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Bad handpass by Tomlinson and Seagulls scramble forward for a goal

Casey forward positioning non existent

well well Surprise Surprise

Must say I don't understand BBB's program. We treat him with kid gloves at training yet we play him in meaningless VFL matches when we have way too many tall forwards at that level. He needs fitness but at his level he doesn't really need match practice in the technical sense. You could get three amateur players to provide him with body on body practice for example

Definitely need to find a spot for Hunter in the sense of a position. At the very least he has advantages as a sub

Thoroughly enjoyable interview. Would not mind hearing at some stage from a member of MFC staff on how they manage the various player tiers on life/jobs after football. One of the pluses Fritsch had by joining as a 21 year old is that he's now a qualified electrician with his own business. I have always been surprised that players with long term injuries (ACL etc) are not encouraged to take a mental break from the football environment and engage in outside activities while maintaining fitness. Similarly will we ever see senior players at say age 28 taking a year off in an effort to extend/improve their playing career.

Sandringham v North on Channel 7. Thought we might have got the TV game. Watching via the website is not optimal but the universal coverage is probably the one big improvement in the VFL comp Next weeks VFL game is 5:10pm Friday at Princes Park against Carlton. Might be worth a visit

Silly move by the Dogs. Like us with Grundy they now have too much of their salary cap in one area. They will also need to re-contract young Darcy soon. Meanwhile their backline screams out for improvement

It is strange as I would have thought that clubs had a big say in the timing of matches. Saturday 11am would have been more logical. KC ...could you please throw some light on how the VFL listed players train. Do they all attend or only the ones likely to play that week...thanks

Where did that last quarter accuracy come from Amazing win Will enjoy the replay

you can't win without a forward line

Brown didn't leave the ground but that looks like at least two weeks https://www.afl.com.au/video/1121301/mccartin-down-after-browns-brutal-bump-mro-scrutiny-looms?videoId=1121301&modal=true&type=video&publishFrom=1714797449001

North Melbourne is unique in its structure, because from 1986 to 2006 the club was privately owned and limited by shares. The club was floated in 1986 through a membership vote led by then chairman Bob Ansett. At the meeting, members were encouraged to buy into the club by purchasing shares. The float ended up raising over $3 million and helped to keep the club solvent through the next decade. In 1991, the John Elliott-led Carlton Football Club attempted a hostile take over North Melbourne by purchasing a large parcel of shares formerly owned by Bob Ansett. The Blues acquired 20 per cent of the capital but that stake was eventually bought back in 2001 by John Magowan, the former head of Merrill Lynch Australia. The resulting melodrama saw the formation of B-Class shareholders who had the effective power of veto over any attempt to merge or relocate the club. Further takeover attempts were made in the first decade of the 21st century by the Southport Sharks. Then chairman Allan Aylett knocked back a proposal from the Sharks that would have seen them gain a majority stake in the club in exchange for an injection of capital. In early 2006, another proposal from Sharks to underwrite the Kangaroos' games on the Gold Coast, in exchange for a slice of the shareholder structure at the club was knocked back after AFL intervention.

Interesting to say the least. Hope it's just a load management issue but it certainly throws doubt on his selection against Carlton Our game after Carlton is the Eagles in Perth. Perhaps he and Bowey are being set for that one.

MFC is starting to have Australian cricket team vibes. Harder to be dropped than get in. In his defence Casey due to list imbalance, retirement of Casey listed players and injury has almost become dysfunctional. Hopefully we kick straight and win tomorrow night but as a team we aren't clicking. Against Richmond they played all over us in the last ten minutes of the third quarter and the first seven of the last but kicked only behinds. Post the two Adelaide games something is not working

Kick Straight and Prosper

Hope they rest Brown Absolutely no reason to play him at Casey at this point. McAdam is a tough one as he could be in line for the Carlton game. I'd give him three quarters. Need better input from the midfield or it will be a wasted game for the forward guys

Very good point. Many posters lauded May for keeping Franklin goalless without realising that Franklin was merely running May to the flank out of the hole and thus opening up their forward line. Hope we play smart

No it we've had much higher crowds... Round 21 2000 = 76,059 ( I was there) Round 8 1963 = 83,518

Agree... the MFC band wagon is not rolling and Saturday night is not a big crowd night. 50k will give us a decent return but 70k would be so much better. Looking like a cool but low wind and no rain evening

Money and length of contract.... Ask Jackson and possibly Petty The upside is that even if you fail you hobble the existing side with a higher/longer contract

Another draw would be nice

Excellent point. Security of tenure for assistant coaches is very low. On this basis alone they should be paid extra to allow for the time to transition to another job

In simple terms you have to look at our best 26 and say who is bottom 10. Then you ask is he a better player for a particular role than someone in the bottom 10. If yes... go for him I'd be disappointed if the recruitment team have not got a secret spreadsheet where this exercise is applied to every bottom 10 across the league. You can easily add in the "gettable" factor when you've identified your targets to determine the prime targets.

If you want that then you offer North the deal they should have got for Tasmania. All home games played in Darwin and all away games in Melbourne with Melbourne based NMFC members given normal members entrance rights. Training facility in Melbourne for five years before team and admin relocated to Darwin. Long term location to be reviewed at say 7 year point to consider cancelling Melbourne away game advantage based upon finances, crowds in Melbourne and on field performance. This is how the Tasmania team should have been introduced. Given North played 5 or 6 home games in Tasmania anyway the introduction of a hybrid approach was a great intermediate step. Not sure Darwin would work given airfares and limited connections but longer term who knows. If you want to think outside the box a soccer team based in Darwin competing in the Indonesian League might also be viable. The other SEA leagues are relative minnows