Adam The God

Lever has been solid in 1v1s. His spoiling has been particularly good. His turn over kick before was horrendous and turned the play. But for the rest of the game, I'd agree that he's been one of our better contributors.

That's fair.

Love that they've finally made a move with Melksham, as if to say, you're not getting involved enough, so they put him in a tagging role and have refused to put Harmes in a tagging role all year. Staggering move. He seems to me to be playing a defensive role on a tagger, in de Boer.

Max was slaughtered in the ruck and around the ground in the last 5-10 minutes of that quarter. Turned the game. He's playing on a guy who is 83. I'll say it again. The ruck position is hugely overrated.

I thought so. He needs to have the confidence to kick a basic set shot from 45 in front. Conversely, Hunt seems to know where they are these days. I'd back him to snap a goal anywhere inside 50. Strange.

Great work rate from Kozzie. Trac and Hunt's goal.

He's got no idea where the goals are, Kozzie.

Salem losing so many 1v1s.

How was Max then? Terribly dumb football.

Opinions are absolutely fine, as long as they're backed up with some sort of argument. Just saying they haven't connected with supporters is just nothingness. And no, Wilson's article talks about not prioritising the MCC relationship. You're making things up to suit your own agenda here. As for this nebulous connecting with supporters, how would you suggest one goes about 'connecting' with supporters as head of the FD? Would you like Josh Mahoney to text you our strategy going into trade week each year? I'd like him doing his job, rather than worrying about what irrational supporters think. I mean this is a ridiculous statement and if you put your opinion out there, you need to be mature enough to accept criticism and/or back up what you're trying to argue. To me it sounds like you're just whinging for the sake of whinging. As for my opinion on what they've done, I couldn't give two [censored] if they 'connect' with members. I care that they do a good job at their role. Josh's is to run the FD, not run supporter relationship groups. I've been a relative fan of our trading and drafting strategy over Josh's time as head of FD, but I'm not happy with Josh reviewing his own department last year (as Bartlett said in the Fairfax press he was). Given the way things have played out this year, if the external review shows poor strategy and decision making going into 2020 that is a result of Josh's leadership, then he has to take responsibility for that.

What are you talking about? And what are you even arguing? My point was we let Frawley explore his free agency and set up our defence without him. How is that rubbish?

For his position he's up there, so I guess by that definition he's A grade, but jeepers, I reckon his defensive capabilities are as limited as Salem's, if not more. I think he's quicker and takes the game on more than Salem, but he's not a mile ahead of him and I certainly wouldn't have Salem as an A grader.

And wonder where Jaguar are at with their commitment. I'd say from a financial strategy point we'd have to have already signed them both up. I guess they're waiting for another opportune moment to announce Jaguar.

Are we saying Saad is A grade? Not sure I agree. Would certainly fit in nicely on our half back flank though. He and Rivers would be handy and might enable Salem to play deeper and use his kicking to exit defence.

It would have been Garland and Tom McDonald in those years.

We played a defensive system with players who we knew would be there the following season...

And how are you going to argue that? You haven't really argued it at all. You've just put a baseless opinion out there, without anything to back it up...

Yep, you'd definitely lead with your strongest point if Lyon was an active target or at least if you knew he was. She's guessing.

You mean like pushing Watts and Hogan out the door and playing Frawley forward after letting him explore his options, ensuring we could train up a new key back and still get maximum compensation, which led to Brayshaw's pick? We've shown plenty of ruthlessness. There's a difference between being ruthless and careless with knee-jerk decision making. Further, Zac Williams is a FA, we don't need to trade for him...

What are you even talking about? Who is that post aimed at? Luke played at the Bulldogs after Melbourne... the rest are right though.

Good on you HFF. You'd be an Olympic level back pedaller.

I'm not going to let you get away with that. You've shifted the goal posts. You can't name Mahoney as a Port bloke and then when I point out an alternative, claim there's no comparison. You made the comparison. Are you backing away from it?

It really does not matter where they played footy. Neil Balme played at Richmond. Would you like him as GM or would you be put off because he played at Richmond? We need to get over this attitude IMV.

Yep, Pert was also saying two weeks ago (prior to the Sydney game) we'd get close and at the time, I think he was right. Had we won those last two games as you say mate, we'd be closing in on the $800k mark. A great effort from our supporters nevertheless.

This is a weak argument IMO. I don't really care about "Melbourne people" running the club. PJ wasn't a "Melbourne person", but he had us going in the right direction. Ultimately, as long as the club is heading in the right direction, I probably won't care who's running it.