Adam The God

And maybe Turner goes back then. Otherwise, as it stands, Turner plays forward.

Turner or Petty I presume. So they wanted to get Turner back in the team, and he basically replaces Fullarton, but I think it could be Petty than takes the second ruck. I don't necessarily have a problem with this, the problem I do have is playing Fritta and Melksham in the same forward half (unless Sharp starts ajd Melksham is sub?). Expect our forward 50 tackles to plummet if Fritta and Melky are on the ground at the same time.

Vote 1 for Hinkley as head of footy...

This is basically what I wrote yesterday. Either he wasn't briefed prior to any of this media or Caulfield has either fallen over, or at best is at least in the lurch. But thank goodness we've got Pert overseeing the project for us.

Not really...

I'd just keep giving him one year deals.

Well done @Slartibartfast 👏🤣 TMac is having a great season. I was wrong!

Again, what's this highly credentialed business background you talk of? You avoided my earlier question. Which business as Guerra run that is of the size of the Melbourne Football Club? A business lobby group is not apt...

Do you know this for a fact?

Sure. He's a lobbyist for businesses and that project is a forum... I hope his business connections can help us, because I'm not sure I understand any other skills and past experience that he's bringing to the role.

And members were promised 2025 was about securing permits and funding for 2027 and beyond. How can we possibly do that when they don't start until the back end of 2025?

He was approached a month ago. Saying he was headhunted makes it sound like he's a coup for the club. He certainly wasn't our first choice. Let's see if his business connections help with the home base, but surely we needed a CEO with a footy background. Not someone who tried to get on the Essendon board and couldn't manage that. As to his business acumen, which business has he run to the scale of the Melbourne Football Club?

How did the board not brief Guerra before going on Footy Classified last night? Either Caulfield has hit a major snag (read it's potentially over) and he was briefed on that, which is why he was non-committal on Caulfield, or he wasn't briefed and allowed Eddie and Hird to push Port Melbourne and even Waverley without major rebuttal. Think back to when PJ appeared on these shows. He'd immediately pit you at ease by calling a spade a spade and nipping the wrong messages in the bud.

Just listening to the podders now. As to your question about around the ground stoppage set ups and numbers @binman , to me it looked like we were actually playing +1 behind the ball and then sending up a half forward to the front of the stoppage. This leaves an outnumber forward of the ball, which works if you chain out of the stoppage by hand. Which is why if we can get better decision making from our midfield, they should be able to give hands to the +1 behind the ball. Ideally, this is someone like Windsor with leg-speed, but he needs to hit more targets. You might also be onto something about around the ground stoppage deficits the last fortnight with the defensive role Jack Viney is playing. I don't have a problem with losing around the ground stoppages per se, and it depends whether those stoppages are repeat pressure-building that eventually lead to scores or whether we can actually intercept them and prevent a score.

What will be will be. I think we need to add another two first rounders this year to our list. If we can get a first rounder for someone with elite goal sense but poor defensive accountability, we will be fine.

It sounds like it's more tied to Guerra's Vic Chamber commitments...

Where's the facepalm button when you need it? I presume this is more about Smith overseeing Guerra, and not Green?

@Lucifers Hero , can you please stop liking McVee for a while, at least pretend. Does it work the other way? If you really like opposition players, do we end up getting them? If so, can you start loving Butters? 🤣

You're not being a Debbie Downer, just exhibiting clear signs of MFCSS.

If JVR's KPIs are keeping the momentum up with our stoppages in the ruck whilst Max is off the ground, and perhaps a goal a game, that is far more manageable than having him as the number one key tall that is expected to carry the forwardline. The psychology is different. IMO JVR's go is KPF/second ruck and I think he could flourish in the role.

We tried this in Geelong in 2022 or 2023. It was raining and kept trying to chain via handball off half back and through the corridor. We weren't trying to play that style strictly throughout the year, but we did show glimpses. Geelong's pressure was good and our decision making poor. It didn't work that day. It depends how wet it is, but the GWS was wet in Round 1 from memory, so we can play it, but I think it's situational, as you imply with Pendlebury. I'd much prefer we use more short kicks than handballs. I'd be trying to play the same way in most situations and if West Coast manage to ratchet up the pressure, then go for territory.

I think we're fine for KPBs. I agree on Adams and Turner. We also have Lever for a few more seasons too. TMac could well play another two years if he keeps playing as he is.

So the AFL approved candidate was Keith Thomas? 🤦

So does that mean Rivers pushes into the midfield then?

Those people could be very wrong too, BB...