Jaded No More

I know I’m probably very behind, but is that Jake Spencer rucking?

He is an odd unit. Very active on the Instagram reposting Melbourne stuff too. Has he checked out? Or is he genuinely just vague?

Carlton fans sooking about umpiring is interesting. On pure numbers maybe, but they got 3 freebies in front of goal. They lost the game because they [censored] their pants with a minute to go.

We will make no changes. Fortune favours the brave. We took a punt on Bowey last year and it paid off. Can’t see us having the ball to take a punt on JVR.

We came back from 40 points down in Geelong. Completely different. We had no right to win it and we did. This year we have lost 6 games while 4 goals or more up. That is the difference. We lost our energy and killer instinct. We are just going.

You mean kicking it on top of a forward’s head who is triple teamed is not kicking to advantage? Well I’ll be damned.

Wish we could say the same about May. Hasn’t been the same since.

Me

Harry is saving our [censored]. We are embarrassing.

FMD we are embarrassing

[censored] me Steven May

I feel like we haven’t had a good forward 50 entry since 1987

We have literally no chance of winning the flag if we keep playing like this.

Team have been announced already. Would have to be a late late late change.

Bit of luck for us finally.

Terrible result thanks to St Kilda’s pathetic goal kicking. Just infuriating.

LOL, where do I sign?

Not what we need at all, plus a big suitcase of carry on baggage... no thanks.

I actually really like Cripps and he is a good and fair player. The outrage from me has nothing to do with him specifically, or the fact that we play Carlton this week. My outrage is how the AFL continues to find new ways to show fans what a bias, corrupt, unprofessional joke of an organisation they have become, where the rich get richer and the poor can go to hell.

It was a pure football action gone wrong. There was 0 intention and if his name was not Chandler but, I dunno, Dusty, he walks away free. And this is why we should have appealed. Because bigger names have gotten away with a lot worse, but we don't have the balls as a club to protect our players and fight for them. I just hope that if Trac or Clarry are in this situation, we take it all the way. Somehow I suspect we won't.

I said this at the time. It was not about needing Chandler to play, it was about the MFC protecting their player from injustice. We don't have the balls of CFC and that is why we will never be a big club like them.

And this is why, if Melbourne folded tomorrow, I would never watch another game of football ever again.

Ruck is the most physically demanding role there is. Gawn gets absolutely smashed in there and 99 out of 100 times it’s play on. Given he’s had 3 knee recos, there is no doubt that playing FF will absolutely extend his career. Plenty of FF retire in their mid 30s. Look at Kennedy and Hawkins.

Grundy buys Gawn 2 maybe 3 more seasons. It gives us time to develop another young ruck (could possibly be Jeff White’s kid who I believe is now 16) and means we are not losing much ruck strength with Jackson leaving. I would only do it if it costs us peanuts both in terms of picks and salary.

Ties us over until Jeff White’s kid is ready to be first ruck 🤣