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Mate...there's lots of garbage out there... written about clubs. Is that the basis for republishing it here... just because it's there ?? A lot doesn't even pass the pub test.

Yep...aware of that....no reason a 'deal' cant be made.. If Benny can't get up week to week......who's he doing a favour for ?? Same for Tommy.. As Neil once uttered...there comes a time....

I know Hunter and Langdon most certainly are ;)

Looks fabulous....unfortunatelu unable....bugger

Strangely enough a similar thought popped among my little grey cells. I'm still reeling with embarassment tbh...atm

From the esteemed idiots at the HUN "Brodie Grundy would be open to a move to a new club to play ruck if he cannot get back into the Melbourne side playing a combination of ruck and forward." Beggars belief at the incredulity at their being able to fathom exactly what it is he IS at Melbourne to do.....ffs

Ahh ...glasses..... not just a Croweater trait 😉

The poor little duddums.....all drowning in their "floaters"... Ahhhh ..glorious news....great way to start the day. Come Sunday....we're baking pies... 4 and 20 Blackbirds.... they won't be singing

An element to.our demise last season was our continual need to have to play the walking wounded. It was only a matter of time before it all fell in a heap. We should "learn" from this. Let those needing it heal/recouperate...properly. No sense playing anyone who continually hobbling off or anyone whos nqr. Smith seems a handy sub... Id rather play Tomo. Depending on matchup maybe Pig. Not much needs changing for this week... perhaps the gearbox !!

Whats to elaborate thats not before you ? The club is working on its forward game

These articles...( being generous)are absolute tripe. I understand your stance and your query but these "writings" , scribblings are pure beat up. They're the type of rubbish the sporting globe used to produce.... sensationalised bs.. no wonder that rag got torn up and spiked on a nail in outside dunnies on building sites. Strangely....Grundy might have been able to do his craftwork earlier....except some bloke got injured. I know you have little time for the 'experiment '... but it was never meant to produce a fwd star in an instant. You do understand it's about transition and elongation of Maxs time ? To be honest repuplishing this durge is no better than the original clickbaiting.

If i may ask... why are you peddling this [censored] ??

Love to play them first up ( and beat them ).. would set the tenet for the finals. We're probably the last team they want to meet... suits me 😉

Ummm... yeahhh.. NAHHH !!!

It's kinda whack... For the most part of the season...well , save some earlier games we've all, nearly to a one , bemoaned the forward section of our game. Blind Freddy could see it just wasn't going well. It needed attention, tweaking, fixing. So as I view it the club starts reconstruction. As part of this anyone who is to be participatory in the area of the game is being asked/told to work on their game. No one doubts or would be disappointed in Grundy's rucking but how he, indeed anyone playing forward fits into the evolving 'plan' needs work. The idiotic media are evaluating our "experiment" over the past few months. That's bogus.. this is a long(er) term event. This is a work in progress. It was always going to be. That Max sat out with injury just changed the timelines.

Tend to agree.. Expect Benny to retire EOS.. a much valued and respected Premiership player ( who knows...maybe twice ) Tommy might struggle also but might be a bit 50/50. The club is manufacturing contingency as we speak.

I'm going to hark back a little to the days I used to wander around with my trusty Minolta..... What's a camera got to do with this..?? It's how you see it. It's perspsctive, framing and context. Put one lens on...a 'particular' image appears in the viewfinder...change that lens..suddenly a lot more can come into focus. Alter your point of looking...a different picture again. That's how I see all of this. Many, mainly the media , have got this ALL wrong. But they don't care. That's not their purpose, their m.o. We need to step back for a moment and see the big BIG picture and how all the particpants fit into it and what role they are playing. The Club. Melbourne understandibly were/are looking to extend Max's career. Opportuniuty presents. ( B.G.) Max Gawn: If he's to play the #1 Ruck week in week out, two things. He will shorten his career and his effectiveness will wain. Brodie Grundy: Brought in to provide Ruck relief and be a stand in should Max incur injury. Also to provide a forward target. Timeframe: Ostensibly the length of Grundy's contract....so approx 5 years hence ( 4 and a bit now) Where the media starts going off the rails: You can NOT have 2 #1 Rucks. It's contradictory, literally. What is the longer term aspirations of the club? As I see and understand it it's to transition from one #1 to the other. It's posited that Grundy is being stooged because he's not the #1 ( presently ) . A heads up to the media type... he isn't supposed to be right at the moment, that will come. In the meantime it's been determined , in the context of our evolvong Forward structures that Brodie needs to refine his understanding of how that works and how he works within it. There is NOTHING sinister about this. We are talking about transition througha protracted timeline. I'm not surprised about Figjam. The more he opens his mouth the more stupid he looks. I'm neither surpised by Lyon though I am disappointed. Both these past great players as well as any number of other parrots seem immune form the requirement to actually ask teh most important question of all...i.e "What is the club trying to achieve??" Is it entirly plausible, indeed highly likely, that in the context of the original idea that as things panned out and we got to see how it al lmight work that there would be some caressing of the process. Added to this I'm sure that it's wasn't desirable that Max would suffer injury when and how he did but how "lucky' for us we had a backup.. Golly, who would have ever thought of that ? Certainly not the media maggots. I can't see this 'story' disappearing anytime soon it's just so juicy a morsel for the scavenging wannabe journo's. The problem for many of these 'mouths' is even should they realise they have the whole thing inside out and upside down their own egos won't allow their to concede and backtrack. In the meantime I'll ignore the Fugazi and look forward to seeing Grundy return , as he will, a little later in the season.

just NO !!!

God NO !!!

Theres some info in the casey demons rnd 17 thread

Thanks Uncle Bitters 😉 kind of you to have noticed... Two weeks running....going to retire now...lol

Fully coversant with the XJs TC.. both XJ6 , XJ12.. and XJC ;) all bloody notorious for crappy electrics.. and umm... "intermittent" transmissions ..( ask me how I know ...lol ) Lovely beast when going properly :)

I dont think the umps are nearly as much to blame as the AFL itself and its continual mucking around and rolling agendas. Used to be a fairly straightforward game....one most 7 yo in the school yard could fathom.... Now...who the f knows the rules from one week to another...

There's AGS as well ;)

All valid points. I dont think weve seen much of Trac fwd with Fritta higher up much ...as an actual plan. Sounds ok to me.