Want a Flag

Yes he is originally from SA but is settled in Melbourne and wanted to stay in Victoria. That may have changed now but who knows. As an aside he recently moved into the suburb where I live and he has been around quite a bit naturally. Stating the obvious but he is absolutely huge as all these guys are when you see them up close.

Yes you are correct. I was careless in typing. They believe Gresham will end up at Melbourne as part of the whole wash up. How they come to that conclusion I don't know. However I think them wanting Grundy makes sense from their point of view.

Word I am hearing is the Saints will make a play for Grundy so Marshall can spend more time forward. They want to send Gresham to us as part of the trade.

It was every bit as bad. Our bad memories of that period have been softened by last year (at long, long last). Many would have had the experience I had. My 2 boys flatly refused to come to the football over that time - no amount of bribery would budge them. We risked losing a large part of a generation of teenage supporters. It was only the lure of upcoming MCC membership that kept them remotely interested - and it was very remote. Funnily enough all is now forgiven with them but we should never risk that debacle happening again

Looks like Jordon in the photo to me

Finally my 2 sons (25 and 22) have officially forgiven me for making them support Melbourne. It was a battle during the Neeld years and only the lure of impending MCC membership kept them on board. But we've got them for ever now. Did I actually see that or was it the sweetest dream ever?

Word around the traps is they are heavily into Ross Lyon to see if he wants to coach again. My Carlton mate got this today. He got the word of change of president a couple of weeks before it happened. Teague has lost the players is the word. He certainly looked like someone out of ideas at that press conference on Sunday - it was painful to watch

I agree about Matthews totally. The first change I wanted at the end of last season was a change in stoppage coach. Considering Max in the ruck and the ability of our midfield we get nothing like the advantage we should. Statistically we do OK but the quality of "take away" from stoppages is way less than the opposition. Opposition sides only need to win 40% of the stoppages against us and they will be in front due to the way they release and open up from stoppages compared to us. We specialise in the hack quick kick forward. We suffered right through 2019 with everybody in at the contest while the opposition had guys on the outside. We couldn't re-program our guys without changing the coaching set up first. It may be marginally better this season but I only grant marginal. Please replace the stoppage coach as an absolute priority to try to take advantage of what should be a strength. Maybe then that will feed into better connection with the forward line etc

Steven Stretch

Any chance he appeals they could give him 12 weeks