Jaded No More

May needs to chill. I don’t need him suspended.

I like seeing how many players we are rotating through the centre square.

Is the wind favoring one end more?

This is why we are cactus without Fritta

Field kicking has been impressive. Goal kicking not so much.

Backline looks messy. I do like the look of McVee.

Hunter has been excellent. Love this for us.

Is there a gale wind? What is happening in front of goal???

Goal kicking has ummm not improved

Hence my question re our admin staff.

That’s not a bad injury list. Only Fritta and Salem are best 22.

Because most people post Covid are choosing to work from home where possible.

How many admin staff work from home now? At least partially? I would say most if not all.

It wasn’t about money or length of contract. Bedford wanted game time which is something he was struggling to get at Melbourne and obviously GWS were able to promise him a spot in their best 22. We will keep losing good young players if we don’t reward them with game time. Poor kid I hope he makes a speedy recovery. He’s a very talented young man and deserves a good career.

He is basically our best forward, so if he has anything serious going on we are stuffed. Fingers crossed just precaution.

I have no allegiance to Casey. I would support Melbourne whether the home base was in Richmond, Cranbourne, Frankston or Werribee. Because I am not a fickle snob who thinks our club has to stay connected to the rich white inner city suburbs of Melbourne, which are becoming less and less attainable to 90% of the population of Melbourne, including Melbourne supporters. My only concern is to get our club a home base, and the reality is that getting one in inner Melbourne is looking less and less likely to happen. We need to look outside the box or we will end up homeless for another 3 decades. That is just the reality. If we could get a home base in inner Melbourne, it would have happened by now. It hasn't. Time to look elsewhere, or stop complaining about a lack of home base. You can't have it both ways it seems.

How many people have we converted in inner Melbourne? Do you have data on that? When was the last time anyone with deep family roots in a footy club has switched teams? Do you really think that having a home close to the MCG will help us gain new members? You might get a few international students, but they are often not here for long and might come along to a few games for the novelty. Immigrants with kids who go to schools in the Casey area are much more likely to get involved with a footy team. Every school has footy days and footy clinics. Most immigrants in the Casey area are from India and surrounding areas. They are not in any way shape or form devoted to soccer. They would be happy to follow a winter sport when Cricket isn't on. Likewise there are loads of young couples buying new house and land packages out Casey way. Young couples who plan on having kids. Kids who then go to school and get influenced to follow a team that just so happens to be located close to home. Not many young couples can afford to buy or even raise young kids in inner city Melbourne anymore.

And how many commission houses and immigrants are there in St Kilda, Prahran, Richmond, Flemington? I don't know what is so wrong with immigrants. You are much more likely to get them converted to support the Dees, than people who have been in Melbourne for 3 generations and already have a footy side. I migrated to Australia at 12 and had no footy team. Melbourne did a footy clinic at my school, and my Dad and I are going on 25+ years of membership with the club as a result. Our supporter base is old. Lack of success for 5 decades does that. If we don't move with the times and go where the people are, and just keep servicing the old generation of Melbourne fans who might live in and around Toorak, our club will die a very slow and painful death.

The start time is not ideal for the 99% of supporters who have to work for a living 😐

You literally have no idea what you are talking about. It is actually pathetic for you to degrade an area you know nothing about. Low income families are buying million dollar houses are they? I live 15 mins from Casey and most houses here sell for over a million on a bad day. Casey is about 20 minutes from the Peninsula which is one of the most expensive areas in Melbourne. Please stop letting your clear snobbery get in the way of the truth.

I think the lack of spectators has a lot more to do with Melbourne supporters as a whole rather than the location. Melbourne supporters don't even turn up to games at the MCG when we are top 2, let alone pre season games. The area where Casey is located is not that horrible, granted there is no train, but there are several shops very close by, and there is a giant opportunity to develop the area. Have you seen where the Hawks are building the Kennedy Centre? That is one hell of a dump. There is nothing there either. We can either keep waiting around for years in some deluded hope that we can get an inner city location, or we can work with what we have and use the opportunity to develop and grow the area. Why not use some of the funds from the sale of the Bentleigh Club to create a facility out in Casey that also accommodates shops and cafes and enjoy long term income streams from renting the spaces out? There is nothing stopping us from thinking outside the box here, except our own stubbornness.

How many players live in the CBD? And I am sure the Saints players envy our players' recent premiership medal and the fact that our coach isn't Ross Lyon... Absolute [censored]. I live in Casey. We have 3 neighbours on our street alone who are all Melbourne supporters. The trains on the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines to and from the footy are always full. Casey is also one of the fastest growing regions in Melbourne. There is so much opportunity to get new members and supporters on board. Especially around the Clyde area which has a large population of immigrants. This endless obsession with being next door to the MCG is holding us back from getting the home base we really want and need.

The reality is that neither Brown nor TMac are a strong chance to play all 23 H&A games. It's just not going to happen. Brown's knee will require resting and management, and if you listen to the podcast with TMac you'll hear him say that his foot is basically in pain every day and he is managing it. Just because JVR doesn't play round 1, doesn't mean he won't get plenty of game time this season. If we haven't learnt to REST our most important players after last season, then we've learnt nothing at all. Great to finish top 2, bad to finish top 2 with 80% of your list struggling to play out a game.

It’s honestly hard to care or feel for him when he has gone out of his way to be as arrogant and as insufferable as possible. And when they came for him, he cried about it. Talented kid, who should let his footy do the talking and stop drawing unnecessary attention to himself. Or it won’t end well.