Very Jaded

100% this

Need to wait until he's OOC. Freo won't trade him, or they'll want pick 5. Next year is the year, but of course I hope we are constantly in his ear about finishing what his brother started.

Why are you so against doing an external review? There are really no bad outcomes here. Either it finds we are well run, nothing to improve. Or it will find areas for improvement which we can act upon. No organisation is perfect. If we can bring an external point of view to find ways for us to get better, then isn't that a good thing? Only if you have something to hide, would you keep your doors closed.

100%, but unfortunately these media leeches will publish any sort of rubbish if it gets clicks. This is why we have to be better at controlling the narrative of what is out there for public consumption. I thought we handled the ANB situation quite well, especially considering it was leaked out. But because we've had 12+ months of bad publicity, it is now become open season on taking a steaming [censored] on the MFC.

Best outcome if PJ does the review. He’s far enough removed but also close enough to know our club. And he oversaw the biggest positive change in our club’s history. Bring him on!

It’s poor management of communication on our behalf. We need to be better at stopping leaks and controlling media narratives. It’s a major priority for mine if I’m running this club.

Could free up Kosi to play more midfield time, which is a win win Would definitely be interested if he's a good cultural fit

What I said about De Goey also applies to Stringer. If this scum ever steps foot at Melbourne I will burn my membership. One of the absolute worst people in football. Like seriously no.

Attention spans are getting smaller and smaller because we have to listen to Kane Cornes talk. My brain shuts off so quickly when I hear his voice

What was the point of this tidbit? Is Ralph suggesting that only indigenous players can offer each other support? 🙄

His real manager must have been thrilled 🫣

Peace and quiet

An external review is the only legitimate review. You cannot review yourself. If we don’t get somebody external to conduct a review from top to bottom, then we are just doing a half arsed job for optics

Oh for goodness sake where do people come up with this [censored]? 🙄🙄🙄

Sorry @Demonland

Which bay is your reserved seat in? We have had seats in M50 for well over a decade. We are always surrounded by the same people more or less. I do tell security frequently to remove people who are opposition fans from the area, and they do. They're very slack however with checking who is going into the bay unless the game is a sell out. I got 20+ Pies fans kicked out in Round 24 and have spoken to the club previously about asking the MCC to provide better security for home games versus Pies for this exact reason.

Once again, the leaking boat has forced our hand. Whoever leaked this story 2 weeks out from the end of the H&A season needs to be shot

Nibbler just asked to get back to SA. He only nominated Adelaide today because Adelaide has shown the most interest and both clubs have presumably reached an 'in principle' agreement. Look for this to be done and dusted early in the trade period, allowing both clubs to focus on other trades. This is how good clubs and good players/managers do business.

She is an absolute doll!!! Kozzie and Ardu should go into modelling. They can give Jacinta and Buddy and run for their money!

If we suspected that to be the case, we would have traded him for unders to the club of his choice. Will he ever be the same player again? Well that remains to be seen. I think his ego would certainly drive him to try. He will play again though.

If there’s one thing I think we can all agree our club does exceptionally well, is promote indigenous relationships. We’ve been really strong and proactive in making this happen under the leadership of Matty Whelan. Homesickness is undoubtedly a big issue for Kozzie, and one that I’m sure we are well aware of and working on fixing. I hope we give him all the support he needs in the off season, pre season and even throughout the season, to get home wherever possible. I also have no doubt it’s something we discussed when he re-signed only last year for 4 years. When his mother passed away early on in his career, he was given extra time away from the club to spend in SA where he proved he can be trusted to keep up his fitness. I’m confident we can work out an arrangement where the same happens for part of this pre season. Losing Kozzie has to be the absolute last resort after every other avenue has been explored.

Max has never been and will never be a hard line leader. This is not his style, in fact, I think the days of hard line leaders are numbered. As you get more and more millennials in positions of seniority, you will see more and more leaders who have high levels of EQ and very little desire to be a “you do as I say or else” type of leader. If you told me 3 months ago that it might be time for new leadership, and that Max deserves to enjoy the remaining years of his career without the burden of the captaincy, I would have agreed. In fact, I’m sure I wrote exactly that a little while back. However, what is very clear after the last two weeks, is that more than anything our playing group needs unity. And nobody does unity better than Max, because nobody has the ability to connect with all types of personalities as well as Max does, whether it’s a disgruntled senior player or a second year kid. He needs to remain captain in 2025 and see the unification of purpose within the playing group through. If he can’t make it happen, I’m afraid nobody can. And having said all of that, what any of us thinks is absolutely irrelevant. Players vote on who they would like their captain to be. Only time will tell us if what we see standing on the outside looking in, is a reflection of the playing group’s thoughts or merely our own.

Was sitting next to Geelong players tonight 👀 @TomMorris you’re up