DeeSpencer

Obviously a little hyperbole there but Tracc is just one person cooking lunch for his fiancé and has developed a huge brand. Melbourne FC won a flag and have mucked up their brand. The club that turnsover 60million or so a year shouldn’t be getting lapped by one player with a starting salary of 1 million.

These 2 have dodged a big bullet but it seems Tracc wants action. So let’s give it to him. In no order of preference: A. An actual social media presence. Tracc on TikTok 356k, Melbourne fc 89k. Hawthorn 298k You know why Tracc thinks he’s better than the club? Because he is! B. Changes to the footy department. List management? Recruiting team - new pro scout? Coaching! C. Genuine progress on Caulfield or any other home base D. No more culture short cuts, no more soft list management calls. Anyone just cashing cheques has to go. We got to see real action. No more asleep at the wheel.

Her sister is pretty good too

Grace Beasley just a perfect replacement for Westy Lamp on ball is good coaching. Getting Chappy more involved at half back (work to do on the disposal but love the aggression). Fitzy getting more involved. They’ve really adapted the team nicely. Anyone know if Pisano is injured or just not ready? Speedy crumber is the one thing we still need to lock it forward more.

She gave the ball to Loz Pearce rather than the ump at a stoppage directly infront of goal. Umpire correctly pinged her for time wasting.

Umpire had no choice. You expect that from an Irish player new to the game. Not a 50000 game veteran

Paxy are you serious????

Chappy what the f are you doing

Stevie Banno I have always loved you

Banno won her first every contest and got done for a throw haha

Paxy becoming a real Karen. That said. The inconsistencies on holding the ball kill this game

She’s a complete zero competitively. Anything that requires body on the line or head over the ball - forget about it

Inexperienced midfield combo and half forwards will do that. In an ideal world Hore would just play connector forward but we need her on ball and deep

Retooled backline doing an excellent job. Beasley a very good find. Clearly missing Purcell but they’re having a good go without her. Just a shame she isn’t there because that would free up a mid to go forward or back. Wotherspoon has something. She’ll be a player I just wish the game plan going forward was just a little slower and safer even if that takes away the most electric plays. It’s ok to get some numbers forward and pressure on.

Lady Fritsch (Bannan) still on the hit list

And in the other channel 7 VFL game the first goal is kicked by Corey Ellison who looks a lot fitter and stronger than his Casey days. Not sure he’d be the answer to our key forward issues but he’s another who has a good case to be on a list especially with his versatility

To fix the midfield we need experienced hard running bodies and depth. To fix the flanks we need some speed and skill. We might have to settle for players with deficiencies in areas but strength in their roles. To fix the key forwards we really need an athletic tall who combines smartly leading up at the footy with mobility and size. If it’s not Waterman or McKay it’s a total gamble. I’d probably sign on for the Nathan Kreuger experience because there’s not much else out there. Watching Werribee v Geelong. Parfitt playing a lot of forward. Not really getting a chance to push his case. Riley Bice looks a half back destined for the AFL system. @dazzledavey36 surely will have seen plenty of him over the journey.

It’s very fun to just ignore than 2017/2018 Melbourne were exactly what this Hawthorn team was

WWSPD? What would Sam Presti do. The OKC Thunder had a big tear down and banked a metric tonne of picks. The star player wanting out and then the team packing it in is pretty common in the NBA. I doubt we’d do it, but I think this is how I’d do it: - Tracc goes for picks or high quality under 23 players - Move on Fritsch - See if we can sneak a decent pick upgrade from Steve May to a contender - Viney to North - Hold Oliver for now. With no rush to win the plan would be to maximise his value and possibly restructure his contract by front loading the money - Hold Pickett for now, Freo have other priorities and there’s not a compelling market for him just now. Now here’s a list of reasons to we wont do it: 1. It’s an even comp and if we can find some best 22 mature players we can stay competitive and hope we smash the draft. 2. It would be incredibly hard on Gawn and other leftover senior players 3. it would condemn the Pres, the coach, the admin. No matter how well you’d sold it if we suddenly won 5 games next a lot of heads would roll. It would also put us in a terrible financial position.

If you’d like me to use more of the sites functions I could use the report button for personal abuse? But given I really don’t care about keeping score of internet points I won’t waste the mods time. Are you upset I interrupted your thread that came to the conclusion that Jason Taylor is good so hopefully drafts more good players because that will be good?

In our current best 22 Daniel would play in a forward/wing role and even some on ball time. Replace ANB and help us move the ball with switches, through the corridor through clever leads and work rate to provide options. We’d lose defensive pressure but help transition back to a more attacking style.

I believe in regularly turning over the list with multiple picks (including mature age guys on prove it deals) rather than blocking it up with list cloggers. I actually think it was Roos who said you have to make 10+ changes a year now. The last few years we’ve had a best 22 and a number of solid depth players. So I wasn’t in favour of carrying more. We’ve now lost a lot of that depth. If we expect multiple kids to be the best 28 or so on the list we will go backwards. I believe in JT and we should always arm him with good picks. If we have to entirely hit the draft so be it. You’re the one ignoring the importance of recruiting mature best 22 players and our failure to do so. How you’ve decided I’m the one who doesn’t engage with other opinions is beyond me. (Also I take no notice of the likes system of a footy forum, couldn’t care less how many I have given or received. I have as much interest in that as I do Peter Lawrence’s poll. I’m sorry I didn’t know we were voting for class captain in grade 4???)

That’s a whole lot better than Setterfield but not a top 5 pick!

Reminds me more of Ollie Wines

I just need to see more than the suggestion we can replace Tracc, Gus and ANB with children and not go backwards (and stay backwards) for a while. Even if that might end up the best possible option. The age ladder correlates with the afl ladder unless a team gets truly over the hill like Richmond this year or has a great run of health and things come together super quickly like Hawthorn. But even if you study Hawthorn they’ve had their backline together for years. Their midfield core is 3 x 23+ year olds who have played 60 games together and their forward line was bolster by Chol, Ginnivan, Gunston and Massimo on the wing. If I take a glass half full approach to the Dees backline I can get a pretty decent 6-7 guys together for at least one year more of May (with Petty, Lever, McVee, Salem, Bowey and maybe Howes). Can do the same with the midfield if Rivers gets midfield fit, Oliver, Viney and at least 1 more ready to go depth inclusion. Gawn. Good wings. The forwards - Pickett, JVR, Chandler, Fritsch.. is anyone really buying Turner or Jeffo making genuine impact in 2025? Give me Chol, Ginnivan, Gunston, D’Ambrosio and things could be looking up with the picks coming. In 3 years since the flag we’ve added zero best 22 recruits. We now have more cap and picks but who could be optimistic about our ability to replace senior players and fill the gaps in our team?