Cam Marshall 🦘🦚💙🤍💛

@kangamerchant I would say he has to debut next week but you just never know with the North Melbourne match committee, they make some bizarre decisions.

Pretty complete 1st quarter there from Griffin. Marks both inside 50 leading and falling back to intercept. Won himself a holding the ball, and collected nicely off the ground to snap and goal. #VFL

@TheNorthDoc From all reports Clancy Snell is the best available, is exactly what we need and might be available at our pick. I’d be very reluctant to pass him up.

Haven’t followed this year’s crop at all, so if the next Harris Andrews is available I apologise.

Our connection inside 50 during the Dees game was so bad it makes me wonder if we need to do the unthinkable at the draft and avoid taking the best key defender available. I’m coming around to selecting someone who has leg speed and can deliver the footy inside 50 🤷‍♂️

@Fudge2409 100%.

@MultiCamSitcom Yeah if the afl was a level playing field - the suns should of faced some Charges

Gold Coast were awful that day, for North to lose we would have legitimately had to tank the game. The AFL media would have gone into overdrive, we would have been fined and stripped of draft picks. Get over it, stop blaming it for the position where we find ourselves in now.

@kangamerchant We can’t play both Colby and Daniel back as they don’t defend. Clarko won’t drop or move Daniel so we’re left with playing Colby out of position. 🤦‍♂️

Played all but 2 quarters as a high half back after the bye last season. Averaged 5 score involvements per game (top 5 amongst general defenders) and an average player rating of 10.6 (top 10 amongst general defenders). Just give him the freedom to direct our movement off HB.

@rickm18 Every week our team selection is puzzling and I’m convinced it’s because of Clarko’s refusal to drop his favourites. As a consequence we play so many players out of position to compensate for players who shouldn’t be in the team.

Man it's such an imbalanced team North are putting out. Puts a (manually placed) hard ceiling on the output and also lowers the floor. Most of it relatively avoidable too #AFLNorthDees

@JesseC Should be up 4 - 5 goals, instead it’s 4 points.

Have absolutely dominated Melbourne around the ground but fwd entries are embarrassing

@NMFCOfficial @marvelstadiumau Yeah, that’s not happening again! 😉

Last time we met Melbourne @marvelstadiumau 🤘 Six goals in just 10 minutes set us up for a 59-point win in Jack Darling's 300th game! 🎟️: nmfc.me/Round19Tickets

@rickm18 Mixed. Take the wins but frustrated that inaccuracy cost us a big win against Essendon, we fell away badly against Port and inaccuracy early against the Pies denied us score board pressure and that we found away to lose when we had the ascendancy in the last quarter.

Just some crowd sourcing from me because I have a bunch of swirling, contradictory thoughts I haven't been able to get down on paper yet to cover everything while I was away: The consensus on North Melbourne's last few weeks (post-Fremantle loss) has been _____________???

The corruption of the MRO & Tribunal is so blatant that they don’t even care anymore.

@NMFCOfficial This is great and I love The Beatles but I thought “pen to paper players” was going to be contract news. 🤷‍♂️

Pen to paper to players 🫰✨

@jlo__97 Will be a late out.

Do we think Chris Scott names Jeremy Cameron next week

@frankip Sure but at some point in the very near future the honorable losses need to become gutsy wins. The ability to kick crucial goals, to not panic under pressure, to execute basic skills were all missing when it mattered most. We need to be better.

@MultiCamSitcom Will take losing playing like that, unlike last week's performance

That is a heartbreaking loss, the players gave their all, unfortunately skills and decision making were the difference in the end, simply have to get better if we’re to improve.

@ardenstreetnuff For context this is Sam ‘He doesn’t want to go there Mitch, West Coast won’t draft him’ McClure.

Hahahaha OH BROTHER WE ARE DOOMED

@thoughtfullwon @NMFCOfficial Still has a year to go on his contract, there is no rush whatsoever, wait until this time next year. It won’t affect whether Free Agents do / don’t come however our wins / losses will, need to finish the season on 10+ wins.

Clarko should be given a 2 year extension by the end of the season and before the FA/trade period starts. It is hard enough to get players to come to @NMFCOfficial as it is without having a coach coming out of contract in 12 months.

@MOTweets1919 Yes he knows exactly how good he is, he’s just very humble.

Genuine question: is Haaland actually aware of just how good he is?

@bounce_centre Completely agree, if we did drop certain players it would draw attention to some very questionable trade decisions.

@MultiCamSitcom I think its a list management issue too. We've given contracts to guys who are stuck on the list for the next few years. Almost like were obliged to play them because of it.

At some point the North Melbourne match committee have to drop senior players who continually underperform.

@marniecohen Haha. All good, your resilience and optimism is to be admired, back on brand tomorrow. 🙂

@MultiCamSitcom 😭I’m sorry

You know things are bad when @marniecohen can’t find anything positive to say.

@themongrelpunt He’s a tabloid journalist, contributes absolutely nothing to a show that is largely about football tactics.

Oh man… thought I might get some quality from First Crack, but Jay Clark immediately jumps the Maynard-Long thing and I’m done, and how “lucky” the players are. The sooner this bloke’s contract with this show is done, the better. Has been a cheap imitation of what it was for 18 months, now.