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Short walk to the train, in the rain?? Short walk to the train, with little kiddies? Short walk to the train, with people with disabilities. Jolimont suits the well heeled, who take taxis everywhere, and do not travel on metro trains. It does not suit the grassroots supporter AT ALL. IF the Victorian Labor Party see this as fact,,, then they will help us to build adjacent to Gosch's Paddock. And we can build over Swan St and the Tramlines,,, more easily than building over the Jolimont Rail line. and cheaper to do except for the apartment building. The ground floor would be undercover car-park, maybe even 2 levels, one below ground. So the 1st floor would reach out over Swan Street, above the Tramlines, with viewing over Gosch's.and training. It could have some membership retail area and cafe etc. The floors above, can hold the Gym, Footy Dept, Admin' Offices, Function Rooms for meetings, Social areas, etc. A building over Swan Street gives us passing traffic every day of the week to grow ourselves, and so easy to attend, and to leave for home. Easy for families. Easy for every-one along the Sth-East Corridor, who continually get ignored buy the AFL. Lets own the STH-East Corridor. We can if we want to.

THEY are footy dumb, when it comes to footy clubs. They're good at the turnstiles, swyl. Thats all they are. They stuffed up,,, knocking down the Smokers Stand, And they took OUR players race, away from the Mfc members/supporters children... they couldn't run a footy club, if they had all the kings horses and all the kings men.

The location in East Melbourne (Yarra Park) is Wrong. We are trying to grow the club base at grassroots level, and so this location is the last of the 3. I would think. We are aligned with Casey. And we're trying to connect with our original supporter base, which the largest is around Malvern to Oakleigh, Bentleigh, and those suburbs, etc. we are going to grow out in the Sth East corridor out from Melbourne's suburbs. we will have large prospective numbers of people out there, IF we can make a direct link Via public transport... Jolimont just makes yet another step in the transport journey, for those prospective supporters to undertake,,, in getting to, and leaving to get home. We are talking about the reduction of driving to games, and so the location IS Imperative to our Growth_ Location Location Location. We have almost everything right, except the locality of the home base. If we are to attract big numbers of our supporters to training, and to after-games, and functions, our new HQ should be adjacent to the biggest Rail-Line, and with Tram stops present, as well. It must be at the Richmond station, to attract our support base, and to make it easier for them, getting to, and home afterward. I say down with East Melbourne ----- It's just too hard for distant supporters, to make the trip, on another step to Jolimont. __ are we developing Casey, and the Sth-Est Corridor,,, or Aren't we ?

the attitudes swyl. the attitudes that have led us to vote for directors we do not know nor come into contact with, Via the recommendations sent out to us in club letters. ... usually recommended as well from the mcc,,, all good and harmonious there, but at what cost, swyl. You are very negative about anything that shines a dark light on the things that you cherish, without any consideration from yourself ? 'the fish rots from the head' I believe I have heard you say many times, yet you still will not tolerate the thought, that something you cherish is actually cancerous. And killing itself, from the inside. - - - - - - - - - "Sloane overrated", another meaningless comment from you out of spite,,, about something you are weak at, judging player talent. Sloane is tagged week in, week out, for good reason. swyl. But don't let the facts hit you in the face with a cold wet fish.

Large trees can be prepared, dug-up and transplanted, to new locations.

persistent. We have to get this club winning in September. And save it from itself. Niceness knows no bounds, and is lovely, outside the theatre of battle. It is an imposter, within the forming of an army.

I hope we are onto something, with the ranger.

ah, bookend the Naidoc Week, perhaps ?

We don't want to become the new Saints. unable to win at the 'G'. We can defend well currently at Etihad. Bit more difficult to control opposition, at the 'G'. We need more speed around the midsection, for the Mcg. The Flower's, Stretch's, Johnson's, all did well around the Mcg.

fantastic. I truly hope so. Rory would make a great addition to our chances, IF he does come back to Vic.

I don't agree; we have a lot of coalface operators,,, 1st touch merchants, but we need 2nd touch clearance type players with fine skills, who can take the ball out of the traffic, & deliver it to our players on the outside. Sloane is handy, both in tight traffic, and also when he's out in some space. He can kick a goal on the run, and he finds his targets, with the ball. We do NOT need, pure outside footballers.

understand footy, watts to understand? Gaff the clearance king? https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pc-adelaide-crows--rory-sloane

ah, Dr Wu !

Trades and FA discussions - midfielders. Here are some CLearance Stats, across the AFL, for 2017, & 2018. 2017 - https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_rankings?year=2017&rt=LA&st=CL 2018 - https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_rankings?year=2018&rt=LA&st=CL How do you reckon we rate, against the rest ? .

don't know SFb. But I just found this... this might show some things of interest. have a look, as i do so myself. https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/ft_player_rankings?year=2018&rt=LA&st=MA

do you mean a couple of weeks before the granny, McQ?

Any backup for Gawn, has to be a powerful mark, around the ground, and packs. His backup, has to have lots of marking stats, this should be the primary stat, at an young age. The hitouts will come with strength, but the marking ability is there, or not there. Hitouts are overrated, unless they are in our players hands directly,,, and then the opposition will just hunt our Mids closely. We have to get the clearances, and we have to control the flow of the game, around the wings and flanks, with marking ability, and top kicking.

P/4 https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pp-carlton-blues--jarrod-pickett P/6 https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pp-carlton-blues--caleb-marchbank P/7 https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pp-kangaroos--paul-ahern

Four Field Umpires exactly ! ... why gill why ? WTF. Much better off with 2 Field umpires, running the corridor; and have 4 boundary riders, assisting the other umpires...

C'mon, don't forget,,, they gave us premiership player Michael Young ! pretty face 'n' all.

He wouldn't want to be as expensive, as the figures being bandied about.

We don't need one quick player in our team. We need to install 2 or 3 quick players, over our journey building this team. And its not 'outside run' that we need..... we need breakaway pace, inside/outside, in defence, around the middle, and forward Re smalls. Not your Garlett type pace forward, but more your DeGoey type pace forward. or midfield.

This is what we all want and are saying, but there are many different ways, of getting there. The break away speed players who can run, and nail targets on the run, are what we lack.

We haven't seen Billy Stretch's worth, yet. but he's building, pf.

The important thing is the first 3 or 4 months, when impressions are made in the kids heads. First impressions are every hard to alter. Attitudes sprout from those. We had far too many kids having too much of a frolicking good time at the club. At the time when that bloody tail was swinging wildly. Big heads prevailing, in the smallest of ponds.