Demon Disciple

Nope, the bloke is likely to go missing most of the time

Gliderol is getting a bargain whatever they’re paying for sponsorship

My initial thoughts were of seeing him knee the [censored] out of Maynard and Moore. This intrigued me, but was quickly overcome by fear of seeing him in the red and blue

Wes Wally for me

PO Jon

Call the club, they are so much easier to deal with than ticket master

Roffey was simply in the right place at the right time. Our premiership was achieved off the back of PJ’s brilliance and a stable board. We are seeing now the effects of Roffey and Pert’s (and even Goodwin’s) leadership playing out with 2024 and 2025 results highlighting just how poor their reigns were. Goody and Pert were there for our 2018 drought-breaker, subsequent 2019 fall and 2021 success. Roffey came in at the very end where the residual effects of her predecessors were still quite evident. She deserves some, but little of the premiership credit. Look at how Western United has fared with her involvement.

The TSL seems to do alright without roofed stadiums. If the AFL is worried about optics, I point to the way too quickly expanded AFLW in terms of low quality football (yet the AFL seems ok when concerning the women’s league). This is the AFL Boys Club yet again displaying the attitude of ‘do as I say, not as I do’.

Yep, and just about everyone went missing for a quarter and a half except for Gus. So as far as Trac is concerned, he did not play a full 4 quarters that day (he would’ve ended up with 50+ disposals and most possessions ever in a GF if he did).

We traded our 2 best mids. We aren’t going up the ladder next year. But I back the decisions made. Better to face reality now than live in the dream land that Goodwin & Co were fantasising.

If Humphrey wanted to come to Melbourne, he would have demanded it this trade period.

Draft for talent, trade for need

Can’t we just go back to how the game was adjudicated 20 years ago?

I meant the general MFC supporter base, not the fanatics of this forums

you’d be hard pressed to find a board member who didn’t have their own motives at play unfortunately.

Yep, may as well get going down there out of the way whilst redeveloping into a contender. Then all games at MCG like Carlton, Tigers, Hawks, Bombers, filth.

Given the demographic of our supporter base, I don’t think there’d be too many people concerned with our social media presence (rightly or wrongly)

Also the reason why Gawn is still captain and will probably remain so for the next couple of years is because we have no one better to replace him. That’s an indictment not of the board, but of the development of players, the coaches and the players themselves. The reason why weve gone down hill so rapidly is because there is no next wave of players coming through. A big reason to why we never got close to winning another flag. The FD realise that our best chance of our next premiership success will be driven by the likes of XL, Langford, JVR, Windsor and picks 7 & 8. Which says a fair bit about the likes of Salem ,Langdon, Laurie, Rivers, Fritsch, Sparrow, Petty, Chandler et al.

I agree with Macca. Under his watch as captain the club has gone backwards. It’s not his fault, but it has highlighted some weaknesses in his leadership. No one on our list would have been a better option than Gawn though. But to claim the highs you must also claim the lows. Not a knock on Max though, no one is perfect. And even if they were, having to lead when the likes of Roffey, Pert and Goodwin were coming up so short would drown anybody.

Pass. Anyone who wears socks with sandals cannot be trusted

He’ll be top 6

Much higher

Nail on head @FarNorthernD Whenever the game is close, we seemingly wilt under the pressure with many players going missing leaving it up to too few.

No score in the first quarter to 7 x that in the third. I’m expecting us to score 189 points in the last, as that’s 7 x 27. Relax, we’ve got this

Desperately need a goal.