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I work in comms and it is a daily battle for me. I argue weekly that we need good quality content that takes time to produce. The outcome is quickfire memes that get good engagement but die in the [censored] quickly. Does nothing for brand recognition or growth and merely boosts your social media klout albeit temporarily. The people you're targeting aren't organically engaged in your primary product and so when you actually start talking about football, they disengage. It's the offseason. You could run Top 100 goals, marks, plays, and tackles for 2023. Countdown of the best games vs each appointment. Interviews with players. Instead we get TikToky garbage. This is my daily battle.

Starting the season poorly makes finishing in the top 4 more difficult? Huge if true, durango.

Someone told me Petty was injured in training today? Did I miss something?

Geelong lost Corey, Scarlett, Enright, Wojinski, Ling, Mooney, Milburn, and Ottens in 2011, 2012, and 2013. They still finished 3rd in 2014 before missing one finals series for the decade in 2015. They lost Toohey, Stokes, Bartel, and Enright in 2016, and finished second in 2017. Add losing Ablett in 2010 as well. They finished 8th in 2018 with the league's second best percentage. In six seasons they turned over a team that won three flags in five years and finished top 4 most seasons and made a GF and Prelim in 2020, 2021 and 2022. We're not even close to losing what they lost in retirements over that period. Missing finals would be a colossal failure for this group.

Winning a flag is tough. It's too high a benchmark to set. In my opinion, Top 4, and winning a final are our benchmarks. From there if we win a flag then it's a bonus. But making the Prelim should be the minimum goal for the team. Not winning the flag won't be a failure.

My wife was 15 at the time and there with her dad, step mum and sister. They only just escaped the wave and spent 3 nights on a hill waiting for support and to get a flight out. She still suffers PTSD to this day. I vaguely remenber Round 1 2005 but I was there and remember we won.

Melbourne's comms strategy has always been lacking. Although comparing us to Sydney probably isn't fair. The talent pool from a comms perspective is much larger in Sydney. Melbourne's comms and PR culture is way more "grounded" and clean cut. Sydney is more glitz and glamour/Hollywood.

Millennial. The last employable generation.

All this thread had told me is that I'm probably the youngest person on here.

Might be controversial but we won't win another flag until we have a dedicated club house and ground.

Financially devastating. Our opening home game is at 1pm on a Sunday. Our next home game is almost a month later, against Brisbane on a Thursday night. Solid 33k in attendance. Anzac Eve is an away game. Geelong at the MCG might pull in 50k but depends on how both teams are going. vs Carlton is an away game. St Kilda on a Sunday at 3:20 might pull a decent crowd. Maybe 50k. King's Bday is away. vs North on a Saturday night. 25k. vs WC, finally a home game against them. 25k. vs Essendon, finally a home game at the MCG against them. 60k. vs GWS. 25K. vs Port. 30k. vs Pies. 70k. Only two of our home games will require reserve seat upgrades for GA members: Essendon and Collingwood. For the general fan attending games it's great because we have 8 of our 10 MCG home games are against non-MCG tenants. Financially, the club would surely be livid with this draw. It's a disaster.

Jakovich, Lyon, Schwartz, Neitz, Charles, Lovell, Lovett, Viney, White, Pike, Tingay... we just couldn't stay healthy.

This is going to get ugly.

Unfortunately.

Don't mind it especially if it means we get Round 24 at the MCG. Collingwood will no doubt throw the toys out of the cot.

Nothing. Whattsa meta with you?

Riiiiiiiiight. Very meta.

Melbourne's media department is seriously amateur. They posted an Instagram story of a screenshot of their browser... without cropping out the browser.

My thoughts exactly. We should have stuck with him. No idea what happened or what the real reasoning was. We were playing better than people realised with him in the squad. Would love a deep dive of how we did holistically with him playing vs not. I'd hazard a guess our performances with him and Max in the squad were better than the two performances we put in the QF and SF. We win both with Grundy playing in either imv.

Mods! Milhouse is smoking!

Anyone know why Kozzie wasn't there?

sorry wrong thread.

Clayton Oliver.

Goodwin still thinks it's 2017 and that we can't defend.