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North Melbourne should target David Mundy says Nick Riewoldt and Mark Robinson, age, contract

North Melbourne should target David Mundy says Nick Riewoldt and Mark Robinson, age, contract

Two Fox Footy pundits have urged North Melbourne to make a “Luke Hodge-style play” for outgoing Docker David Mundy to boost the bottom-placed club’s leadership prospects.

Mundy, Fremantle’s games record-holder, on Monday called time on his celebrated AFL career, three days after making his 371st appearance.

It places Mundy in the 10th spot on the all-time VFL/AFL games played table, with Scott Pendlebury (352), Joel Selwood (350) and Lance Franklin (335) the closest to him among active players.

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Speaking on Fox Footy’s On The Couch on Monday night, Mundy, 37, said he was pretty happy and content” with his decision after a pre-season ankle injury kickstarted retirement thoughts, but said there was “nothing set in concrete” for post-footy life.

Asked if he would’ve played on at Freo had his body allowed him to, Mundy told On The Couch: “No I don’t think so. I’m really proud to still be able to strongly contribute on gameday in the 22nd.

“I’ve been thinking for a long time that I’d feel really guilty if I hung on and battled my way through a year and ended as a broken, crippled old man. To go out on top I feel a great deal of pleasure in.”

But Herald Sun Journalist Jon Ralph reported Mundy “just wasn’t offered a new deal and he would’ve played on”.

“I asked his management … Two weeks ago, he said ‘I’ll keep playing at this club until they kick me out’ … He was hopeful with contract negotiations as recently as two weeks ago and it didn’t happen,” Ralph told On The Couch.

“That’s not a pot on Fremantle, they just decided to go another way and that’s fine.”

St Kilda champion Nick Riewoldt said it was a “surprising” call by Mundy, who was awarded AFL Coaches’ Association MVP votes for his 35-disposal, 15-contested possession and 10-clearance display against Melbourne last Friday night.

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It’s why Riewoldt encouraged the 18th-placed Kangaroos to target Mundy this off-season

“I understand his reasons because you want to go out maintaining that really strong level of performance, but he wasn’t showing any signs of slowing down,” Riewoldt told On The Couch.

“He sounded definitive then, but if you’re North Melbourne, would you say to him: ‘Dave, come play for two years, stick around and be an assistant because we need some leadership’ – would you make the phone call?”

Fellow Fox Footy panelist Garry Lyon added: “It’s not the silliest idea you’ve ever had.”

David Mundy of the Fremantle Dockers addressing the media after announcing he will be retiring. Picture: Paul Kane/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images

Herald Sun chief football writer Mark Robinson echoed Riewoldt’s thoughts minutes later, saying the Kangaroos should look at what Brisbane did in late 2017 when it traded in four-time premiership Hawk Luke Hodge as its young group moved into finals contention.

“I think North Melbourne should go after him and offer him a one-year deal to come over to Victoria and help the young kids at North Melbourne,” Robinson told Fox Footy’s AFL 360. “Like (Luke) Hodge, like the first-year Giants in James McDonald and a few others (in 2012).

“I think if he wants to continue playing, North Melbourne should look at a Luke Hodge-style play for David Mundy.

“He’s playing good enough. He’s not ‘at the end’, so if he’s a really good footy club person, give him a deal that (includes a) coaching role as well.”

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GWS next coach, Mark McVeigh press conference, comments about players, interview for the job, candidates, latest

GWS next coach, Mark McVeigh press conference, comments about players, interview for the job, candidates, latest

AFL 360 co-hosts Gerard Whateley and Mark Robinson have defended Greater Western Sydney caretaker coach Mark McVeigh’s passionate post-match press conference.

McVeigh drew criticism from some within the AFL world for his withering take on many players’ performance during the 73-point Sydney derby loss, which he labeled “embarrassing” and accused players of “checking out”.

The interim coach interviewed for the position on Tuesday, but Whateley was puzzled by those who took issue with McVeigh’s post-match comments.

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“I’ve been really surprised by the reaction to his condemnation of a pitiful performance by a team in a big game,” he said.

“If you’re going to be the coach, if you’re going to live the role of the coach, you have to impose these standards and be prepared to tell these home truths.

“As I understand it, this was all said behind closed doors before it was said publicly and the real feedback was player-to-player; they drilled each other. Then he gave public voice to that.”

Robinson was of the view that, if anything, McVeigh’s honesty publicly could help him in his bid to become the side’s permanent senior coach, saying “I would’ve put that in my offering of ‘I want to coach, here it is, what have you got? I’ve got that.’”

McVeigh, 41, has been an assistant coach at the Giants since 2015.

His longevity at the club, Whateley said, meant his comments were within reason.

“He’s got long-term relationships with these players, I don’t think any of that would’ve been damaged,” he said.

“If he’d gone ‘Do you know what? This is the end of the season, I’m the interim coach, lets just leave that’, I’d be going ‘mate, you can’t be a coach’.”

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Trade Whispers, Collingwood Magpies, Jamie Elliott, Melbourne Demons, Luke Jackson, Fremantle Dockers, Matthew Pavlich, Bailey Banfield, Dan McStay, Tim Taranto

Trade Whispers, Collingwood Magpies, Jamie Elliott, Melbourne Demons, Luke Jackson, Fremantle Dockers, Matthew Pavlich, Bailey Banfield, Dan McStay, Tim Taranto

Dockers great Matthew Pavlich claims Luke Jackson is Fremantle’s “answer for the future” and believes the club should be “going hard for him”.

Plus the Pies are confident on a new deal for a star for 2023 and beyond.

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WHY JACKSON IS FREMANTLE’S ‘ANSWER’

Fremantle should be “going hard” for Luke Jackson, according to Dockers great Matthew Pavlich as he believes the 20-year-old is the “answer” for the future.

Jackson is out of contract at the end of this season, and has put talks on hold with the Demons. It’s fueled speculation he wants to return home to WA for 2023 and beyond.

While there’s plenty of debate over just how much the young ruckman is worth per season, with some estimates at $800,000, Pavlich says a partnership between Jackson and Sean Darcy is one Fremantle fans should get around.

“There’s the now and then there’s the future,” he said on SEN WA.

“The now, Luke Jackson would be a pretty good player in that Fremantle side. If you take out, I guess you’d have to give something to get something. So is it Rory Lobb for Luke Jackson? Is that part of the deal? I don’t know.

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“Whether he’s the answer right now, he’s a great player. We know what he’s capable of. He’s 20.

“In the context of young developing ruckmen, he’s a great young developing ruckman.

“Is he a great player yet? No. He’s got the potential to be a really great player.

“He’s the answer for the future. He can help Fremantle long-term.

“I would absolutely be going hard for him… him and Sean Darcy as a combination between ruck/forward – that’s a threat for a long time if you’re a Fremantle supporter.”

But what would the Dockers have to offer and where would Jackson fit into the line up?

Pavlich says Darcy would still remain the number one ruck in his eyes.

“What they miss is a dynamic leading forward at the moment,” he said.

“But if you wanted to look at Luke Jackson in a Fremantle jumper on Friday night then you’d take out something and it’d have to be one of the key forwards from the Fremantle line up.”

Despite all the contract talk surrounding Luke Jackson, Melbourne captain Max Gawn is confident his premiership teammate will knock back a huge offer to join Fremantle.

“Luke’s a talent and he’s got every right, as every player does, to look at any offer that’s coming his way,” Gawn told reporters on Monday.

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“I’m pretty confident he’s going to be a Melbourne player still and I know that’s very far from what the consensus is out in the media.

“He was the happiest person I’ve ever seen (last Friday night) beating Fremantle, who is the team that he’s supposed to be going to.

“I love playing with him, I love being his leader, I love being his friend, I love coaching him and I love seeing little bits that I’ve told him during the week come out on game day.

“I’m really excited, especially for the next seven weeks, to play with Luke and then hopefully for the next few years.”

Local fans in Perth taunted Melbourne players last Friday night by hanging a Fremantle jersey with “Jackson” written on it over the race. The jersey was snatched and then thrown away by Jackson’s teammate Jake Melksham.

FEET STAR SET TO LOCK IN NEW DEAL

Collingwood are looking to lock in Round 19 hero Jamie Elliott on a new deal for 2023 and beyond.

Elliott becomes an unrestricted free agent after 11 seasons with the club.

Magpies CEO Mark Anderson on Monday said he was pleased with progress on a new deal for Elliott.

“Discussions are going well with ‘Billy’,” Anderson said on SEN.

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“Graham Wright heads up that area and does a great job in that space.

“Discussions with Billy are going well.”

But he refused to be drawn into talk about potential offers for Lion Dan McStay or Giant Tim Taranto.

“We’re focused on our current playing group with four rounds to go,” he said.

“We’ve got a great list and they’re performing.

“So we are staying focused.

“We don’t talk about players at other clubs and it wouldn’t be appropriate to do so.”

Collingwood have a host of players out of contract including Jordan De Goey, the Brown brothers Callum and Tyler, Steele Sidebottom, Mason Cox and young Josh Carmichael.

FRINGE DOCKER URGED TO STAY PUT

Bailey Banfield is having a great season for the Dockers, and sits inside their top five goal scorers in 2022.

But the 24-year-old remains on the fringe, as an unused medi sub on five separate occasions and activated as the sub in other matches.

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WA commentator Tim Gossage argued Banfield would get a game at “four or five other clubs and play 20 games a year” if he left the Dockers in search of a more permanent role.

But Fremantle great Matthew Pavlich urged Banfield to “stick it out”.

“Would he get personal satisfaction and would he get a sense of purpose of being in a group and building and working his way into a team? No he would n’t (if he he left), ”Pavlich sad on SEN.

“He could go to, you’re right, half a dozen clubs, 12 clubs and be playing most weeks.

“But all his effort, his leadership, he’s rated really highly down there. It would not be necessarily worth his time if he chose to leave.

“He’s put all this effort in… I would stick it out but that’s just the way I look at those things.”

While statistics show Banfield has kicked 18 goals from 19 matches, he didn’t get on the field for five of those games.

Banfield was snapped up with pick five in the 2018 rookie draft after being named Claremont’s best and fairest in the WAFL in 2017.

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