Diamond_Jim

watched the Hawks v Bombers game for a few minutes last night. Hawks still using their tactic of having a non kicking player bump the man on the mark. Allows the kicker an extra ten metre of run and also allows the kicker to clear the receiving pack. Because the man on the mark must stand still the tactic is even more easily employed than in previous years.

straight out of the MFCSS playbook... It has taken me three years to develop an evolutionary defense mechanism to these classic Essington antics. I no longer feel anything

Viney if fit presumably for Sparrow I suspect Hibberd needs another run at Casey

The club also has to realise that it is competing with the TV product of other clubs. If you watch say 2 or 3 TV games your desire to physically attend is impacted if you think it's going to be a lacklustre game. Many of us have just got tired of MFC mediocrity (often worse than mediocre)

May Lever Petracca Spargo Oliver T Mac

Couldn't agree more. Having no one on the top decks was madness. If people had been allowed to find their own seat (take a note of the seat number for tracing if necessary) life would have been fine. Seemed that they deliberately put people into 100 person pods and then a break.

The overwhelming positive out of today's match was the performance of TMac. His performance over the next four weeks is vital to our season and today he delivered in spades. The tactic of sitting off our midfielders is becoming like the out the back of 2017/2018. Why does everyone else see it but the great Goodwin persists with Max and his Jarmanesque taps. Let's see what happens next week with the Saints.

yes.. just select the play from start option (if the live/from start options are given) and you're away the replays have the pregame comments cut out of them also

it's the easy Gawn counter and we have fallen for it for years..

Gawn with 3 possessions and Jackson with two

it stays there for months. The diff is that after a day or so it goes into replay mode which is lower quality video than the 1080 of match day

Oliver hasn't got a touch

I used the term CEO in the business sense. Goodwin is the CEO of football and therefore the most powerful person int he club. Pert is an administrator Strange beasts..footy clubs

Yze and Williams are a message for Goodwin... In that sense the group is not cohesive No CEO would put up with it which shows how tenuous Goodwin's position is. Anyway as you say early days and he may surprise

Basically that we have gone nowhere over the last 3 years and that our coaching team is now almost dysfunctional with Yze and Williams in the wing. Bartlett wasn't spared either. Inability to sign Oliver etc Nothing that most of us haven't been saying for a year or two... bottom line Goodwin disappoints

3AW putting the boot into us pre-match

Just some additional info for those who may be interested in Kayo. While Kayo still takes the in game ch 7 commentary there are now no ad breaks (no commentary at that time) and during quarter breaks you get the Fox commentators not Ch 7 A welcome improvement

Any updates or info Lovely morning for footy

Wouldn't it be wonderful if in five weeks time we are wondering how we can possibly fit Weid and B Brown into the team. To sleep..perchance to dream

welcome back !!

Other than draft picks who have gone (almost) straight into the senior team our development via Casey has been less than stellar. Is it any worse than other clubs? No idea. My traditional whinge is that we have such little luck with our 28 plus year olds going on. If you can get two or three of those who perform at a high level week in week out list balance is so much easier. Hopefully May breaks the mould

struck me as a 6 v10 game. Pies dropped a few easy ones and Dogs not that impressive up forward after that first 5-10 minutes. Season wise probably a little more upside in the Pies... De Goey couldn't play that badly again.

there is a retort that is so obvious it need not be stated

Carlton played into the tigers hands and nearly won. Good on them but playing that way against Richmond you will lose four out of six. Not sure what style is required but the slow maul is pobably better.

How the AFL allowed themselves to be gamed by the coaches is just a joke. Concussion... wait a minute .. what about a corky !