Cranky Franky

Recent trades are looking a bit sick. Hunter, Schache, Billings, McAdam & Fullerton haven’t fired a shot this year. Hawthorn have added Meek, Amon, Chol & Ginnivan who are all contributing. If 2 or 3 of the trades were in the side & playing well it might have been a different story for us.

Were all wondering that. Its an obvious move. Goodie seems obsessed with Petty up forward & blind to the fact it hasn't worked out. Petty has been serviceable at best.

Exactly Hogan is the best key forward going round - May was the obvious match. May was moved after the damage was done. A repeat of the West Coast game when Waterman killed us.

Frost is getting a game in a team playing much better than us at the moment. He'd be well ahead of Lever this year.

Oh dear - Happy hour is it ? I only bag the players & coaches when they deserve it. Maybe if our supporters demanded ex more instead of cheering mediocrity we might have had the success that other clubs have had.

I'm retired but I can imagine us working together at the Human Rights Commission or the ABC where we could be Care Bears together & sort out the evil doers.

Imagine what the Collingwood players cop when they lose.

Has anyone else noticed that we have lost almost all the real speedsters off our list in recent years ? This has happened when genuine leg speed is a very valuable commodity. Jeff Garlett was probably cooked so no great loss. Sam Frost would probably get a game with us today. Oskar Baker - probably Casey material. Toby Bedford- would be very, very useful. Jayden Hunt would also be very handy as a line breaker. Maybe the BT doesn't value speed.

It's called resilience. You can either learn to cope with the difficulties life throws at you or maybe complain about whoever is being mean to you & how unfair the world is. I know what I've found to be more useful.

I'm not suggesting it is right I am simply being practical & realistic. On line comments are a fact of life & are not going away so you either learn to deal with it or let it destroy you.

Welcome to the world of elite sports. These kids are making what - $200,000 a year+ Footy forums are full of frustrated supporters some of whom vent and/or overstep the mark on criticism at times. It can be tough on players but that’s just how it is so they need to learn to deal with it or find something else to do.

Hardly surprising. No player likes to read that they are playing poorly.

You are a dill RJ. SWYL is not the recruiting department. Goodie & his assistants are paid good $ to make sure we have a balanced list. To go into 2024 with only one 32 y old ruckman who is up to standard is a woeful performance. Shame on them.

Petty is playing without confidence & has been no better than Tomlinson this year.

You must be kidding. Petty mostly fell over & fumbled. He seems totally bereft of confidence & form & has barely contributed this year.

Doubt he is going anywhere next year but he would want to improve his form drastically in 2025. Clayton is getting $1m a year + and delivering a $500,000 a year performance on the field so far.

Anyone among the acolytes disagree that he's has the best defence, best midfield & best ruck going round between 2018 & 2023.

Allan Jeans had a theory that Tasmanians generally played better in the wet than other players because they grew up playing in wet conditions more than mainlanders. L

Loved Big Max. I recall one game at Moorabin when Max rucked against Carl Ditterich. We had injuries that day & Graham Osborne had to play back up ruckman when Max had a break.

I think between 2019 & 2023 we had the best list. Certainly the best defence, ruck & midfield in the competition.

You seem to be ignoring the issue of the talent the coach has. I'd argue that over the last 4-6 years the consensus among media and supporters is that Melbourne has the best list in the comp. The best defence, the best ruckman, the best midfield and some reasonable forwards. Richmond with a less talented list delivered 3 flags. We were disappointing in 2017, poor in 2019 & 2020 & stuffed it up in 2022.

No problems. I often fantasise about what John Northey or Neale Daniher would have delivered with the list Goodie has. I'm sure ND would have liked May & Lever instead of Mathew Collins & Alistair Nicholson.

We won despite the idiotic decision to ruck Petty. Petty did mostly SFA apart from falling over a lot & we had to move JVR onto the ball to get some drive. This left the fwd line short & allowed McKay to dominate. We got away with it due to the wet conditions.

For 4-5 years it's been fairly unanimous in the media & opposition supporters that we have had the competition's best defence, the top ruckman, in Brayshaw, Clarry, Trac & Viney the best midfield going round & some quality forwards. With all this Goodie has delivered 1 flag which is a massive underachievement.

For 4-5 years it's been fairly unanimous in the media & opposition supporters that we have had the competition's best defence, the top ruckman, in Brayshaw, Clarry, Trac & Viney the best midfield going round & some quality forwards. With all this Goodie has delivered 1 flag which is a massive underachievement.