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An extremely valid concern. Who would push a button to unleash such change ?? 🤔 This reminds somewhat of someone finding a loose thread and begins to pull at it only to discover the thread keeps unravelling and as it does one segment after another falls away. Before too long the wearer is standing starkers holding nothing but a very long thread and a total look of incredulity . Whosoever decides to push that button had better understand the problem is a tad deeper than superficial. Going back to your originating concern I wonder if we actually have anyone , or a team of such ilk, as to have the acumen as well as desire for buttons !! Looked upon thoroughly it would be daunting.

Jaded , I very much doubt that is the case. This will be yay or nay by the club. I think both should be retained ... we'll see.

Make it so !!!

About sums it up. Take off any coloured glasses, allow the fog to lift and step a bit closer for a proper squizz and that's just about as good an appreciation of the real mess we're in as any. Some of course will suggest it's a very negative view. And I can understand if life is all sunshine and lollipops that might be a valid critique but I would ask anyone to show me any part of our setup that is working properly and with positive outcomes because quite frankly I struggle. We don't have a proper home. We invariably share facilities. Currently operate with temporary senior management etc. Members are ditching in droves The FD is dodgy The Coach is past exp. The list is overated, and many underperforming. We're back to setting records.... the wrong ones !! We are on a steady decline towards the edge of a football abyss. This CAN change. I don't even want to speculate about where or what awaits if drastic measures aren't taken. Even with change Rome won't reappear overnight, but you could at least start to build it. Time for a clean sheet of paper.

I have no doubt we won't get the value many would seek or suppose. Thats going to be a bitter pill but one we'll have to swallow none the less lest we just get left at the station. And this, to me, only highlights the importance and imperative nature of biting said bullet with regard to the FD

Ahh.. but its both.. We were there...or thereabouts. But the rot had started. The reasons ( some possibly varied ) included the inability to finish off those games and the causality to that was part and parcel of all the things that got worse. So I would contend 22/23 and subsequent are not mutually at odds but different shades of the same .

I think some trades need to be considered while some have the currency. We aren't going to be tilting at anything for a year or two.(and..) Might as well do the unpleasant unpalatable things sooner rather than later.

The new coach bit. .. I actually ( surprisingly to some perhaps) comprehend the notion . Taking as much unecessary 'fugazi' out of the question I do still land on the side that answers. Yes, the coach needs refreshing. Not merely the coaching... but the whole shebang as its being demonstrated, I think very clearly, that we have not the 'game' ( certainly not a comprehensive and/or effective) nor the ability to get to it. By that we seem a distance off being clean and damaging. If I was to be cruel we're much better and stuffing up than getting things right. This can only be partly the players the rest is how they're coached and what it is they're coached to play. We're not winning much despite ALL the efforts. Whatever touch Simon had, is long gone. This is not about him its about the team. The team needs better, better than what's possible currently.

🤔Might be something to what you say 👍 Folk are going to have to deal with players leaving.

Definitely entertain. Been a bloody nemesis to us...lol

And why do we do that ? In hope some bastard ( possibly up there ) hears us and does something as quite plainly there's very few with the requisite intelligence down here.

Sad in the sense that we need a lot of things bettered.... and she'd be far more capable of understanding what needs to be done than those currently there.

I would agree that our list is far from fantastic as some suppose. Some talent has stalled, some staled and some is stifled. There are possibly a few rough gems but this list is never winning a flag ( my opinion). I'd also agree with Simon, you, anyone... game needs to change. I have 0% in Goody now. He's had time and opportunity and come up with NADA , Zilch. We're still trajectoring down ... still. Yes, by all means let's take emotion out of this. Quite simply we've won [censored] all games for a [censored] long time. Same [censored] wits in charge !! It's clear and simple. Wholesale change is required. The unfortunate part is it's probably nigh impossible to do what's really required, all emotion taken out. Nix half the board, Junk most the FD .. Purge half the list. Thats how bad we currently are... really.

Slightly ill comes to mind

Yes

He obviously wasn't involved in those 4 golden mins of the last qtr then ??

How patronising of you This is how 🐃💩 works. Only people.... who's [censored] did you pull that whopper out of. There is widespread disappointment and concern that Women's footy ( and I've no issue with that..) is being hollowed out in order to amass optics. It needs a lot of work. Suggest you actually talk to some in the game Bing.. there's genuine issues and complaints. A lot from... Women.. they being particularly involved as well as a subset of People. You have a lot of interesting stuff in your comments.. this wasn't one

All the very best Jai. Enjoy the game.

Brave of us calling another team shockingly bad. We could give a few teams a run for their money over that title lol

I don't know if they'll go half arsed as such but I'm sure many will get this... When your heart aligns with your mind and you hit the go button... and that carrot is oh so near you WILL try that extra bit because just maybe you might get it. But... if you're at a lower ebb, any elements of doubt or disillusionment , then you will not be at that 100% no matter how much you think you are and you will second think those extra efforts. Even if you want to often that micro hesitation is sufficient for you to fail. This is a game of micro-moments. Thousands of them. If we aren't totally switched on and 'in the moment' and dedicated to the contest we won't have to try to lose. We will have before the 1st bounce. We've seen the club drop the ball all too often. Yeah...its only the Weagles....and that's the first mistake !!! I would let dare to be so cocky atm that this is some slam dunk. We do Soooooo well with those !!!. But its ok.. Simon has it in hand. There were decent learnings from Sunday, even from the last qtr; something to add to the pile.

Anyone else see a problem here ?

I thought it was our back.... But front 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Exactly !!!!!

Just imagine that presser but with ...

Dateline Melb 31 JULY '25 A poll taken this morning taking in likely customers of Deli customers ( dairy section ) and Dan Murphy's as to the current plight of the Melbourne Football Club. Question, .. Are you aware of a review having been done into the Football Dept and other areas with regard to expected outcomes and performance ? Answers ... 1) Not sure (23) 2) We've had one ? (17) 3) Did they find anything ? (5) 4) I have total faith in the Club to make right decisions (3) 5) Prefer the 21 to the 22 (59) 6) Who ? What ? (7) 7) Thats a big question...I'm just here for the cheese. (143) Without a shadow of doubt this reporter concludes that no one really knows what the .... is actually going on. A similar survey of the Board yielded strangely similar responses.... though to be fair a few debated the 21 and 22 without announcing a decided winner.

That review... seems a very bizarre construct now. Was it bad , ill conceived, ignored, 🤷‍♂️ Just all very odd. Reckon half a dozen of us could have done it for a decent lunch and a bottle or two 😉 We ALL know what's wrong. Cue... but you can't possibly know, you're not inside !! We don't need to be driving the train, nor its conductor to understand how it derailed. Sometimes best perspectives are had from a little distance.. Your experience with boards and snr managers etc is spot on. It's borderline comical how some either can't see the trees as much as wont see the trees... then there's the 'what trees ?' brigade. I think the MFC is a combination of all. Atm The Club reminds me of someone trying to drive an M6 into a 1/4" thread... It's NQR, it doesn't work, you're still be half screwed and end up fubar . But best of all.. this is ALL by design, because someone(s) are making all the decisions off and on the field to get us to where we are today. And the same people who have got us here are suggesting they have the clarity of understanding to get us out !! Ill refer back to your opening salvo.... referencing 'cluelessness' Carry on ...