Lord Travis

It's been 6 years since we played finals. If it weren't for the brand new expansion teams we would be bottom of the ladder. Again. I have never been more ashamed to be a Melbourne supporter. He kicked the match winning goal that kept Carlton's season alive. He's been Carlton's best player the last 5 weeks. In the absence of Judd he has stepped up and carried the team, playing some fantastic footy, better than any of our players.

Nothing said was untrue. We tanked, as have lots of clubs over the years. Problem is we now have a team full of losers and didn't reap the rewards we hoped for. In the end we did nothing but harm the club further, and it may not be able to come back from this.

People talk about Gysberts skills not being very good. From memory he was ranked top, or within the top few at draft camp for kicking. Skills-wise he was top of his class. The fact he hasn't developed quickly enough due to injury or the club not developing yet another player to their potential is a different story. The fact is he HAS the skills. People saying he doesn't is wrong. If he can get fitter and stay injury free he could showcase those skills and become an elite midfielder. Only problem is he plays for Melbourne. We just can't seem to develop players, even the ones universally rated as literally the best in the country come draft time. It's quite sad.

We need to draft Toumpas for some outside skill, pace, and leadership. We need to draft another inside midfielder. Where we take Viney will determine whether we get Wines or the like as well as Viney. Toumpas should be our main target IMO. We get enough ball, but our spread, skills and decision making are poor. He ticks all the boxes and would suit our list very well.

6. Sylvia 5. Grimes 4. Nicholson 3. Green 2. Mcdonald 1. Jones Apologies to Jetta who was pretty good for a first game back.

Wouldn't touch Goddard at this stage of his career. He's late 20's and won't be around when we're decent again. Not only that he isnt a good leader for our kids. He's a hot-head who still hasn't learnt to shake a tag and just cracks the shits. He doesn't fit into our list at all. He hasn't played good football in over a year. We need to look for midfielders who are early-mid 20s. Goddard is too old, and not good enough anymore.

Sometimes this place is pathetic. Cam Bruce is one of our best players for the last 10-15 years. He gave MFC many years of good service and deserves the respect of each and every one of us supporters. If you're going to write something negative in here, don't bother. It only shows what a disrespectful fool you are. Thank you Cam for many great memories. You were one of our best mids for years, kicked a few bags, did some great shutdown jobs on legends like Hird, and won us many games. Enjoy retirement and hopefully you return to the club in some capacity in the years to come.

We had to trade Jolly because he wanted more game time and we couldn't give it to him. It was either him or Jeff White, who was AA ruckman at the time. We made the right call there. Our midfield has been shocking again today. We need an injection of class there through either draft or trading real quick!

Bails kicking is enough for me to say delist him. Provides nothing. Bennels effort is shocking. As one of our few players with pace it's so frustrating to see poor work ethic and not using his strengths!

Toumpas would be brilliant. We need class, skill, and a bit of pace in the midfield. He provides this and is noted for his leadership also. We're building a good young group of leaders now and he'd add to that. Undecided on our other early pick if we get the benefit of using it on someone other than Viney. I don't believe Stringer fits our team, and he's had injury problems and hasn't performed at the level required for a first round ick in a while now. We need pure mids, enough with utility players. Not sure who the other best midfield options are other than Whitfield and Wines. Would love to grab a small forward like kennedy or Garlett with our mid first round pick if we can. We desperately need some pace, agility, crumbing and defensive pressure up forward. This should be next priority after quality mids.

Does this lower his trade value do we can grab him cheaper? :D

Would love him at the Dees. Not sure why he isn't getting a game this year, but his first two year have been good. He has had big impact on a number of games I've seen him play, has pace to burn, crumbs and snaps well, and even roamed up the ground all the way to half back to provide run when needed. I'd give up anything after pick 20 for him. People overrate draft picks. What's our 2nd rounder? Low 20s? Deal done. Small forward with great pace sorted for 10 years.

May as well redraft Luke Molan

Reckon he is good down back, average in the ruck, poor up forward. Good depth going forward, great for the pick we got him with!

I don't take any notice of BnF's to be honest. If a player fulfills his role, then he scores higher than someone who performed better but didn't perform their set role as well. Johnstone won the BnF in 2005, then improved and had his best ever season in 2006, yet he didnt go near it in the BnF despite having a better year and being Melbournes best performed player. He always got judged harshly, as Watts does now. Strangely enough he got judged harshly by supporters, where as opposition and media were surprised he didnt make All Australian that year etc. We're a strange bunch us Melbourne supporters... Anyhoo it does go to show our lack of stars over the last two decades. In that time our best mids off the top of my head have been Johnstone, Yze, Woewodin, Tingay, Viney, Bruce for a period, Mclean for a period. We havent had an out and out star who consistently performed. We need a few in the midfield as it's clearly our weakness. Viney will hopefully bring his hard at it approach and work ethic inside in packs. We should draft a quick classy outside mid to compliment him.

Travis Johnstone is still unarguably the best midfielder to play for our club in my lifetime. He's underrated by Melbourne supporters who are bitter he didn't live up to what they hoped for, but also shows the lack of superstars we've had at the club in the last few decades.

None of our players would make it at present. NicNat would be nowhere near it either. Goddard wouldn't make it either. He's a shadow of the player he was two years ago. Maybe Lewis Jetta gets a run somewhere? He has been superb this year IMO

Definitely want him ironed out. I want him physically harmed. He needs to know that walking out on this club has ramifications that he will feel for the rest of his football career. He made his choice, now he should deal with the consequences. We need to have a big win, and we need to flatten Scully as a statement. If we don't do both those, I will be disappointed in the club.

Hoping we belt them. Also hoping Scully is completely wiped out, even if it's unfairly and our player cops a suspension for it. I want him, and anyone else, to know that if you walk out on us, we will hurt you, and make sure you're never right again.

Stevens is an average midfielder who can't get a game. He will not solve any of our problems, and we shouldn't bother going after him unless we get him for nothing eg 3rd round pick. We need classy star midfielders, of which he is neither.

Cook did the same last week. Kicked 3 goals in the first half then didn't feature in the second half. This week 4 in the first half then none in second half. It's great to see his form improving, but does he still need to gain a lot of fitness before an AFL call up? Great win the Casey today. Always good to win the tight ones!

We have enough talls. We need quality mids. You could put Lance Franklin in our forward line at the moment and it would barely make a difference. The ball has to get down there enough first, and it needs to get down there with decent delivery coming in. The midfield is what we need to address.

The problem is we can't grow our own. We haven't for decades. None of those above players will be more than b graders at our club. It kills me to say it, but that's the reality of the situation. We need to trade in proven stars.

Looks like he has OP. He cannot push off and accelerate and he has no penetration in his kicking. Some of his set shots this year have been embarrassing. He's my favorite player, but he is definitely playing injured. If he weren't captain and we weren't on the ass end of the ladder, he'd be resting or running round in the VFL.

I've been patient. I've given them far more money and support than they deserve. I'm sick of waiting just to even be competitive and out of the bottom chunk of the ladder. This rebuild better be successful or the MFC may have just killed itself.