Adam The God

If what @Engorged Onion wrote is true, they should have been Carltoned and denied access to 2 or 3 drafts. Imagine how that would have gone with Daicos having to play for another club. So they are due to be in the wilderness like Carlton have been for 15 years.

Yeah, this'll be interesting. You'd imagine this would have to impact the players. Possibly in a good way, but far more likely in a negative way. Limited line coaches. I wonder how many staff travel interstate. Do medical staff and water people tend to travel or are locals employed?

Tom Morris said tonight on FOX that Guy asked to resign after trade week last year, but will stay until the end of the mid season draft. It doesn't really make sense to me and sounds like Collingwood are continuing the spin.

I remember you started as old on here with the bunny in the snow profile pic. Spunjy makes sense for Bob given the current profile pic.

Is this inside knowledge or your read on things mate? I doubt very much they'll be moving him on if he continues to play like he has. Weideman is the guy that needs to step up now.

Our development was terrible during that time and our drafting was just as bad. Schwab was the one that should have gone, but not sure Bailey was the right guy anyway. Our board and wider football club was a shambles though and it took outsiders in PJ, Bartlett and Roos, and now Goodwin to fix it.

Eddie really said that? Did anyone bring up Grundy when he said this?

I'm sorry @george_on_the_outer. Thank you to you too.

The reason we went and got Brown was not because we didn't believe in Weideman. We wanted support for Sam, yes, but we went and got Brown because McDonald's form fell off a cliff and we no longer believed in Tom. Tom's turnaround in form has given us a great problem to have. I'd be keeping Tom until the end of his contract and I'd hope he'd be a one club player now, with smaller shorter contracts from here on out.

With a bit of luck, DeGoey will be in prison soon enough. Wouldn't go near the alleged rapist. Scum.

I've been thinking about this a bit lately. It's Petracca or Lever for mine. The more dominant and team orientated Petracca has become, the more he's come into captain calculations for me. Lewis also floated it on 360 last night.

I'd forgotten how long we've had New Balance as a kit provider for.

I never liked the look of Demonology. When I first became interested in posting about the MFC, Demonology had that weird takeover happening (who the [censored] bothers to do a takeover of a message board?) and I also felt at the time, the content of posters here was far superior. I hadn't realised the likes of @Pollyannaand @Axis of Bobwere posters over there, because they are some of my favourites now. I do remember really liking RobbieF's posts too. I've now been here 12 years. Time flies. It's really helped me download after all our terrible losses in that time, from 186 to the Neeld years. Thanks to @Whispering_Jack, @Demonland, @Nasher and @Grapeviney for providing a space where it can happen.

Spot on mate. Completely agree with every word here.

2.1 is a quiet week? Looking forward to when he has a good week then, let alone a dominant week.

It's all about whether Essendon match our offer. I can't imagine they wouldn't, but it depends how much he wants to come.

The big thing for me is keeping our list as fit/injury-free as possible. Do that and we'll give 2021 a real shake. Luck is so tied to success in the AFL. So yeah, keeping a lid on it...

I'm liking your new conciseness mate.

THIS IS INCREDIBLE!!! Sorry, I'm @picket fence level excited.

I'd agree with 2 and 3 mate, but IMO it was reckless and not clear to me that he was protecting his hand. That said, given those recent cases of players getting off, I'd say we'll win this challenge.

Not sure I agree with you, Bin RE ANB not going out all year. If he plays another game or two like the North game soon, he'll be out. If you look back at his career to date, Goodwin definitely backs him in, but you can have all the pressure acts in the world, but he didn't lay a tackle. His KPIs would definitely include tackle count. He stays in this week IMO because he has credits in the bank this season. We need ANB of Rounds 1-6 though, because he's been a real asset and kicked some clutch goals.

Great ep so far. Still listening. I'm going to disagree with @binman RE KPFs and pressure. I'd be happy with 2 or 3 tackles from Brown and Weideman, providing they're kicking 2-3 goals a game and bringing the ball to ground. Weideman was ordinary in the Casey game at applying defensive pressure, but when on song in the big time, his tackling is just as tough as Lynch or Riewoldt for Richmond. Brown just needs to match that. McDonald is a bit different given he hasn't been kicking big bags. His value is pressure and providing a focal target up the ground when we need it from defence.

Currently listening to the podcast and it sounds like you're covering my question here. Edit. Sounds like we're on the same page @binman vis a vis McDonald and Petty.

I know this may seem a strange thing to write given we are such a system based team, but I wonder if Tomlinson's injury will force us to change our system slightly. And will we utilise Max differently or is it simply a case of plug and play? A slight reshuffle could see May take the lockdown defender role (leaving him less creativity and freedom) and see Petty take May's role as an interceptor and stopper, while Lever still takes the third best/tallest forward. The most important thing is obviously just having two guys that can lock down their opponent and allow Lever to intercept and direct traffic. Petty started shakily a few weeks ago, but given a bit of time and continuity (a block of 3 or 4 games), I believe he'll be a solid contributor back there. He's got great hands and he's a very good reader of the play. The make up of the back 6 might also be a week by week proposition, which I feel like I've heard Goodwin mention once or twice before in terms of picking the best team each week, may mean a different mix depending on the strengths and weaknesses of the opposition. What do Demonlanders think we'll do here? My feeling is we'll see some experimentation over the next block of 3 or 4 games. If we can strike the right balance coming into the back end of the season, that's the aim. I see McDonald as a distant backup option, which I really hope we don't have to go to.

Hickey has an excellent record against Max. Used to really kill him when Hickey was at St Kilda. Yep, I like this. Good idea. Our MC aren't afraid to try some interesting moves either, so it'll be intriguing to see what tweaks we make now that a few important cogs (Viney, Tomlinson and Fritsch) are out.