Ted Lasso

Footy act, he will get off. Oh he doesn't play for Collingwood... yeah he's having a holiday

Honestly, the chances of us pulling Clarko out of North to coach the Dees are higher than Jack Viney leaving the Dees to go to Norf.

Geez, what is the down side to having some experts from the footy industry come in, have a look at how we're doing things and giving us some recommendations on how we can improve? Why not go out and pick 4-5 of the best footy people we can, Brendan Gale, Peter Jackson, Luke Hodge, Joel Selwood, whoever it is and say, can you take a look at our structure, give us some insight into how your great clubs have done it and help us bounce back in 2025 and win another flag. Honestly this would be a very reasonable step to take given the smoke around the club for the better part of 18 months now with several concerning incidents. Noone at the club should be immune from the review, all positions looked at and we make sure we have things right to the best of our ability heading into 2025.

Lets just be honest, winning a premiership is bloody hard work when everything is going okay, we've got issues coming out of our ears. Trading a high end draft pick for a 28 year old is not the right move, lets get our culture right, get rid of the bad eggs and re-load with Melbourne 2.0 Anyone excusing what's going on/gone on from the board down needs to leave, i think the CEO, most of the board and Richo should all be under pressure for this happening on their watch. I don't blame Houston one bit, we would have sold him on playing in big finals at the MCG and winning flags, and we've got articles about our best player wanting to leave, why would he come?

He's about the only bloke who hasn't knocked them back it seems!

Draft and develop, plus recruit role players with high character and leadership via free agency, build up salary cap space and make big moves while winning to maximise how attractive we are in the marketplace.

I heard he misses Brodie Grundy!

i would rather see Dan Houston go to another club than see us trade pick 6 for him.

Gus is battling to live a normal life and our players shook Maynards hand.. makes me sick tbh

It's so true, i went to the round 2 game when Essendon pumped us by 152 points with 3 Essendon supporting mates and it ruined footy for me for a good 3 years i reckon. even going through the drama we are right now i try to remind myself how much worse it has been.

He's perfect for what North Melbourne were eying Jack Viney for, a leader with premiership experience who will still contribute on the field and provide some leadership and experience in the locker room. My suspicion is he'll be at the Roo's next year.

No Oliver will be interested because in theory Sparrow should play as a full time on baller. it'll be great to see how he goes.

I thought it was hands down his best press conference since he has been at the club and exactly the type of leadership i wish we would see at times from pert and Richardson who are silent far too often when things are going wrong.

Good move, it's so silly to send him out there injured and at the mercy of the rabid media that are out to pile on the MFC at every opportunity, get him right so he can have a full pre-season and get back to his best next year. if we have a fully fit Trac and Oliver next year we will be back into the finals mix well and truely.

It's a really good point, i saw another poster saying earlier that if you reverse our close losses, we're sitting second this season despite our poor statistical profile, injuries to key players and patchy form. I can see why coaches would look at that and think a lot is going right and if we get players fit and healthy we can compete again, i still think if not for the Petracca injury we would be playing finals this season. I really hope we don't trade our pick 6 though, it seems clear that we need to continue to add top end young talent into the list so that we can remain competitive long term.

Without speaking to the results of the review before it happens i'd be absolutely shocked if Goody was under any pressure at all to retain his position internally. if we go all in on a flag, trade away our draft picks and miss the 8 in 2025, then i am sure the conversation will be had.

if the dogs pay some of his salary, and we give up virtually nothing in the trade, sure.

The club is signaling that we won't play hard ball on Alex and will work to get the deal done, my suspicion is that he will be a piece of the Dan Houston deal and this is already informally agreed between the MFC and PAFC

Far out this is a massive loss!

Thoughts on Liam Ryan? if he was open to the a move to the Dees he would add some X factor on the ground and in the air to our forward line, and potentially without a huge amount being required trade wise.

I must admit to feeling a little bit dissapointed that we've heard rumors of Clarry being traded, Trac wanting out, Viney being chased hard by north, all while we're losing games and the wheels feel like they're falling off and we have embarrassingly small crowds and we've not really heard from Roffey, Pert or Richardson at all. I am sure they're all doing enormous work behind the scenes, but publicly i think it would have shown some strength and stability if the leaders of the club got out there a little bit more. Mind you after the SEN interview with Goody and Pert i can definitely see the argument that he could make things worse rather than better.

Gawn is the best Melbourne captain i can remember so i would say it's his role until he doesn't want it anymore. I would have said Gus was a real chance to be the next captain if not for his concussions unfortunately, the guy was the heart and soul of the club. if Gawn decided to give it away i would say it'd be a co-captains situation with Petracca, Viney and Lever.

We drafted him and he played a huge role in our drought breaking flag, and then he moved on respectfully and we got a solid return in the trade, we drafted him knowing the risks and i can't bring myself to regret any of this process.

The problem is that we actually have a really good drafting record under Jason Taylor, he has a lot more wins than busts, and if we recruit Dan Houston it perhaps makes us better for 2-3 years, but then the cliff comes and we are trying to rebuild right as Tasmania enters the league. I am all for recruiting Houston, but not if it means including pick 7 in the deal, we need to keep using our strong draft selections for the next 2-3 years to stay competitive and find our recruits outside of that.

I'd start this by saying there are very few circumstances where i'd even consider trading jack viney because it would be a culture killing disaster. But hypothetically, he's contracted and our vice captain, i'd be saying to North Melbourne if you want him it'll cost pick 2. if they don't like that deal they can find another veteran to try and pry out of a club.