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I watched Sam play prior to this year he was not agressive enough to split packs and take big pack marks but in the last 6 matches he has improved this aspect of his game. I believe his development was not helped by his injuries at times when he was getting better at this art. I have found some young footballers who are very big at an early age are afraid to hit packs in the under age competition for the fear of hurting smaller opponents so they just try to out mark them which is ok in under age footy but when you get to the big time your opponent is just as big as you are so you have to become more agressive or fall by the wayside as a player.

Mattew Febey left after injuries returned to tasmania then came back later.

I was there he was snowed by the Hawthorne players and did not go back far enough and he did not compose himself like some players like Lloyd did. He did not lose the game the problem was every player wanted to be a hero like Yeats and others who were running towards goal and Robert Flower was alone in the goal square and a simple handball or kick would have resulted in a goal even though Robert had hurt his shoulder he would have done the job.

Definately Cameron Schwab he was the most arrogant person who I have ever met lived of his fathers reputation and Ray Manley was always listening to the races on match day updating the players on the results as they came to the bench. He had a good reputation but was a total idiot and was one of the reasons the MFC crashed during his tenure as the Secretary of the MFC for the MCC.

I worked as the trainer for the MFC for 10 years and did some time with the property steward and although they have multiple balls once a ball has been used the ball becomes part of the training stock so the AFL will run out of match balls and will be forced to use training stock which on wet days will get very heavy because the leather will crack allowing more moisture into the ball.

You cannot play football in empty stadiums because some time the ball is kicked into the crowd which is non existant therefore they must arrange for ball retievers in the empty stadium so the flow of the game continues, otherwise if a team needs a break in play they could deliberatly kick the ball into the vacant stadium

He was not as smart as they said he had a gameplan which was ok when other teams did not counter his tactic I think his finals campaign shows that the stratery was slowlybecomming yesterdays gameplan, he did not ajust to the circumstances of the next season modifying it so it would be successful.

Petracca and get the former MFC player Allen Jackovich to coach him on how to position yourself one-on-one

You realise both Gawn and Lever have had 2 knee reconstructions and seem to have recovered ok but he was selected in the same draft as Jack Watts as selection 15 by Geelong so he had potential at that stage. He was trained by Thompson and Scott at Geelong and Thompson and Worsfold at Essendon. He maybe only here for 1 year but if creates competition for spots on the forward line and back line then we have gained from his recruitment. Sometimes when a player is delisted and is given a 3rd chance he trains harder and compete's harder to prove his worth to the team?

Stewart Loewe was coached by Peter Hudson

Champion Data is a load of rubbish it is only a guide they never count the 1%ers which players do and when a team slides down the ladder due to injuries they are never taken into account. The player demographics is a better guide we have a young and inexperienced team who's team dynamics was disrupted by having injuries to key players.

Most professional sportsmen use training to make there skills better no matter what their level of skill they have, Lionel Messi and other stars of soccer practice for hours to hone and improve their ball control and kicking. Why should AFL be any different when coaches spend time on improving their kicking and handball under pressure the player will only improve these skills. If the player has no idea what they are doing wrong then they cannot fix it, the ball will give them an idea of what to fix.

All the what ifs will not changed the fact we now have Jackson, Pickett and Rivers and as supporters we hope they turn out the best 3 in the draft of 2019.

Ask Blake Acres who was from WA but was shipped out because the Saints wanted Brad Hill and Burton from the Hawks when they wanted Chad Wingard. The players traded did not ask to go home.

I have supported the MFC for 67 years I seen good and bad over the period but my support has never waivered, I have seen coaches come and go but I am a realist that we were always lacking something that clubs need to win premiership. I was lucky to see 6 premierships in my time but I also watched coaches who thought there way was the only way to play football and fail for one reason or another. In 1988 we made the grand final for the first time in 24 years and Steve O'Dwyer's suspension did not help the cause, coach sat there in the preliminary final when he should have removed Steve from the ground because he was a hot head who would retaliate and the grand final was done. As supporters we must never lose sight the coach does his best but sometimes has a blindspot during the heat of battle because they human, I realise that great coaches must experience failure before experiencing and appreciating success eg. Norm Smith, Clarkson, Thompson, Williams and Hardwick. The test of a good coach is one who learns from adversity and embraces it to create success.

I believe that the recruiting of these players we have some potential A grade players and if these players reach their potential then the MFC will in 2 to 4 years think JT recruited well. JT put is nuts on the line with Jackson and Pickett but thats what he is paid for, if it does not workout he wont be a recruiter for much longer.

Being a senior coach is a tough job for anyone, Damien Hardwick sends his regards to all who think several bad seasons says it all, give Goodwin 2020-2021 to show his metal. There is no science in coaching when your team has an injury riddled season, Ron Barassi took over in 1981-1985 his teams were plagued with injuries but he made no excuses, John Northey took over and with a lot of Barassi's blooded players along with a few interstate boys the got to the grand final in 1988. John had no system but faith in his players to do the job and it worked but ultimate prize was not attained and he started to blame the players for his failure, lack of a game plan.

I agree with your view but I think this boy is going to be better than both Young or Enright, he has a more aggressive approach and had a limited pre-season along with glandular fever to disrupt his season but he still put in a great season

He has similar traits to Young so maybe we got our Young in Rivers

You realise that Ben Simmons is a point guard traditionally around 6 foot to 6 foot 3 inches, his athleticism is the reason he is able to play the position so maybe Goodwin is convinced Luke can play as a midfielder, is he breaking the mold like Norm Smith? When Norm Smith played Ron Barassi as a ruckrover he changed the traditional ruck combinations where there was 2 ruckmen and 1 rover.

You realise if this was done the AFL (draft tampering) would eventually find out because loose lips sink ships (someone will boast about it) and the clubs which did this would be fined and may also loose draft picks in the future.

When a recruiter has picks 3 and 10 he has to pick the best players not any positional best selections that is why players like Moylan and Cook got selected because the recruiter was asked for the best players in a particular position and we ended up Molan who had injuries which crueled his development but there was no excuse for Cook who was just tall and playing against midgets made him look good.

Geoff Tunbridge objects

I will clarify for all those who have some idea what the words see means actually being there and able to understand what is going baby boomer at 2 would not be able to do that and I arrived in Australia at 3 years of age in 1949 therefore I could never see the 1948 grand finals let alone comprehend what football was children born in the early 30's would have seen 10.

The first grand final I went to was the 1954 and was heartbroken we lost to my best friends Footscray but from then on we were easily the best team in the VFL, Roger Dean's acting performance cost us another premiership, and the 1958 grand final was a Norm Smith error (players told me he admitted this after the game), when he was expecting a wet weekend and trained the players on thursday night before the grand final for 2 hours in the wet.