Dappa Dan

Mother of God... There isn't any posts on here that come close to representing what it feels like to be a member of this club.

Yup. Tackles not sticking. They're blowing super hard.

Yeah. Feels like the tigers game. Too many banged up. They're stuffed. Eagles talls all fit. Spud eagles players playing well same as tigers spuds did. no shame though. Won't lose any fans.

I'm a bit too young too remember it. But I'm always envious of those that do. One great aspect of footy is it rewards you the longer you stay committed.

I'm surprised there wasn't a receipt instead of a signature at the bottom.

Wow.

"Hogan is a star and Sam Weideman reminds me of Matthew Pavlich." Oh wow. lol

Would be a horrible trade. Opposition teams are thinking he'll come cheap, for a second or third rounder... And there is nothing there for us. Even if he went, and retired the next day, it's still a loss. Only way we trade him is if he comes back and plays some good footy.

Love Barrass. Love OMac more. I reckon you'd get 90% of each club support the guy that plays for their club. Then if we did a straight swap, the same would still be true. lol It must be said too that their other 11, the good ones... are super. Mitchell, Shuey, Gaff, Priddis, Yeo, Jetta, Darling, Sheed, McGovern... wowee.

Yeah. Not going on past glories though, his production hasn't been scary by any stretch.

I'd be interested to see everyone's picks for their worst 6 and our worst 6. Mackenzie, Cole, Schofield, Barrass, Sheppard, Duggan, Petrie, Hill, Karpany, Cripps, Hutchings would feature in many... Ours? Harmes, Hannan, Pedersen, Melksham, Frost, Bugg, ANB, Stretch. I'd take all 8 over the 11 WC players above. 11 being HALF THEIR SIDE.

I reckon we might see more time than people think with Gawn forward. He takes great clunkers... and we know Goody's worried about 6 day breaks. If he spends 50% game time forward and we go back to sharking opposition ruckmen... might be a good thing.

I really want to see what he does that puts him ahead of opposition players. Everyone else in the 22 have grabbed games by the scruff of the neck in one facet or another... even guys like Harmes have shown there's nothing they can't do athletically. Bugg has shown great smarts and workrate, as well as good inspiration for when you have a wall you need painted. I remember Billy's commanded maybe 2-3 games in his time, picking up kicks running off a wing or half back. But is that all? Good user without being prodigious? I'm interested in what people think he'll become, in terms of type.

14 clearances is a LOT.

I thought custom was only 2?

Is Weed the only tall we have left on the list that's played at AFL level? You'd assume him and Wags would go over.

No of course not... but credit where credit's due. What kind of MFC supporters are we if we can't doff our tweed caps at a fellow supporter's insight?

Well picked PF. Stretch and Gawn the ins. Watts and Jones out. I think it's a mistake. But I get the thinking. Stretch will run all day. Maybe alongside Gaff.

How good is that. And it's not isolated. Tracca well known for taking time away from the club to deal with kids on his own.

That whole post stresses me out. re: JLT. I'm interested in matchups mostly. Who played on Darling. How did they play him. Was it successful. That sort of thing. Jetta (WC version) is a real concern too, especially cos I dunno if anyone besides HIbberd and maybe Jetta have played next to him. If we leave him be he could carve us up. Nothing you can do about disposal like that. Aside from that, yeah. Those are interesting matchups. Jones has been in the midfield but also elsewhere... the amount he does including kicking a couple of sausages... we're gonna struggle to replicate that. I like your matchups... and TBH, you're as aware as I am that no one player plays 100% game time on another. Having said that, the man-on-man stuff that will define the game will be what gets us the win in the guts... I don't like Melksham on Shuey. Too heavy and too much breakaway speed. Heavy too. I'd love to see a Tracca-Shuey head-to-head. Trac is due a prolonged run in the middle like he had against Crows. Generally though, I hope Viney gets the job 50% or more of the time. Heavy enough to smash him. Quick enough to curtail him. I reckon Melksham on Gaff. Will run all day with him. Only negative there is how well he did on JJ. He even popped up for what should have been 2 goals. Might be an idea to have him tail Hurn? Or Yeo? Cut off their rebound. Agree generally with Gaff though. Cut them off at the source and he'll run around like a headless chook. Priddis interests me too. Vince? Someone mature and heavy? Or again... a younger kid like Oliver that can beat him at his own game. I have no idea... but I can't wait to see which way we go. I'm leaning towards Oliver. You always see Priddis plant his feet somewhere the ball will end up, then stand up in the tackle and distribute. That's Olly's game. And when he has a rival there, he generally tackles with great technique. I'm pumped about this week. We're gonna find out a whole lot about the team. And best of all, even if we lose, we have players coming back in all sorts of positions.

Yeah I see your thinking. You might be right. I love the unchanged side technique. When Roos won the flag with the swans he used something ridiculous like 28 players all season. He'd have to be weighing that up against the 6 day break worries he has. Still. Watts and Jones. That's not just a simple forward pocket you're replacing. Those guys do that much heavy lifting. Structurally we could line up completely differently yet again.

That's all well and good, but it doesn't address the problem at hand. Hunt, Harmes, Hannan aren't going to be picked over Kent. They're already in the 22. If you're a selector, trotting out a line about effort and swarming doesn't do anything when it comes to picking players. You need to pick a magnet and put it on the board. Kent, JKH, Wags, Stretch... who's it going to be? Going by what you said, probably Wags... but we have lost a mid and a forward and are stacked for defenders.

Harsh... but not unfair. I reckon if we did drop him off the list, and he went off, say, to Gold Coast to replace Barlow. And he found a Mitchell type role... would any of us be saddened or [censored] off by that? Would any of us say of the footy department that they didn't do their jobs? I reckon no. He's 25. He's been persevered with. The MFC list is in drastically different shape now... and may actually be the hardest list in the AFL to get onto. Circumstance is partly the culprit.

Just had a look. Our major goal scorers... Spencer with 3, hogan with 2. Eagles had 7/10 major ball winners. Gaff was super. I think that's why I'm having gaffmares.

You might not. I reckon the coaching department will. They're not the same kind of info you get as in season games... but they're not dead useless. Take us for example... if we played jkh and they wanted to know the role he plays, they only have his mid season games to look at. They'd be checking what he did in jlt definitely. It's usable tape. And yeah I remember the game. They looked a lot better than us when the game was up for grabs. Yeah Kennedy is a big out, but they got the ball to him. I really rate their mids. Shuey, gaff, priddis, hutch is a great negator. Gaff in particular worries me. If I'm goody I get our quickest mid and tell him to run with gaff. Melksham maybe? I'm not sure how you shut down shuey. I would suggest maybe viney. At some point they're going to target olly. And when they do, we'll start to see a drop off. Unbelievable production regardless of age. I worry hutch goes to him.