Ted Lasso

I am praying and keeping all fingers crossed that Trengove doesn't cop any serious punishment for this, a two year ban would be a disaster for everyone

Just out of curiosity, at this point would you be willing to offer james frawley an 800k to 1m four year contract extension, show him how much he means to the Melbourne Football club and how highly we rate him?

Great bloke, but he wasn't willing to buy in to our head coaches plans so he is out the door, it's really not that difficult to understand why he isn't here and i back the football departments choice to move him on.

Had a dream last night that we beat them 92-74 howe kicked 6 and frawley kept brown to 5 touches haha, going on that ran down and put 50 dollars on a win

I don't think it would be a huge issue, perhaps someone like robert harvey would command the respect of a young midfield more than say Brian Royal would

Might be able to dish out some nice numbers to a few possible free agents at the end of the year and ideally to sign Frawley on a good long contract

Keeping fingers crossed Trengove is in the clear, it's certainly not having an impact on his form on the field so i suppose that's something.

I suppose alot of that will depend on his performance for the rest of the year, if he looks disinterested at the end of the year it might be time to ask some hard questions of a few of the guys.

If Frawley really wants out, which seems like that is the case, better he goes this year and we can get something in return, better than him walking at the end of next year

I totally agree with this! the other side of it is that as Mark Neeld himself said, we have guys who have played 50 games expected to play like 150 game players because that's what we are up against, our list has some amazing talent but needs a good foundation so when they are 150 game players we can have a real crack at a flag. Mark Neeld sets that foundation and needs to be backed.

I know people would disagree, but at this point i would be willing to back Neeld in for the rest of the year,

On the topic of potential targets, Anthony Miles seems to have fallen out of favour at GWS, i was really impressed with him last year and i know him personally and he's a fantastic bloke, what does everybody think of him as a potential target?

Mark Lecras could play as a mid and a small forward, would cost a decent amount but 26 year old All Australian quality player would be a massive boost

Rich for jack watts?

If we start well and get the confidence flowing across the field we will see more of our good football and be right in the hunt.

you wouldn't consider shane woewodin, adam yze, cameron bruce and travis jonstone at their best A grade?

Yeah, it would be nice, plus i think he is the sort of person who would put the lazy players in their place fairly quickly which we definately need

I am thrilled that we got dawes, unlike byrnes and rodan he has youth, he is very bright and he and clark along with hogan could be a very dangerous forward line for a long time, a gun midfield and mcdonald developing further and the dees will be back up where they belong

I think you might be pretty well bang on with this, only change i'd make is swap sylvia and matt jones over

I understand that he hasn't been doing the defensive stuff well enough, but i would love to see him play as a sub, just unleash him and tell him to play his game, good chance he will do plenty of damage in a one quarter burst and his opponent will be abit more tired so less likely to have as much of an impact the other way.

Who does Mckenzie go to assuming he plays? Rich, rockliff, moloney, zorko, black? not sure which other mids they have. James frawley has a huge job with jonothan brown

It's a huge call, but i honestly think of our current group of players at the end of their careers wherever that may be, howe will be the best player of them. or maybe the player who wins the most matches off his own influence

Terlich won't miss, he has been a huge find and works as hard as anyone, clark injury may be a blessing if it means jack watts can be thrown forward and have another run as out tall target with pedo and sellar

we look so much better when we attack and take the ball through the corridor.

Grimes - another strong showing Byrnes - showed good composure Evans - future demons star Trengove - underrated defencive influence Jamar - much improved game M.Jones - good solid effort N.Jones - absolute super star Sylvia - consistancy equals superstardom Bail - worked really hard Howe - oozing with talent Garland - very good performance Gawn - next dean cox Frawley - kept cameron quiet Pederson - played a role Terlich - worked really hard Watts - needs some confidence McDonald - still very young Tapscott - loads of courage Jetta - solid not brilliant Clark - hope he's okay Davey - turned clock back Viney - may need rest