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Another small body ..just what they dont need. When has any player thrived/ reached their potential after trading to the Dee's.. ? Names please? Take your time

It wasn't sauce it was vomit

I did actually reference my acknowledgement of Tim Lambs suggestion to the contrary . If I could be bothered mounting any further defence I would suggest it was to counterbalance the repeated assertions in discussions here about Petty and Melksham being automatic "ins " for the forward half,with no timeline included. PS here's hoping they are and thst it works pps Mihocek and Sidebottom would fit in nicely as well.

Lis franc tradition. He might play earlier, but he quite possibly won't be " right"

Neither Petty ( despite what Tim Lamb said) or Melksham are likely to be playing before the King's Birthday which means McAdams " depth" may be useful. Of course BBB and TMac may be cherry ripe and training the house diwn

Yep and what fun it would have been watching you guys turning verbal somersaults if it had been for the Dees

Assuming they kick it to him on a lead of course. More chance of his knee being ok than that on past evidence

Yep I left JVR out..my mistake Another year in the system should be a bonus there, especially if he plays according to his actual size Let's see about Melksham though; unlike many on here I have always been fan, but an injury and one more year....? Your rational optimism is impressive and difficult to contest, but I think there is some airbrushing at play. Through the season there was realistically no TMac or BBB and I think the best two teams over the season played off for the flag . 2024 is going to be red hot for the 8 and game plans and canny coaching will count as much as injuries ( within reason) Meanwhile Aussies are dominating world sailing..not that anyone seems to notice.Cornes hasn't said a word

I am not clear who these" fit and firing forwards" are. I was a fan of Tom and BBB but their ship has sailed. I hope Petty can do better than most re Lisfranc injuries. I am confident than Fitta will be ok and that Kossi will kick 35 over the season. Gawn will learn to kick? McAdam? Trac up forward..yeah as long as Oliver and Angus are good. Your spot on about kicking under pressure. Surely they've had some practise at that already though?

Petty will be playing...when? Over and above any trading/ forward line up imagining

I'm looking for the part where I said the Coach shouldn't have been reappointed

Well they extended the coach's contract before the end of the season as well. Go figure

I am even more looking forward to what folks on here say about Tom Hawkins if he kicks 5 in the G/F to seal the flag for the Dee's next season. I season at $600 000.!

I don't see that they tried too hard to make it work once Max came back.

MFC should get a pick in the lower 20's because we trained him back into form without further injury.

They treated him like [censored] why would he stay for more of the same? I am waiting to hear his story when he wins a flag with the Swans or maybe what May says about him next year

Which is what?

That's why they didn't win not why they should have.

That nicely translates what players mean when they say " hate"...respect them so much I really want to beat them!

Yep and just as relevant imo is the disdain relentlessly expressed on here for the Cats record right up until their complete team premiership performance last year including introducing a changed game plan and then when they were challenged in the finals by the Pies, steadied at half time and shut them out...led by the senior players " we" love to criticise. As Maysie said; " if they were the best,I'd congratulate them"

MFC defenders...Masyie in particular have earned the right to say such things. Mids and forwards..perhaps not so much Supporters are free to try that on with the Collingwood army Mind you a Pie fan told me today she'd watched the replay 4 times and thought that was enough. I pointed out that I watched the last half of 2021 more than half a dozen times and that was still not enough . #justsayin'

Gee I've always been a bit of a Melksham fan myself, but the turn around from teachers pet/ list clogger to MFC hero in about 3 games is remarkable. Even Petty had banked a couple of seasons of defence credits before he became a FF mega star after his 3 games at the pointy end

Timing is everything.. After the season was over?

I thought Kiss was the best thing the AFL has done on years. High camp and just good fun. Hilarious actually I laughed from beginning to end. Unfortunately it was clearly a set piece so they can say " Imagine how that would have looked at night?" when the night G/F question comes up again AND they could have it facing the Shane Warne Stand if there was an issue with the sun and the cameras