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Melbourne Football Club - Richo’s barn door Petty - an irrelevant footballer Lever - limited contemporary skills May - Looked better today Rivers - plays for frees XL - Skilful ball user AJ - Limited but effortful Windsor - Continues to decline

7.15. Not sure if it’s 2022, 2023, 2024 or 2025.

In all seriousness, our lack of genuine ball users is beyond frustrating; as is our inability to defend the rebound and turnover when it’s moved through the centre.

Like a few of our premiership players, he’s very rapidly gone off post 2021. Very regularly shirks contact now as well. Typical ruckman.

Like a few of our premiership players, he’s very rapidly gone off post 2021. Very regularly shirks contact now as well.

The curse of?

He’s too comfortable playing for a holding free at every. single. contest. It’s tiresome and predictable.

Windsor is absolutely lost. He’s not a defender.

Once again, we’re absolutely destroyed by a quick spread with accurate disposal. It’s beyond frustrating we struggle to defend on transition. Catch and roll type of stuff.

His disposal is pretty woeful too. There’s been numerous times this season his turnovers have directly resulted in goals. Given we’re not blessed with a plethora of skilled users, we just can’t carry him down back.

Totally useless, once again he offers absolutely nothing. It’s rinse and repeat on 2024 etc.

This game absolutely typifies the Melbourne Football Club.

Club website has Lever as likely to return for the Sydney game. 🙄

Collingwood - Perryman, J Daicos, Houston, Quaynor, Nick Daicos, Bobby Hill* Geelong - Stengle, Jack Henry That’s just off the top of my head. Richmond are another prime example. *Four year extension on top of this year takes him through to 2030.

As much as I’m a knocker of some our decisions, in no world do Oliver and Petracca not get signed up on long-term deals; it would’ve happened at any club in the AFL. The Viney extension was the one that wasn’t necessary, but that came later. I think more central to our issue has been recruitment, although we’ve at least tried to correct that via the draft in 2022 - 2022.

Beat me to it as I was typing a reply. We did seem to also somewhat pivot during 23; however, we lacked the cattle to move towards a less contested game-plan (and still largely do lack, IMO). Our major deficiency with classy outside runners who actually have pace and can hit a target from multiple angles is what hurts us.

You’d hope at the elite level such rudimentary misdiagnoses doesn’t occur. Surely there’s more self-awareness from players and staff alike.

This isn’t going to end well on this forum…

I mean, if he’s coming back through Casey, he’s still on our list. Seems a little redundant.

As a supporter I agree with you, 100%. But as an entity and at an organisational level, we seem to constantly drive deals where we walk away ‘happy’ (i.e., get the target at what we see is reasonable or ‘market’ cost). I wouldn’t expect us to go down the Bell/Dodoro route; it’s just not who we are culturally (personally, I find this to be better and we largely get our deals done with a a minimum of fuss). As I said though, I absolutely agree Freo walked out the winner on the Jackson deal. That was unders.

There’s no world where Fremantle would give up Jackson and Treacy, let alone with a pick, for the players you listed. But I’d also say it would be insane to give up McVee. McVee is one of our best users of the ball; why would we give up one of only players with the ability to link and run? Woewodin wouldn’t even cut it as steak knives in a deal.

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