Jaded No More

Buckley will be 70 by the time Tassie is competitive. For someone who has never won a flag, I’m sure his patience for success is not that high.

What reason would the club possibly have to delay announcing that he has re-signed? We leak like a broken sieve, if he had signed I can't imagine we'd be able to keep it away from the media for more than a few minutes. Tom Morris is hiding in Judd's bushes probably

Grundy was a square peg that we tried fitting into a Jackson gaping round hole.

The Pies had a cry to the AFL about the umpiring in their game versus Adelaide. So you just know they will get every soft free on Friday. Warning: do not enter a 2m radius surrounding N Daicos

If you listen to recent interviews with players, they praise the actual facilities, and when you look at some of the videos the club has taken there, you can see it is a well resourced facilities that is large enough to accommodate not just our AFL team but our Casey side and the AFLW team. It was recently revamped thanks to the generous donations of our supporters. See article here: https://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/1491830/thurin-high-performance-centre-opening

Casey is a brand new state of the art facility now. We spent a lot of money to kit that place out. It is a very nice training base. The issue IMO is not the location or the quality of the facilities, it's that we are not in one single location. If we trained exclusively at Casey, then players who wanted to drive less could do what Gawn, May and Lever have done and move to the very affluent Mornington Peninsula. Not exactly a terrible place to live. But it's the fact that we are all over the shop, that unfortunately means that no matter where you choose to reside, you are stuck travelling to either training base, which are on opposite sides of the city. Nobody will convince me that the locations of some of the other club's training bases is better than Casey. But when you have a singular work place you can adjust your life accordingly. When you are spending half your week in Richmond and the other half in Cranbourne, that is quite difficult.

I 100% believe Ghosty, but I also 100% believe that Judd is delaying signing for a reason. I don't know what that reason is, but regardless, it's more noise that we just don't need. From everything I've heard he wanted a 4 year deal and the club was happy to give him one. He's had a contract in front of him for months now. For a kid that was picked up in the rookie draft during Covid, and has had a very average season, he sure is taking his sweet time to put pen to paper. If he was struggling to get a game, I would understand, but he's been picked every single week and rushed back from injury into the senior side. If he's feeling hard done by because he wants/was told his role will change this season, than frankly tough luck. A lot of players have made compromises to their role this season, including much more senior players like Petty, Trac and Viney. It's a team sport.

Are you really comparing Judd McVee to Nasiah? 😂

The delay in signing is starting to stink. Another BS we don’t need right now.

He must miss Tom Hawkins

We looked woefully slow behind the ball, which I think is why Tmac was taken off. He would have a better match up this week in Membrey, and I imagine May will play on McStay.

It is well documented that the sort of foot injury he sustained in late 2023, takes 18-24 months at a minimum to recover from. It is one of the worst and most debilitating injuries to sustain, especially if you're someone who needs to be able to jump off the ground at the contest. It is 10 times harder to come back from than a standard ACL. Petty is now 2 years post injury and it looks like he has gained some confidence in his body as a result.

My guess is they wanted to get him to his 250th, which is fair enough. He is still a decent defender, but without Lever there to help cover the hole, he has no speed left off the mark to be able to compete with the fast breaking forwards. And he can't bend down either. 2026 will definitely be his last in the AFL.

I think tactical. Hopefully not his last game. Deserves much better than to be subbed out to end his career.

I am personally happy that he's sticking with the Saints. At least for now. It's good for the game when smaller clubs keep their stars, and he is one hell of a star.

I am not doubting your info, but if the decision has been made to move May on, then why the [censored] is Petty still playing forward? Petty is the very very obvious ready made replacement for May. If we wanted to keep playing May for 'currency', we could play Petty instead of Tmac. This reeks of poor planning by our club. Not that that shocks me.

So the club without a coach is planning to not play May, despite signing him to a one year deal earlier this season? Who is making that call?

Who’s plan?

We can appoint them prior to the GF and they can start immediately after. I would hate to miss out on a great opportunity for the sake of 1-2 weeks

It’s nice when a coach has no pressure to win so can try lots of different moves. I understand Bowey at half forward but glad they moved him when it didn’t work. Also nice to see Rivwrs moved to the middle. We really missed Windsor’s dash and with Kosi not doing anything, I thought Rivers really provided a nice line breaking speed. He carries the ball well. Not the best kick but certainly not as bad as some of our other mids who have no speed and turn it over constantly. Really hope we play Jefferson next week

Been a while since he’s been suspended. Should go out with a bang and take Maynard out.

Kosi swapping jumpers with Bruest is strange. Is he also retiring? 😂 This game was hot garbage. Zero stars.

Agreed. Looks physically terrible like he can’t run and has no speed. They also hardly played him midfield which tells me he’s carrying something