hardtack

4 minutes ago, Dee Boys said:

you’re talking about first and second rounders?

I think you’ll find that by ‘shut down’, he means that it should not be trade-able, but rather kept to be used in the draft.

1 hour ago, Skuit said:

You might want to edit that post again hardtack before the Demonland early risers choke on their coffees and assume you're predicting we're going to finish second-last next year and possibly spend our whole current and future draft cache on a pair of fringe players. 

To them I say, “Have at me!!” 🤣 Note that I did post at approx 4:30am, and I am neither in Perth nor a foreign principality, so I can safely say that I plead insanity.

I don’t have a clue as to Peatling’s value, so I’m guessing, but would this year’s pick 3 plus our future pick two, get Peatling plus Derksen thrown in as the set of steak knives?  (I’m hoping we’ll keep our possible pick 2 (ANB) from Adelaide, with a view to improving our draft hand)

Must be a bitter pill to swallow (pardon the pun) for Robbo.

18 minutes ago, ElDiablo14 said:

Based on the information provided today, there will be two different sized ovals.

So one MCG size and the other Marvel size?

Optus and Gabba (or Alice and Manuka)

Owies was a player I’d thought would be nice to have as he’s very handy around the goals.

6 minutes ago, DubDee said:

Not often you see the umpiring blatantly change the course of a game in a final. 

Should be 36 - 15.

Disgraceful dangerous tackle free kicks

Port have smashed them

Yeah, but it couldn’t happen to a nicer team 🤣

I think this thread is probably better raised following the trade period and draft.

As things currently stand, I’d be expecting a settled football department, line coaches who are across the nuances of the modern game, a head coach who has looked at, listened to and learned from our failings of 2024  and is preparing multiple game plans.

18 minutes ago, alpha33 said:

Perhaps we're looking elsewhere and moved on from someone who like him who would cost and arm and a leg and way too much for someone closing in on 30 years of age?

Hopefully it’s a sign that we intend to go to the draft with pick 5.

On 06/09/2024 at 11:14, Heart Beats True said:

My understanding is that he has signed a deal for $12 million over 8 years at lunch last Wednesday. It is yet to be announced. My source said he will be staying with the Suns. Don’t shoot the messenger.

I hereby decree that Heart Beats True henceforth be known as ‘Scooperman’!

According to an AFL and Gettable (paid partnership) Instagram post made 4 hours ago, he’s talking to four clubs… Pies, Dogs, Blues and Saints.

I’m an atheist and all of my atheistic, agnostic, and believer friends, think that Joe has lost the plot.

2 hours ago, KozzyCan said:

The report here is that the AFLPA aren't satisfied with the AFL's assessment.

In which case the AFLPA cannot have any real issue with the MFC, because we met all of the AFL’s requirements as they stood at the time. Their issue has to be with the AFL and ONLY the AFL.

8 hours ago, Jaded No More said:

3- We are terrible at promoting our brand. We have plenty of marketable and 'cult hero' players on our list. Gawn, Trac, Kozzie, Rivers, Roo, Kolt are ALL players you could really market. Hell you could get 20,000 teenagers to follow our social media if Rivers and Roo did some sort of semi regular 'thirst trap' posting (tasteful of course!).
Instead we show a lot of 'family club' content, which is lovely for the Facebook users, but has zero cut thru on Instagram and TikTok. 

As I was reading through the last few pages of this thread to catch up, this is precisely what I was thinking.  We need to be presenting the younger players on those platforms that are used by today’s youth!

Facebook is no longer a thing for them, it’s now all Instagram and Tik Tok… they want short, to the point, even zany, clips that make them interested in what you have to offer; then they will click on ‘Follow’. They don’t even necessarily have to be directly football related, but just show that the subject in focus has a connection to the club.

I would even like to see them pay Brayshaw to come and do the Gus and Gawn segment again… it doesn’t need to be football related, but could be a good platform for exposing the likes of Kossie, Kolt, Disco, Windsor and so on, pushing their personalities more than their sporting prowess.

Just my two bits worth.

I’m hoping that whoever is our new forward coach (nothing announced yet, is there?), understands the modern game and can teach our forwards effective leading patterns, and that whoever coaches the midfield, works in tandem with the forward coach so that they’re all on the same page. No more just bombing it into the pocket and hoping.

I’m also hoping we can bolster our midfield depth in the draft, or through trading, but only if we retain our pick 5.

Once more to the self promotion parapets my friends!!

I thought I’d chuck in a link to a video containing a sampling of a few tunes played by my band, Los Romeos Oxidados (plus a couple of ring-ins on guitars) at our gig just this Saturday (07/09/2024), at The Gasoline Pony in the Sydney suburb of Marrickville.

I hope you enjoy it.

1 hour ago, Moonshadow said:

Their disposal, particularly by foot, is exceptional.

I think it’s their running patterns… they’re just so outside the ‘box’, that opposition teams cannot predict where the ball will go next, so Hawks players seem to be always leading into open space.

4 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

Well, at least he’s making an effort to be part of the club. Can’t begrudge him that. 

I hope that’s the reason, but the little devil sitting on my right shoulder is telling me that he’s there at the bidding of the club, to project the image of a harmonious club. The little angel on my left shoulder is telling me that he’s looking genuinely happy, enjoying a bit of a laugh with Lever and Max.

Also, as the Dees just scored their first goal, the camera focused on an applauding Brad Green.

4 hours ago, layzie said:

If this were tipping I'd be 0-2

I’ve got both correct so far.

2 hours ago, binman said:

 

2 hours ago, demoncat said:

Dude has the name of an 80s porn star

Get him in 😈

I was thinking a character in the Dukes of Hazard.

 

Same thing.

3 hours ago, layzie said:

There you go people, it's not just us. 

So Morris suddenly has credibility?

5 hours ago, kryton101 said:

Yep - joined the forces at 18 and was incredibly homesick but still managed to survive and thrive.

That’s nothing! We lived in shoe box in middle of road, with nowt to eat ‘cept a handful of gravel, IF we were lucky, once every two days!!

1 hour ago, old dee said:

Keep the money hardtack. There is more to life than the MFC.

There’s not that much to keep OD 🤣. Haven’t seen you around this place for a while…I trust you’ve been keeping well.

2 hours ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

I was the assistant manager of Coles New World in Croyden back in the '80s @hardtack.

I was living in Sydney by then QD;,in fact I left Croydon at the start of 1970. My memory of Coles in Croydon was pre ‘New World’. I’d buy swap cards, Dairy Queen and the odd plastic tiki.

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

The length some people will go to to get out of going to Ringwood. Am I right? I'll see myself out. Apologies to anyone from Ringwood. Never been there. Probably a lovely place.

I was born in Ringwood (Pine Valley Hospital - no longer in existence?

I went to primary school in Ringwood (Winnington Grammar - closed for business when I was in 5th grade)

I worked on Xmas school holidays at Myer Eastland.

I grew up in Heatherdale and Croydon.

I can’t recall much about the place other than it had a great slot car racetrack just near the train station.