Everything posted by Norm Smith's Curse
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Time to go Goody?
It's a team that looks and plays like it had players that were desperate to leave. The evidence that the view that Uze and Burgess were the driving force behind 2021 just grows and grows. What is the game plan we are trying to implement? Who lets Geelong get uncontested marks all night? And then this listless effort. Until this year we were basically propped up by veterans. Max just looks over it mentally. We should have let the players that wanted to leave go. Instead we desperately held on to an aging and slow midfield while seeking Houston which suggests we still thought our window was open. Drafting has been the only real success since 2023.
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Recruiting - where did it all go wrong
Probably should have just traded tracc or Oliver at the end of 2024 and actually followed through.
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Time to go Goody?
I heard pretty emphatically that Uze was actually a driving force in 2021 and strategically things aren't the same.
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Petracca & Oliver at the Dees in 2026?
I suspect this was just his speculation entirely with zero evidence to back it up.
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Time to start a rebuild?
Time to rebuild now? Gees whizz if the club really was as ruthless as it pretended to be we may have played the bluff of a few players while they had trade value and replenished in a ruthless way at the end of 2024. Instead we desperately held on to players who openly told the media they wanted out or who were behaving in a way that many would not get away with. Don't get me wrong, these blokes got us the flag we often thought we would never see, but it's like with Jack Watts - we just kept holding on and on for something that was never going to happen. And now suddenly we have a defensive unit relying on two blokes over 30, no real replacement for Gawn on the list and where Melksham's return is the most promising attack option promised. I suspect there is a bit of Premiership romance still playing at the Dee's yet suddenly it's four years down the road.
- Welcome to Demonland: Xavier Lindsay
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My 3 word player analysis V GWS
I thought Bowey had some massive moments and real intensity and some good disposal. Lindsay looked a class above. Thought Langdon went missing second half but it happens. Sharp was very fast, good poise and footy brain on display. AJ is the big lumbering tall we need to at least draw a defender
- 2024 Player Reviews: #23 Shane McAdam
- Welcome to Demonland: Harvey Langford
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2024 Player Reviews: #23 Shane McAdam
I thought McAdam looked ok at Adelaide in one game I watched. Not sure where he fit in our attack though - as a third forward option that was neither tall or small? Not fast and wasnt able to kick distance but its possible these were injury limitations. I think he was playing a very strange role in the game I saw him at for the Dees, whether he wasnt sure of his role or was not playing it properly I dont know. People forget Lever's first game at the Dees had a few worried.
- Welcome to Demonland: Harvey Langford
- Welcome to Demonland: Harvey Langford
- Welcome to Demonland: Harvey Langford
- 2024 Player Reviews: #23 Shane McAdam
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PRESEASON TRAINING: Wednesday 13th November 2024
DOnt want to be a Debby Downer but I also heard today that McAdam is contemplating his future.
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PRESEASON TRAINING: Friday 15th November 2024
Gees Goodie is looking fit? Captain Coach?
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Nathan Jones joins MFC as an Assistant Coach
Did we approach Cam Bruce? He has some coaching runs on the board.
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Dan Houston
This wasn't really the media though - Houston and Tracc are managed by the same management so he would have more inside info than we got.
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Oliver Trade Rumours
I just hope everyone arrives with their shoes this year if we have a preseason camp!
- 2024 Player Reviews: #23 Shane McAdam
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Welcome to Demonland: Pick 9
Put last pick 9 was Sam W.
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Oliver Trade Rumours
It's as impossible as Petracca to get a trade even if either player wants one.
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Oliver Trade Rumours
No keen to go after he was shopped.
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Oliver Trade Rumours
I heard a few weeks back that Clarry was keen to go, havent had an update since.
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Oliver Trade Rumours
People who expect other people to publically name their sources are ridiculous. Ive had two sources in my time and neither of them would have stayed a source at all if I had outted them, one former employee of MFC and a guy I play golf with every fortnight who knows people through sports management. Naming the would have just strained that relationship and their own employment.