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Hoping for Ben Brown to come into the fold.

The frustration is understandable, the losses to Adelaide and Collingwood were both avoidable. But realistically if we haven’t improved we don’t beat the Dogs or Lions and don’t find ourselves 11 & 2 at the bye. Im tipping Lions to beat the Cats and the Eagles to beat Dogs, if that happens and we roll the Bombers we will have our two game lead back against second and third. This is critical as we have away games against Port, Eagles and Geelong in the run home.

I don’t rate the Bombers as much as some on here do, the key to this game is our mindset. Even our wins against Freo, Giants, Hawks, North and Carlton were made to be much harder than they should of been. Bring in Ben Brown and bring our mindset from the opening bounce of the dogs game and the 2ns half against the lions and we’ll romp it in. Sick of watching these scraps against weaker sides.

Some crucial games next week. Lions at home to Geelong Eagles at home to the Dogs Should be regulation wins for Tigers over Saints and Port over Sydney. Have to tip Lions and Eagles at home, that would be massive for us.

Head up, no but I think clubs would consider him as a second tall. Every year talk forwards and ruckman get on the merry go round. I think we’ll offer him a contract for 2 years on low dollars. Another club will easily beat what we’re offering.

Seems to be some confusion about being dropped and putting a line through his name all together. It could down to another club offers him more than we’re prepared to pay. There’s not enough talent currently for the 18 clubs as it stands. If Brown comes in next week and doesn’t get injured for the remainder of the season I’ll don’t think we’ll see Weid again. Too much money to be made elsewhere and that’s what it will come down to for him IMO.

And yet some still call for 20 teams and or conferences….

Bloody hoping you’re right.

On one hand we dropped two games which screams typical Melbourne but on the other we dismantled Geelong & Richmond then the Bulldogs & Lions in consecutive weeks. It could also be argued the later games were done playing one short. The most frustrating thing is we were two games in the top two. In the run home we still have Port, West Coast & Geelong all away.

Brown was playing well though, the Carlton game being the exception. Both Brown and Weideman struggled that game

How generous of you. Brown did more in his first two games then Weid did In five.

I don’t think that’s a fair comment. Weids played 5 games where as Brown has only played the 3, hardly a block. Brown kicked 2 against North then 3 against the Swans, he was just starting to get going when Jackson got injured. Against Carlton when both Brown and Weid played there was clearly no synergy. Weids had 4 games without Brown and his form had steadily declined.

I only watched the last five minutes, while I agree about the kick not being 15 metres I also thought Richmond got away with a couple of throws in that period.

Classic.

First live game in 18 months…. Just popped up the shops in my VFL retro hoodie, picked up a MND beanie for my beautiful fiancé. Before the game I’ll be breaking out the 2021 membership scarf out of its cryovacced packaging for her to wear, I’ll be running a 2014 of similar. Aiming to get to Moore Park about 1, enjoy some lunch then of to the G, the SCG. Cant beat live footy, missed it so much.

I didn’t agree with your comment.

Gawn and Lever recently re signed after their previous ( large by all accounts) contracts finished. So I’d nearly be tempted to put them down into the next bracket and put TMac into that 700-750 bracket. You’ve also listed Petracca twice and I’d have Ben Brown in the 400-500 bracket. But yes things would be tight.

He looked alright against North and the Swans. He kicked 64 goals in 2019, this season isn’t over yet.

Comments like these…. Hasn't played for three weeks and has still achieved more than Weideman. A long way to go before this season is done.

Can’t be serious.

Due to circumstances out of my control I was unable to get to Melbourne earlier in the season and also missed last Friday night against the Lions but I’ve secured two tickets to Queens Birthday. Can’t bloody wait.

McDonald is contracted for next year. Plus if Brown can remain injury why can’t he put together 2-3 good years at theMFC?

So Ben Brown is finished as an AFL player then?

Port were a tough skilful side and as good and as dominant as they were during the home and away seasons they only managed the one flag. Saints were dominant for a period of time, when Goddard took that screamer in the goal square I thought they’d broken their drought. A week later when the GF was replayed they went missing. As for “Going all out for a flag this year even if reducing the chances of a flag overall “, We gave up picks 26, 33 and a future 4th rounder for Brown so we hardly sold the farm. You could argue we may lose Weideman for lack of opportunities, if he chooses to leave so be it, Hawthorn went on to win two more flags after Buddy walked to Sydney. We effectively beat the Bulldogs and Lions with minimal input from him. Your assuming that Weideman is going to become a consistently good player, he may well do that and we all hope that he does but right now it’s not happening for him for whatever reason. I mentioned in an earlier post that Geelong’s and Richmond’s window is coming to an end and that ours is opening, I believe with the talent we’ve got we can be competitive for years. I always hear two things mentioned throughout the seasons, firstly “defence wins premierships” and secondly “he’s the type of forward you build a team around”. We have the best defensive set up in the competition, after our last two wins you could argue we have if not the best, the 2nd or 3rd best midfield. Now I’m not suggesting that Brown is a Franklin or Riewoldt, but he has managed to kick a truckload of goals three years in a row for side that continually struggled and barring injury has a couple of years left in him. Weid been given an opportunity this year and has been underwhelming, he’s still getting by on potential whilst I thought Brown showed some good form against North then Sydney. I would love to see Brown now get a run of games to see what he can produce when allowed to settle with the team. As always the coaches know more than us so time will tell.

No, you must play your best side whenever possible, you may never get another chance. History is exactly that. Geelong won 07, 09 & 2011. There was potential there for 5 in a row. Tiger won 2017, 19 & 2020. In 2018 Collingwood beat them at their own game….manic pressure. They could have had 4 in a row. Id happily take one flag, I could only dream of three. But imagine four or five straight. We can’t leave anything to chance, we can’t simply wait for someone to come good whilst we have better waiting in the wings. Another loss like that Adelaide one (and no I’m not suggesting that loss was Weideman’s fault, though would of been nice if could have touched the ball in the last qtr) could cost us a top 2 finish.