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5 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

What magical house costs that little in Melbourne? 🤣

Who in the AFL buys a house for cash?

Unless daddy or Mummy are multi-millionaires.

His contract will be upwards of $450K so he should be able to buy a house and furnish it, for his parents.

17 minutes ago, faultydet said:

Disagree with Cornes.

The Bulldogs had a problem with taller defenders and have picked up 192cm defender Tim Obrien from Hawthorn. A very good move that will make their defence better than it was.

 

If you think a Hawthorn reject makes them better, I think they should have picked Talia who has a great record as an AFL Backman in my humble opinion.

I love how the MFC made their moves early and now sits back waiting for the AFL November Draft to add to it playing list.

It is the first year that the highlight to our year is not the draft and the new players we are adding to our list in an attempt to win the holy grail of the AFL.

If you watch the last quarter of the Grand Final ANB was so intense that after Fritsch kicked his 5th goal I presume he said the 'game is not over yet' he reminded the player was still plenty of time left for a boilover.

5 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

They clearly liked Majak’s work at Casey and he should be a lot fitter doing a preseason this summer. Plenty of rucks out there but it’s hard to attract someone to be our 3rd ruck I’d imagine, most of the guys moving are to be the 2nd or 3rd string option in better circumstances for them. It would be even harder convince someone to be our 4th choice option.

Remember Daw is 31 going on 32 and Gawn is 29 going on 30 a ruckman in his early 20's or late teens would have a great grounding learning from these older players without being thrown to the wolves by playing in the ones when he is not ready.

Also we have settled on a 2 ruck combination so we need the backup for Gawn and Jackson in the short term, we could use TMac, Brown or Weids in a pinch as the 2nd ruck.  

Kane Cornes summed it up that the recruiting by our peers has done nothing to narrow the gap.

Just now, WalkingCivilWar said:

Just letting you know the word you’re looking for is mettle. Not being pedantic, it’s just that I know @Demonstonewill spot this and probs post a corny reply like “I didn’t know they were cyborgs.” 😁

I deliberately used that word metal not mettle because I believe you need heat to make steel and when the heat is on they come to the fore.

Good players play best in pressure situations when the team needs them most Harmes and Brayshaw are examples of players desperate to do the teams things in the 'teams hour of need'.

In the 3rd quarter the lesser lights Harmes, Brayshaw, TMac and Sparrow stood up and showed their metal and did things which helped us to victory.

I have noticed when I am walking or driving to the paper shop how many Melbourne Flags, Caps and billboards are now that we are Premiers lots of people are now proud to call themselves MFC supporters instead of hiding the fact from every man and his dog.

Luke will have to conform to the selfless style this team has adopted, at the Saints he was always in survival mode which makes you do things which are selfish and stats driven.

He will be given a job to perform and if he suceeds he will be rewarded with more games failure means he will be playing at Casey until he gets the message.

None of the other clubs were willing to pay him as much as Collingwood after their salary dump last year they have lots of money to throw at fringe players from other clubs or maybe they had a gentlemans agreement after clearing Treloar to the Bulldogs last year.

Unfortunately he never tasted the success that the 2021 players now enjoy he even missed the night grand final victory in 1987, spoke to him in 1988 on the eve of the season and I suggested he make a comeback for one last go at the premiership and replied he was done.

I have MFC football which he gave me on the eve of the Preliminary final signed by all the players, I was a trainer at the MFC till 1986 and I was thrilled he got to taste some finals success but we fell at the 2nd last hurdle and probably would not have played in grand final even if we made it.

39 minutes ago, Bobby McKenzie said:

Ken Melville, Best and fairest 1953, played in the 1956 Premiership team. Ken lives in Perth and would be around 90 years old. The other 1956 premiership player would be Clyde Laidlaw who would be a similar age to Ken. Both were fantastic players.

A great centre man but gave it away too early like Stuart Spencer who did not live to see the premiership and Bluey Adams passed away before this triumph as well.

At the MFC PJ wanted Roos and Roos wanted a plan where the next coach was picked as an apprentice then when the handover was complete Goodwin/Dew had time with the players to create a good relationship for the future.

At Hawthorn Clarkson did not come up with the idea of handover but the board did because they felt the Clarkson had run his race and Sam Mitchell was the successor who was courted by Collingwood so they acted in haste. 

Why would recruiters tell an outsider like Twomey their thoughts regarding the selections they want, if you have the 1st selection like St Kilda did in 2014 St Kilda did not tell them until the evening of the Draft.

Salem missed one game for the season and it was against Adelaide in Adelaide maybe we would have won if he had been able to play?

Highlights in one match are just that but Goater seem a distributer of the ball very much in the Oliver or Petracca mold whether he will make a good selection or not is dependent on a larger body of work which this year was restricted again the recruiters may have seen his match at school or club in the previous years.

I look at the vision and he has the tools and I believe so long as he is willing to do the work he can become a very good player but conversion of potential to greatness is a long and ardous road players who are happy to coast a la Sylvia never reach the greatness they could achieve.

52 minutes ago, Stretch Johnson said:

Is Goody's humility and willingness to adapt and hand over agency to his coaching group his strength?

It is hard to know exactly what goes on inside the footy group, but I wonder if this is a key.  

How much influence has Yze had over the midfield structure? And how much agency did he have to operate?

I believe that was one of the reasons Goodwin decided to coach from the boundary a la Norm Smith, I have heard that with all the people in the coaches box stats people and coaches your head is full of distracting noise from these people and when your team is in trouble clear thinking is a necessity so you can give clear instructions to players going on to the field and relate to players coming off.

Midway thru the 3rd quarter what ever was said at Half Time was history the players on the field had to draw on their own intestinal fortitude and perform, watch how Oliver then decided to tag Bontempelli and look at Jackson, Harmes Petracca and Viney they realised that their dream was going unless they do something and do it soon.

The champion teams of the past always lifted when the result was in doubt, see Preliminary Finals Hawthorn v's Cats 2013, Port in 2014 both match hung in the balance. 

When players like Dusty and Dangerfield don't play the whole season or play at a standard just below their best, the Journalist forget how good they are compared to players who play 22 to 26 games in the season.

The perfect example is the player of the final series was decided on Macrea's 4 games v's Petracca's 3 Games which is like handing out the Brownlow after the Grand Final with the finals included. 

ANB and TMac showed great character to be shown the door and then fight back to reclaim their position and be a part of the 2021 premiership team with ANB being in the best players on the ground for the MFC.

It took 69 years for St Kilda to win their first, Footscray it took 29 years, Melbourne it took 23 years to win its first and North Melbourne it took 50 years.

Freo, GWS and GCS are the only clubs without a premiership at this stage. 

If you look at premiership teams past and present there is always fringe players who have a good season or get lucky with an injury to a best 22 player it their luck and the other players bad luck.

Look at Steven Armstrong won a premiership medal, Hibberd, Bowey and Petty they got lucky and Hunt Smith or Tomlinson got unlucky.

Thats football and will always be the way, in 1955 Bluey Adams was 19th man and lasted 10-20 seconds on the field yet he was in 6 premiership teams.

33 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Brilliant

I hope that perhaps Ron, and ND can be the official flag raisers when we unfurl the  our 2021 Premiership flag.

 

I also want Noel Mc Mahon and Nathan Jones there.