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I hope a few here listened closely to Fyfe's acceptance speech where he thanked supporters and noted strongly how important it is for players to receive positive support as motivation, help at times when things weren't going that well. They really appreciate it. Imagine what it would be like for our players if all our 52,000 supporters relentlessly bagged the players 20 times a day, every week of the year, like some do here on Demonland. There's a difference between constructive and relentlessly aggressive negative criticism. Everyone knows the club didn't perform well this year, and it was a huge disappointment from 2018, but Fremantle didn't exactly set the world on fire either. I can't see how relentless negativity helps make average players better, and good players great. It would be like playing under a dark cloud every time you stepped over the white line.

Yes there is ... Jake Melksham. ?

I'm glad we didn't trade our first-round pick last year, thinking it might be about pick #15-18. ☺️

Not too sure you can even recover fully from an appendectomy in 10 days.

I don't have any thoughts. I'm not going to speculate and then act as if it's fact like some do here;.

It couldn't possibly be that after nine years Todd has had enough in the job and football, and wants a complete tree change. No, we have to conflate it with Rawlings leaving at the same time, up the ante on the conspiracy theories, speculate about rifts in the management and coaching panel, and even blame Todd for the state of the club. Typical Demons supporters. It's not even a veil of negativity now, it's a full-on burkha.

No. When they're nonsense, I'll deal with yours.

Unfortunately, you don't get to determine who I respond to on Demonland.

I was by no means happy with the team's output this season, but I'll be blowed if I'm going to extend the complaining to Jack Viney eating an ice cream on holiday, or thinking that denying them a break would help And if I need to feel depressed I can just come on here and read more than 36,000 of your posts, 99.9% of which are negative. You should take a break for your own well-being. Constant and relentless negativity isn't good for you or anyone else. If you feel the need to come on here and make 20 posts a day that are complaining and carping about this football club, you should also question the influence supporters like you are having on how the Melbourne Football Club is regarded and the reason it might be considered "irrelevant". Although, luckily, some keyboard warrior on Demonland is hardly relevant or influential either. When the club's own supporters are overwhelmingly and relentlessly bleating, what hope have we got of ever being positive about the future of this great club?

Well it's a silly opinion. Measuring who gets a holiday by how hard you perceive someone has worked throughout the year and merits time off. You'd be a hit on the coaching panel.

Just because you don't know what his role is, doesn't mean Ricahrdson doesn't know what his role is. My guess is they're waiting for the whole team to be settled and determined before making announcements. That's the way it should be done.

So players should take holidays based on your judgement of their worth?

Well, the player that everyone says should be the next captain is cycling somewhere.

Who says Jones would rather be at the snow than playing in a final?

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.