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This is unwatchable

Just cancel the first 2 weeks of the season and start at round 3 ?

As it was a contact injury for AVB I was hoping it was not serious and unrelated to the issues he had before - but the delay in any update is troubling. Suggests there may be more going on.

Ken Hinkley?

Anyone know where any vfl 2020 premiership odds have been posted?

Petty when fit is an option, but still some work to do. Lockhart’s calmness in the backline on the weekend was a bit of a revelation too. Might be a good lock down option when teams have multiple small forwards or backup for Nev. Frostball was fun, but too many turnovers if we want to be serious.

Waiting for some of the usual posters to say it just shows what an amateur club we are, run by people who have no idea, to pick obviously injured players such as MCDonald, Abv, spargo, smith and Tomlinson.

I think Norm Smith was more responsible for that era - and was probably undervalued as a player. directly involved in all but 2 of our premierships. without him our history would look more like st Kildas.

I don’t say it very often, but I couldn’t agree more with Gary Lyons response.

Anyone else a Vikes fan, or do you all think you suffer enough as Demons supporters? Go Chiefs - but hard to dislike the 49ers after the way they smashed Green Bay!

Nope - can’t top that. Good work!

That’s good to know. Roll on 2021 !

Nope - can’t claim that! I signed her up for a family membership in feb2004 and added Emily with a birthday of ? July 2004 -Even though my wife was only 4 months or so pregnant with her. we had 4 kids in 5 years so I think I called her sex from the scan before the gyno did as I had seen so many of them in Singapore! . shes a rusted on demon and says one of her life goals is to be the oldest demon member with the longest record of continuous membership: god I hope she doesn’t have to wait as long as I do for a premiership ( 53 years and counting).

My daughter who turns 16 in July is a 17 consecutive year member - does that compete? they do a lot more ultrasounds in Singapore where she was made!

Exactly - it seems typical that when we get injuries it always our best players, and hopefully it’s not a major issue, but if our worst fears are realised, maybe it gives Preuss and Jackson a run at it that fast tracks their development.

I’d play Fritsch there and try and isolate him as much as possible. He would be a tough match up with his one on one footy iq. Only works though if we are not bombing to the top of the square.

hopefully the new game plan referred to is dealing with the weaknesses that st Kilda under Richo found so easy to exploit and therefore us so easy to beat. Happy to have him on board

I reckon Frisch will kick 40+ goals if they play him forward for the full year. He’s a smart footballer and a tough match up.

There are a lot of self proclaimed draft experts here - I’m not one of them, but if we were keen enough on Kozzie to have used pick 8 originally (and no-one knows for sure if this is the case), then Rivers is a free set of steak knives. Seems like they executed a good trading strategy.

Great - there’s going to be nothing in the tank for round 1 according to Melkshake! Seemed like that strategy didn’t work too well in the last qtr in Rd 1 Port in 2019

It seems clear that you are far intellectually superior to the rest of us on these boards, so perhaps you might feel better suited with your peers, and your current favourite player, at the brown and gold?

Thanks AF - you answered it perfectly. ill do what I can. Support the MFC with 6 memberships from my family per year, organise a support group in my region (central vic) which raises money to buy more memberships and to hold functions and arrange buses to take supporters to games, and give the club feedback (in a constructive way) in anyway I can. but if you think it’s more helpful to [censored] and moan about how bad we are via the internet - then that’s fine, I can do that too.

Maybe it’s more like an “angry old men yelling at clouds” site. Same names, some complaints yet different topic. and before you tee-off on me I am also (relatively) old, a long time member who is angry about MFC and 2019. Just don’t feel the need to keep harping on about the same problems day after day.

What hope? There is no hope. Haven’t you read the other topics? apparently everyone is fighting with each other, the two afl quality players we have want to leave, and we are broke. i hope I get my 2020 membership subs back if we fold before the season starts

Thanks for taking us on the journey. All the best to you and Dec, and if Dec’s footy journey does continue, at whatever level, I’d love to hear it. This year I have questioned why I come on this site given all the anger and abuse directed at fellow posters and the club in pretty much every post, but I realise it’s because of posters like you who can share a journey. it would also be great if we as posters, could accept that for a myriad of reasons some players don’t make it in the end, but taking potshots at players at a personal level says more about our own anger management issues than anything else.