Hero1

This team needs to delist 95% of the players or fold like fitzroy.

At least now we know it's not the coach, the CEO or the Board. It's the useless players. Perhaps Neeld and poor Dean Bailey were (very) hard done by.

SEN were talking up Wright as being the best tall prospect they have seen. They rate him higher than Danniher.

It would be awesome to have Gawn rucking with Wright and Hogan forward. Imposing. Especially with Watts and Salem delivering the ball to them.

i haven't seen anything awesome about Gawn thus far apart from his height measurement.

Why does Jamar who is a long standing AFL ruckman need to come back via the VFL?

You need another hobby to distract you from the likely train wreck of the 2014 season

Or eat more banana's

OD the MFC was so bad it will take years to recover. Personally I believe there is nothing else that can be done until the team can substantially be replaced.

I totally agree. Most of this team is well below AFL standard. We looked like a joke team against WC. It was totally embarrassing. This is beyond lack of development or psychological problems. It's simple lack of ability. Grimes can't kick and when he does it's straight to the opposition. Watts has some natural ability but is too much of a public schoolboy and not enough of a mongrel. Jones has little ability, makes dumb decisions, thinks he's big enough to break packs and constantly ends up on the bottom of packs. At least he is a great trier. The rest of them need to go and be replaced by some big, strong , aggressive men who enjoy the game and play to win.

I thought the messiah had already made it to Melbourne.

So if the Seas are now parted, wont we see the tide turn.?

youre mixing up Moses with Jesus.

Ron Barassi, Earle Spalding, Damien Jolly, Troy Simmonds, Jeff Farmer, Scott Thompson, Peter Walsh to name a few.

As I predicted hogans back is 4-6 weeks away from healing let alone the training time missed and back through the VFL. We won't see him until second half of the season. By that time the 100 plus point losses will have destroyed any spirit remaining in the other players.

They should all be made to wear the pink v jumper except jones and cross until they stop playing like girls.

We have clearly chosen the wrong players for many years. This needs to be rectified over the next five years. Hopefully Roos and his henchmen can fix this.

What a terrible game today. I'm so depressed. Why have we had such a long run of bad luck? Why are all our forwards injured or psychologically unfit at the start of a new season? All we can look forward to is a better second half of the season or a wooden spoon and yet more draft picks who are not guaranteed to be any good at all...

Trengove and watts are not living up to their draft pick status. Grimes can't kick. Jones tries very hard but skill errors lead to turnovers. Spencer is not afl standard. We desperately need some forwards. Howe doesn't care. There is a general lack of intensity

It's hard not be embittered when Bennel, Cheney and Petterd are all thriving after ridding themselves of the Melbourne Miasma.

Good luck to them - I just hope those days are behind us.

Really Bennell???

Rivers and Moloney chose to leave. They had bad attitude to MFC.

Max Gawn isn't being risked because of hamstring soreness. What's the risk? That we might win?

There are six players on the 2014 list that are IMO are lead in our saddle bags.

You hit the nail on the head. 100% right.

Gawn is useless and a joke. He should be delisted immediately.

Petterd's so-called dropped mark was not in a Queens Birthday clash. It was earlier in the season. Yes it was against the filth. Also it was a next to impossible grab not an easy dropped mark as many seem to incorrectly recall.

Meanwhile, it is just an impression I'm getting, but there seem to be a scattering of injury layoffs being extended unexpectedly. I wonder if this is a perception created by more optimistic reporting in the first place (maybe Nick Smith would be know as '2-2-4' these days) or whether there is actually a recovery issue beginning to work it's way into the game?

Yes hadn't you noticed this over the past 3 years? MFC report that a player will be out for 1-2 or 2-3 weeks and then it's 6-8 before they're back. It's standard. They must think we're idiots.

When was the last fair weather for supporters? 1964?

As I said a long time ago he will never play again.

Over a yearr ago I said in this site that Mitch Clarke would never play again. I was accused of being a troll. I as correct. I am very very sad for Mitch. But let's get real here. The guy suffered a career ending injury.

When did we last beat st Kilda? When did we last win at docklands?

Forget about inside and outside its nonsense. Just play the game.

I know it was a NAB match but let's not forget we were without Clarke, Dawes and Hogan vs the Tigers and the boys were very competitive.

Richmond had several of their top players out as well.