Ted Lasso

we have done really well with this draft in my opinion, Toumpas shows class but needs time, viney is going to be a star, Hogan looks a ready made star, kent looks fantastic, jones and terlich both look like very solid AFL players also critics of Toumpas need to be more paitent, wouldn't be at all surprised if he ends up being the best of all those draftee's

Was just a brainstorm, prestia is a dees supporter so would love if we could get him somehow, and dixon has been pretty impressive is all.. on top of that we are useless at developing draft picks anyways

The thing i find the most pleasing about casey is when the senior players come back to casey they seem to play really well get their confidence right up and play well when they are recalled, it's exactly what you want from your reserves

How's Toumpas going?

Maybe i jumped the gun a little with the whole jumping off a bridge thing, glad to hear he is okay, anyone got the scores?

So this, plus the fact it was pre season and not during the season plus the possibility jack didn't know, would that be enough to avoid the worst of the possible charges?

Proceeds to nearest bridge and jumps off

It will be very interesting to see where this all ends, It seems the AFL is out to get us

I mean really if a doctor says to you, you need to take these pills to get over your flu, you would take them without needing to do 6 hours of research on the medication, i'm sure that was 100% the case with these players before this whole situation became a big issue, doc says to trengove, here is some cream that might help your foot abit, cheers mate. You're right they are technically adults but i really hope some consideration is made to the fact that alot of these players are young, probably not even considering these drugs might not be wrong and just trusting an employee of the club they were drafted to, to do the right thing by them.

Good look at part of the future forward combo with dawes and hogan together

On another note, how impressive has Charlie Dixon been this year! if we get pick 1 this year i think we should offer it to gold coast for him and dion prestia personally

The only thing that's funnier than the way he is playing is the fact that GWS actually thought he was worth the money haha

That's a good theory on their part, but it's really not fair i mean if an AFL clubs doctor asks a kid to take something because it will help them it's hard to see them saying no, as much as it may not make a difference in this case as far as i am concerned this ultimately rests on the doctor and dank if infact something illegal has taken place at all at Melbourne.

I thought Neeld had totally lost the players during the Essendon game, but since the players seem to have really backed him in all of the interviews i have seen, maybe the hole we are in is just deeper than the other teams have been so it's unfair to compare them?

I agree, at his best, absolutely but the question is, how do we help him recapture that form

Thanks mate, i am feeling much better about things, it's abit hard not to be concerned with the AFL looking like it will take any excuse it can get to destroy the club.

Most of what used to be the next AFL superpower is still there only add clark, dawes, viney and toumpas to it, all of this years draft picks look really good which is a very welcome change and then HOGAN! personally i think we have as much upside as gold coast, just not sure how we will go developing it.

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.