Lord Travis

I've been saying on here we should get him since last year. He's a proven midfield gun with grunt and pace, everything we need in a midfielder at this point in time. He is the prototype player going forward, and we could build an entire team around him as our marquee player. I'd pay him a million a year and trade first rounders to get him as he is a proven gun. People over-rate draft picks. No point picking up potential guns if we can't develop them. I'd take a proven gun over a draft pick any day, even if it was Pick 1. Time to start trading for established players and hope we can net some like we did Mitch Clark. Problem for us now though is Adelaide are playing well now and he's less likely to leave. He's a leader there, and probably their next captain. Why leave that to go from top to bottom? And that is the problem we will face when trying to recruit anyone at the end of this year.

We've only kicked 2 goals. This could be our lowest score? Such a pathetic club at present. It's so frustrating and draining supporting this rabble

We need a new midfield. Even sure stars like Trengove are now performing poorly. Until we change the personnel through the middle we will not win a game. This is so unbelievably frustrating to watch. I can't remember us being worse than this and it's killing me

It'd be nice if we could kick a goal tonight!

If only we could bring back Bailey. I think we're worse now than we have been the last 4 years!

What old leaders? There are none left, that's half the problem!

I can't believe it's come to this. We are a weak club and have gone steadily backwards onfield for nearly two years now. People can talk about giving a players or a coach time to get used to a new gameplan, but the players don't how a hunger for the contest or a desire to win. That requires no training, that is purely attitude. We are now below GWS and GC, who both have younger and less experienced lists than us. That says a lot about how sh*t we really are. This is the worst I have felt in decades supporting the MFC. If we don't fix themselves onfield soon, we will lose more of the new generation of supporters. This has already begun. Kids want to see exciting players and go for a winning team. We are losers, and we have no stars for kids to look up to, and thus they are not supporting us anymore. FOR F*CKS SAKE SHOW SOME HUNGER AND WORK TOGETHER.

Not an issue going by the past few weeks. I'd go as far as saying he's been one of the best tacklers in the team recently. He's one of the few that's stuck the tackle and forced a stoppage. Previously he wouldn't go as heart and have an arm swatted away. Hopefully he keeps it up and turns into the player we hoped. His first year is still one of the best ever by a Demon in the last 30 years or so.

I was saying on here we should be trying to get him across. He is literally the perfect footballer to fill our greatest needs. Grunt at contests, pace for breaking from stoppages and spreading into space, and goal kicking ability from both midfield and can rest/be thrown forward. Give up first rounder picks, get him across and pop him straight into the leadership group. Kid leads by example. Injecting him and Viney directly into the midfield gives us more grunt, pace, and skill. It would be a perfect way to develop a stalling midfield.

Jeez it's getting really hard supporting such a [censored] team with no light at the end of the tunnel.

Our midfield is pathetic. Can't believe Gysberts got injured again too.

Why does he need to earn it MORESO THAN OTHERS? The players should all be judged equally. What draft pick or how you came onto our list is irrelevant. Watts cops so much stick from the media, opposition supporters, and even our own it seems. It's downright ridiculous. He had a poor game last week, other than that he has been one of our best thus far this year. While that isn't saying much, he sure as [censored] didn't deserve to be dropped ahead of others. Today he played on the wing and picked up 20 touches and 4 goals. That's a great return. He should be playing at Melbourne next week and the remainder of the year. No point him sitting in the VFL and performing well. We get nothing out of it. If he isn't back in the team next week, then we can write off Neeld and the new coaching panel as fools. They've done a great job so far Again, well done to Casey on their good win today. Great turn around from that horrible day last year. Shame about some of those injuries!

Any news on the Gysberts injury? Yet another first round pick with heaps of talent missing games. We must be the unluckiest club going around. Watts, Gysberts, Jurrah, Blease, Petterd, all playing at a lower level, yet have more talent than nearly all their counterparts playing for Melbourne this week. It's a sad state of affairs at the moment. Well done to Casey today. Sounds like a very solid win!

Watts, Jurrah, Gysberts, Blease, Viney all playing for Casey this week. This match is a far more exciting prospect than the Melbourne match this week and this saddens me.

I want to see them show some fight and not get belted. I don't expect them to win, but for f*cks sake fight it out until the end at least. We all throw our hard earned money at you every year, we come sit there in the cold and wet to watch you play, all we want in return is for you try your asses off. You are professional footballers, you get paid to do this, so leave nothing in the tank by the end and have some pride. Winning would be great, but it seems beyond this group at the moment. Just please please PLEASE fight.

We can play him, but since he wasn't listed as an emergency we would cop a fine. From memory it's something like $8,000-10,000? Doubt it's worth it to rush him back when he isn't right AND cop a hefty fine in doing so.

Frawley and Clark are our two most important players IMO. They are the rock of the forward and backlines, the strong bodies, the confidence, the generals. Having them both out this week will be disastrous!

Watts is going well this year. He might even sneak our Best and Fairest if he remains consistent.

We'd have noone on the list then

It's a sad state when the team is deflated that easily. Watts has been one of our most reliable players this year. It's at the stage now when whenever we get the ball I want it in his hands because he seems to be the only player in the team who can consistently hit a target. The thing that killed us today (other than the umpires) were terrible turnovers. Guys like Macdonald, Mcdonald, Garland, Bartram were all constantly turning it over off half back. It as probably a combination of poor skills and lack of decent options upfield. It is our main problem at the moment though.

Despite not fulfilling the promise his talent made, he was still a better footballer than anyone else to pull on the Red n Blue jumper since the turn of the century. And while I loved him as a player, I think that says more about how poor we've been as a club. Miss TJ and more successful times.

Not only that, he'd be our best player

Still the best player to pull on the jumper in the last 10 years. If only we had players of his class still on the list, we'd be in a far better place than we are now.

Being poor recently has effected our young supporter base whether people like it or not. We have unfortunately lost 2 young Melbourne supporters in the last year. I buy the young relatives in my family Melbourne memberships and jumpers. Last year, one of them decided they go for Geelong now. Even though we have tried to convince him otherwise, and he wears his Melbourne jumper to games, he said he was sick of being teased at school and Melbourne "just lose all the time and they're boring". The other one recently decided they go for Hawthorn because "Hawthorn always win and Buddy is the best". Hopefully we can sway them back with time, but Melbourne being down the bottom of the ladder is costing it supporters, and therefore money. We need to start performing, because the longer we're down, the worse off we are long term too. It's kind of sad that it's come to this. People pay us out ahead of Richmond and Freo now. We stand for nothing. We are a poor club on and off the field. Let's hope we can turn it around very soon.

I'd throw compo picks at Adelaide to get Dangerfield across. Is explosive, strong, can play inside and out, kick goals, and is a definite leader. He is literally the perfect player to add to our list, so I'd be throwing everything we have to get him across. Adding him and Viney to our midfield is a big injection of talent.