JAG

I agree with your comments, but it gets worse, Godfrey and Brown in our best 5 that means 17 players that played on Monday most of them with a lot more ability than these two played worse. I said in another post I'd love for these two blokes to be give the skill of Travis Johnstone or Trav to get the heart these two blokes have.

I applaud Brown and Godders for having a crack and giving their all whenever they play for MFC.

On your 5 inclusions, Pickett can't run out a half at VFL level, Newton everyone raves about him, but what has he done a few bags of goals at VFL reserves level. I'm a bit tired of reading that Sautner has held him back, if he was good enough he would of been able to hold down a second forwards role next to Sautner. Newton can't even hold a regular seniors spot at Sandy, if you cant do that your not going to play AFL.

Yze, is dropping him for 1 game enough, he will come back in only because of the injuries we have had, I would like to see Buckley given a go, he had good pre-season form and played OK well for Sandy on Saturday.

PJ for Jamar is their any difference, both good VFL players but had no effect at AFL level. But its wirth a try, he will get beaten at tap work but hopefully makes up for it around the ground.

Sylvia will be good to see him back.

I agree with your observations, but there is one we all somtimes forget. The less talented players sometimes play well above our expectations because the opposition don't rate them and let them run free.

The success of a lot of teams doesn't just come from their star players, but from the lesser valued players that the opposition don't rate as high.

Maybe we should've played tempo footy at the end of the 3rd to make sure we were in a winning position?

It is very hard to do in the NAB Cup. If you kick backwards in your defensive half it is not a mark.

No suprise about Newton.

Who would we speculate to be the 4 unlucky ones to be cut.

I hope its not Buckley, Frawley, Warnock and Hughes.

Sad thing Dappa Dan, there’s history here. Recent history. Juice has played maybe 6 games at 70-100% effort, but more than you can count at under 50%. He just goes about his game like he doesn’t respect the moment. He doesn’t have the luxury to just not put in the effort.

Yesterday was a simulation match. All the way through to the players singing the club song at the end. There were a few family and friends who came down to watch. Juice was the only player out of the 40+ on the day, who instead of walking down the race to the rooms, walked slowly with shoulders curved to the boundary line to speak with his grandparents. As he got over to them, he gave this, ‘oh well, that was [censored]’ shrug of the shoulder. It took Dunn to come over, be respectful and say a quick g’day to the grandparents, to grab Juice and take him down the race to the club room.

We saw yesterday the Juice of old, in attitude and output, and it really made me angry.

On Newton he did look out of sorts, but a couple of times he lead, the ball was not kicked to his advantage, too high, too low, left or right. I think he is a confidence player and when the skills are not on show with good ball delivery then all forwards can look very ordinary.

actually, the boys were pretty accurate. A couple of posters, but all in all their kicking at goal was accurate. Some weird snap attempts, but the running into and set shots in front of goals were good.

Robbo's last goal after the siren from a very tight angle and about 45m out was gold.

I managed to catch the second half at TD.

Plenty of representatives from other clubs there to watch and take notes.

I was pleased to see that Green looks like his heel spur operation was sucessful.

He was full of running and a shot on goal went straight through the middle.

I agree with most of the reports given by others, the experienced old heads cruised while the young bucks had a go.

On Newton he did look out of sorts, but a couple of times he lead, the ball was not kicked to his advantage, too high, too low, left or right. I think he is a confidence player and when the skills are not on show with good ball delivery then all forwards can look very ordinary.

No training this morning at Trinity.

Practice match at Moorabbin 2.00 today.

I hope some one can go and make a report.

What a day to plan the match predicted 38C.

WJ reported a week ago that he understood there would be an intraclub at Moorabbin and one at TDome. Obviously, not finalised yet.

Personally, I'm not too big a fan of these intraclub practice matches so early in the season. A four game NAB Cup and/or practice match series is enough lead up for a season that's already very long. One or two intraclubs is enough.

I read on the official MFC web site that training was scheduled for Monday 18/12, Victoria Park 10.00am.

Did any one get along?

They usually go there for interclub practice matches, I would have thought that it was a bit early in the pre-season for that.

Went down to Trininty today to watch the boyz train, and after 45 minutes of searching for them they were no where to be found. Trinity and the club were both hopeless and helping us find the session, and me and my mate were extremely disappointed. Hoping to get to a session soon.

Yes it is disappointing that the official MFC website is not kept up to date, but the Trinity training is usually Wednesday at 10.00 on the long field to the left of the road that you enter on.