Dr. Gonzo

We're clearly taking it through the corridor more so I assume that's what he's alluding to. Problem is we still butcher it kicking inside 50, we're just doing it a bit quicker than last year.

If we don't win games the rest is moot

No chance we beat Freo and I think Suns will touch us up as well.

6-6-6 killed it too, he used to have one or two players off the back of the square but can't do that anymore.

How many times did players get run down thinking they had an extra couple of steps? Where was the urgency and the talk from teammates?

Howes, Woewodin, Henderson, Sharp - you can carry one or two but not four.

Once the ball hit the deck in our backline we got carved up. Salem is done, Bowey is OK but we desperately miss McVee/Windsor/AMW. Howes is bad and Lever, Petty,TMac are all one dimensional.

The player revolt happened last year (Freo in NT)

That is pathetic behaviour from an adult, what a [censored]. We're all passionate but that is just embarrassing.

West Coast sometime in July/Aug

Yeah he was on crutches walking around the concourse at halftime. I didn't think much of it, obviously trying to limit any pressure on the foot.

Perhaps, I dunno, we should get a retired key forward in to teach him how to play the role (some call that "coaching")

It might be true and I wish Max all the best with whatever he may be dealing with but Goodwin should not have said this. There is no point other than to make excuses, Max dealing with other issues doesn't create a 10 goal loss. He obviously won't go into any further details so it is pointless even raising it. It's just deflection.

Sparrow was good last week, didn't give much today. Riv has had a poor start to the season.

Didn't we get Lindsay with their pick? If so I couldn't give a [censored] if it ends up being top 3, kid is a jet.

We still haven't addressed our forward entries, or if we have it hasn't translated to GameDay. Continually bombing it on Turner's head was driving me berserk.

Selfish! (Relax I'm kidding 🤣)

It was in regards to your comment about Kozzie's situation turning out fine - it may but that is yet to be proven considering the commentary around him wanting to move west.

People need to harden up, if you're one who goes every week, sits in the rain etc etc then clearly the OP is not talking about you. If you are one who goes when/if they can but have other mitigating circumstances (like travel from interstate/regional, family obligations, financial or health issues) that prevent you from going then the OP is not talking about you. If you could go but decide not to because you can't be stuffed, the Grand Prix is on, it's raining, it won't be a big crowd etc etc then you are the ones being referred to. And that's fine, everyone makes their own choices but don't feel you can then whinge about MFC being treated like a poor relation when it comes to AFL decisions, scheduling, broadcasting, games moved to Docklands etc. We have more supporters out there than people give us credit for, we should really be getting a minimum of 30k to these kinds of games. If we can't when we are a reasonable side what hope do we have when we inevitably slide back down the ladder?

And Freo over the Easter long weekend

Yeah I used to go pretty hard about this but my perspective changed this year when discussing a similar issue (attendance v non-attendance) on a NY Jets forum. The issue about whether they should feel obligated to turn up or not didn't even enter their thoughts, if anything they're more likely to stay home as a form of protest against ownership/poor play. Now we have different circumstances (member run v privately owned, needing to ensure financial viability in a national competition etc) but I'm less inclined to berate people about this anymore. At the end of the day it still does concern me as I want the MFC to be a strong club that isn't always looking over their shoulder but there's not much you can do about it. Plenty of other things in the world to get worried about especially in the current environment.

It would absolutely [censored] the opposition supporters when we play a fellow Vic side as well, I'm all for it 😂

In 2 weeks we have the Suns on a Saturday Arvo and no GP. Will we beat today's crowd? I'm in two minds about this, Demon supporters are champions at making excuses for why we don't go to games. But we also have a smaller fan base playing out of the largest stadium in the country which can make it appear worse than it is. Whether we draw crowds or not shouldn't be on the supporters but unfortunately it is a reality of our sport that failure to draw crowds puts you in the spotlight, either about where games are scheduled (MCG v Docklands) or at the extreme whether you have the support to be viable in a national competition.

Obviously hoping he'd get on the end of a clearance and be the matchwinner, right?

I thought he rushed it, put the ball on his boot as soon as he got possession. He had time to settle and could've put it lace out in front of Roo. Was super impressed with Xavier Lindsay, kid has composure and skill in spades. Also loved Windsor's game, carried on from where he left off last year. Despite being so lightly framed opposition players struggle to stick tackles, so much like Flower in that respect.