. So until that's all gonky dory Jones is as good a fill in any....until someone makes him redundant. Those that suppose he can run the wing or pinch hit in the back i can only say he has neither the real speed nor elite ball skill to be the real answer in running the lines and on what team sheet would he honestly be best six down back ? He's a seasoned warrior a stellar stalwart of the club....but there comes a time....so goes the song.

Was waiting. ....

cautiously

Not for naughty ones

My sympathies. Obviously not in a lounge. Im surprised

In a fashion you'd be correct

can't snag 30m

generally Id concur..... but getting/marking ball seems a very different thing from Kicking said ball If someone could show Maxy how the drop of the ball SHOULD go then Im all for this

Melbourne. .. kicking Goals ?....winning ?

I essentially agree with him 2018 exibited elements of the Roos era ...and the naturally declined. All Goodwin did was hit the afterburner. Itcworked. For a period as it might. Then we petered out big time. Have we actually recovered ? Not in my view 2020 will tell. Go Dees

Wrong thread...here we talk of lovely cocktails...yum chas and apparently manors, manners, and floggings ( just not the mfc kind )

Oh they're the worst. .. Anyone who has a contrary opinion is what..sexist..racist..?? Reasoned people just see it as a differing opinion. Thanks for outing yourself as a bigot.

In all seriousness what stock should one place in 2-20 v 4-18 It's really much of a muchness. It's totally inadequate by ANY metric. The results could have been wind, an errant umpire's decision ( as if ) , the waxing lyrical (sts) of an oval ball. In all its a nothingness. ..other than it represents a very VERY poor outcome. What say so though the difference between 14-8 And possibly 6-7 and 16-15 ?? I'm being generous/optimistic as really i wouldn't put any hard-earned on us winning another game. But we should. Thats not a trend....it's a very sad picture. I fear we've become a parody of what a club ought be.

And he has a small handfull of games and a preseason to prove his mettle. We really need to employ Blind Freddy as a mentor for he could plainly see the things that needed attention. It was a better game technically if not technique-ly yesterday. Still full of glaring mistakes but a small step for our mankind.

No disrespect to the rest of your post.. But this bit stuck out...and sums it up really. That's exactly where our skills and kicking are....local footy team standard. Handballing to poor options. Cant kick a 30m snag to save ourselves... and no real plan of forward entry sans bombs away baby. The comparison to our opposition was enlightening. They hardly needed the field...the boundary line sufficed on more than a few occasions, they invariably stuck their marking...most of their handball targets were moving ( in some purposeful fashion ) Yes we had a crack...then ran out of puff...again. Local footy...yeah i reckon our coaching could hack that ( hell...they hack everything else )

Strangely. As do i...Just give him the help and training. I reckon he has the seeds to griw into a very useful player. He normally yakes a goid grab...today...oh well.

Ok. I have a need to be a tad circumspect but suffice to say the last couple of years of Roos' short stay had a few surprises. Not all went to script. Roos is a proud man with much to be proud of. Jackson was an ignoramus to things football but a very clever man as to business. We should be thankful for both. Not everyone was/is on the same page at the club. Some have their own little game in play. Ill ask a question in lieu of pontificating erroneously. Why do you supposea person so keen on the MFC...is no longer...to the point of handing it a lesson ? Trust me....bears considering.

funny thing is we have no roles for outside mids...consider

There's a number of aspects to this...ONE) Roos IS [censored] off big time. He grew to have a very soft spot for us TWO) he's very much miffed about certain events that happened at Melbourne THREE ) He would /will never return...There are impediments in his way. Yes Roosey makes a pretty good coin. But he's quite passionate about footy. he was once very passionate about us. The only analogy that comes to mind......"a woman scorned" he's no girl though. Some might get this...especially anyone who is au fait with how the club's travelled in recent years. Cheers

Im not sure...maybe someone who was counting could chime in but Lever took a fair swag of intercept marks. I have a theory regarding Jake. I think he's more used to a team where having marked he can look up to any number of decent options....and then he came to us !!

This is a no brainer mind you...our FD is full of it...

picks....talent...whatever...pointless if the FD/Coaching isnt up to scratch. Look what our Box has don to many who could play decent footy (once) The draft is irrelevant to our eventual success....Direction of Football is what is IS all about. Drain the swamp