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My mfcss says they will make us play it in Darwiin: longer flights, hotter more humid weather and longer recovery time.😬 For a full blown mfcss they will probably schedule it as a day game and give us a 6 day break afterwards. 🙄

It could be a red herring but in today's press conf Goodwin hinted that Brown might play on Monday night. He was lamenting the need to produce the squad 4-5 days prior to game time. Brown wasn't in the squad but given the time gap changes could be made, I guess. Do we have until tomorrow night to submit our final 22?

To rest Max out of only the North game would achieve little, imv However, 'managing' Max out of the North game makes sense if we 'manage' him out of the next one or two games vs GCS and/or Hawks as well. No disrespect shown - just sensible player management at his age and the physical battering he takes. There will be few opportunities to give him a 3 weeks break after that stretch of games. It is what Geelong did with Ottens and to some extent mothballed him ready for finals and won premierships with him. They did similar last year with Selwood and Dangerfield.

To my eye the Grundy incident was deliberate with intent to injure. But lets agree to disagree on that. imv Draper's run and jump on TMc was thuggish. I didn't say 'sinister'. It will be interesting to see how often his tactics result in injury.

Yes, I have. Eyes on the ball doesn't mean he doesn't know what he is doing. Peripheral vision. In the last few weeks two of Geelong's ruckman have been injured by counterparts kneeing them in the ribs while eyes were on the ball. Last year Cox had his eyes on the ball when he kneed Max in the back causing him a season long term injury. Cox didn't come close to marking the ball.

Just for the record, 'bold' players' contracts have or will expire in the next few years. Salem and Fritsch contracts expire in 2026. May, Gawn and Viney will be 33, 34 and 31 when their contracts expire in 2 years. Except for McVee, JvR, Spargo and Sparrow the other players, including our stars will be over 30 in 4-5 years. Now there is nothing wrong with players over 30 but have too many and we may end up like 'dad's army' Geelong in 4-5 years. Especially so if they are our engine room: Brayshaw, Petracca, Oliver, Viney, Grundy. I would be surprised if quite a few of the players mentioned (May, Gawn, Viney, Nibbler, Sparrow and maybe Spargo) are on our list in 4-5 years. While it is sometimes good to lock away players we need to refresh the talent and age profile otherwise the 'age' cliff can arrive very quickly. Some might say who cares if we win a few premierships in that time. I do. We need to set the list up for long term contention and success. One could argue that long term contracts reduce our flexibility. I just hope all those long contracts are not back-ended.

TMc should be given some leeway for last week after Draper took a running leap from 10-15 mts away and kneed him in the back. And if Brown isn't fit enough then we have little choice but to play TMc...I'm not sure Schache is the answer. Just hope TMc's back has recovered and does not affect his mobility. BTW, Draper is turning into a thug. He was the ruckman that crunched Grundy's knee last year with a resultant PCL injury.

You mean all my work is for nought😢😉

Richmond fan website.

Not a lot so far; probably because the game isn't until Monday. From Various fan websites: Druggos showing how to beat Melbourne is to tag Oliver…Nothing surer than Oliver running around by himself collecting 40 next week Just what we need, an angry, fired up Melbourne on the rebound... I'd like to think that we will also be angry and fired up after last night's insipid effort. We will tag ben Brown and he'll kick 7 Don't worry Dees supporters. We'll play you into form next round. Oliver had 41 lol… Hahaha I saw that, couldn’t believe it. Must’ve been 41 of the most useless posies eve All rubbish. Threw it about 5 times too not called Got to realize we are in a sneaky rebuild mode whilst bluffing our way to this year's Finals... See which side Max is going and tell Miller to b-line it to the other side, no way Max keeps up with Miller. Can't let him sit behind play, have to play him smart or physical. I don't wanna see at half time they're 40 points up and Prestia, Hopper and Taranto have been smashed in clearances, whilst Oliver and Petracca have already racked up 25 possies and 5 clearances each. Put some body work on them and make them bloody earn their kicks. Our backline is miles away from our best lineup but realistically their fwd's are pus. Young/ Van Rooyen is a good matchup. Grimes/ Fritch should work. I’d take a Ben Brown right now as much as I hate saying that whatever Dimma comes up with will need to be a master stroke. We’ve never matched up well on the cheese platters in recent times. In: Effort Out: Turnovers Our biggest issue is if Fists of Fury Lever plays. With no Lynch and our bombs inside 50, Lever will think he is at a Las Vegas buffet racking up intercept marks. I will refrain on commenting on Richmond’s odds of winning this game until the umpires are named Demons supporters don’t go to any games do they? The corrupt AFL are yet to relocate the MCG, slab by slab, to Mt Buller. So no. Honestly don’t understand why more Melbourne fans don’t follow suit of Max Gawn their captain and be Richmond supporters Dees to play a bunch of players out of position. For instance Jake Melksham on the field. Haha yeah I was happy with it. He'll prob have 5 touches and kick 3 goals now. We were rubbish even before nankervis, lynch, Broad and Graham got injured. Not Favourite This made me laugh for its ignorance of Dimmer being a thug: No probs with playing on the edge but Dimma never condoned poor discipline This made me angry: tell Miller to sit in behind Max all game and jump into his back as often as he can.

Common sense I would have thought. At the risk of a pile on I don't listen to the game related podcasts.

I'm surprised the sports science staff thought it was a good idea to catch the red eye knowing there was a flight/game to Adelaide a few days later. Sometimes they and coaches should do what is best for the club rather than the players. While acknowledging players want to get home to families etc I doubt half a day makes a lot of difference in most cases.

The email came on April 6 along with other MFC emails. I missed it at first as Inbox was inundated with various other emails.

Its a shame you missed out 'kev'. We love your work and that you tirelessly turn up at Gosch's just in case there is a session. I suspect most of DL's feel the same Your training reports are one of my favourite parts of DL. Thank you.

Just for the record, Fremantle spent the week in Adelaide but I agree travel isn't an excuse. The club chose to catch the red eye back from Perth, apparently at the players' request. Maybe next time they rethink that.

LOL!! That was a quick change of tune!🙄🙂 From having my back to right under the bus!!😢 Anyhow, @beelzebub knows me very well and knows it couldn't possibly be me!! It has to be a redhead!! 🙂

I didn't get the impression from Goodwin's post game press conf that Gawn was a lock vs Tigers. He said Max was progressing well and mentioned other players recovering, saying most of them should be right to play next week. Then a bit more chat and he added (not verbatim '...we are looking forward to getting Max back...' It sounded open ended.

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Can't always have it our way, bb. Welcome back!🙂

I don't share the view we should have been 'tonked'. The opps weren't good enough to put the foot down. We are a very good team. Good teams fight back. We did. imv that bodes well.

I wasn't suggesting we could have won either match. Whatever the reason for our comeback, we fought back. We fought it out to the end. I find that a real positive to come from the losses and a reason to not get to negative about our players and game plan going forward.

Something to remember about both the Lions and Ess games is that half way through the last quarter we were nearly 7 goals down in both games. We whitled that down to 2 goals vs Lions and 4 goals vs Ess by the end. Folks could say the opp relaxed etc Sure, but we were good enough and energised enough to take advantage of any lapse just as they exploited our weakness. That we were able to fight back and gain momentum is a big positive out of both losses. The losses shouldn't lead to worsening MFCSS.

No, I didn't. Well not yet. Completed a 'Driver Unknown' form adding the Police report reference #. Hopefully, that is enough to cancel them. The bright side: collected a new car on Friday. Still miss the old one...

I still love him! Notice the = in the =#1 faves. He just has a new buddy in McVee and of course Hunt is the other =#1 fave.

Sadly no😢 Just giving my new =#1 fave a go. Love the twinkle in his eye!