old dee

I think I said this elsewhere but I would not be surprised if he doesn't play many games in 2025. It was a big bad injury he sustained. Add mental problems. I am worried he might struggle.

Spot on Bbo night games are a nightmare for me too. Might be good for sponsors etc but not me.

Contact the club via email and air your thoughts. Every time I have done so I have been contacted and the complaint discussed. The last time was after that disaster of sending Trac back onto the ground when he was clearly very distressed. IMO that was the low point of this season.

Hmm just about to have breakfast! That last line delayed things.

Add they lucked in with 3 wins below a goal and drew one. IMO all of those were from late dubious umpiring decision. By contrast the dees lost 3 by less than a goal.

I have been watching the MFC now for nearly 70 years and he is without doubt the best Ruckman we have ever had and in my opinion the best player we have ever had. Yep that includes RF. He is seldom if ever beaten.

You are better off no matter with the money hardtack. Believe me a month after not buying a membership the pain will be the same and you will have spent it on something way more enjoyable. Buy $100 of chocolate and $100 good coffee. You can enjoy both together for the next 100 days.

See under general discussions.

See under general discussions.

I haven't renew yet Dante but I am thinking about it. Some times I think they only thing that brings change is the loss of money. It is the thing that drives the AFL and clubs.

Good move layzie buy a cheaper membership.

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

You know it would not surprise me if he did not play in 2025. The injuries he sustained were very bad. It will take some time mentally and physically to get over.

He is a lightly framed player. If you are lightly framed you need to be very talented to make it at senior level. Very talented! No where near it. May well be our worst recruit in a decade.

Yes one of the poorest trades in the last decade!

He won’t want to go to a club that has a number of years in the bottom half of the ladder coming up.

If he wants a big Vic club that makes a field of four IMO. Carlton, Collingwood, Geelong or Hawthorn. He won’t want Richmond they have a long stay at the bottom coming up. None of those have the draft picks or the salary space for a salary that he wants without releasing a well paid very good player. Don’t relent MFC a top five draft pick and a good player or he remains at the MFC.

Petty needs to be returned to the backline a KPF he is not. It’s time in 2025 for Jefferson and Fullerton to be played. Jefferson has had two years at VFL level if he cannot play well at senior level in 2025 then we have wasted an early pick. As for Fullerton why is he on the list? Either play him or admit he is not good enough and clear the spot. We are not going to win a flag in 2025 so it is time to find out who has senior level ability and who doesn’t. Another potential NGE is Verrall. Has played two seasons at Casey and just looks like a slow VFL player. I cannot remember him being named in top Five players. 2025 is his last year on the list for mine. We need a competent second ruck to take Max’s place when the inevitable injury happens Verrall is not that player.

Thanks Bobby but I doubt it not while they keep picking chiefs from the old boys club.

Wow, a thread on me I don’t believe it. Physically I am fine the rest somewhat less. the main reason for my absence is the AFL I daily find some thing I disagree with. e.g. This time last year a player knocks out Gus, ends his career and doesn’t not even get a reprimand and plays on in the grand final, a few days ago Kosi bumps a pies player knocking him out by accident IMO and he gets 3 weeks. Once again the powerful get off and the less so are used as a deterrent. Of course this is nothing new for the AFL however the long term build up has got to me. Another example is the reserves competition, numerous byes, games played interstate and on the same weekend the senior team is in a different state meaning 3- 4 players cannot player that weekend in either team. Even the name is a joke the VFL that now has numerous interstate sides. Add the woes of the MFC .It appears we have managed to turn a GF winner into an also rand in the space of 3 years. Now players want out with long running contracts in place. It seems to me a contact in the AFL is only as long as the player wants it to be. Sign up for five years then after 2 you want to go home and or I can see more money down the road. MFC is falling apart the President has not delivered on a home and won’t any time soon on top of that she is presiding over a medical department that sent Petracca back on with a ruptured spleen etc resulting in him wanting to leave. He wants to play with a big club, tough you have a contract honour it. Obviously it was not a worry when you signed on for big money over a lengthy period. Still no home! And there won’t be anytime soon. The Vic government is broke there will not be any money to develop Caulfield this decade. So here I am, over the last three months very disillusioned . Aussie rules has been a passion for me my whole life I hope I get the passion back soon. In the mean time I have been busy with basketball watching my Granddaughter and going with her and my daughter to watch the finals of the Female A1 finals. I am really enjoying the basketball after an absence due to the closure of the Melb. Tigers from the NBL. No sitting outside in a Melbourne winter getting home after midnight. There are things outside of the AFL that are good and very enjoyable. Life is full of uncertainties so who knows what 2025 will bring. In the mean time ladies and gentlemen enjoy life.

If we are going by last weeks play against the bombers I would say he will never be picked as a ruckman. He got towelled up good and proper by the bombers ruck. I now understand why we went with Roo and company. Unless he has a contract for 2025 I think he will be gone at years end.

Spot on Bbo, last year barely 10 months ago. The initial response to Gus getting knocked out cold was no case to answer. The AFL then started a case after the public back lash. They never wanted the pies player suspended in a final series. Under this week's rulings he would have been suspended for the entire 2024 season.

I wouldn't chook. He is a VFL player. NQR at senior level.

Kentfield has done nothing. After watching this game I now know why we went last night without a reserve ruckman. A poor lot by any measure.

Yes the weed was going to the champion. Who needed Tmac.