Adam The God

All I've watched of him is two packages. He has a low ball drop, not really sure where you got the high ball drop from, but he doesn't kick through the ball, he stabs at it.

You keep missing the point. The players Cal has linked us to have not been invited so far, which could suggest he doesn't have a real read on who we'll take. Go check out Cal's 2019 power rankings 3 weeks out from the draft.

Which is the same thing. He doesn't know, that's the point.

Which could well mean Twomey, who is a lovely guy, has no idea what we're doing.

And yet he hits targets regularly. I disagree.

He must have some knocks on him, which I'm sure PSD will be across.

Grlj is the next Butters anyway. 😉

What's new on neggieland?

He still had 8 touches and 2 clearances in the 2nd quarter. Not sure you could argue he went missing. But here we are.

Have you seen the 2021 grand final?

I feel like this is a good time for the Waterboy gif. 🤣

Sassy biatches.

The chair of the Member Engagement Committee is still on the board, I note... You know, the same MEC that has overseen the loss of 12,000 members, whilst not engaging with the membership base (seemingly) at all.

That's an interesting comparison.

Yeah, he's a much better option than Lindsay IMO. His kicking is not as attacking, but he can still hit the angle and can actually defend and win 1v1s. Compare Lindsay, who is all handball receive or intercept, with Taylor and it's chalk and cheese IMV. Would suit King's professed game style too. I'm still in the Grlj and Dovaston double, but if Taylor slipped instead of Grlj then I'd be happy enough with Taylor and Dovaston. I think Grlj has a much higher ceiling, but Taylor looks a solid AFL prospect. A safe bet if you will.

Spot on. It could also be notable that one current board member works in production and the guy put forward is a Stan man. What is also concerning is that Dan Taylor is based in Sydney. That will make engaging with members and getting to games pretty difficult. I know @William manages to come from interstate every week, but is Taylor a rusted on?

Wow. I wasn't aware that the MEC hadn't consulted the DA, Ghosty. It's pretty clear Barlow has done nothing with it. The fact that Smith mentioned it in the email as an achievement of Green's is concerning to me. Classic spin.

It definitely is.

Professional board members? The problem is we have a long history of having successful business people (mostly men) who have had no idea how to run a football club, sit on our board. The only competent administration we've seen in my lifetime was PJ-led, when he basically ran everything and told the board to stay out of his business. As soon as they made a decision of their own (appointing Pert), they stuffed it up and the club has been on the decline from the foundations that PJ built ever since. We're now a few thousand members ahead of North Melbourne. North [censored] Melbourne. What an indictment on the foundation club that won a flag 4 years ago! And no one is being held accountable at board level for 12,000 members going missing this year. Barlow seems to have been brought onto the board for his money alone (ie Caulfield), because he's done sweet FA with member engagement when there was plenty of opportunity to do so this year. Great that you're happy to have a board stacked with nuffies slowly running the club into the ground, but I hope for King and the players' sake, we start to get the right people on who can ensure the governance of the club is overseen to a high standard. Might be a good idea to open the field a little to ensure we actually get the best candidate.

When you say the previous management, do you mean Green, Rennick and Porz? Only Rennick is leaving this year... head rots from the top.

They've named a candidate in Dan Taylor, which implicitly begins a process of electioneering. You don't name a candidate without implicitly putting forward your preferred choice. Smith has avoided saying it explicitly, but the message is the same. And as @binman put it nicely earlier in the thread, perhaps implicitly, it undermines trust in the process.

I hope you're right mate. Fast forward 3 years time and a midfield of Kozzy, Windsor, Grlj, Lindsay and Langford is box office IMO. That's your midfield core you build around. I think if we get Grlj and Dovaston this year, our list build is at the point where we can start targeting FAs. And with two first rounders next year, we have some trade capital to satisfy a Butters or Humphrey deal. I know I'm jumping ahead early, but I'd be targeting Humphrey over Butters as aside from Rivers (and Kolt?) we lack that explosive power player that Humphrey can be. Not to mention we're far more likely to land Humphrey than Butters.

Imagine if we got Grlj and Dovaston. I think both will play early next year and both be guns at AFL level.

I hope he falls to our pick, but doubt it.

Well surely, Chris Barlow has to take huge responsibility for this? He's listed as the chair of the Member Engagement Committee. melbournefc.com.auOfficial AFL Website of the Melbourne Football ClubCame onto the board this time last year and was appointed chair of MEC and in that time we've lost 12,000 members. What are they actually doing with the MEC? Why mention it in the email if it's overseen a loss of so many members? If you can't or won't engage with members, hand the chairship to someone who will. Guerra should be running this himself. The approach we should follow is what would Peter Jackson do? He'd take over the MEC and drive it himself. Then at the AGM, he'd be up there imploring members to ring up every MFC supporter they know with lapsed membership, and be telling them to jump back on board.