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He saw a Magpie fly over.

Kate is, without a doubt, one of the top 5 players in the AFLW. She’d be amongst the first picked for any team alongside Hanks. It’s ridiculous she wasn’t nominated. If Hore had played our Hawthorn game we’d be playing finals. Probably preparing to knock Hawthorn out in straight sets (just btw Hawthorn vs top 4 this year, 0-1. MFC 1-3, Hawthorn vs 5-8 2-0, MFC 1-2. Outside the 8 Hawthorn 8-0, MFC 4-0. Hawthorn’s fixture was a rigged joke!) Moral of the story Kate Hore is a star.

Hoping for: 5. Draper 9. Smillie

Are you able to somehow point me in the direction of the unmentionable story please?

I think we should go mids too, but I’m trying to work out what the thinking is if we don’t. The Lions midfield has been massive beneficiaries of Father/Son and good trading (Neale, Dunkley), Raynor is one of the few early draft picks doing the work for them in there. Pick 5 will be a gamble regardless, but if a star kid is available I hope we pick them. Just saying it’s possible our list management team think Windsor, Tholstrup, Rivers, McVee is a star midfield of the future hence going tall. Also if we’re going for now, a mid makes more sense, which I think we should.

There’s always the possibility we play both Rivers and McVee as mids next year. Then if we take Armstrong at 5 you have: Gawn, Trac, Oliver, Viney, Rivers, McVee, Windsor, Kolt + Kozzie in bursts, Sharp, Brown and potentially pick 9 as your mids. Salem, Bowey, Howes, Taj, Hore, AMW, as your medium/small backs. That’s not a bad list to choose from at all. Plus if one or both of Jeffo and Armstrong come on you have JVR, Jeffo, Armstrong, Verrell vying for your KPF places giving us the luxury of swinging one or both of Petty and Turner back.

Geez we miss Kate Hore. With Beasley out as well we just don’t have the midfield rotations. Also Fitzy seems to be running with Bates who is just torching her with her gut running. That said the call against Zanker in the marking contest was total rubbish. Perfect bodywork in the side, no different to McDonough’s work at the other end. Good to see free kick Hawthorn transcends gender.🙄 Cmon girls! Find a way!

The good: Hanks, Gall, Goldy, Blaithin, McNamara The Bad, Hawks in space and bursting from stoppage while we look slow The ugly: Kelly Underwood hasn’t called a single MFC player correctly. Chaplin was Goldy twice, Hanks was McNamara. FCS. It’s your one job as a commentator! Know the players names and numbers!

Oliver also liked the MFC comment that Cambell was coming to the club. Trolling maybe? His mother also called the reporting a load of 💩. Tim Lamb literally challenged the idea we “shopped him around” and said that it was incorrect day one of trade period, he also challenged the idea Clayton was “desperate to leave” last day of the trade period. The President also made two comments saying he was never being traded as did the head of football. That’s about as strong as a club can go. Pert’s in the middle of two reviews. The board/governance one as a subject and the FD one directly, he shouldn’t being doing media while involved in those processes. Whether it was run of the mill or not is irrelevant they could’ve put Clayton in a cats jumper and had him run laps of GMHBA we were NEVER going to trade him this year. The entire media narrative was the GFC and potentially Clayton’s management putting pressure on us to trade and others whiteanting Pert.

If your version of events is true at the moment when he was at his weakest, with a President who supported him gone and two reviews starting but not organised Pert chose to do something widely seen as his biggest flaw and go rogue on one of the highest profile players at the club after an exit interview against the wishes of the FD, the board and the player himself all at a time when he was most likely to cop a dismissal as a result. Seems likely…

“Self inflicted” = primarily caused by Geelong’s leaking to the media and Clayton’s management putting pressure on the football club. There’s a huge difference between “shopping around” a player and finding out their value. All clubs like to know what all of their players are worth, even if they don’t trade them, or remotely intend to trade them, fact is these conversations happen about a majority of players every year, even if players do t like it. The fact this was leaked so heavily has a lot more to do with Geelong and the media trying to force Melbourne’s hand at a weak moment rather than the club self-inflicting anything. No one was planning to trade Oliver. These private conversations usually stay private, the reasons these didn’t were twofold, destabilise Oliver within the club in the hope you can shake him loose for very little and to attack a seemingly very unpopular Gary Pert. Interesting how mere weeks after Roffey’s departure the blowtorch turned fully on Pert, almost like there’s people out there with axes to grind against him or something….

I believe that also. What a hero!

Lamb says it in his final trade week presser at 3.20. Says “I spoke to Trac, he messaged me the other night after we got pick 9, he’s like a big kid he’s that excited and that happy and ready to go ”. I think Lamb also says something similar in his MFC site interview. If you want to get into semantics of text vs call go for it. Contrary to media like Barrett, Lamb is not a liar, he plays the draft game, but he doesn’t lie. Even if you think it is it’s risky to lie about a “disgruntled” current player who can simply prove him wrong. I believe him.

This article from Barrett sounds like a petulant ten year old, “clap clap”? Pathetic. It’s not even accurate, the “positive spin” on our trade period is that we got pick 9 and go into a super draft with two top ten picks. You can argue we overpaid, that our first round pick next year will be higher than 9 because we’re going to have a terrible year (I disagree). But this is clearly a pathetic dummy spit that the “ last minute Geelong offer” that the club was going to “have to take” that he was banging on about in his last one of these sliding doors, never came to pass. Also that his shots at Pert haven’t landed yet, our “mess of a club” is completing its reviews, ensuring due process and going about its business. Trac called Lamb to congratulate him on pick 9, while Clayton loves the club and will come out and say so. Meanwhile Tim Lamb sat and had three sausage rolls on the last day of trade week and talked about pick swaps as Damo looks like a fool because his narrative, that Lamb was lying and Clayton was desperate to leave looks less true than, Richo, Green, Goodwin and Lambs narrative that they were never trading him and while Geelong had Clayton’s interest he was never going and was ok with that. Barrett clearly, clearly, hates our CEO personally, and hates our club and is not impartial with his reporting, remember that next time.

I think Verall is the one. His best play has been as a ruck/forward. Not a first ruck. He takes good marks, is athletic for a big man but not quite big crash and bash enough for the monster rucks. He was forced to play No 1 ruck more than he should’ve with Fullarton a bust, now with Cambell I can see him playing forward/ruck and earning an AFL place. We may well go JVR, Turner, Verall forward and send Petty back again. Then there’s the enigmatic Jeffo, who could be anything, or nothing.

I was just about to write just that. Apparently there are players from up to three other clubs, the majority NOT being MFC players.

Please elaborate on the disaster? Issues, sure. But we have strong membership, our attendance is regularly in the top 5-7 in the league, we’re financially solvent and in a much better position than the debt demotion days, our brand was ranked the sixth most valuable across AFL and NRL, we’re at the business case stage for FINALLY getting a home base, our AFL team is the most consistently competitive we’ve had since the late 80s/90s and we won a premiership, we pioneered AFLW and have a premiership there too and our VFL program has been consistently strong with a premiership also, only failing when the seniors have injuries. What is the disaster? A board split? An unpopular CEO? Someone leaking against the unpopular CEO? Ex employees suing us? That’s bad, sure, we need to fix it and restore unity but most clubs have similar things going on, surely a disaster was what we were when Jackson took over, we’re nowhere near that!

Agree to disagree. Let’s revisit it in a couple of years. I think he’ll be one of our best players and most important leaders for the whole period of this contract. Let’s see.

His career average disposals was 22.6 vs 21 this year, but his handballs went down from 12.2 to 9.8 while his kicks went UP from 10.4 to 11.2, this was because he was playing a different role in the midfield, rather than being the extractor he was on the end of chains kicking the ball. His marks were basically the same at 2.6 vs 2.8, his tackles went UP from 5.8 to 6.2 (both ELITE) his totally clearances basically the same 4.6 vs 4.9. He kicked one more goal and one less behind and his kicking efficiency was up. That’s not trending down my friend, that’s a slightly different role. If your argument is we should’ve haggled over one more season with our VC, 3x B&F and best mid for the season I hardly see how that proves that it was a confected feel good story, North would’ve given him 4 years in a heartbeat, as would many other teams.

Trending downwards?! What rubbish. This was his best year by a street. He’s improved his kicking, his pressure is immense, he’s great at the contest, quicker than he’s been on the outside and improved his ability to rotate through the forwardline. 3 more years is exactly right.

I really don’t understand this Viney’s deal was a sugar hit report from Barrett. The Roos were after him, Clarkson sounded him out in a press conference, he was our best mid by a street this year, won our B&F and clearly would’ve wanted an extension for his family security and used the Roos and other interest to get himself the best deal. If the club waits another week to announce it so it doesn’t look like it’s coming off the back of the Trac stuff what difference does that make? Are they suggesting Viney’s letter wasn’t genuine? Rubbish! The same reporter claiming Viney’s extension was PR stunt was leading the charge on him going to the Roos until the extension was signed. There’s plenty of negatives floating around about us at the moment, and there’ll be more after the review is done but this is a completely transparent media beat up.

Fascinating how as soon as real trades started happening this story sank like a stone. Nothing has actually changed, his salary was always the same, the clubs position was always the same, the fact Clayton met Geelong was always there, and yet while there was nothing going on otherwise this story was at fever pitch, now there’s real trades happening… crickets. Maybe, just maybe, there never was a story but the media needed something to rave about?! I’m sure they’ll all say it’s magically gone quiet over the weekend though..

Also explains why they lose so many finals. As soon as it’s the more neutral G they fold.

I rate Houston. But I’m a bit relieved we didn’t get Houston. Adding picks 5 and 9 to our list of young talent should see us seriously competitive for a very long time and should JT nail one or both picks in a super talented draft we could have a superstar.

Incredible win! Finals still a remote possibility but we have to do it the hard way. Probably have to win all three, Rich and Hawthorn will be tough then we need to belt Collingwood to have a chance. With our cavalry back and those kind of incredible performances by Hanks, McNamara, Hore, Goldy, Maeve, Zanks and Gillard and with Campbell and Gall improving every week we can do it. Let’s go Dees!