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Mate, seriously are you incapable of critically judging the club on anything? All you seem to do is provide excuse after excuse for continued poor performance and often just end up providing a strawman argument as to why 'criticism' is boring. There is a distinguished difference between strategically pivoting and simply using a goal-shift bias to shift goals when they become too challenging - but goals shouldn't be shifted on the run purely because the current output isn't aligning with the desired end result. The goal set by the club, at least via external messaging, was that we had the set goal of returning to finals. That is an explicit statement, once again, at least based on external messaging. At the end of the day, whether there were extraneous results that impacted that (I'd argue that there haven't really been measurable extraneous circumstances which have), don't change whether something is a failure or not; all it does is provide a potential explanation, or causative reason on why that failure occurred. But the continued focus on excuses for these failures since 2021 by many on here, only continues to promote blame avoidance. The Club needs to take responsibility for these results, whether they are deemed failures, or mistakes, or even a combination of both. If we continue down the path of defensive routines, this will only continue to protect individuals within the club, or the club as an entity itself, from any threat to their self-image (essentially, as a form of self-protection). Denial, distortion and distraction are constantly practiced on this very forum by many who do not want to acknowledge the poor results post 2021. The other factor which I would raise, is this goal was so unrealistic, than to even commit to it, indicates an embarrassing lack of root cause analysis and foresight by the FD and Administration, ineffective problem solving and honestly a lack of transparency and trust between the club and member base. I don't think you can make an argument that this was a stretch goal; rather it likely indicates a mixture of over optimism, a fear of underachievement, and some wider cultural and organisational factors that have continued to drive this club out of finals contention.

Exactly, and this is one of the irreconcilable issues for us thus far. The MFC stated that this was their intention and goal, as a result, they have set themselves up (based on current results), as failing that goal.

Now, I'm viewing this as is - I haven't seen an expanded segment so am relying on this as the full context. But Mitch Cleary is absolutely one of the more reputable news breakers out there and I'd give some weight to this. Although, it comes across far more as an opinion, cf. a statement of fact - at least regarding the context given in the clip.

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lol

Xerri getting three weeks for an incident that was graded as careless, yet Robertson gets two weeks which will go down to one with an early plea. Absolutely broken system with zero credibility. Deven Robertson Report

Throw in Allan La Fontaine down forward and Barassi as coach for good measure.

I'd also add into that, the inability to regularly and reliably defend on turn-over / counter-attack, particularly against quick ball movement via the centre corridor.

Two more years 👏 Two more years 👏

Looks like there’s some belief there today.

Lever has to be close to having the most regular brain-fades in the league. Absolute amateur stuff some of things he does in front of an umpire.

XL looks tired and it might be time for a break, but far out it must be demoralising getting subbed out when Tholstrup is still out there.

Disappointing Jefferson hasn’t finished, but apart from Melksham he looks like the only other player we have who currently knows how to lead and take a mark.

Draft bust.

Thankfully we can look forward to two more years of this. Exhilarating stuff!

On ya, Jeffo.

He’s definitely signed a contract then.

Zero ability to defend any form of transition football, combined with godawful skills = MFC.

It’s fine, they’ve had ‘learnings’.

Today it’ll be 15.

He has a mullet.

Yeah, he’ll be at Richmond.

I completely agree, particularly with your point around the lack of opportunity to demonstrate if he can (or can’t) perform at AFL standard/level. It’s a pretty damning notion, especially when you compare it to other players who are played week in, week out.

Reportedly there’s another Melbourne based club very interested in him. Suspect he’ll get another gig. It’s a great example of a lack of selection integrity though, on our behalf.