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I agree I watched the replay and thought huddo was terrible. I normally don't mind him but his commentaey was poor gis voice was flat and generated little excitement or interest. It was a weird game all round. I was at the game and the crowd was flat, the game was flat and the commentators seemed flat as well. Dees won and i was there so i dont mind but terrible terrible commentary

For a start there is a lot of water to pass under the bridge before any real discussion about Fyfe. Back to the hypethetical.... If Fyfe elects FA and signs with Stk as an example, Freo have the right to match any offer put to Fyfe. Hence as long as Freo have the cap space (which let's be serious here, with the new pay negotiations all clubs will be able to afford one way or another but each club will also have different objectives and cap requirements etc, but its a safe assumption that freo will match any and every offer for fyfe. They'd be negligent to the club if they didn't.) and if they match the opposing clubs offers, that means Fyfe is no longer a free agent. Freo have the right to match any offer made to Fyfe. So what does that mean? It means freo can accept fyfes request to move and contract but force the club selected to trade for fyfe as he will be a contracted player at freo (as they have matched the offer. Hence requiring a trade from said clun as Fyfe is now contracted to Freo.... as per the danger deal How about you sir doing your own research next time before posting dribble and attavcking my credibility. Thank u Love UH

You need to take a refresher on thr FA rules. Might make sense then

Worrying sign for the Hawks. Sold the farm for the kid (JOM) and there is clearly an injury cloud with the kid. Hahaha suck it Hawks. But i do think long term JOM will get better. Just needs to get his body right

Are you two twins?? Yes he is a Free Agent. But there are 2 types of Free Agents. I will let you lads work out the rest

Hypothetical if Fyge choose the Dees - what eould be Freos asking price? If the Judd deal is any indication 1st rd pick and Salem? Kent and 2 first rounders? Dare i say straight swap for Hogan? It does eound great having Fyfe in the red and blue but the devil is in the detail.... no puns intended

Agree Stats are very mislesding. Getting 30 as an inside mid at a lower level with lots of stoppages doesn't necessarily teanslate well to etihad where there are less stoppages or the fast break game styles employed in the afl today

Demonland likes to point out the obvious and then discuss ad nauseum. You get used to it after a while

Howdy all, Been a tough couple of weeks. Dropping three games we were in and without injuries probably would have won all three. It's a new era for us Demon supporters, we are sadly used to the Ls but this time it hurts a bit more because we know we were the better team on most occasions (all be it a very inexperienced one) I wanted to discuss the next 6 weeks. Now we've seen what we produce (Exciting football but unable to sustain it for 4 qtrs., and injuries seem to be the highlights of the season so far) I think the next 6 weeks will be season defining on this group. v Essendon at Etihad v Hawks at MCG v Crows at Radelaide v North at MCG v Suns at Darwin? v Pies at MCG Injuries permitting (if we had Gawn etc) I reckon we would have been a sneaky chance in all these games (we seemed to match up well vs Adelaide last year). But what are our expectations now? Personally I am hoping for 3 & 3. I think we are 50/50 chances in all except Bombers at Etihad and Crows. Bombers love the flat deck and with no ruckman I think they will towel us up sadly, Crows are obviously a more experienced a offensive beast.. There is no particular easy beat, the competition is very even, but if we can be 5 - 6 and start to get healthy we could be a sneaky chance for the 8 still. As much as it's sucked the last couple of weeks we haven't been out of games, we have failed to execute at critical stages and injuries have cut down our structures. We need to stay injury free, and selection is another that will be critical going forward if we are any chance of finals but the next six weeks will define the group IMO.

That's the worst part mate... Knowing we were the better team and listening to their garbage. But let them enjoy it, it won't last too long

I don't think you're wrong JV7 it was a glaring reason why we lost. I wanted to respond to you because I think your right but I think it's experience of the group over leadership if that makes sense. You're right Leadership is a problem but I can't blame leaders if we just don't have the leadership depth to blame. Our leaders last night were - Jones (227), Watts (141), Vince (196), T Mac (108), Garlett (150) Jetta (98) games played. We are expecting one or two etc to just step up and carry the load of 14 or 15 players. So we have 1 Forward - who was had to ruck for a half, 2 Mids and 2 Defenders over 100 games experience last night. I know it sounds like a soft excuse but sadly we don't have the experience across the lines to knuckle down when the S#*& hits the fan, and it stands out to all of us like dogs balls. On top of rotations being down (i don't know if any of you experts checked but we had 71/90 vs tigers 83/90. Do the maths who was fresher in the last qtr?) People potting leaders for not doing enough on here I personally think have no idea what they're talking about in terms of leadership or analysis of the game. (I don't mean u JV7, more pointing out a few other notorious emotional posters, who like to head hunt blindly because they have no idea) Leadership is a problem but it is the lack of leaders due to experience. There is no magic potion to solve this but get experience in to players. On top of that we've just been plain unlucky with injuries as well. What talent we did have is being cut down from injuries atm Players like Lewis now are very important and maybe even Pederson who have experience. But the reality is we are going to remain inconsistent until we get our young guns more game time.

Spot on mate We have a frustrating period to get through to get to that side but i believe we'll get there. It is bloody frustrating though know even with all the errors etc we were still a better side then those f l o g s. Just so much bad luck atm. How good was trac though

Agree, To get back to the OP as well. There is no harm critiquing selection but at 2 & 2 it's a bit premature. Maybe if we are 2 - 6 it's the time to start asking serious questons

Why this needs its own thread and isn't in the team selection thread is my first point. Second point is. Basing form on vfl stats is risky. We've seen this with ANB, Michie, Trenners etc etc and others who perform well in thr vfl but it doesn't necessarily translate to afl. I dont think it's wrong to question selection but the reality is unless u know how the team is structured and how thos players fit it's pure speculation. My personal opinion is you gotta let Goody and co make their choices as they live and die by them. So i think you're way off the mark over the committee. Times hve changed.

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Pure footy on sen haa just mentioned that we once again had the youngest and 17th least experienced side to play rd 4. Now i dont like that stat to use it as a cop out thwt 3rd qtr was very poor. But it gives me conference we are on the right track and this a new Melbourne fc. Maybe unlucky for us we dont have j howe anymore pointing fingers at underperformers..... some irony there Jeremy?

Unsure if you're being serious or not #JV7 Sunday teams are always squads on Thursday night. So being a Monday game....

Yes massive game. Not season defining but massive for the mfc and where we're at as a club

That's gone well for us lately haha But I do agree we should knock off the Dawks again. But take nothing for granted yet. We're better but we're not great yet. Lets start by knocking off the Tiges

I dont think anything you said is wrong. But you need to move on. You can beat the drums all you want but pj wont question goody and 4 weeks in to season isnt a trend.

We don't know for sure where the exact fail was (Coaching, Leadership, structures), so I believe it's a waste of time pointing fingers.. Regardless if you think it's right or wrong get used to being very aggressive under Goody. Until the boys play together for an extended period of time these mistakes will continue to happen. We're not the Hawks/Cats we are a young team and a new team from 2016 in many ways. If you believe it or not, we are a work in progress. Let's move on to next week,

All this ranting and raving about the 3rd quarter but no acknowledgement of the 4th quarter response

After the Carlton game I was happy to see some mongrel in the Dees side, but upon reflection it's cost us big time. Lewis deserved what he got, but I am still unsure about the Hogan incident. But it's done now so let's move on. Lucky it's only round 4, 20 rounds left. But to put some perspective on it, the competition is very even. Apart from GWS, Adelaide and maybe Port the comp is very very even. Losing. the 4 points to Freo may cost us this year but hopefully it's a great learning experience for our young guys who carried the load.

I'm just poor at English m8.

Yeh look I can't disagree with the angst, and I still haven't digested it completely myself. We rolled the dice and lost'. Me personally I am happy to move on to next week, some of you might not be ready and that's ok. A couple of final bits I also strongly believe it was composure that cost us the game and not that final play. Take for example the last goal of the 2nd qtr. Or Harmes missing in the 3rd. You take away that goal and add harmes and we are up by 6 goals we win that match. I am not going to beat up or get overly emotional because they boys are creating the opportunities, they're just not finishing.