Tolstoys Nudge

It’s a lot and it’s a sign of how resilient Perf was given we took it right up to 3 of the final 4 left in the race for the flag and didn’t play the 4th while they were rampant.. 11 wins and best player out half year inc when we took it to their 3 teams.. picks 5/9 and a heap of young resent to improve this year.. The list above is also largely media driven ie Trac/Clary — it was awful but it’s over and it’ll now all depend on how we go this pre season we need some luck and to get 90% doing 90% of it but if we do I’m confident both will be happy and content again.. but worst case we have a new young core to build round and if we lose them we lose them and get more young talent in without needing to bottom out. But I’d punt on both being dees for life right now. Trac clearly still playing games sending sublimation to club to express his frustration but once he hits the park I think it then turns to being his turn to act and put best foot fwd. Bring on draft and 2025.. can’t wait to see Windsor with another pre season, Clarry with a full pre season & May/Lever returning to their best as well. The could fuel us to a flag or tear us apart but it’ll largely come down to that 90% doing 90% of the PS.

No indication re needing help whatsoever.. was told to lighten up and to not show the pressure so much in interaction with players and he has full backing of playing group. They mean he lmk they want him to have full support of the club not that he needs more support.

I disagree slightly but all said its a pretty good snapshot but for me Smilie is more of a threat aerially and has solid hands Langford maybe surer hands but obv much less of a threat — Smilie Dump Kicks aren’t a skill-based error therefore can easily be coached out of him he just hasn’t played inside enough at the higher levels due to being so gifted in outside.. for me he’s closest thing to Bont I’ve seen due to his size but is a better kick! Obv doesn’t have the inside mastery of Bont and doesn’t read play as well in terms of fwd impact but is better on outside and hits targets while running full speed. Either wld be good but I’d much rather Smith/Smilie than Langford. Armstrong will be a demon I’m almost certain he’s the target at 9 and can’t see us doing that if we thought saints wld steal him but of course there is also Tauru whom can go anywhere from 2-12, but if we do miss Armstrong then I’d happily have Langford and Smilie that’s for sure 🙌🙌🙌

Looks like it. Let’s hope review findings come today or Monday, makes sense to have chunk on baked before releasing to show we are being pro active. Keep hearing how damming it is and that heads will roll, I’d say they’ve already rolled and that Bassett/Jones are seen as a key component of solution. Looking fwd to seeing Chaplin as the game day strategy coach in box. That’s surely the other change, can’t see it being Bassett.

Great to have Chunk back in the fold — makes his critical views all the more relevant. Now he can become a part of the solution. Knowing some of his philosophy or at least what he says publicly, I think he has the potential to get our mid group back to being the force it should be. My hope is that he helps make things more offensive & gets our stoppage strategy right to capitalise on what we can do well — being explosive, moving the ball fwd & ensuring Max has 7-8 good tap plays rather than just the 2-3 he’s exhausted & that other clubs are shaking way to easily.

Armstrong is very different to Jefferson — he hits packs hard and crashes in with his body Jeffo is a Lead and mark type! Tauru more a defender.. Armstrong def has loads of upside but chance id Smith slips we get Smilie and Smith but I’d rkn it’s Armstrong and one of their two!

Sad but true unfortunately!

With Tommo delisted it means we may of changed our minds on the SSP or DELISTED FA path — depends on Hore Personally I’d of preferred we added one more mid for depth but still seems less likely

I think our best option is still Smilie at #5 and Tauru or Armstrong at 9 but Tauru seems likely gone by then which is incredible — If one of Smith or Langford is available at 9 I’d say take em.. exciting times

He’s rocketing up the board and def could be in our 9 calculations — I still think Armstrong but I’m personally now leaning towards Tauru thru his diverse position range

Don’t have the list spots for that sort of split

Anyone keen on starting a fantasy NBA?

Pathetic lack of accountability— Not ONE journo mentions how Trac is now re engaged at club and was super excited with getting pick 5/9 nah nah OR fact even Claz’s MUM called out the lies of media re him wanting to leave — it’s just downright vitriolic tripe and the lot of em well thank next year for helping motivate and galvanise our playing group. Loved Tommo this morning telling CORN that basically if you went down to club you’d be shocked at how close everyone is etc but again that was brushed off even though Tommo could easily throw us under bus after being delisted he basically said he’s unsure what all fuss is about..

Was coming to comment on this and didn’t know this thread existed — Barrett is an absolute joke and is never held to account for this malevolent drivel he writes excerpt week I can’t understand why Houston comment changes anything it was evident why already and we got pk5 and changed our thinking at same time so big deal.. mess of a man!

When you say Nobody.. exactly whom did we go after that we didn’t get? Houston one was complex and were we finished meant a deal couldn’t be done — who else? Peatling had 12 clubs after him and went for home state team.. Just total bollocks — we’ve got a great record of getting our man, even Cerra came down to draft capital otherwise he’d of chosen us! Only planters that leave us are for opportunities and go home — if we stick to actionable facts this whole narrative is yet another media construct! Just sayin!

Keep swallowing that narrative mate — it’s your prerogative! But our socials def need some work I’ll give you that

Who’d of thought after all that hoopla — I’m glad, draft is huge that’s the focus and rest is covering holes one filled with Campbell & some delisted free agents I’d imagine their looking at on the cheap!

personally liked way Lamb handled today ie no mind games and not afraid to say we never shopped him — a def msg in that for mine.

Houston would never of come even if interested still — #5 this year in Lalor or Smilie would’ve never been risked — only would’ve offered next year first I rkn! Membrey for free seems a miss for me but I guess if we get Derk Diggler (coining it now) we have enough if they consider Petty a perm fwd, Turner we now know they def do!

If Stringer does go to GWS — surely it’s primed to attack Brown/Riccardi and also helps ensure we nab Derkson! If they hold that poor kid to his contract they deserve a smack — keep him he’ll languish in VFL and get bloody delisted and clubs may lose interest we see it often so I’m confident they’re just posturing. Since Pies are looking likely for pick 13 now from GC as part of a larger deal for Noble then Houston — let’s hope TL turns 28 and or next year -1st round into a top 15 pick this year it seems like we’re determined too& Freo 10/11 is being muted if we nab that with just next years first rnd that’d be a huge win so let’s hope they think Dees are gonna be bottom 4 next yr!!! Who knows maybe we can turn our suit into 3pks or 2 in top 8-10 🔥🔥🔥 sidenote: LOVE Pies going all in for the now, typical of the passive-aggressive-narcissist McRae - they’re absolutely mortgaging any future already no real young talent bar Daicos I’m looking fwd to 2027 and beyond as it stands right now 😛

https://megaphone.link/NTETP9089422782 Anyone who hasn’t heard this listen NOW — well done Dan, as usual CORN used bullying tactics and LIES to shoot down a valid argument — I’ll be going HARD at this [censored] next week and I’ll be ready for the bully antics I’ve dealt with many throughout my schooling and career so let’s go Kane you putrid excuse for a human.. of course we are not happy but we’re staunch and aren’t gonna swallow the media lies anymore, champ! Houston is DYING to get out does it ending contracted, as are many more — Clarry hasn’t asked for a trade and Trac didn’t either but that’s what the mainstream media lead by SEN Are about — fake news and player agent alignment likely with kickbacks as shocking as that sounds! Something sure stinks — we did some diligence and caught Connor sports in their lies and said enough, end of!!!

All untrue and don’t blame anyone here but Pert was doing what he’s told — all of you PLEASE stop buying the player agent driven grovel your hearing on radio it’s absolute tripe and aimed squarely at getting pressure on Melb to accept a lesser deal. ANYONE who believes our forty dept didn’t ask GP to make a few calls is sImply misinformed and that is now factual — club has stated as much! Cats/Clarry agent (Trac agency is same so is Bailey Smith’s.. 🤔) leaked this a sub did right thing and informed them we’d made calls as a reaction to him meeting with clubs we decided to see what he was worth.. TOTALLY fair — albeit naive — as thinking the agent wouldn’t leak that to help perpetuate a deal with a team without collateral was silly if honest. To get a deal with Cats the player agents only hope is to create a market whereby he is worth LESS than market value, but it was a false economy — cus we weren’t willing to accept less than market and never where — So let’s stop this nonsense.. Your being MANIPULATED!!!

Pls delete moderator/Andy

I wish I’d thought of that as my reason hahahahaha nope just good ol’ browser issues I’m guessing

I know mate it’s sad but that’s a battle we can’t win and fighting our own feels the antithesis of what we’re trying to achieve, it’s a lost cause I’m afraid but media is largely to blame there too cus ppl just eat up their g garbage even though it’s proven wrong time after time and with a little research most of wha they report can be undermined in a heartbeat. But fighting neg here is next to impossible as it’s a support group of sorts and that is fine, it’s only maturity that’s enabled me to realise our club largely knows what they’re doing and despite erring plenty by and large they know what’s best but most of all I support MFC, not any individuals within it, they’re merely a part-time entity within the greater coalition that is the Melbourne Footy Club! It’s why I stopped posting rumours, scuttlebutt heard from grapevine via agents mostly — I knew it was largely just talk and leading nowhere in 99% of instances but I knew I’d wanna know so I shared bits that came thru more than once. I mean back in the day no one here or anywhere in footy fan land would blv how many players deals etc get spoken about & that 1% get actioned, now that’s more widely known as media report anything as FACT inc those off-cuff conversations that go nowhere — lead by info from player agents and ppl at clubs reporting on OTHER clubs happenings to serve their own purpose. I used to cop copious accounts I was making things up for fun even though I’d preface it was pure spec and little chance of happening — NOW though media does same but reports it as likely, as they build the narrative to gain ascendancy and therefore help enable a guiding coalition towards their own report ergo McClure and the constant BS about MORE, or the Kos talk that Edmund admits openly comes only from reports via his ‘fam’ and friends — I mean how irresponsible is that?!?! If I lived interstate I’d tell my family I wanna come home too, that’s just what you DO — but it doesn’t signal his intent or reality whatsoever.. Would you want to tell Family who desperately want you home that you like it at the MFC??? and have no other to leave? This Oliver story was always coming, the same old journos couldn’t help but give it away, and then they dare say it’s A when it reality is B — It’s all to try and get their own stories validity, they’d LOVE it to come out true so they do all they can to aid that outcome. Inc taking skewed info from agents and report it as being FACT when they know it’s often spin and that they’re being used as a vessel for a certain narrative! It’s pathetic and I’m enjoying calling them on it on socials and talkback when I can but I need accomplices.. Moving fwd if anyone does let’s use a code word so we know its form Demonland - maybe we drop the word ‘abhorrent’ in the post or call 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣