chookrat

I reckon it's time for the club to put a call out to Ian and see what it will take to pack up his Malibu lifestyle and move to cosmopolitan Melbourne.

What makes you think McCartney fell out with Melbourne?

Couldn't agree more re most of the points above. Oliver seems to be releasing too quickly, as if to avoid body contact, and impacts our ability to clear the ball. Lewis would have to be in our best 6. I'm also a bit surprised that Petracca doesn't rate a mention. To me he's one who applies pressure, distributes well when played in the midfield and tries to create for us. He would get alot more reward if our forward system was able to keep the ball in and in the second half we were able to get it in the forward line to begin with.

I suspect it's because the club has a good understanding of what has gone wrong and will address the issues during the off season.

Wagner high, this is [censored] [censored] umpiring.

In seriousness, I'm looking forward to tonights game. Kids in bed, wife out for dinner with our eldest and me with a couple of glasses or red to watch what we are trying to do with no expectations.

That would have to happen in the final round when we play North overseas in Tassie.

Absolutely, I considered including an accident like a plane crash or a bus down a ravine as a scenario but that would have been in poor taste.

Kind of like when Essendon fly to a JLT match in regional Victoria. There is a precedent.

What if both sides play so bad that they both lose?

Looked at the ladder today and we're only 4 games + percentage behind Adelaide who are in the 8. If we win our last 4 and everyone from 16 - 8th lose all of their remaining games and we can make up 20% percentage we could still theoretically play finals. Throw in a couple of doping investigations and we will rocket into the 8 and as the doggies demonstrated in 2016 and with May, Tmac, Weid, Jetta, Vanders, J Smith to come back in the remaining rounds anything is possible. Stay positive!

Haha, ok Garlett to kick 4 then.

I reckon we've got this one in the bag. Weid to kick 4 in the last.

I reckon there are some mind games going on here. Don't be surprised if ANB is a late change in for Melbourne to throw off their preparation. Goody is mind [censored] Hardwick.

We must win this. This ends now, bring on the demon spirit and scull [censored] them.

Tanking?

Throw in Charlie Spargo as a sweetener, done deal!

This is unfair, Jones is one of few in our team that lowers his eyes and hits up targets in the corridor.

Makes you wonder what sort of antics they get up to in Cockburn.

Agree with this. Petty strikes me as a similar player to Jack Darling, agile tall forward with a bit of agro about him. TMac and Weid are definitely our key forwarda with Pruess able to rotate in as a key forward/ruck.

Misson strikes again

Or they are learning to play a different style with more deliberate ball movement and playing less on instinct. Our chaos ball works well when we have momentum but we need to develop that other gear to slow the ball at stages during the game. Might as well use the remaining games to practice that.

Maybe the MFC could throw in a ComCar and Business Class flights as a sweetener.

Great post. I have been pretty supportive of the club and our coaches and while this year has been an on field disaster I'm still confident this year is an abberation. This said if we're in the same position again next year heading into the bye then Goodwin will have a tough time keeping his job. I reckon we will see some significant changes in the Footy Department at the end of season along with players.

A ? in the hand is worth ? ? in the bush