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I understand where both of you are coming from and while expressed differently, I really appreciate the support.

Max put a qualifier on playing the Crows: " … but my scans were relatively good this week, so it's all systems go at this stage." My guess he will nominated in the team tonight and the leave it to the last minute tomorrow to decide. The clue will be in whether Tomlinson and TMac are selected and/or who is the nominated emergency.

More detail AFL website article I find this comment attributed to him, troubling "He said the Demons knew what they did wrong but were still trying to discover the reason for it". Not sure if he was referring to the lethargy or why we keep making the same mistakes. Either way if we don't the reason we don't know how to fix it! Echoes of Goodwins vague comments of 'working on the 'problem'' but we don't see results.

Maybe it is the new curfew and shut downs but I'm not feeling as generous as your good self. I wish I was confident the AFL will fund another staffing bail out for us. Our predicament might just given them the ammo they need to merge clubs in post covid economics. Many other clubs will say we have had enough chances and keep stuffing it up and will argue there is a fair chance we will do it again.

Many on here and especially @rjay and I were pushing for an external review more than 18 months ago. Obvious what the issues were. But what did the club do 2019 post season - they let Mahoney review his own department. Good changes were made to the fitness and analytics side. But abysmal decisions on the coaching side. Meantime we have lost a year and our talented players a one year closer to being Free Agents.

Hooray!! AFL spin “The AFL has today concluded an internal matter regarding a member of the AFL Media team, Mitch Cleary...according to the league Cleary “has acknowledged it was a mistake” to post the photo, and he has now returned to work". They could have delayed standing him down until after the review, a mere 24 hours and saved Mitch a lot of grief.

Good on her for speaking up for Mitch and understanding it is job and livelihood that someone at Richmond fc has lent on the AFL to take from him, idenfinitely.

'Poor' Brooke and Trent They are doing it tough says Hardwick I bet it isn't as tough as Mitch Cleary stood down for doing his job, a job he may not get back. Whateley was scathing this morning: “There’s a couple of layers to this. There’s no understating the tension that has existed between the three parties in this – the Cotchins, Richmond and the AFL,” he said. “Part of the resolution was that the family would not be named, not withstanding Brooke Cotchin had published her own material in the public domain. “It had been mentioned previously on radio and then Mitch Cleary put it out there. “I think there’s every reason behind the scenes that prompted a level of fury and the AFL flinched.” It sounds like Richmond lent on the AFL to take action against Cleary. Shameful for the AFL to have caved in to the pressure. Ms Cotchin willingly went to the beautician, willingly posted to social media then cries foul. Wear the consequences and don't go after an innocent person.

Preuss hasn't been on an injury list for months. So why wasn't he in the first group to go into a hub? Poor insurance imv. We are now without Max, Preuss is only just out of quarantine and had no opportunity to train with the team for about a month. Either he doesn't replace Max or he comes in underdone.

Its time we broke the habit of kicking it to the left side straight to Max. Not having him will force different tactics to exit our d50. On the kickouts, I'm surprised our players rarely take a run and but kick from inside/the edge of the square. Not to be used all the time but a good way to change things up, get over the pack, gain territory and open up space for us. Time for exit d50 creativity.

Just a technicality: He is an RFA so no need to trade - a club could have him 'free' and we get a comp draft pick. He could land us a 1st round or at worst an end of 1st round pick. He is probably our best chance of getting back into the top 20 the draft or to use the pick to trade in a top player. He will also free up the cap space required for said top player. It will break his heart tho and that of many fans ? His ole best mate Ollie is in the same boat (but not an FA) so sentimentality is not a reason to improve the team and set it up for the oft talked about 'sustained success'. Edit: just say @Gawndog98post with similar sentiments. Snap!

I hope desperation doesn't kick in and we play him when we shouldn't. A critical game but not worth taking the risk. We can't afford for him to breakdown and be out for many more weeks. It may be a good thing to teach our mids to shark someone else and structure differently. We have Preuss for a reason. This is his time with support from TMac or Tomlinson.

Just pointing out all the reasons why we should win all three and win them convincingly. And folks should not be thinking the Pies game isn't totally winnable. But not confident of winning any of the next three. Time to show our mettle.

Tomlinson isn't fast but he could be an excellent wingman of the Tom Lynch (Crows) link-man type. He would need to start kicking goals and be in a lot of scoring-chains as the link-man. Or be a wingman in the reinvented Mitch Robinson type. Not fast but brutal and makes excellent positions, sets up scoring chains and kicks the odd goal. Not sure what type of wingman Tomlinson was the the giants but right now I don't see he has speed nor the attributes of Lynch or Robinson. He may end up as one of the not-so-successful trade-ins of recent years.

After round 12 we should be/must be 6/5. Our advantage in travel, fitness, injury and rest is huge: We have 2 days extra break than the Crows from round 9. Crows missing 2/3 top 5 players. We fly to Adelaide but rest there for North game. We have 2 days extra break on North from round 9 game who played on Saturday and they have to fly to Adelaide to play us. North missing a 2/3 top 5 players. We have 3 days extra break on Coll from round 9 game who played yesterday. Then they fly from Perth to Qld to play Syd on Thur (3.5 day break), then fly to Adelaide to play Crows on the Tuesday (4.5 day break) then back to Qld to play us on the Saturday (3.5 day break). Pies missing 3 top 5 players And Collingwood are a rabble off the field with transgressions from: Beams, Sidebottom, DeGoey, Sanderson, Buckley and a President who keeps putting his foot in mouth only for it to backfire when one of his own committ similar transgressions or worse to those at other clubs. Short of major injuries to our midfield there is absolutely no excuse to beat them all especially with 3 of their best players, all match winners, out injured. We should win all three convincingly.

Not all of it. Brisbane + other places. nt-declares-brisbane-ipswich-and-logan-coronavirus-hotspots

Clearly we got it wrong. I've said so ad nauseam. Also said numerous times Mahoney should not have reviewed his own department. For him it was about maintaining the status quo. We did more than just shuffle coaches, we let go many quality coaches and kept/got inexperienced/unsuccessful ones. Not a formula for success.

I believe we are keen to play a game in Alice. But yesterday the NT goverment declared Brisbane a hotspot so restrictive quarantine conditions apply. So who knows where what will happen. This thread has more discussion about fixture happenings. Love your moniker name!

Has everyone forgotten we had a major football department review and overhaul a mere 9 months ago? We chose to have the coaches we have. Or we couldn't get who we wanted so had to settle for second, third best. Lots of names being thrown around. Looks like wishful thinking. I mean why would the names being mentioned want to come to the mfc. Re Richardson. I was critical of his appointment and I've had a really good look at his CV. I see nothing that says he is a good coach or has been part of a successful club. He leaves the Saints and they now sit 3rd on the ladder. I have yet to see a positive impact of his recruitment to mfc. I hope someone can shed some light on why we hired him.

Very good question. Hinkley lay a trap and we fell for it! We stopped Dixon but let others off the leash. After the game he said he thought there would be two or three talls up against Dixon so his other talls were free to kick the goals and sure enough: Georgiardis 3 and Westoff 2 . He went on to say that if his talls kick 5-6 goals each week he doesn't care which player kicks them. So Dixon was effectively a decoy - But alas we didn't notice it or didn't adjust for it.

Either vs Hawks or vs Port, after the 3/4 time huddle Goodwin turned to walk away. Harmes called him back for a few seconds. Very worried look on his face. He listens but is he doubting what is being said?

I wonder how much development has happened to train either in other positions. I don't mean experiments of playing them here, there and everywhere like we have over the last 1.5 years. I mean genuine re-training to maximise their talents to own other positions. Without setting off the conspiracy theorists around here, we have a recent history of when a player falls out of favour for whatever reason, one way or another they are maneuvered out. It is something that happens regularly in non-sporting organisations so no reason to think it doesn't happen at football clubs. It will be our loss if that happens with either.

Talk about players milking contact for a free. Clarry barely touched him and was clearly running past him. An idiotic report.

Can't imagine life in the hub is much fun right now... ...no way to get away from the horror show.

That is what is so frustrating. Other teams have been openly saying it for the whole of Goodwin's 4 year tenure. The teams that consistently have beaten us that way: Sydney, Hawks, Tigers, the recent Lions, Port, Pies, GWS, Ess. Other well known techniques are denying us the ball: Geelong, Eagles, Hawks. Or put an extra tall in defence: Pies, Richmond, Geelong. We may pinch a game here and there against those teams but in the main they are tried and true formulas on how to beat us. Yet after 4 years of rinse and repeat we still have no idea on how to counter them. Frustrating as hell.