Video Highlights Dumb decisions by MFC last 5 years

[A11dAtP0w3R]

So much

 

[Dancing Potato]

1. Bringing in Schache.

2. Selecting Schache as a sub.

3. Not activating Schache the sub when we were in trouble and it was all imploding.

4. Schache.

 

[melbun]

Not taking that Adelaide offer for Petty would be close to the podium of dumb decisions.

Gus and Oliver contracts. Extending Viney. Dumb

Extending Goodwin when there were clear issues ge wasn't addressing. Dumb.

Persisting with Lamb as list manager. He's a cop FFS. Has destroyed what was a great list. Not one trade has worked out since Langdon. At least Caro has finally highlighted how bad it's been. Has thrown away several decent picks unnecessarily imo where surely we could trust JT to hit on a couple of these 2nd rounders. Dumb

Fitness/injuries. On the fence with this. But how poor has our fitness staff been since Burgess left. Sending injured players out to play. Fitness levels seemingly gotten worse every season. Players coming back too soon. Maybe it was a dumb decision to trust in Selwyn to step up with an elite list? Maybe a dumb decision to not scope out a better option while in the window. On the fence with this one, but it's been frustrating.

Wot Crusty said.

 

[booshboy]

I'd argue we havent got a single thing right since the flag.

How can you expect to make good decisions when you are so blinded by your own hubris?

Cluster**** after Cluster****.

 

[SugarHealey]

This thread is going to take anyone who reads it to a dark place probably, but if you want to get stuff off your chest by all means.

Here are a few of my initial ideas, some universal and some maybe controversial, who knows. Honestly don’t know where to start

1. Oliver trade should have been properly considered end of 2023 - I love him but would have been better for us to do it, and maybe both parties.

2. Viney contract. I get the environment where you need to offer talented young players high risk contracts to get them across the line against fierce competition, but what was that deal achieving exactly?

3. (Controversial?) Should have looked closely at what we might get in a Petracca trade after he announced wanting out. A pissed off player, or confused player, isn’t helping us and won’t going forward, and it’s hurting both parties. Hard to watch.

4. Not giving Glen Bartlett whatever he wanted when he first started screaming. Payout, acknowledgement whatever. We dished up in the end anyway, paid stupid legal costs for no result and had a media cloud hang about for years.

5. Cheer louder / Demon spirit etc. You get the drift.

I could list 25 more with ease but I’ll sit back and let you take your turn. For the record though, Harvest Snaps is one of our wins of late.

1/ agree, Re Oli in hindsight. now is the next right time... 2025.

2/ Viney, heart and soul man. a must keep, but not on too much Lira$. Helps the culture.

3/ Tracca, no disagree... must keep.

4/ Bartlett our board tried to silence him and the doctor... in hindsight they were right, and Our board was way wrong. The issue of drugs in the club... and of a softening culture.

5/ Our crowd... we do attract it seems a milder softer easier going type of supporter generally speaking. And our results reflect this easy going nature... eg: Witness Demonland to see for yourselves.
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More issues:
1/ ANB leaving,? keeper.
2/ Our leadership not recognising apparently... the softening of our culture, during 2022/23/24... blind leading the blind.
3/ Wasted times, and careers during our strongest list phase.
4/ Decades of boards never grabbing opportunities for this club. eg: the Olympic Swimming centre...
5/ affiliated control of the club to the Mcc... for decades, being run/ruined by cricket minded board members of the mildest mindsets. No where near fierce enough.

In short, we are, what we have earn't... and what we sing of, after wins.

 

[SugarHealey]

Demon Spirit.

That Desk!!!

 

[SugarHealey]

Sacking Norm Smith.

This comes under my Board comments above.

 

[SugarHealey]

Trading for Grundy as a forward, then letting him go too cheap.

totally agree. Worth a shot, but mayhem after mayhem.
Getting him fit, then selling him unders, to Sydney.!

 

[SugarHealey]

Persisting with Lamb as list manager. He's a cop FFS. Has destroyed what was a great list. Not one trade has worked out since Langdon.

not so much...

But the failure has been not keeping up with the trends in the game style. Witnessing the changes to the running game, since Hardwick at the Tigers.

 

[SugarHealey]

Fitness/injuries. On the fence with this. But how poor has our fitness staff been since Burgess left.

I think this was all a part of the same issues, of that time. Burgess, Oli and Fritta off in defensive efforts. and the following, the jSmith saga. the Oli saga.

Culminating in Tracca wanting to leave last year...
Viney wanting to leave last year... hot on the heels of the drugs stuff.
ANB leaving.

All a big failure to oversee the moral and cultural compass, within the club.

 

[SugarHealey]

Schwabs jacket.

 

[Proper Gander]

Downgrading personnel in our media department

I’d promote Jessica in a heartbeat

 

[Proper Gander]

Didn't realise old Norm was around in the last 5 years, maybe we could reinstate him after turfing goody

I’d give him a go.

Being dead is far less of an impediment then some we are facing

 

[Toump Ass]

Kane Cornhole says we were offered 2 first round picks for Petty but I've never seen it anywhere else. I'm calling bullshit. No one is that stupid.

Gus' contract was fine, he won us a flag you campaigners.
And when he retired injured we were afforded salary cap relief. No harm done, play on.

 

[Proper Gander]

Kane Cornhole says we were offered 2 first round picks for Petty but I've never seen it anywhere else. I'm calling bullshit. No one is that stupid.

Gus' contract was fine, he won us a flag you campaigners.
And when he got injured we were afforded salary cap relief. No harm done, play on.

I’ve never believed the two first round picks bit

 

[Proper Gander]

Delisting Majak Daw

Outside the box but I like it!

The smallest of decisions can be pivotal

 

[Proper Gander]

The entire Christian Petracca injury saga.

• The decision to send him back on
• Continually refusing to rule him out from returning the same year
• The club, in particular Kate Roffey, not bothering to check in with him or his family in the aftermath
• The mixed and bizarre messaging about if he was or wasn't happy, had or had not been spoken to, did or did not want to seek a trade, what wider issues he had with the club and performance
• The entire Kate Roffey interview disaster that followed

We would have saved ourselves from this if we had successfully drowned him in 2017 or whenever.

 

[MartinPrince]

Losing toby bedford

 

[TheBoss]

It seems like everything started going downhill the moment Benny Gibson left the Gus & Gawny podcast.

 

[PerfectFooty]

I’d give him a go.

Being dead is far less of an impediment then some we are facing

I can't see why Simon Goodwin should be a premiership coach, we should bring back Norm Smith. Kids will want to see an original premiership coach

I keep telling you he's 110 years old and he's dead

 

[Topkent]

Kane Cornhole says we were offered 2 first round picks for Petty but I've never seen it anywhere else. I'm calling bullshit. No one is that stupid.

Gus' contract was fine, he won us a flag you campaigners.
And when he retired injured we were afforded salary cap relief. No harm done, play on.

Some relief, I don't think it's been fully settled yet still for the amount

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

I admit the Gus thing is a but harry hindsight but that doesnt mean the warning signs weren't there and it wasn't dumb. No one else is forced into retirement after that bump from Maynard.

 

[Topkent]

I admit the Gus thing is a but harry hindsight but that doesnt mean the warning signs weren't there and it wasn't dumb. No one else is forced into retirement after that bump from Maynard.

Its not even 100% about the concussion either. We actually got lucky with that in a way. It was him wanting play inside mid and then we gave him 4 years. Imagine how shit we'd look with him in there instead of Langford as well. Just need Viney and Oliver to hurt themselves bad aswell

 

[A11dAtP0w3R]

Its not even 100% about the concussion either. We actually got lucky with that in a way. It was him wanting play inside mid and then we gave him 4 years. Imagine how shit we'd look with him in there instead of Langford as well. Just need Viney and Oliver to hurt themselves bad aswell

Like Hodgey said the other day, lot of selfishness going on of late with players wanting their stats.

 

[Dory_77]

I’d give him a go.

Being dead is far less of an impediment then some we are facing

I feel the Norm Smith Curse has spooked the club from not giving Goody the arse recently. He's not had anywhere near the same success but the idea of 'Melbourne sack flag-winning coach!' given the history seems a bridge too far for the current lot.