I've always seen the Milky Way as a Chocolate Bar you got as a kid. IDK, that and the Bertie Beetle are gateway chocolates to your Mars Bars and Caramello Koalas, for mine. Purchasing 15 Milky Ways, highly suss. Wouldn't draft Ryan Gosling or Simmo.
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Who do they surplant?
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The same Scotland with a solid track record of belting people?
I'd take a bit of self-satisfaction over that tbh..
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Anyone heard anything about Oliver? I know there was a bit of talk last trade period about us wanting him...
HSUN have a headline.. "He (Oliver) was thrown up as a likely target for rival clubs last year but brilliant ball-winner Clayton Oliver has made a big commitment to Melbourne after a red-hot start to the season."
Paywall is stopping me from seeing the article which i have no doubt will be absolute rubbish but just thought i'd check in with our ITKs if they have heard anything?
HSUN have a headline.. "He (Oliver) was thrown up as a likely target for rival clubs last year but brilliant ball-winner Clayton Oliver has made a big commitment to Melbourne after a red-hot start to the season."
Paywall is stopping me from seeing the article which i have no doubt will be absolute rubbish but just thought i'd check in with our ITKs if they have heard anything?
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Will be at Melbourne till end of 2023 according to HS then FA time, take all the time you need Clarry.
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Just signed a contract extension until end of 2023.
Locked in | Clarry commits to Melbourne
Clayton Oliver has signed a contract extension with the club
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Talking to Merrett.
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Is it a process of supplanting someone?
We use our premier midfielders more than any other side. The relative strength of midfields like Brisbane, WC, Collingwood, WB is that they have so many players they can roll through there without a loss of productivity; it didn't start out that way for them, but they persevered with groups of players, and it bore fruit for them in time.
Secondly, Cuningham should be played in the twos as a run with player, with the eventual aim of swapping Ed for him. He doesn't have natural ballsense, but he is quite possibly our best player one on one. Keeping it simple could very well be the making of him.
Dow also needs to be dropped, but he didn't at the beginning of the season. He was building quite nicely, before being banished in round 2 from the midfield to the forward flank, something which is not his go. I am hoping that he, like SPS, is there for development reasons; he's there to learn forward positioning, goalkicking, etc. I'm not talking about him being in there for Cripps-esque numbers, bit I am certainly talking about him being in there for more than 6% of stoppages.
I have a theory, which - admittedly - comes from my cricket background. See, some teams which during the year are more than fine running around with three bowlers taking all the wickets suddenly find themselves up against it because one of them has a bad day in finals. For you to be a real threat, you need 5-6 bowlers capable of chipping in, otherwise you won't live past that one bad day.
You look at how, in 2011, our mids and KPP were dropping like flies and we didn't have the backup. You look at the reasons why St Kilda and Freo dropped multiple grand finals against much broader midfields. You look at how it was only when Richmond added Prestia, Caddy, Townsend in a preseason, that all of a sudden they seemed to bat pretty deep too.
I think if you're going to play young mids or forwards, you need to play them as midfielders or forwards. You cannot just keep shoving a round peg into a square hole. I'm not saying you need to play them in the midfield the whole time - or play them before they're ready - but you can't just leave them wasting away on a flank because you keep trading in people in front of them.
Either trade them out, or work with them to achieve something productive. What we have right now is the worst of all worlds; players who don't contribute in their selected position because they're not suited for it, and main players who we'll collapse without because there's no support.
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All Oliver needed was a 4-0 start to convince him.
Yep. A winning club is a happy club.
4-0 sure beats their uninspiring, backwards-looking, football from last year.
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All Oliver needed was a 4-0 start to convince him.
Now they will go back to not winning a game 
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So much for Clayton Oliver. Glad that's not gonna drag on next off season.
Want one of our own developing mids to step up anyway. We have enough there on the list. Some just need to make the grade
Want one of our own developing mids to step up anyway. We have enough there on the list. Some just need to make the grade
Kelly or Merrett might bob up at the end of this year but do I hope a couple of the youngsters take the next step.
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We've just added Martin and Williams the last two years on decent coin.
Cripps and Walsh are already A grade.
Some of these below guys gotta go to the next level-
Fogarty (think he's the one. Can be a full time mid)
Dow (looked good in the off season but still not elevating)
LOB (bust)
Stocker (needs opportunity)
Cunningham (needs opportunity and to stay fit)
Philp (i like him. Think he will be a Cotrell with more party tricks)
Carroll (1st year has time)
Kennedy (moved to rookie list.. days looking numbered)
Or, Huge Jerkman
Well Martins is fairly reasonable now given it was heavily front loaded. Isn't he "only" on like $600k now? I don't know if Williams was as well but I wouldn't be surprised, it seems to be how we're working our FA contracts right now.
Wouldn't be surprised if we still have a dece amount this off-season.
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Stocker, Kennedy, Carroll, Cunners, Philp, Ramsay and Dow are all youngsters who have impressed so far this year. You get one or two to take the next step, and we don't need an Oliver or Merrett.
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