mauriesy

More like one-sixth-of-an-acre blocks, and the actual size is 140m x 72m. If it's not going to continue as a social and gaming club, sell it. Any sort of training facility is a ludicrous proposition.

You forgot that going to Darwin and Alice Springs is really hopeless.

Those blocks to the east on Whitmuir Road have two, two and three townhouses on each blocvk. If you couldn't fit at least 40 townhouses on the entire Bentleigh Club land there's something wrong.

Here's the Bentleigh Club. Equivalent to 18 normal suburban houseblocks in a residential area. A developer would jump at the chance to demolish and build 50 or more townhouses, provided planning permission is given.

In your words, he's free to say (or like) what he wants. Better than 36,241 posts of total negativity.

Well, the obvious answer is to replace McCartney and provide extra experience, but I guess that doesn't suit your anti-Goodwin "failure to connect" made-up agenda.

Thanks. You made the statement that "Richardson has been brought in as a consequence of Goodwin “not connecting” for whatever reason". When queried, you say you haven't got an answer to my question. So you just made the Goodwin "not connecting" bit up. Too many people here make stuff up, or repeat rumours from totally unreliable sources, or engage in unjustified supposition about the internal workings of the club when they haven't got a clue.

Irrelevant to my question. So you just made it up.

What evidence do you have for that statement? Real evidence please, not just a thought bubble.

In terms of whether this year or last year were the aberrations, people seem to have forgotten the wide variations in finishing positions in the 10 years that Neale Daniher was a coach (1998-2007). They were like up and down escalators. 1998 4th 1999 14th 2000 3rd 2001 11th 2002 6th 2003 14th 2004 5th 2005 7th 2006 6th 2007 14th (Remember there were only 16 teams in the comp.)

A lot of confirmation bias going on here. I can understand players getting frustrated after the season we've had, but it doesn't mean the whole club from the President down is breaking apart. We don't even know how much of a "spray" it was, other than the Fox report saying it was "almighty" for the purposes of promoting their own story. All I can see is his arms out asking a question.

I love how someone starts with a supposition, and then proceeds as if it's a fact.

People are always falling for media-driven dribble. About game plans. About selective pictures shown of the coach in the box. About the non-importance of injuries and the pre-season. About contracts. About player values. About the opinions of personalities. About interviews. About everything really.

FCS, the biggest "veil of negativity" is right here on these boards. In the words of Fawlty Towers, "there's enough material here for a conference".

Not when they're a reason, albeit not the only reason. Under your "theory" does every player in the AFL have the same level of skill? So there's no difference between Patrick Dangerfield or Jordan DeGoey and the 44th player on the Gold Coast Suns list? If you don't recognise that, I guess you won't admit that having to bring a significant number players into your team who are not normally in your best 22 will have an effect. For an illustration, look at Colingwood's current injury list and the downturn in their play.

Agree with the OP. More often than not, we've faded from about half way through the third quarter onwards. That's a fitness issue. And when you are not fit and lagging towards the end of a game, skills start to go missing. When you get exhausted, both cognitive skills and physical skills go backwards at a great rate of knots. During the season, players can't make up the fitness they've missed through a bad pre-season, because they spend all week recovering their banged up bodies and general soreness. It's not like they can go for a 10km run the next morning. And I'm over the "yeah but other teams found a way through it" mantra, like we just can't bear to recognise the fitness deficiency and want to blame coaches, attitude and some whipping boys for the answer. No other team has had the surgeries, injuries and ongoing best-22 player loss that we've had. Nowhere near it.

Ian Johnson, past committee member and vice president of Melbourne Football Club, passed away overnight. He had a long career as managing director of Kerry Packer’s GTV9, and then in the same role at Channel 7. He was vice-president at Chirnside Park Country Club and at the Yarra Valley Country Club. He was a member of Kew Golf club before moving to the Peninsula when he joined Portsea Golf Club and was a great contributor to that club. When the Community Clubs Association of Victoria (CCAV) started, he immediately accepted the role of Chairman has been Chairman of the merged organisation, CCV, since its inception in 2014. When he retired from Channel 7, he and his wife Kim moved to Sorrento where he became an influential member of the Sorrento Football Club, initiating the very successful pre-game lunches with famous guest speakers.

The original article referenced in the first page of this topic says "The Herald Sun can reveal the ­Demons are eyeing a prized parcel of parkland, in the northeastern corner of the MCG precinct, for a full-sized football oval". The reality is not important when the perception is that open parkland, accessible to residents 24/7, will be lost and subsumed by a football club. The idea of a building over the railway line was never going to work either.

It was a silly idea and was never going to be approved. Too much loss of parkland, and too much local opposition.

Twice I heard Bruce the Statistician say that Geelong's first-quarter score of 0.2.2 was their lowest since 1957. Obviously couldn't remember the elimination final last year. ?

I think we should target the Saints this week.

We'll know after a year (or two) what the effect of 6-6-6 is. That's when we'll be able to dissect the stats to see whether scoring has improved or deteriorated, and whether 6-6-6 had a hand in causing it. I will also be interested to know what effect the constant need to speed up and open up the game has in the long run on player fitness and injuries. But it may take some time to get enough data regarding 6-6-6 on the issue. If at the end of the year or next, there is no improvement in scoring and a deterioration in player injuries, 6-6-6 should go. All it would appear to do in that case is consume time after a goal. I guess it allows television advertisers to slip in two ads every goal rather than one. ?

With the new rules and soft umpiring interpretations, the game has shifted markedly in 2019 towards an outside, skilful, fast, running game and away from contested, numbers-around-the-ball, slower-paced football. Can we adapt? With what looks like a new 2019 game style in the AFL generally, zoning seems less useful than one-on-one, especially after any 6-6-6 re-sets, and we're having trouble with it, especially when defenders like Frost and OMac are so poor one-on-one. We should be winning centre clearances with a dominant ruckman though and we don't seem to be. The pre-season and surgeries on a dozen or so players haven't helped, despite what Goodwin says, and I don't think our fitness level is adequate. We also have a lot of best-22 players missing. We're generally a mess everywhere, but our defence is the biggest mess. The players we recruited as a foundation of our defence, Lever and May, are not in the side, so we're relying on second-choice players. The positioning and adaptability is woeful. We also still seem to be adopting a higher forward press that doesn't work with the running and fast breakaway game that other teams are adopting. Opposition forward lines have been wide open and that's why they score easily.

Funny how five of the teams favoured to finish top four or thereabouts all lost in the first round: West Coast, Melbourne, Adelaide, Collingwood and Essendon. Guess they're all thinking their season's finished.

Not wanting to prematurely judge a player or anything.