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Are you sure? Picture 4 of 16 in the 'gallery pics' from the Blue. The old adage: "if looks could kill..." comes to mind. https://www.melbournefc.com.au/albums/818214/gallery-2020-keith-bluey-truscott-trophy?modal=true&type=gallery&playlistId=818214&playlistSize=16 I can't seem to reproduce that one pic but Jack looks very desolate.

Ruthless with those he doesn't value, perhaps...

Re Sam's voting. Didn't play rounds 1 to 4. 134 votes rounds 5 to 12 38 votes rounds 13 to 18

I would guess Lever would be disappointed finishing 11th. I thought he had a better season than that. Even thought he was a smokey for top 5. Got that wrong!

I must have been off with the fairies! I do think his relationships can cloud his judgement. Some selection decisions are otherwise inexplicable.

Final Leaderboard - Top 20 385 – Christian Petracca 362 – Steven May 311 – Jack Viney 296 – Ed Langdon 291 – Clayton Oliver 208 – Christian Salem 186 – Angus Brayshaw 179 – Michael Hibberd 172 – Sam Weideman 165 – Jake Lever 154 – Bayley Fritsch 119 – Jake Melksham 102 – Kysaiah Pickett 94 – Trent Rivers 92 – Adam Tomlinson 90 – Aaron vandenBerg 80 – Charlie Spargo 79 – Luke Jackson 72 – Mitch Hannan Good to see Kozzie, Rivers and TJ in the top 20 considering they didn't play many games. Good reward and incentive.

6th Gawn 7th Salem 8th Brayshaw 9th Hibberd 10th Weideman Well done all. Especially rapt for Sam.

1st Well done for the huge season. God knows where our season would have been without you!

2nd May

Yep, 3rd is Viney

3rd - I bet it is Viney

4th Langdon

5th Oliver

Top 5 at round 12 Petracca 282 Viney 238 Oliver 224 May 224 Langdon 165 Sam doing very well to have 134 votes and sit 10th and didn't even play the first 4 games.

Congratulations to May for winning the JMac Award. Very much deserved. But the applause was almost non-existent...is there anyone in the room?

I didn't mean to imply Yze would be 3rd behind Richardson for senior coach. Richardson's role isn't very clear. His official title is Director of Coaching but I haven't been able to find a statement from the club on what what that involves. I've seen it described as Senior Assistant Coach, to mentor Goodwin and to develop Assistant Coaches. So I interpreted that, rightly or wrongly, that Richardson is Goodwin's 'right hand man'. I guess seeing Richardson take a few game day interviews has reinforced this. It was in this context that I said Yze would be 3rd behind Richardson ie in influence and importance so a role at mfc may not be so attractive as others, like you suggest that Essendon could.

Are any Queensland D'landers going tonight to keep us posted on events and whispers ??

Updated for departure of the Wagner bros and Dunkley Best wishes for life post football.

Great to hear Max be so honest without spin or corp speak. “There’s so much to this, so it’s going to be a good unpacking and hopefully come January when we’re back, we’re a completely new club that’s going to play regular finals football and be ruthless in the way we play.” Is he expecting big changes somewhere, or just a throwaway line? Hopefully, a bit of both. The players have earnt their post season break. It will be a short preseason so good time for them to refresh and regroup. Onward to 2021.

Max's assessment: 2020-a-fail-but-not-a-waste Can't disagree with that. I like that he is frank without corp speak or spin.

Combined mid-field/strategy/opp analysis would be a great fit for her experience and fills a real need.

One out of left field: How would folks feel about Daisy Pearce as an assistant coach? Has an excellent footy brain regarding game plans, strategy and opp analysis and highly respected. She was assisting with coaching the AFLW team while waiting for her twins. Whether we could prise her out of the media who knows.

Being talked about as one of the best small forwards OOC this year:the-small-forwards-in-big-demand-who-will-be-this-trade-period-s-dan-butler "Hunt, who kicked 21 goals in 2019 as well, offers genuine speed in the front half when stationed there". 'When stationed there' is the telling part. He has been played all over the shop and not allowed to settle into a role in the last few years. Last year he played 21 games but he was not in the fwd line for all of them so a return of 21 goals was excellent. I think it made him our second/third highest goal scorer in 2019. Not big possession stats but when in the fwd line he knows where the goals are. He is as feisty and as brave as they come. Will be shattered ?to lose him and devastated ??if another club plays him to maximise his strengths.

Tom has been very professional and usually one of our best runners in the preseason. Was purely speculating on why his fitness may have fallen away. Whatever the reason for it I think he can get his fitness back again. He may not become the 2018 TMac but he could still play a valuable role.

Looking at some pre covid vision Tom doesn't look as heavy as he did when the season re started a few months later. His daughter was born in March just before the shutdown. Pure speculation but maybe Tom didn't/wasn't able to do the fitness/diet etc work needed to stay in top condition. Being away from the club, a new bub, supporting a new mum etc could be challenging to stick to regimes. Hopefully, relationships with coaches haven't broken down and if he stays he can become an asset again even if he doesn't recover 2018 form. Sam could sure do with the help.