AllMyTeamsAreWank

45 minutes ago, Watson11 said:

Some of the A graders listed in other teams are baffling.  Maybe I don’t watch other teams enough, but is he serious that St Kilda have 3 A graders. 

How the feck they got Membrey as an A Grader?

27 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

My mail is Bennell wants to come pending some further investigation into his injuries.  The ops he has had and rehab required means he won’t be available until mid way through the season.

Sounds like it will be down to who has the best to offer when it comes to medical and conditioning. How do we compare to Saints in that department?

16 minutes ago, Bonkers said:

How in this day and age with professional sports science teams, physios & doctors on top of all of the other consultants outside of club level get the diagnosis about his calves wrong for over 4 years?

Is this legitimately what has happened or is this spin to mask other issues he's had?

I'm sure the club have asked the same question. I'm trusting the necessary due dilligence has been completed and they have weighed up the risks. 

3 minutes ago, TGR said:

Frost stopped a fast-play I50 for a certain score.

The turnover resulted in a slow-play I50 whereby a decent defence would be semi-ready. 

 

You lot lap this up, but the reality is you are psuedo-clapping the Melbourne footballer with inferior speed/workrate to actually get a to a Petruccelle contest.  We have heaps of them.  So I guess the psuedo clapping is on in earnest.

 

 

Clarkson and Hawthorn will have clear instructions for him and a superior work-rate up the field.  I would also add that the get-out dump kick, could be better secured with aerialists in Sicily, O'Brien and co.  Frost will smash it at Hawthorn.  Clarkson has got a beauty for next to nothing.  When 'all is said and done' and Frost proves his worth, and the stupidity of the decision, the sycophants will yell "move on, that was history".

 

Jordan Lewis targetting for me was the snowflake of a decision that started an avalanche.  Most here have blind faith in our decision-makers and medical staff.  I don't, not for a minute.

 

Agree with most of this re Frost unfortunately. 

Has only met with us personally by the sounds of it. The ball is well and truly in our court now. 

4 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

Username checks out.

Fully expected it to read "Sorry Kids", so was actually surprised. 

I really rate this bloke. He looked unstoppable against Brisbane before he limped off. DIdn't he kick 5 or 6?

Interestingly Hogan and Martin both were selected in the 'mini-draft" with GC picking Martin with their first pick and us taking Hogan with pick two. 

2 minutes ago, Wiseblood said:

The only sticking point may be money, LT.  If he puts a high price on his head then we may not be able to match it, or feel as though it will hinder our ability to sign up some of our key players next year.

Make no mistake - I'd love him at the club, and I would be happy for us to bluff Carlton a little to make them sweat, but if he puts a big bounty on his head then we may have no choice but to pass on him as we can't afford his salary.

Surely isn't after more than what Elliot was asking. 

Just now, binman said:

Why?

A certain off field 'incident' happened between the two players which resulted in Jack Steven refusing to even train with Sinclair, which is why he refused to even turn up for training. PM me if you want to know the rumour, but I have strong mail from I guy I work with who connected to him. 

Desparately wanted out because of Jack Sinclair. Was either that or he walked. 

2 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

Freo might be silly but they aren't silly enough to to pay up for Gus with a bad back, concussions, awful kicking and lack of leg speed that makes him pretty much without a position. His contract is untradeable and we have to do the best we can to salvage his career.

Burgess is going to have to work some magic to strip weight from him and get burst speed, agility and elite tackling in to his game in a hurry.

He is firmly in the Trengove zone.

Prove me wrong.

I wasn't aware of any back issues. Where was this written?

Most of my mates are pies fans, so I watch quite a few of their games. I was always impressed with Murray and rated him higher than Maynard for them. Would happily take him. 

3 minutes ago, Sorry kids said:

Try and focus. We are talking about McCartney, not everyone at the Club. Developed two blokes who were natural leaders in five years. No success here or at the Bulldogs.

Focus? More irony as you seem to have focused on the throwaway comment in my post and completely ignored my point!  

You are either judging his entire tenure at Melbourne off one horrible year where there seems to be multiple extrenuating circumstances or you are just trolling. I suspect it's the latter, so I'm not responding on this again.

1 minute ago, Sorry kids said:

He was paid handsomely for any success he achieved which was none  of any great significance while he was there. Unable to produce more than two blokes who are capable or ready for leadership in 2020. 

I disagree completely. Several years of linear improvement and a prelim with one terrible year seems like a pretty good result if you ask me.  You may as well sack everyone in the club if you want to apply that logic. 

10 minutes ago, Sorry kids said:

Listened to McCartney on SEN. What a polarizing figure he is. Egonamic, been there, done everything type desperately trying to convince he is still relevant. All over the place. So, see ya, thanks for your service and lets make sure we do better next time. 

He definitely didn't give me that impression at all. Seemed extremely humble on his time at the Dees and didn't have a bad word to say about anyone at the club.

I find the irony amusing that most of your posts are closer to your description of Brendan. 

I don't mind Corey and I think in a performing side he would be similar in terms of usefulness to Hannan last year. As for Josh Wagner, I have him firmly in my delist box. 

I read this article this morning and agreed with most of it. I'm fairly optimistic for next year as I believe it was a perfect storm of bad luck and poor preparation that landed us here. 

11 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

We owe him nothing. He has been well paid. 

The game moves on

That worked well when we offloaded James McDonald if I recall. 

Josh Wagner for the love of God. 

11 minutes ago, kev martin said:

Some of our problems are easy to see. Opposition scoring from turnovers, missing for certain times in games and conversion from the entries into the 50. If we have a good pre-season we should be able to improve in these areas.

We were close in a lot of our games making us more than a competitive team.

Next season opposition teams won't be setting themselves to beat us as we arn't a big scalp.

Our midfield is still strong.

Plenty of players with something to prove. 

Players shouldn't have such an interrupted season again.

Younger group got plenty of games at the highest level into them.

Easier draw next year.

More determined because of this years pain. 

Hopefully we will have many alternative game plans and are able implement them when required. This year we were too one dimensional as we were trying to just get the basics right.

Back end of the year we had clearly adjusted our style of play to try and hold possession and slow it down. You could tell the players just weren't comfortable with it and it looked slow and cumbersome. Overhauling a game plan mid year when you've already had the confidence sucked out of you from losing is basically like pissing in the wind. In some ways I guess it's better than experimenting on each other for the first time next pre season, so maybe that's a silver lining. 

I'm of the belief that with a few decent pick ups and hopefully a full pre season we will turn it around. I just worry we don't have the cattle to run this game style. If we find a balance between crash & bash and possession footy maybe we can bounce back strong, because I don't think we can overly favour one style over the other. 

I'm optimistic every year despite the torture. 

18 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

Melbourne close to signing Alan Richardson in key coaching role

"Melbourne has ramped up its bid to win the services of former St Kilda coach Alan Richardson.

The Demons are in the final stages of negotiations with Richardson about a key coaching role for next season.

Football manager Josh Mahoney has led the Dees’ chase for Richardson and is on the verge of landing his signature."

Any chance you can paste the whole article? Paywall unfortunately. 

Would you have Lyon in a Neil Balme type role? 

9 minutes ago, McQueen said:

Goodwins post match starting soon. 

Sadomasochism and self flagellum devotees unite for the preliminary final of pressers  

??? 

Goodwin yet to mention anything about the gameplan. 

1 minute ago, McQueen said:

Goodwins post match starting soon. 

Sadomasochism and self flagellum devotees unite for the preliminary final of pressers  

??? 

You must drink every mention of 'forward connection', 'flow', 'back to the Melbourne way', 'injuries'.