Ted Lasso

This makes the most sense for both parties i'd say, part of the appeal for them obviously is the Battle compensation.

Beauty of an external review is that if Pert is fine as some seem to be claimed, that'll be re-enforced in the reviews findings, if, as i and others suspect there is a need for change, that'll be shown in the review as well. It's much better to know where we stand and make the appropriate changes.

What did you think about his comments about the best culture in 40 years? i almost fell off my chair when he said that. ironically i thought more highly of Goody after that interview, but Pert that was the moment he lost me.

Well going on there and talking absolute rubbish is not the best way to defend it. it was embarrassing.

Pert is the bloke who went on SEN boasting about himself overseeing the best culture he's seen in 40 years at the same time as we were having a string of major off field dramas that proved the culture is anything but. He and Goody to some extent as well both lost me the moment they did that. I'm sure he's been a wonderful servant of football for a long time, but you can't go to the media and make outrageous claims, completely fail to back them up and then be commissioned to review the same football department that's fallen into chaos under your watch.

Port will need to soften on their asking price. I wouldn't if i was them

It would be some backflip for Houston to say he's staying himself and flip and come to vic. Hope our own number 5 doesn't get any ideas.

I can understand why people would want to ask for pick 25, but when we've farewelled the guy publicly, acknowledged he's moving home on compassionate grounds and agreed to trade him, i feel like we've given up a lot of leverage to trade with, i see the Crows offering us a late pick and we don't really have anywhere to go from there.

I actually think Damo has been pretty good with the Trac stuff, i think he's one of the few journos who has done a really good job of seeing the fault in both sides of this situation. He's given Trac as many good clips as he has the MFC, and as far as i can see the MFC might be a basket case, but Trac hasn't been a saint either.

Ted Lasso managed to turn a vein, egotistical young man in Jamie Tartt around by benching him, perhaps the same needs to happy to our very own Jamie Tartt. Believe.

If Trac was anywhere near as good as he seems to think he is on and off the field he would be determined to play a leading role in helping the MFC get back to where it belongs, rather than looking for a chance to jump ship.

TED LASSO PHANTOM DRAFT FIRST ROUND 2024 Hi all, I've put together a little phantom draft based on how i see the first round going, i have included some likely trades. Things can change rapidly and i am sure there will be additional pick swaps as well, but for a starting point the first round Likely trades Pick 8 to Stkilda as F/A compensation Pick 6, 9, 10, 17 all to Richmond Pick 12 to West Coast 1. Levi Ashcroft (Brisbane) 2. Jagga Smith (Richmond) 3. Luke Trainor (North Melbourne) 4. Finn O'Sullivan (West Coast) 5. Sid Draiper (Adelaide) 6. Harvey Langford (Melbourne) 7. Josh Smilie (Richmond) 8. Sam Lalor (St Kilda) 9. Murphy Reid (St Kilda) 10. Leo Lombard (Gold Coast) Matching Essendon Bid 11. Tobie Travaglia (Essendon) 12. Harry Armstrong (Richmond) 13. Jack Whitlock (Richmond) 14. TaJ Hotton (Carlton) 15. Bo Allen (West Coast) 16. Cooper Hynes (GWS) 17. joe Berry (Geelong) 18. Issac Kako (Essendon) Matching bid from Richmond 19. Alix Tauru (Richmond) 20. Xavier Lindsay (Sydney)

Errol Gulden is that you?

It's wonderful news, but the MFC can't stuff this up, this doesn't take anything away from him wanting out and the corrections that need to be made on and off the field, over to you MFC, lets see if we can respond.

Greatest ever ruckman. The thing with the Gawn vs Xerri debate, i kept telling my old man, Xerri will have 20 disposals, 5 marks, 30 hit outs and people will be blown away, but Gawn will do it the same weekend, against a much better opponent and noone will talk about it because we're so used to him dominating. the absolute best games of the competitions other ruckman, reach the average games we see from Max Gawn. the guys a freak.

Pert and Roffey both need to go in my opinion, they're the heads of the ship and they're driving us into an iceburg. Lets get some real leadership, get a full external review of absolutely everything done and re-build the club to give us a fighting chance.

Jeepers... some of these trades wouldn't even be enough for Petraccas left footy boot.

100000%

Can we answer neither?

It's so difficult for any fan to be able to assess the performance of a high performance manager because we simply don't have the numbers and information required to make informed judgements. what i will say is that when Burgo was at the club the best 22 had a lot more seasoned AFL ready bodies than this season which has a mid age void, a bunch of really young guys and some 28s and over. they were working with two totally different things, and i'd say Selwyn is doing quite well considering he has a much more difficult task.

It's absolutely extraordinary if the clubs president hasn't been keeping in contact with Petracca and his family following life threatening injuries.

Orrr.... and just hear me out.... it is possible the MFC isn't perfect and has some issues to work through?

So we've hard Richo, Pert and Roffey all do interviews since the Trac stuff dropped, and i don't know about anyone else but right now every major leader of the club is reducing my confidence in the club, besides Goody who i think is presenting quite well given what he's got to work with. We're in a bad bad spot at the moment, and it feels like we hardly know any of what's actually gone on that's created the storm.

Gut feel on if the club caves and trades him, or if we hold him to his contract and really upset the applecart?

Better solution to the stress of football. Gin.