Lord Travis

Has good endurance and pace, but reason he slid out of the first round was poor skills. We were interested but obviously went for others and looks like we made the right call.

Yep let’s put the the torch on Bailey Fritsch for random acts of contact in a physical contact sport. Don’t worry about Tony Greene literally karate kicking people in the face or ducking to cheat. He’s got mental health issues, so better go target someone else eh. Don’t worry about Mumford intentionally belting blokes and ignoring the game around him. He’s a bit of a larrikin so he gets a free pass. You [censored] Derrrrm.

Can’t blame the umpires here. Hawks are hungrier than us. Winning contested possession. Winning the tackle count. They’re working harder and deserve to be in front. We should win still, but what a [censored] performance this has been. Coaches need to work out how to motivate the players. The mental fragility still exists.

They’re working harder and they’re hungrier. We should come out breathing fire this quarter and instead were barely giving a yell. They’ve won the quarter on the scoreboard and they’re leading the tackle count 24-9. WAKE UP YOU LAZY [censored]

This is pathetic. This effort is [censored] pathetic. Players should forfeit their match payments tonight regardless of the result.

Lazy and poorly structured. Why does this keep happening against the ****test teams?!

Jeez this is hard to watch. This is a [censored] team with a huge injury list and nothing to play for. Anything less than a 60 point win is a failure tonight, and yet we’re barely ahead now. Wake up you lazy buggers. You can’t just rock up and win. You actually have to work to get the result.

Viney needs to be focused on a defensive role. He’s seriously struggling with ball in hand. He either takes once tackler and loses or misses his kicks. Limited player. Trac and Spargo very good that quarter. Cmon Dees, let’s get a percentage boost!

Port scrape a win against another bottom eight side. Would love to play them again come finals time!

Given their injuries, anything less than a 60 point win should be considered a failure tomorrow.

Brilliant. Rule changes working wonders for us ? Meanwhile other clubs benefits with multiple first round picks for bugger all cost. Such a broken system and frustrating that it starts getting corrected right when we’d finally benefit!

And there goes our percentage buffer. Geelong now ahead of us on percentage. Thanks Freo!

Fire up Freo. We need to hold out percentage buffer over Geelong to ensure top 2 finish!

I was born in the mid 80s and was fortunate that my father had close connections to the MFC during my childhood, especially the 90s. I used to get into the change rooms after matches as a kid and meet all the players. I had an autograph book and got the entire 1994 teams signatures EXCEPT Gary Lyon. He was always a grumpy [censored], win or lose. He used to live around the corner from me and I saw him at the 7-11 a few times, was always grumpy and would never thank people for holding door open etc. Jim Stynes was the opposite, always friendly and would handball with me and I vividly remember him putting me up on his shoulders. He was a wonderful man and I was so sad when he passed after his battle with cancer. Unfortunately dad doesn’t have many close ties at the MFC anymore, so I haven’t been into the rooms for years. Being able to experience that as a child though made me diehard MFC for life and I convert all those around me!

Decent without being lighting. His strengths are elite kicking, decision making and composure. As an established player, he’s most similar to Caleb Daniel and the clubs developing him in a similar half back rebounding role. At underage level he was a half forward/wing/midfielder. He’s definitely versatile and we’ll love his kicking skills in future if he’s paired up with Salem off halfback!

I’ll copy paste my post from game day thread last night. Jobe Watson: “taken the ball at its highest point”. No he hasn’t Jobe you [censored] [censored]. It’s highest point was 30 meters in air. I’m sick of moron commentators saying this!

Clarry is a very poor set shot. Doesn’t matter though. We’re home now. Keep fighting boys. Percentage will be important to solidify top four at the end of the year.

TMac two quick goals. That’s kept us in it here. If we keep the pressure up we’ll win. It’s all down to hunger now boys. Dig in and get the job done!

Can we please just [censored] win this!?! WAKE UP MELBOURNE I’ll be furious if we lose and drop to fifth on the ladder. Will feel like a waste of a great year to miss top four.

Motlop dropped the ball. No free kick. Umpiring is pathetic trash. But also WAKE UP MELBOURNE! Don’t let them back in this.

Jobe Watson: “ taken the ball at its highest point”. No he hasn’t Jobe you [censored] [censored]. It’s highest point was 30 meters in air. I’m sick of moron commentators saying this!

Umpiring in 2021 is trash and is impacting the outcomes of games. Get rid of any new rules brought in over the past five years and get the rules back manageable for the umpires to officiate. The current state of the game and officiating is appalling for all.

Fix our set shots and we’ll win every week!

He’s not been as good since returning from injury/illness. Had a good game on the weekend, but his first 2.5 months were brilliant and far better quality than recent form. The main difference with Salem is his defensive work has dropped right off, not sure if by design of not. First 2.5 months he was winning one on ones and creating his own opportunities to rebound. He was using his body really well in contests, a big leap up from his defensive work in previous years. He was simply brilliant and the coaches votes reflected that as he was rated top ten player in the league across that time. Was a clear AA contender. Recently he is barely making it to contents, let alone impacting them, and is relying on being fed that ball as a loose player again. Not sure if it’s by design to keep him free or if he’s getting lazy defensively and sagging off too much. Either way, he was far more effective when he was playing more defensively and creating opportunities. He’s one we’d love to get back into AA form for finals.

Yay. Now we have a tall forward target who can stay anchored to the forward 50. Not only that, but a proven goal kicker over many years. Let’s see how our forward line functions with Brown and TMac as the two talls, Fritsch as the mid size, and Pickett, Spargo, ANB as smalls, and Trac etc rotating through. This in theory should be our ideal forward structure heading into finals. Make it work!