Supermercado

Put Petty back

He's stuffed because rightly or wrongly that's where tribunal decisions are heading, but if not the collective melt of Pies fans will be tremendous.

I pay next to no attention to other clubs, so humour me please on whether there are any realistic options for somebody who is competent playing ruck and forward so JVR can stay put and concentrate on kicking goals. Not necessarily Peter Wright, but somebody of that ilk.

We could simultaneously acknowledge Brown, Hunter and Schache for their part in the 2021 premiership.

I was foolishly holding out hope (without evidence it was possible) that we'd catch fire at the end of the year, but when GWS kicked four goals in four minutes I knew the situation was hopeless. Even if we'd come back to win it would have been like unnecessarily keeping somebody on life support when you know they're not going to recover. Realistically, it was the second Freo game. The West Coast loss or the Alice Springs debacle could have been written off as blips, but we looked like Melbourne 10 years ago that day and I still can't work out how the margin wasn't more than our first game against them.

Hopefully Collingwood is confirmed out by then so we can go and watch a dead rubber in peace.

And if he were out of contact he'd be a free agent anyway.

Can I get in early with my excuse for Saturday - I hate this season.

I'd reluctantly take an 8th vs 9th Double Secret Elimination Final, but anything below that is charity for average sides.

Would be the greatest name redemption in history if he showed up and became a beloved club figure.

And why is it always assumed that the same thing would've happened at the MCG? Especially the way we played there against GWS, Footscray and Hawthorn. I'd rather celebrate a premiership in the bank no matter where it happened than get upset about hypotheticals.

Considering we were winning about once every six months at the time, the sealer from the boundary line against Carlton ranks as one of the great modern MFC goals.

Annnnnd just as I posted this it's temporarily down again, but we're getting there...

Fact fans, you may have noticed the site has been functioning like the MFC forward line recently. We've got it back online now but all the images are broken due to a much needed update of the 2009 software update. The design is also a bit funky at the moment and you may find some other strange things that need fixing, but the good news is we can serve you 1978 Under 19s season details again. On that note, if anyone's got info to add or correct please DM me or email [email protected]. Appreciate everyone's support over the last 15 years!

I'd prefer to hear to somebody speaking in tongues while I'm strapped to the electric chair than BT.

Any chance Will Schofield can bring this stuff to special comments instead of cheerleading like he's head of the WA Football Commission? I know there's a difference between speaking off the cuff and being able to review footage first, but this is light years ahead of the dross he brings to TV games.

Lucky the last play wasn't important, he took about 50 steps!

He was only good last night compared to some awful recent performances, but that early intercept mark was great. Almost a hint that we should play him somewhere that he could do more of them.

There hasn't been a footy biography for real sickos since The Red Fox. Time to go again.

If Max is up it we can go minimum 500 pages.

Gawn has probably qualified for an autobiography when he retires, and I'm hanging out for big vom revelations.

Things would look a lot better if we could keep the ball at our end of the ground for five seconds. Not saying this would have been the difference between winning and losing on Sunday, but it can't be healthy having the majority of the team running here, there and everywhere trying to defend for the vast majority of the game. Can't help that JVR was injured, but we need players who can a) take a mark at centre half-forward and b) make a contest inside 50. Petty is in all-time dreadful form, Turner is still green, and I'll charitably call McAdam underdone, so no bloody wonder the ball fangs straight back towards the defenders 11 seconds after they've cleared it. Brown is almost entirely shot, but if there's no other option I'd much rather him than either Petty or Turner.

Like when they came round to ask you about jumper design, logos, and flogging home games interstate? I don't give a toss if we change the name or not, but the way some people carry on you'd think we're playing under the name Al Qaida.

Andrew Leoncelli - ex-Carlton reserves and gave us several good years.

Hopefully picking half Casey's squad will help us match their fine achievements this year. Like when Port reunited the Mark Neeld All Stars of Barry, Toumpas, Trengove and Watts.