Rob Mac......

Starts at 2.50am here (Los Angeles). Just replayed our last two games. Max and our midfield are FLYING now like never before!! If this balance continues we should win. But oh no, I have a fear: If instead of hitting out to Clarrie, Harmes, Gus etc., if instead of that Max starts hitting out to a young man who hasn’t played for ages, who we love for his spirit, energy, effort, aggression, but he must be rusty, if our midfield setups start revolving more around JV today than Clarrie etc., then unfortunately I predict we’ll lose. If Jack V and everyone respect and maintain the great midfield thats developed since his injury, then IMHO we might win some more games!

I can’t separate Clarries skills, TMacs hard work making him so great, and big Maxy! so happy to see Harmes, Gus and Frosty taking off lately.

TMac raved about Frosty years ago and I always believed he’d arrive. He’s done proud to appear to be our best KPD now.

6. Gawn 5. Harmes 4. Frost 3. Oliver 2. Brayshaw 1. Hibberd Petracca Jones Salem VandenBerg TMac Melk

It’s a perfect opportunity to give Bugg a last chance this week, in for Spargo who's cooked now. Bugg runs great, excellent endurance, strong who'll run, tag, compete, stick tackles and harass all day long. Yes we’ve focused on Bugg hate over his set shot kicking which has improved at least a bit, but his good qualities are so good, we forget that his 7 week suspension made us immediately weaker back then. I suspect they’ve wrongly stamped Buggs papers just as they wrongly stamped Lynden Dunn and Stef Martins. We’d be silly not to try him with little to loose now, and plenty to gain because Spargo’s cooked while Tommy B is strong and fast all day long. He could take any of their midfielders out of the game and, like with Frost, people will wonder why we didn't try him earlier.

This is HEINOUS ! Three of them have us as runner up in the GF ! After that kind of [censored] publicity we always fail miserably.

Hogan out, if he needs it. In Pedo or AVB (Not Weed) JKH out. In Bugg, Hannan

6. Oliver 5. TMac 4 Gawn 3 Gus 2 ANB 1 Frost -Trac Fritsch Melk Lewis

Exactly Lucifer’s. It’s 4.47am here, i should be sleeping, but that was just too good! Must stay up for the last quarter. Please keep it together this week Dees!

Lovely pic DV8, hahah. CJade- Yes a hand is far less career threatening than a foot, but its still an important appendage, won’t have healed properly and surely the trauma of a match so soon risks ongoing problems.

Did I read correctly that Harmes broke a bone in his hand last weekend, has had a plate inserted and is expected to play this weekend, just a few days after the operation?? I’m cringing with concern, like when Viney came back early.

6 Tracc 5 Clarrie 4 Harmes 3 Brayshaw 2 TMac 1 Frost Fritsch Gawn Jones Melk all good

JKH should be out. Oscar has much improved this year, still not great, but well worth keeping Good to have Frosts speed and power the past two weeks.

Way into Q1 and Watch AFL hasn’t started working yet. !

Sitting in Los Angeles, Watch Afl App isn’t working. Driving me crazy trying to see the game. Obviously not addicted to watching the game though. Good luck everyone!

Retaliate First!

Frost please! When Lever went down I read stats that Frost had taken the second most intercept marks of anyone on our list. He’s been one of Caseys best for quite awhile, including some BOG. Fast and powerful. Maybe he’s improved his worst features lately? Surely Frost’s been ready for a recall!!

Yes LH, I absolutely agree. All that blood coming out of his mouth looked bad. I think TMac’s so valuable we’re in trouble without him. His long term health and career come before getting him back faster. Is the specialist who’ll decide whether Tom’s ready the same one who presumably said Viney was okay to play last year?

Enjoyed watching him play often. Yes SWYL, one of our greats.

I imagine that most of us, like myself, have great trust, admiration, respect and gratitude for the great job Peter Jackson seems to have done, while we know relatively little about our board and president and their ability to make the correct choice of a CEO. That IMHO being the case, I can’t understand why they wouldn’t consult with PJ about this decision, even if solely to make the supporters feel more comfortable with the choice? Of course PJ has no vote In choosing his replacement, but seeking his advice during the process would surely make supporters feel better about the choice, and how a clubs supporters feel is important too. I hope we’re about to be informed that PJ was consulted?

It’s in his head! He needs to be habitually spending tons more time thinking seriously about his on-field play (as i bet TMac does). Instead it seems he thinks about fun social things like Col Sylvia used to (and Sylvias best games beat Traccs best so far). His mind needs to be full of a million abstractions about best handling every on-field situation. The rest will flow from that. IMHO without this slight shift in mindset, Tracc will never become the huge star many of us think and hope he will be. Or to put it all another way, he needs to pull his finger out and focus on work!

6. Tom McDonald (our only major winner) ...space 5. Oliver 4. Gawn (less fantastic today, but we’d have been thrashed without him) 3. Fritsch 2. ...can’t think of anyone 1. Jones

Game stsrts at 10.20pm here. Looking forward with trepidation. We’ve played some fabulously exciting footy the past 6 weeks, but it seemed all opponents were playing poorly! Hopefully we forced them to be poor, but I’m still aprehensive what will happen when a good team really brings their best game against us!

Good on you Tom McDonald!!! After all the great stuff happening lately, this is the Best mfc news in awhile!

6 TMac 5 Jetta 4 oliver 3 Hogan 2 Hibberd 1 Fritsch Brayshaw got much ball, but too many horrible disposals today for a vote IMHO.