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we dont attack the player with the ball, everyone is so busy chasing their own man that they run past the man with the ball. In the final term a west coast player got the ball near our 50 meter line and jones ran right past him chasing his man instead of going at the man with the ball. It happened time and time again throughout our games. No protection for our own players again our guys are too worried about their men to help their own. hurry up and clean out this list.

if he did not go with fitzy we would have been a few goals down. The problem was not going tall it was lack of skill in using that height to advantage, plus the fact that we were outplayed in every area that counts.

frawley did not even attempt to go at la Cras appalling. Watts absolutely useless.

fitzys doing well given the limited number of opportunities, sadly the same cannot be said for the smaller crumbers like Kent and bail. Too many demon players are too busy chasing their own men to go at the man with the damn ball. last goal to fitzy kent offered no protection by trying to shepherd, there is just no team work, these guys stand around expecting to do circle work with handball, instead of kicking. Bail took a mark on the transition and waved everyone to slow down what is with this side, we are already as slow as it gets... Michie makes some terrible decisions and even worse disposal. all in all its going the way I unfortunately expected.

Roos should be giving it to them, Watts in particular lets see if they can actually do something about it.

Fitzy selection maybe his audition for a place on next years roster. While he has not done a lot at Casey, who has, and with the crappy delivery he has had there maybe he can do better today, though our delivery is not exactly elite. Our problem is always going to be the West coasts midfield and rebounding half back line. We cannot afford to play an extra man on the ball if it means they have an extra in the backline, if that happens Hurn and others will kill us.

Just leave it at ...last time.

we have recruited the same as every other club, it defies logic to think that we have gotten every pick wrong. The difference between us and other clubs is obviously our culture and development. We take a good potential player and do not develop him we allow them to cruise along, whereas in other clubs you need to work hard to earn a spot in their side sometimes waiting several years. We often played our new recruits early as we often lacked quality players. We have often had to pay players up front to use our salary cap potentially giving these guys a level of comfort that they would not get elsewhere. How many times have you seen players playing badly or playing not so well then turn it on for the last few games and then resign then go back to their old ways once the new season starts. At the same time a lot of bottom clubs have had their first round draft picks come in and have an immediate impact on the game, where as ours have not, this I think is a factor of they type of players we draft, we have tended to go for the lean greyhound look rather than the something more solid worker with reliable skills. I would love to see the MFC come out and say how they are going to improve their development process for younger players, so that supporters and would be draftees have a better idea of what we are doing. Obviously the $wan$ academy would provide us with some ideas on what we could do. Is there anything to actually stop us doing something like that, it may allow us to develop a few youngsters who may have allegiance to the club for taking them in and teaching them.

I really not sure how many of the players you mentioned have ANY trade value, after all they cannot get a game in one of the worst performing sides in the AFL, why would someone show any interest in these Muppets.

GWS will not be able to keep all of their players together there will be good if not potentially great players who will be playing in their seconds who cannot get a game who will move to go to another side that will play them our problem is making the MFC look an attractive destination, which half way through the year I thought we had accomplished. Sadly our second half has undone that. After all a players salary is tied to their ability and how well they play, you cannot keep pay large $$'s for lots of players playing in the reserves well unless your name is mitchell and you play for the $ydney $wan$. I think a few GWS players will still be looking at scully and co and thinking how much they are getting and will be wanting more. So GWS will loose players over time. As for free agency, it has come along all of a sudden and clubs have been slow to understand it, now they do, they will trade players that do not commit in their 6th year to contract extensions, I doubt you are going to see as many free agents kicking around in the future as clubs recognize they will often loose if they leave it to the players 7th year, though in the dee's case of frawley i think this is a win win situation if he goes.

I think frawley was playing reasonably well in the early part of the year when up forward, but then so was a lot of other players. Frawleys lack of interest i think has coincided with the teams downward spiral which he in part with many other has contributed. I cannot blame him for leaving looking for more $$ is about looking after ones self and wanting to play in/win a grand final is the dream of all footballers, a dream our team could not make true for a lot of greats such as robbie Flower. So i wish him luck in that endeavor. If frawley has not already signed, which i doubt as he would have been trying to have his manager negotiate with as many clubs as possible to get the best offer, if he has not signed then he has devalued his own asking price considerably over the last year. If he has signed, well good luck someone other than us for once paid overs. Whatever compo we get for his i.e. round 1 or 2 picks is better than keeping him I am afraid. so obviously a bonus if we get a first round, but a second will still do. As we know all too well early draft picks do not guarantee a great or even good player, lot of good players have still come from later picks our challenge is to find those that are going to be the players we need.

Other good sides have run backwards and win, not bounced and win. Our problem is how many times we turn it over and get punished for it as opposed to how many times opposition have lost the ball to us and we punished them, by punished them i mean we made them watch us handpass and kick it backwards woefully until the opposition fell over laughing.

must admit I am a little bamboozled on the timing, doing it before the end of the season seems to saying we are not going to win any more games so it can look as if we are TXXXXXG, you know that thing that we were not found guilt of, but still being punished for if we loose and if by some miracle (i.e. Norf or Weagles loose then they will certainly be Txxxxxg) then they would say see you won 5 games good boys, no pp.

supporters sit in the stand week after week and cheer them on, applaud them when they do well and sometimes, sing the song as they come off and there are times like Sunday when the fans just have to show their anger and frustration at the crap performance these professional footballers are putting up. To think we are paying our something like $10m per year to players who put in such a p!$$poor performance.

anyone looking to offer Frawley a contract knows he can play when he puts his mind to it, and they may make obvious concessions over this years form give how poorly the team has played and the possible lack of interest shown by Frawley. Top clubs would also expect to get more out of Frawley and anyone else they take on so it is really going to come down to a bidding war as to who wants him and for how much. I doubt he has already signed a contract as that would mean he has not actually surveyed the market fully to see what others will offer. I expect who ever wants him is prepared to pay 600-700k per year for 3 years for him.

the whole drug investigation is a farce if essendon is allowed to have backdated, offseason or light penalties. They have systematically run a drugs program for their players. ASADA is as much as a joke as the AFL who knew essendon were doing these sort of things before the day of shame revelations and did nothing about it.

last time we met was truely embarrassment and sadly i think it will be again.

if there is a chance of getting him back then keep him on the list on the long term injury list and that will allow you to promote a rookie just weeks we are one rookie short.

I was at the game and noticed supporters booing before 3rd quarter time when melbourne was kicking the ball backwards and sideways instead of going forward, their defensive mindset is becoming an obsession with them where they will not kick forward to leading players in case they stuff it up, so they kick it around and and around and end up turn it over. The booing at 3 quarter time in my opinion was warranted to let the team know what we thought of their performance, it obviously fell on deaf ears as their last quarter was even worse. The booing at the end would not have only been MFC supporters but GWS supporters who saw a weak insipid opponent with no heart and no spine. At some point the players have to hit rock bottom for themselves before they either fight back or totally give up, this week against the eagles is going to be a real test to see who falls into what bucket. if they put in another performance like this against the eagles the west coast supporters will really let them have it. Sadly there are a lot of players out there who were playing for their careers and really you would not have known it from their performance.

The failure i see with Jack is his lack of chase and tackle, he often trots along side his man when he has the ball and then only starts to half chase if the player tries runs and carries. Tyson is a little like that too. We need players to put pressure on their opponents or the ball carrier at all times. Jack does not do that, he certainly has great deliver skills and is a pretty good mark when his on song. He sadly does not look interested in engaging the enemy.

maybe we need some kind of academy type of assistance where we take juniors and try to develop them along the lines of sydney. That would also help us to put more resources into player development in a more formal way.

After all the initial outrage and crap stories about melbourne not deserving a pp i suspect the tide maybe turning. Fox football has support for Melbourne at around 43% so get over there and vote. http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl-premiership/melbourne-midfielder-jimmy-toumpas-not-considering-move-home-to-south-australia/story-e6frf3e3-1227029842129?nk=5e5a9d9926305bce77067fdfbcb0a7d7

no matter who we draft we still need to address how we go about developing them, the casey environment the way it is does not really seem conducive to the best development of our younger players, how do we fix that?

i find his timing just after our worst defeat of the year for his announcement quite interesting. I wonder what prompted him to make the announcement now??

I would keep frawley in the forward line if he does well then he keeps his value, if he plays poorly then it can be said that he is being played out of position. Play him in the backline and you may reduce his currency for free agency.