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For what it is worth. A youngster at training yesterday asked Richo in front of 200 fans and over the P.A about Kozzie and where would he play. Richo paused and as luck would have it the question coincided with Kozzie entering the ground and he clearly heard the question. He gave Richo and the kid a thumbs up which Richo acknowledged. Theatre or a portent of what he has decided, I don't know but Richo was quick to point out that Kozzie had acknowledged. Richo replied that Kozzie is a much loved player loved by one and all at the club and that Kozzie loves the club.

Someone mentioned the question about Kozzie from the youngster. It happened just as Kozzie was entering the field and clearly heard the question and Gave FRicho the thumbs up which Richo acknowledged. I hope he has decided so we can quickly move on. The session was short and sharp with Max, Hibbo and Lever all spending some time with the fitness team. It is also noteworthy that Van Roo had an enormous knee bandage on one leg. I wonder if he is carrying an injury. Nothing mentioned. I was pleased to see the session finished off with goal kicking drills. The media complain that clubs don't practice goal kicking but all players were having a go. I watched Ollie Sestan as he has a set routine and did not miss any of his dozen or so shots on goal. A most enjoyable day

A great team effort with everyone making a contribution 6. Grundy, 5. Oliver, 4. McDonald, 3. Petracca, 2. Viney, 1. Rivers

I was impressed with Cross and S Sheridan. Commentary was that Max went to the Eastern finals last year, noticed Sheridan, and alerted the club to his potential. 192 cm string bean who moves well and knows where the goals are. My son is a North supporter and was watching Fordham who has an AFL body but butchers the ball and makes bad decisions . Not AFL standard in this opinion

Has anyone seen where MFC has published who the leadership group is?

Lever BBB Sparrow Spargo Rivers No one else

Ronald Dale Barassi Robert Flower David Neitz Gary Lyon Jim Stynes

According to the club they were reviewing the videos to see if they could find the incident but were unable to identify how and when it happened.

I was fortunate enough years ago to work on an MFC project cataloguing a lot of their vast trove of memorabilia. This was while it was in temporary storage of the sports museum in the depths of the MCG. Many athletes put on loan or bequeath their medals, uniforms or other gear for safe keeping. Pluggers Locket's Brownlow and Coleman medals were in storage , Betty Cuthbert's track suit and even a funny old bike that was ridden to glory for an olympic gold medal reside down there. Many of the old cricket bats are kept in the MCC museum on loan. The owners say they are properly stored and are kept in a safe secure environment. There is o much in storage that isn't on display.

Hi Lucy It took a while but followed your suggestions and got in. it is a bit confusing as it has details of my 2023 membership but down the bottom of the page it Saks if I want a members pack or plastic card. I have already received my membership pack

I like that it isn't listed as a practice match but 6 25 minute quarters of match simulation with no time on. What does one make of that? Will there be tackling? I assume 4 umpires and unlimited rotations.

Keep an eye on Howes. Chrissy drink with a mate who socialises with Taylor and asked me what I thought of Howes. Jason believes he is a super talent and will make an impact. An unfortunate foot injury prevented him from being on track to debut last season.Track watchers, I welcome your reports

Seriously look on the club website report on training today, the first pic is a bulked up Sparrow. He has the guns out and looks imposing. I suspect he has spent a bit of time in the gym and will be playing more of a bull in the midfield role

For the AFL to say it didn't impact the Brownlow shows how far off the mark they are. Multiple bets were made based on information released resulting in wins. It appears it wasn't just about the Brownlow. In addition whether true or not the feeling will be that there was an awareness that Cripps was well-placed vote wise and it makes sense of the ridiculous lengths, Carlton went to in order to get Cripps off. It had to happen sooner or later because the sheer volume of gambling on sports and the exotic bets lend themselves to this. Now an insider has broken the code and cheated. I was surprised that the maximum jail term is 10 years.

Stating the obvious but at the B&F discussing the season over a beer one of the players was open and honest that the club was trying to play safe football and kick long to the pocket for a contest or stoppage. In hindsight that wasn't daring or unpredictable and they will do it differently next season. This had been reviewed straight after the seasons conclusion. I can only imagine that team structures and plans are developed over the summer, as much as we all think there should be a plan B , C or otherwise, it is obviously very difficult to change course midstream or if injuries impact. TMac is vital to the structure and neither Brown nor Weid was a viable replacement, hence the short forward line and use of Melk.

That was a caller on SEN today called Rumour Ron. Declared that he would name the new coach on Thursday and it wasn't Lyon. Hinted that Choco would be manager and mentor for Yze.

With absolutely no Information I would love us have a crack at Tim Membrey at St Kilda. Runs hard, takes a good contested mark and kicks goals and goes down back when needed

Stated on the Grundy file that Cooliwood have threatened to keep grundy as they don't like our offer of pick 27. They want our 13! If no Grundy the club must keep Weid.

I wouldn't be trading Weid out yet if the Grundy deal falls through. Of course, Collingwood has waited to see what we get from free and getting greedy. No deal and see how they manage their salary cap and invite Grundy back into the fold after rejecting him. Hold the line, Tim.

As nothing has happened yet I think we can see a pattern developing in the list management team. While not as overt as Geelong my impression is that hit season gone we stuck with the premiership group and developed lots of new talent at Casey. With retirements and Jackson going it looks like the club are resetting and looking to back the young talent we have developed. Clearly, they knew Jacko was going and went after Grundy! JVR is groomed to step up to a key position up forward and other players in the wings are given the option of moving. Maybe didn't see Bedford going but have noise around Hunt, Harmes, Tomlinson & Weid suggest a refresh. The club IMO believes it is in the premiership window and is building for now hence looking at Hunter. At the same time, they are looking to store some draft picks for 2023 with their eye on kids they have been following. A bit of long-term planning happening which isn't entirely obvious to us mere mortals

I hate to say this but I agree with Kennet, first time ever. The club conducted an anonymous survey with some confronting allegations, which weren't fact-checked but accepted as true. To then go to an ABC journalist and tell the story and name coaches who have had no right to reply is wrong. Why now when these events are 9 years old? Is there so much distrust in the survey that those concerned felt the need to go public? If anything, Caro's story re Mitchell suggests that the club was very strict, heavy-handed with its handling of young players. To me that the controlling wasn't racially based but something all new players to the club were subjected to. Culturally insensitive yes but a racist I think not. It is only in recent times especially post Adelaide's camp that an awareness of cultural sensitivities is so detrimental to First Nations players.

We have locked away a great midfield but the one knock on them is they don't kick enough goals. Trac had a misfiring year with his goal kicking. If Clarry is to match Cripps he needs to kick more goals. We rely heavily on creating goal scoring from centre clearances. What we need is another creative goal kicking forward. Think Stevie J, Toby Greene, Isaac Heaney type to complement Fritsch. Sheezel in the draft is so impressive with respect to this. We have enough contested beasts in the midfield but lack an outside runner, with pace who kicks to position and can hit a target. Think Rozee type of player

I am led to believe he will go when this contract runs out but I thought he may return to Adelaide. You are correct to point out that there could be 2 coaching vacancies available sooner. Everyone should remember Yze came in as insurance after Goody had a really bad 2021 as Michael Warner keeps writing stories about

I hope Adem stays and is the logical heir to take over from Goodwin.

Trump must have been thinking about Trade Radio when he coined the phrase "Fake news" Bulldog's statement is they have no interest in Tomlinson. MFC has stated they expect Bedford to sign on, and that Weid will stay at the club for the last year of his contract. Port say they are not and have never shown interest in Kozzie and expect him to be a Melbourne player for a long time. So-called expert commentators should preface their statements that it is an opinion piece and. not based on any information or evidence.