durango

The usual criteria is draft the best available but if it come down to 2 then draft for needs first.

Reading the Sun article he was instructed to play on the fat side of the ground giving him very little scope to tackle so he played the opportunistic football. It also mentioned that 5 clubs were interested in his services and eliminated St Kilda and Brisbane. I for one think he is a very good footballer but the recruiters and Goodwin have to make that decision not us. Garlett has lost his way due to family problems? If he could find his mojo back then he will regain his spot in the 22 and help us win the ultimate prize in the AFL.

Jack Viney

How many tackles does Hawkins make in a year, in fact other than a select few their tackling was poor at Geelong since they let Chapman, Bartel and Ling go without replacing them.

I think the MFC has done well and added some mongrel to a hard at side with May and Pruess, I think that hard at mongrel was part of the reason Hawthorn was such a good side during their premiership years.

I thought when he was the Richmond Coach he overlooked Franklin, so why would anybody rate his opinion re-recruiting

May will play better football without the responsibility of being the Captain I believe he will blossom without it since he wont feel the pressure of trying to do something special to lift the team. Teams rarely make Full Backs Captain.

I think the MFC recruiters had miss givings about Gaff after the incident with Andrew and what effect it may have on Angus, if they recruited Gaff. A happy team is a good team

The player who could be a key forward is Petracca who could do what Jakovich did in the 90's with Preuss in the pocket al la Bob Johnson or Mason Cox. Play him 1 on 1 in the goal square and he could be a sensation

I looked at the players starting in the center square for MFC during the finals not 1 player had played 100 games with Jones and Tyson playing on the wings, I know Gawn played 99 and Viney played 98 but the players like Harmes, Oliver and Brayshaw had played between 55 and 70 games. It is believed that a team needs about 10-15 players over 100 games to win a premiership although WB probably were the exception.

I forgot Xavier Ellis

I have never seen so many Xavier's since Xavier Tanner.

He has played on the forward line before so if one of our KPF go down he is an option to replace them since our KPB stocks are plentiful.

I think Dom Tyson was unfortunately left behind with the development of Clayton Oliver last season and this season Angus Brayshaw and James Harmes. With the return of AVB and Petracca's involvement in the center square. With his development stagnating he became a player the MFC could trade and get someone like Brayden who will now be backup and possible 2nd ruck in some games.

Maybe once we recruit him we should call him Special K

If you remember he's only played 1 game last year and had some knee problems so it is a risk to get someone who may not lineup for the team, maybe GWS has some medical knowledge that he was going to play restricted games due to the problems

The traditional version of the game would be destroyed if the AFL changed the shape to the goal square on a thought bubble of some person who just likes change because they don't like how the game is played. In 2005/2006 the eagles and sydney grand final was low scoring and no one changed rules to get larger scores.

I don't make comments like these lightly I have seen a lot of injured player come back from a knee injury and some never make it back because they have not done enough work. I was a trainer with the MFC in the 1976 to 1985 and an athletics official for 30 years (Olympics in 2000 and Commonwealth Games 2006) so I have seen it all. I love the club and I hope he makes a great recovery like Max Gawn who did his knee twice but he could be the MFC version of Alex Johnson who did his knee 6 times. I hope those who think I am sad sack, I hope you put in the similar amounts of work that did for the MFC. I would think he has done work on the weightless treadmill first not running outside.

I don't call that running its just striding with a slight limp

I am wondering why a talent like Jonathan O'Rourke can go from a possible 200 game player to a has been?

The person would not be able to do so unless the contract signed by the player was in the company name and no club would be allowed to use this method because the player is a sole trader and would be considered tax avoidance by the taxation office.

I think if Smith is brought in Hannan or Tyson should be the one's to be dropped not Fritsch., but Goodwin is in a no win situation if they win he's a genius whether he drops a player or not and if they lose he's an idiot because he kept a player or dropped a player.

I was born in 1946 and started barracking for Melbourne in 1952 since we were from Europe you always barracked for a team which was named after the town you lived in or had colors of the town you lived in Europe since my fathers team in Europe had colors of purple and white we decided to barrack for Melbourne. My father and I went to the football in 1954 onwards and went all the finals since you had to buy tickets to the complete set of finals we gave away the tickets to the salvos which we did not use. The GF wins were great but when Norm Smith was sacked my father said to me he would never see another premiership in his life time, he died in 2007 and did not have to endure the period of rubbish which this club served up to the fans. The best GF win in my opinion was in 1960 when it rained all day and Collingwood did not kick a goal until the final quarter. In all my time as a supporter and worker for the MFC (1976-1986) I have never seen a midfield better than the current team, the only team was the 1955 -1957 teams were Stuart Spencer, Ron Barassi, Brian Dixon (Geoff Case), Ian McLean, Ken Melvile (Laurie Mithen) and Ian Ridley dominated the competition. We have never had a ruckman better than Gawn probably the Cordner's and Stynes where almost as good. The 1964 team was the end of an era and was probably lucky to win the premiership but when games are that close luck plays a part in the win and Ian Crompton was following his opponent (Ian Burns?) down the ground when the ball came loose and his shot was instinctive since he was a rover before he became a backman. The crowd erupted and I was watch the bench inside the fence virtually all the trainers and coach jumped up. Then I remember our runner (trainer Alec ?) race out giving player instructions that the siren was eminent. The bench used to wave a towel when the game went into time on. The Melbourne timekeeper (George Bell) had sent a message to the boundary that there was only seconds left. These are my best memories of the great Melbourne Football Club sides and I enjoy the period of success but hated we became a rable until Northey, Balme, Daniher, Roos and Goodwin. Unfortunately Barassi's time at the club was ruined by player becoming injured and leaving (Wells) for better teams.

Back in 1984 the reserves coach Ray Jordan had to pick a team to playi in the grand final and he had to make a decision to drop Greg Hucthison who was the Captain of the reserves or some other player. He decided to play the other player and Greg was devastated but knew the team and victory came first. I was there and the devastation on Greg's face said it all, the coach has to make a decision and live by its consequences.

I think the reason we are better when Jesse is not there because the team tend to focus on him when kicking into the forward line and the opponents tend to double team him. Until Jesse says he wants to leave this whole theme is moot since I believe if we play Jesse further afield he will not become a forward line focus and a better player.