Adam The God

Not with King and Caminiti forward. Goody intermated they won't be tweaking the defensive 7 anymore too.

Melksham gets to 100 games with the club this week doesn't he?

Fascinating selections. So Smith or Chandler the sub? We seem to have gone away from the three tall forward set up, and will go with Brown and Gawn/Grundy. Melksham is near the end, if not done, and I don't like his chances of impacting this week. Aside from Kozzy and maybe Brown, there's not much to get excited about in the forward half. We're going to have to get a few goals out of Trac and our mids too.

But also the fact we took our chance in 2021 relieves the pressure moving forward. I just hope we can keep the rest of the list fit and keep our top 4 spot. If we do, we're still a huge chance this year. Just need to start converting our chances in front of goal.

Maybe 3.5 hours 😉. But I deliberately aim to arrive 10 mins before the bounce.

I also have an MCC/MFC membership and have a two year old son. I prioritise the footy for 3 hours on a weekend, but each to their own. I know not everyone is like that.

I don't have a problem with Marvel at all. Parking is just as easy as the G (since there's barely any parking at the G anymore) and you're much closer to the game at Marvel. I find the atmosphere to be brilliant. The Bulldogs game last year was extremely loud. Reckon people might be snobs. 😉

I give up with you, East Bentleigh.

Are you going this week, Steve? The team really needs your help with their arousal levels.

If you can't hit difficult kicks, you're hardly going to change the angle. And you shouldn't. You should play the percentages. This is why getting better users forward of centre has merit.

It's interesting, because Marvel is a very fast deck, you don't wanna carry too many big guys, it'll ping out quickly on slingshot if the exits are vulnerable.

Unless they do what @GCDee suggested and bring in Tomlinson and play Petty forward.

Is that Gawny in the background saying 'Good one, Ooz'? 🤣 And you can't say we're careful with selection. This is a huge game to be debuting someone in.

Taj to debut. Fascinating. Wonder if this means Hunter or Bowey go forward... Just announced on the MFC Insta account that he'll debut this week.

Pity about Jake Rogers. Looks like he'd suit our mids beautifully.

To be clear, I'm reading between the lines here. When asked about JVR's VFL form, he said "we sent him back with some clear things that we wanted him to work on and he's started to implement them throughout his training and throughout his performance, so that was really pleasing..." He then continued with "...he's a good kid, he's gone back and he's gonna work on some things and when he comes back in, he's gonna come back in a better player." Goody was then asked whether ideally they'd give JVR more time in the VFL, with the questioner implying that if JVR has some things to work on at VFL level, would an ideal scenario be JVR playing at VFL level longer. Goody responded with "yeah, look, he's still 19, you know, he's still learning his craft, he's still learning his forward craft play at AFL standard, confidently every week. You know, in his first 12 games, he's kicked 17 goals. I'm sure in his next 12 he's gonna have even a bigger impact, not only on the scoreboard, but in how he plays the game. We're really confident that if we keep developing him the right way, that in the long term, we're gonna have an absolute beauty of a player for us. Ah, that's our plan for him. Is to develop him the right way and make sure that he's ready to play to really elite level of AFL footy throughout his whole career."

So going by Goody's presser, it seems like no JVR this weekend.

Was it a closed training session?

Ancient history with a different management team. The current team have overseen 2022 and 2023. And I don't have a particular problem with Clarry arguing his case on the training track...

It does seem like we stuffed up management last year and we're possibly stuffing it up again...

What's this nonsense on Twitter and AFL Central about Clarry?

You'd think having Petracca play 70/30% forward/midfield, that'd help our contested play in the forward half.

Not for a while. Smith played (at times) on Moore and Stewart (Henry was the guy that killed us, not Stewart). I'm with some who believe Smith doesn't have the nous to play regularly on clever interceptors, because he gets lost in the system. If he stays in, I hope he is hyperfocused on the best interceptor in the air and runs off them to provide pressure or win ground ball when the ball hits the ground.

Trac should play the Fritta role. Smith plays as a dummy/decoy forward almost and certainly plays a defensive role at times too. Fritta is the guy they're really going through. I'd be trying to go through Trac and he's hopefully involving BB and JVR with his elite assist game.

Great post. Completely agree.