Dr. Gonzo

Or Mihocek 🙄

The McDonald situation was completely different. We weren't pushing Viney out, he was still contracted. He was the one exploring a trade to North and we extended him unnecessarily. We should have told him he is required but if he wished to explore his options that was up to him. We could've offered a one year extension not 3. Chalk and cheese.

It adds to the worsening experience of going to the footy. They already blare [censored] through the speakers way too loud during the breaks as it is and have these pathetic "fan activations", it detracts from the natural atmosphere of the game, and when we are playing in a barren MCG of around 20k people and have just kicked a goal to reduce the margin to 45 points with 10 minutes left it will just feel depressing. But sure, progress and all that 🙄🤣

It's garbage.

Agree, please don't do this [censored] Melbourne

Hardwick and Wallis both attacked Green at the same time, two thugs against an 18yo.

Not if we end up paying half his salary to play elsewhere

I didn't see it that way, it's a talk show, he was doing the setup for Lewis/Matthews takes

After that great win against the Cats, and a great performance by Lyon kicking 3 goals, we were 2nd on the ladder behind only the Hawks by one game (and a hefty amount of percentage). Lyon did not play for the rest of the year and without him our fortunes tumbled. 3 lossess on the trot to Carlton, Fitzroy and Hawthorn before sneaking back on the winners board against the Swans and back to back to losses to the Saints and Bombers to limp into the finals. Luckily we had done enough to sew up a finals spot earlier in the year but our form heading in was far from good and would require a run every bit as miraculous as the year before to equal our 1988 feats and go one better.

Wasn't helped with the limited prep in the praccy games. Haven't kept up with preseason training reports but thought he was a good show for a round 1 debut so was surprised he wasn't given a full game vs Richmond (which ended up being no game).

Maybe a throwaway comment but I really hate when the club (CEO's and Pres in particular) say things like this. It's unlikely we will ever be the biggest club in the AFL, not in the foreseeable future anyway - currently we rank dead last in terms of supporter numbers in multiple surveys across decades. The focus should be on ensuring we are a successful club that is self sustainable (ie not reliant on AFL support, not reliant on debt etc) - how we compare to other clubs off field (members, finances, crowds etc) is really irrelevant if we can achieve success and sustainability. It is just setting us up for failure and without a strategy to achieve it it is just platitudes anyway.

Maybe they haven't communicated to Latrelle yet that he will be debuting and so don't want to publicly announce anything before they've confirmed with him?

Probably because yesterday's games were broadcast by Foxtel/Kayo whereas Thurs/Fri were channel 7 feeds with Fox commentary. When it's a channel 7 game you may see it revert.

Yeah but he hasn't won a Norm Smith medal

Heath should absolutely be ahead of Jefferson and probably Kentfield too. Fritsch doesn't play tall so I don't see him as competing for the same spot as Heath. It would be a mistake to have Heath playing at Casey only to emerge in the event of a Gawn injury.

I'm betting he'll go ok

Check out the "From the vault" thread Macca, I've uploaded all those games from 1988 to YouTube and linked then there

Maybe - who would've thought Pendlebury would be part of the next Pies flag in 2016. Or Crawford part of the next Hawks flag in 2004. I'm sure there's plenty of other examples.

Looks like he's enjoying his footy for the first time in years (even before his injury)

Pick 18 (25ish after academy/FS etc etc)

And a different gameplan

Goes alright this kid hey