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Has Windsor hit a target by foot or hand in the past 6 weeks?

My 70 point estimate is looking like being massive unders.

I'm more than happy for Kalani to travel under the radar for the next 18 months. The last thing we need is for him to be a no. 1 pick contender. If we can get a quality prospect with a later pick and develop him internally, that sounds perfect.

Melksham isn't part of the future. If we're not playing finals, he shouldn't be playing at AFL level again (other than a farewell game if he wants one).

We've got plenty of players on absurdly long contracts, I've seen no evidence of us changing tack. You're a plodder in the VFL, Bailey Laurie, here's a contract until 2026. Here are contracts to take you into your mid 30s Steven May and Max Gawn.

Collingwood's medical team must be doing something right given their record over the past 12 weeks. How have we gone in that period?

Six MFC listed players with 8 touches or less. No wonder half our senior team is undroppable with so little pressure for spots.

If the club still thinks they are competing for a flag, they are totally deluded and will set us back a decade. We need to bring in a heap of talent in the 18 - 22 age bracket, and move on a bunch of list clogging 28+ year olds.

Has Lachie Hunter been delisted already?

I would struggle to name a player on the entire list who has improved since 2021. Maybe Rivers. The majority of the rest have plateaued or regressed significantly. Adding McVee, Van Rooyen and Windsor across three years (also a poor result) doesn't come close to offsetting the drop off in performance of the senior players. And the reality is that none of our 28+ year olds (ie most of our rapidly aging list) are going to recover lost ground at this stage of their careers.

Taylor has been poor over the past four draft years (Van Rooyen aside), but we definitely haven't given him enough late picks to work with. I'm keen to see what he can do with some late picks to find some hidden gems in the state leagues. Lamb has been abysmal and needs to be given his marching orders before year end.

Yes, we need to build the next midfield dynasty as we did with Petracca, Brayshaw and Oliver in consecutive years.

Another 29 year old? I'm sure the club will be right into him given their ongoing drive to make us the oldest list in the competition.

I think there is still some upside with Billings, definitely more so than with Hunter, but he has been disappointing thus far. I think we can categorically say that the sub role doesn't suit him after two failed attempts.

Incredibly brave (and stupid) of Petracca to return to the field, if only his teammates cared as much. Nobody will ever convince me that it wasn't totally negligent of the club to let him return, but we've made an art form of mismanaging injured and unfit players this season. He could have tested out his capacity to play in the rooms without putting him back out there. It is also incredibly poor coaching to have your number one midfielder standing under high balls in the forward line. That's not his role and there is a fair argument that he doesn't know how to protect himself in that situation.

Other than Van Rooyen, who has he brought in over the past four years who has improved the list? Bowey started well, but has regressed significantly. Windsor should be okay, but was arguably a reach at pick 7. The rest look plain ordinary. Taylor is dining out on the successes of a decade ago and a change is definitely required.

How many analysts and coaches do we employ and we build a list of Z grade footballers completely unsuited to modern football. Our list is completely unbalanced with many fading players at the back end of their careers, and a few unproven kids of dubious quality. Our fitness levels are appalling and our game plan is non existent. The players look like a bunch of strangers thrown together and asked to compete in a game they have never played before. And the coach is a delusional egomaniac with questionable life habits.

Half of our players genuinely seem petrified of being tackled or taking a bump today.

We've got 6 home games to come this season. These last two weeks will cost the club millions of dollars.

They're trying to work out how they can further destroy a premiership list by playing even more boring insipid football.

I can only assume our game plan is to build the stats with short kicks backwards and sideways, followed by the inevitable error that results in chain of useless handpasses and finally a blind handpass on to the chest of an opponent. By this time our defenders are 50 metres off their opponents and completely out of position.

Well done to all Melbourne supporters who have gone today to endure this gutless, incompetent, clueless performance. Our forward line is useless, our defence is non existent and without Gawn we'd be 8 goals down. What purpose are Laurie and Howes serving? And when did Oliver last find a teammate?

They don't have a picture on his website profile, so I wouldn't be holding my breath waiting for more detailed coverage.

Even if we had traded Harry last year and picked up two first round picks, we probably would have bundled them up with our other picks and taken Tholstrup at 10 instead of 13. This club can no longer be trusted with draft picks, so player swaps are probably safer.

Serious question, do you see anything that would suggest he can make it as an AFL player, and how long do you give him to get to that point? Because it is a much lower risk to go and get a Liam Reidy from Fremantle or a Ned Moyle from Gold Coast when we're looking for Gawn's replacement in a year or two.