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Gross hyperbole. Pickett is worth nowhere near $1m per year. That’s insane. If he can get that, he should take it and run. $500k is worth close to what he’d get on an open market.

Read. Then contextualise.

I think this is fair. Personally, I’m not as confident as our ability to make inroads at the pointy end of the year going forward. Obviously it’s speculative but it seems that the sides ‘around us’ have improved incrementally above what we’ve been able to. But I’m not completely writing us off regarding the coming years. I’ve thought for a few weeks now that there seems to be shades of the 2017 Tigers about us.

Salem hasn’t been the same since coming back from injury. He’s been ordinary since then, at the very least. At the moment I’d rather Bowey in, but Salem seems to be using all his credits in the bank from last year.

I would suggest the entire implication of ‘just enjoying the ride’ and ‘anything’ which comes next, is a ‘hell of a lot better’ than anything we experienced prior to the 2021 premiership is absolutely correlative of suggesting ‘near enough is good enough’; at least in the context of this discussion. Expressing serious concern about our demonstrated shortcomings is hardly ‘wrist slitting’, especially when it’s off the back of a premiership. I never suggested the club wasn’t currently well run, nor did I infer that the current FD erred in their decisions. I did state there’s an inherent ‘weakness’ or ‘softness’ within the MFC supporter base, which is, in my opinion, unlike that of any other club.

And that’s the ‘cheerio, near enough is good enough’ attitude that’s seen the MFC float in a sea of mediocrity and ineptitude for the majority of the past six decades. It’s a cancerous culture which placates the supporter base unlike any other supporter base in the AFL.

Third hand reporting - but SEN spoke of a report by Kim Hagdorn that Jackson is increasingly ‘likely’(?) to sign a 2 year deal with Melbourne. I couldn’t ascertain if this was on SEN WA and I wasn’t able to find anything further. Apologies if I’ve skewed the wording or taken it out of context, I was multitasking as it came on. I still think he’s likely gone.

Personally I think that’s a highly romanticised take in the contemporary context, but that’s just me. Obviously, I’d love for him to stay - so here’s to the romantics!

Agree, I’ve been saying this for a while. The more success you have, the easier it is to leave. Like you said, what more can you offer?

Absolute dead ringer for his old man in that first photo!

Nothing like some forum gatekeeping, hey?

I was actually saying to someone recently he seems an absolute shadow of his former self since injury. He looks scared of contact and his disposal has become very, very questionable.

*Shankspearian Tragedy.

Another week, another post where someone is upset with something in the media 🙄.

This is hilarious and on that note, happy Friday.

Chip Frawley.

I might be in the minority here, but I actually think the opposite. The more success he has at the Dees, the more likely he is to leave and the easier it will be to depart. I absolutely hope he stays, he’s a genuine generational player, but if he was lucky enough to get two (hell, maybe I’ll dream and say 3), I could easily see him leaving Melbourne for the lure of cash back home.

The etymology of what you’re saying is correct regarding the APS, but none of 11 member schools refer to themselves as being ‘public’ as the UK equivalents do. All 11 member schools are classed as independent and contextually are ‘private schools’, using the ordinarily accepted wording.

Beyond amazing - do we have a Lizard King incarnate at the Dees? Feeling Dogga gives off some serious psychedelic 1960s/1970s vibes.

You and I obviously view 9.17 very differently, particularly contextualised against the last 10 minutes of the game. I don't call having 26 scoring shots and walking away 9 point winners as 'unlucky'. If they conceded those I50s against a more experienced side, albeit with the scoring shots that they had, they wouldn't've won that game. One man's lucky is another man's unlucky.

Swans absolutely s**t the bed. I'd be filthy if I was a supporter and had to endure that ball use, it was beyond embarrassing. Given the seniority of some of their players, I would expect a lot more against a maligned side like the Dogs had tonight. The Dogs were lucky to win, but no doubt they'll get their tails up with some manufactured and over-engineered "us against the world, the AFL hates us, blah blah blah" rhetoric.

Telecast begins at 6.30PM on Fox.

Regardless of the outcome of the match tonight, I'm still not overly convinced of the credentials of either of these sides. The (likely) result has cemented that the Dogs are the biggest down hill skiers in the league. Most of their players are frontrunners and frankly they're a bunch of prima donnas. Sydney have a lot of talent but are young. I suspect their season will be up and down and whilst they'll make the 8, they have a while to go before they seriously challenge.

Absolutely - it also generally takes a player of the contest which is my frustration. Spargo seemingly isn't constantly favoured by the umpires either (i.e Weightman).

To be fair, Spargo does this a lot too - but he plays for us ;)