Adam The God

@ middleagedemonsPA 🤣

I was where you are now last year, but I'm in the trade Clarry camp if that's what the club decides. And Clarry is my favourite MFC of all time. Have loved watching him play. But the last few weeks have not been good signs...

Back in our element as supporters again haha.

There are definitely parallels to the end of 2020. There was huge discontent at the end of that year, and a few fresh faces came into the coaching ranks and it was all resolved. We definitely need to smash this off season on a number of fronts.

I agree with @Ted Lasso that Byran is a good get if he'll come and play AFL with a view to taking over from Max. But I'd also target Peter Wright to play second ruck.

What a ridiculous reason to not attend a game, because they don't like Petty playing a certain position. It's actually laughable. Toys out of the cot ridiculous levels. But you're right, it is their right. And we have a lot of stupid supporters. The amount that I listen to in the MCC who either have no idea who the players are, or yell kick it when there is clearly no one ahead of the play or clearly marked. Anyway, good on them. As long as they don't steal my GF ticket when we eventually get another crack. At least those that were there the other night were vocal and passionate.

I agree, and if TMac hangs them up this year, so be it, but as we've seen over the last few years, good AFL KPPs are hard to find. If TMac retires, if May keeps getting injured, all of a sudden we are struggling to fill some of those key tall posts. It's why I think we should definitely go after Wright as he fills 2nd ruck need too. And I wouldn't be against Taylor Walker either if it gets the right sign offs.

Completely agree with this. We regularly went corridor, particularly in the first half, and either stuffed the kicks or our forwards failed to get the job done inside 50. These failures may have resulted in less corridor use in the second half, where we reverted to safer ball movement up the line. But the central ball movement definitely got us some scores in the first half.

It completely depends what the financial outlay is. He's a veteran who would not command big dollars, and since he is with us, we don't need to pay an inflationary wage in order to woo him over. You can't have it both ways. If he gets another offer, I'd be offering two, otherwise he'll likely accept the one year deal from us.

I'd be quite happy to offer TMac two years on a vet wage to stave off competition for his signature. Not sure we'd be freeing up a huge amount of salary by moving him on, and he knows our system and football club. Makes no sense to move on IMO.

I'd be staggered if 1) TMac wasn't offered another deal and 2) if he went elsewhere. Why? Just do your rolling one year deals, that way if you want to move on or the club does, there's no pressure. TMac has been pretty honest about being near the end and looking to a post footy life. I think he stays with us for another or two potentially or he retires.

Bye bye driver! Bye bye! BYE BYE! BYE! BYEEEE!

I don't always agree with you, but have always liked you as a poster, and most of the time you're constructive. I also think there's acknowledging factors that put together are not head in the sand, but legitimate for any analysis, but we've been there before, so I'll park it here.

Wanted to give some kudos to Petty. Thought his tackling was really good, took some great marks. Well done, Petts.

JVR was quiet in the first, was sighted slightly more in the 2nd, and then pretty much nothing after that. Subbing him or Kolt were my preferred options. I love JVR, but he had a poor night. He took two marks in the second, otherwise no marks for the night. Statistically, Turner wasn't much better after half time, but we couldn't sub both of them. Turner played second ruck. Turner had some burst about him for the night and JVR looked tired the entire game to me.

If we don't get continuity with those guys, I hope Petty goes back, because I'd be trusting him to intercept too. It's more about allowing/trusting guys with experience to intercept, that may be Houston and/or Cumming as well. That enables our running backs like Bowey, AMW and even Howes to get up the ground, and Rivers and McVee when they're not in the midfield.

Yep, pretty much. I have the flu and had an operation on my toe and I was there, ready to be [censored] on by 6,453 seagulls.

I actually thought we were pretty loud for 17k, but in better news I got [censored] on three separate times.

If TMac hangs them up, Petty goes back, and there's a forward spot alongside JVR and Turner for the taking. But if TMac plays on, Jefferson will need to get games ahead of Turner. And Turner is very good in the air and is nimble and agile at ground level for a big guy. Jefferson shares similar traits, but Turner has him for physicality at this stage.

@wizardinoz must be a @picket fence burner account. So do you see a role/spot for Jefferson moving forward? Because let's be honest, I doubt we're trading a guy that consistently kicks 40+ goals a year. Unless TMac retires, I don't see where Jefferson plays next year, except many games at Casey.

I also don't want to hear any more Melbourne supporters saying Goodwin can't coach an aggressive offensive team. The way these teams are playing is Melbourne 2018. We still have bloody good personnel behind the ball. Back them to win contests, and go super aggressive at stoppage with +1 and even +2, and more of some of that ball movement from last night, which was straight down the corridor, and straight to 30m out directly in front. Get contests from at least 2 talls in that 30m danger area, get smalls and mids to the foot of the contest. In 2018, it was TMac and Weideman. Neither were superstars, but gave contests, TMac did hit the scoreboard well, but Weideman competed, and Melksham was alongside them. In 2025, it could be JVR and Petty/Turner. Add a Wright or Walker that could kick 30+, alongside Fritta, Trac and Kozzy. I think Spargo needs to be ahead of Chandler, but another small needed in there. The model we went for in the first half of this year is probably Richmond 2017, which was either win perfect clearance or lose clearance with post clearance pressure applied and maintain defensive stability behind the ball, and then quick and long to contests in the forward half. Unfortunately, no Riewoldt, Martin or a fleet of smalls in our forward half. Trac could bring Martin's dominance, Koz and Fritta are class, but when Trac went down that game style was always going to be an uphill battle. The main hopes for me is we fix our stoppage work and philosophy around contest, and our whole game will flow from there. Let May, Lever, TMac and Salem gamble a bit on intercept, and get our half backs up at and through stoppage.

Yeah, @adonski, if our TPP can afford it, I'd take Macrae.

A good runner, but IMO a turnover merchant of the Sam Frost school of chaos.

Sorry, should have been clearer. We wouldn't need to offload a first rounder for Houston, if we packaged one of those guys with a 2nd, for example...

Sparrow or Chandler, although I don't like writing that on a public forum, where I want to be supportive of Melbourne players. They're both young South Aussies, so I think a player like that may lessen our outgoing pick. Houston is a good player, but he's a role player. That's what we'd be offering. Farrell, for example, is a more important player to Port's back half because his kicking is even better than Houston's IMO. Houston would be great for us though. As would Cumming.