Ted Lasso

I hope the club has a few dollar sitting under treloar and shiels noses,

and one that i think is very attainable, 4 wins last year, 9 games we were in a very winnable position, add another quality pre season, some new recruits, Hogan to add far more structure and confidence kicking forward and i think some of those games become wins rather than losses. we really need guys like Salem and Toumpas to lock down spots if at all possible though, i love Matt Jones and the way he plays but i really think for us to go forward as a club our young talent needs to overtake those kind of players.

Last year we improved our defence out of sight, and bridged the % gap what's a realistic pass mark for the Melbourne fc in 2015? I would expect the club to finally break out of the bottom 4, 6 wins would be nice, and to show more potency up forward the further emergence and development of the young core we are building of Viney, Hogan, Salem, Toumpas and co hopefully all can lock down best 22 positions this year, and guys like Viney and Tyson can take another step forward. Unearthing a few more players would be great too, i expect Newton to come in and play senior footy right away, i reckon Vandenberg has a bit to like about him too.

Josh bootsma

Was this right after he started at the club? his improvement in both of those area's from what i have seen has been huge, he looked to me to have seriously trimmed down and picked up his running alot over the pre season.

It will be resolved when ASADA line up, Hird, Dank, EFC, players and anyone else involved and start the executions. the public has them pegged as cheaters, the only way to clear that image is to do the time now, although proving their innocence has never been a priority if it stood in the way of them getting off however they could.

Christian petracca would be spewing he missed the basketball session

Lenny Hayes

Jack Fitzpatrick, needs to play a few games in the seniors this year at the very least or he is probably on his way out i'd say.

i really don't think where the two were taken is a reflection of anything other than the pick 1 race publicly was between petracca and Mccartin so the mfc decided to play along and take Petracca at 2, the same way we will probably never know who their other preferences were

I have heard from multiple people that we rated Brayshaw above Petracca, he had been training with us previously, Roosy has seen a lot of him and i'd be fairly comfortable saying he would have got the nod if we didn't get both picks. not that it really matters, Col is still a dud

He wouldn't get a game. haha

Luke Hodge, Mathew Pavlich, Scott Pendelbury, Jimmy Bartel, Gary Ablett jr, Travis Boak, Andrew Swallow Hodge and Pavlich are the big two, hard, tough, loyal, playing in the right spirit

Howe, Dunn, Trengove, Vince, Goodwin??

Jack Trengove is already as far as i'm aware out of a moon boot, so in theory should be running a little ways down the track, i personally don't think they will risk him this year, even if he is right, but is there any chance he could reach the point of having ticked most of the boxes of being available to play before the year is out?

The fact the spotlight has for the most part avoided Reid absolutely baffles me, surely the club doctor should be front and centre in this situation, if the club didn't acknowledge the handwritten letter that he apparently wrote to the club my next step would have been to make one out to ASADA providing details of what was going on.

Yeah, that sounds familiar, my opinion was based off an article i read so may very well have been totally off the mark.

I thought that after a certain amount of players are found guilty the club too had to be punished? seemed like it was all but certain both club and players were going to cop it

i'm not 100% sure but i was under the impression that Martin wanted to leave and that was a big driving factor behind the trade, keeping him may not have been an option?

Tdi, the beauty of swimming is it removes the impact/ jarring that you get from running, it sounds to me like the game plan involves everyone's running levels to be much higher than last year and the club wants them to be cherry ripe in that sense. Both the lads can play the fitness is something the whole club needed to improve

Reckon brayshaw gets a run during the nab cup? Or is he still sore

Not sure losing col was initially what roosy wanted king, I think he worked pretty hard to keep him. Glad it worked out for us though

Freo took a punt that if they could lift Col's workrate he'd become a good player for them, it hasn't come off and i can't see him getting back.

Unbelievable, just as he shows some good form too.

Agree, i'm thinking lifetime bans from the AFL for Hird, Dank and whoever else was heavily involved if found guilty but i'd go as far as minimum 12 month bans for players backdated to the date of the infraction notices, if all that's been said in the media is true these players must have had suspicions something wasn't right long before the investigation even started.