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FWIW, this has been a regular occurrence with Kozzie and has often reared it's head. I would think at some stage he'll end up playing his career out elsewhere, but it's not the first time that he's raised this with the club and there are no indications he'll be playing elsewhere next year from the perspective of the club.

Sadly, it's just such an incredibly 'Melbourne' thing.

Very well said, the amount of people that are comfortable legitimising her effort under the guise "well, this is what you asked for" is astounding. I am unable to conceivably understand how people can defend her efforts (or realistically, lack thereof) yesterday and the old mantra of "what did you expect her to say?". It is not unreasonable at all, that people expect their President to be a competent media performer. One can accept that such an interview would not, necessarily, delve completely into the vault. But to wheel out that nonsense yesterday is an indictment on the current Club and all members. The MFC have refused to accept any sort of responsibility for the issues which have emerged over the past three seasons; rather, they have preferred to attempt to hide all of the skeletons and trout out corporate speak regarding 'culture', 'visions' and a 'one mission' approach. Had the Club dealt with some of the issues in an authentic and genuine manner, I would suspect we're not in the position we're now in. Own the mistakes, genuinely and authentically learn from them, and then look to create best practice out of it. This isn't to say that mistakes will not - or should not be made; mistakes and mismanagement occurs. But it becomes an issue when it is repetitive, not learned from and ignored. I truly think that is now untenable for Roffey to continue in her role, however, the board is stacked in her favour. I would express similar sentiments regarding Pert regarding the nature of his tenure. There are ruminations that several ex-players are being courted for a potential board challenge; whether this comes to fruition, remains to be seen. But change is clearly needed from the top down and it is needed now.

One of the best and most accurate accounts on here; and some of them still have their head in the sand!

This should've occurred at the end of last season. The salvageable gains that would come from one are significantly diminished due to the passage of time and damage incurred, but it still has to occur.

I'd be looking at him regardless of the Koz situation. Would also be very interested in Alex Davies.

Leadership is an enabler (or disabler) of culture; Roffey and Pert are absolutely correlated with the current climate. At the very least, even if they are not the causative reason for our issues, they are an enabling reason.

Yeah, it's actually pretty damning given that stakeholder engagement and management is one of her spruiked 'skills'.

Roffey is largely removed from the project, as it stands.

Or, you know, you could use that burgeoning big boy intellect of yours and as I said, read what I've previously written and infer some meaning. But hey, herrrrr derrrrrr media vendetta, MFC perennial victims et al.

Sounds like there might be some movement on this soon. MFC to contribute a further $20m - $25m towards the development of a training facility at Caulfield.

I've posted a few times on this, you should be able piece it together. I'm not really concerned about whether people take it on or not, at the end of the day the vomit and laugh react crew are going to vomit and laugh react. It doesn't change what the situation is.

Actually, yes - I can. But feel free to stick to the standard post-truth world optics that so many of the fanboys on here adhere to, unless of course, it relates to a positive news story.

That's beyond head in the sand sort of stuff.

To be fair, I don't necessarily think that anyone is advocating Roffey should be involved with list management discussions. But it is absolutely reasonable that she should be capable of commenting on the state of affairs of the club she presides over. It's not binary, she doesn't have to comment on list management matters or not comment at all. Given the season we've had, or seasons if you want to extend this back to last year, it's an entirely reasonable expectation.

As I said, people tend to look at the results of those seasons without looking at the substance of the games. You can project all the positivity you wish, I don't buy into it and ultimately the finals results tell the story.

There's far too much emphasis by some solely on the ladder position over form since '21 without looking at the substance of those wins. We were far from convincing in 22 and 23, and the writing was largely on the wall for most of this year. Being 2.5 wins off the bottom four doesn't bode well at all, despite the apparent closeness of the season.

GWS or the Dogs. Realistically, anyone apart from the Blues or Sydney.

I don't think that would exactly strike fear into opposition sides the way you intended via your post.

A lot of the grievances aren't coming from his manager, but from those very close to him. You'd think if he asks for a trade it will be at the exit interviews today.

Weird. I thought it was perennially Maynard’s fault when we lose to the Pies?

“Goodwin is a genius”.

Parker is vastly superior to the likes of Hunter, McAdam and Billings. He's one of the few aging players I'd be interested in. Personally, I also think he's in that rare ilk of players who can, to steal a corporate catch cry, drive culture and develop those around him. I would take Parker in a second. He'd also definitely improve our forward / midfield mix immensely, at least in the short-term.