Cranky Franky

Typical intelligent response. You might reflect that it's actually possible to applaud intelligent decisions and criticise faulty ones. May & Lever were great but when I'm told Frost is no loss because we've got Oscar McD I seriously wonder about their judgement. And I would suggest that history has judged me & Frost to be correct.

Good luck to him. Back when it was rumoured he was leaving I rang the Club to complain because I thought he was one of our best tall defenders despite the occasional brain fade. I was told not to worry because Oscar McDonald was improving & he & Tomlinson provided adequate cover. I was & still am very sorry to have lost him. I think he wanted 3 years & we only offered 2.

That isn't the point. List management is supposed to improve the list not make it worse. Trading out Hunt, Bedford, Harmes & Jordon & trading in Schache, Dunstan, Fullarton & Billings has made us demonstrably worse. Go through the Hawthorn side & you can see that their trading has been brilliant. They have brought in 5-6 traded players who have taken them to the finals this year. Trading & list management is an art form that can make or break a Club & ours has been dreadful recently.

When you add Dunstan, Schache, Fullarton & Billings to our recent trading it means disastrous list management. Its a net loss when you consider who we traded out. We should be asking questions of who was responsible.

Get Jordan Lewis & Nathan Jones to talk to everyone involved, look at communication, game plan, list management, recruitment, player development, fitness, etc & produce a 2 page report with recommendations. Should take about 2 weeks.

It's certainly looking like it BUT he definitely has talent. I've watched him at Casey & he looks like he's playing school yard footy trying to take speccies instead of playing the percentages. In his defence Casey was pretty dysfunctional this year with poor delivery to their forwards. We live in hope.

Verrall tried hard but he got monstered most games by physically stronger B grade ruckmen & if he cannot overcome that issue he will struggle to make it.

Casey was woefully top heavy this year. A surplus of big logs & a lack of midfield talent & leg speed both in defence & out wide. A dominant ruckman would also be handy.

Go Peter Lawrence - you have the full support of lots of Demons supporters as well as MFC members. More power to you.

Go Peter Lawrence. More power to you.

Go Peter Lawrence

Has Peter Lawrence got a GoFundMe page because I would donate to help pay his legal costs

Typical comment from someone running a protection racket for the "Old boys & girls closed shop"

Didn’t think I'd ever agree with you but you are correct. It would never have come to this if the Club was more open instead of hiding behind technicalities. Its gone from being an old boys network to an old boys & girls network. More power to Peter.

The old time players don’t get a fair rating. There is little or no film of players like Warne Smith, Norm Smith & Cordner.

Not sure what 2018 has got to do with anything. Needs to be judged over the full season including the West Coast capitulation, the Freo disaster & that he regularly gets outcoached by Voss & Longmuir.

Apology accepted

In other words you cannot name any other ruckmen, apart from those I mentioned, that played footy after 35 ?

Not vibes. I can actually name 4 ruckmen out of say 500 I've seen in my lifetime that played at the highest level after 35. That makes it less than 1%. It's easy Binman just name off the top of your head the other 20 or 30 ruckmen who played good footy at 35+.

No he was not. He was a handy player who played some very good games & got the most out of himself.

The data is anecdotal. Of the many hundreds of ruckmen I have seen since the 1960's who was still running around at AFL level at 35 ? I can think of very few Salmon, Mumford, Sandilands, Goldstein. Even tough stalwarts like Stynes & Ditterich were cooked by then. If you know of others feel free to tell us.

You are the only charlatan here, ignoring most points I made & selectively picking the first Lions game. In the 2nd one he struggled with McInerney. If you think he's had a great year you are deluded. I didn't even mention round 1 where Grundy pantsed him. And let's not talk about the goal kicking which is embarrassing for an AFL player.

His 2024 has been up & down. He struggled against Xerri, McInererey & Briggs. He insists on playing when injured or unwell sometimes to the detriment of the team and he still can't be relied on to kick goals even 30m out directly in front. Statistically very few ruckmen are any good after 33.

I agree. 3 year deal at his age is great for Max not for MFC. His insistence on playing when injured has been detrimental to the Club. We need to bring on some new young ruckmen.

I really wish George on the Outer did more reviews & match reports. He tended to be much more critical than some who seem to run a protection racket for Club officials & players.