Age 2009 Footy guide

[Junior 46]

Experts predictions for the wooden spoon:

Rohan Connolly - Melbourne

Nathan Buckley - Melbourne

Robert Walls - Melbourne

Greg Baum - Melbourne

Martin Blake - Melbourne

Martin Boulton - Melbourne

Michael Gleeson - Melbourne

Peter Hanlon - Melbourne

Jesse Hogan - Fremantle

Samantha Lane - Melbourne

Garry Lyon - West Coast

Jake Niall - Melbourne

Andrea Petrie - Melbourne

Emma Quayle - Fremantle

Caroline Wilson - Melbourne

I really hope we can prove these bastards wrong!

Rohan Connolly's assessment of our prospects is grim. Walls and Buckley are more positive.

[titan_uranus 22,562]

Connolly was definitely OTT pesimistically.

This magazine is so much better than that piece of rubbish the HUN had yesterday.

[Longsufferingnomore 1,484]

i really have to wonder about who wrote the assessment, some of the player comments were made by someone who hasn't seen a lot of the team during the preseason ie. meesen comment?????

[Junior 46]

For those who missed it, Akermanis was on Channel 7 today. He said something along the lines of 'make no mistake, the demons are an improved outfit this year'...in reference to how we looked in the NAB challenge match.

[Freak 100]

we need to bottom out again this year anyway to give us a chance to rebuild so i dont really care about the predictions. i want us to improve without getting the wins

[rusty_kingswood 0]

we need to bottom out again this year anyway to give us a chance to rebuild so i dont really care about the predictions. i want us to improve without getting the wins

Dont start this debate again Freak, mate please!

[Juice Newton 0]

i think we might surprise a few teams this year, and i don't think we will be demoralised too often, or at least not as often as last year. i expect dean bailey will ensure we remain "competitive" for longer. ultimately there are more sides this year that i would hope we beat - essendon, fremantle, brisbane, west coast, sydney, north melbourne should be the teams we have a crack at beating when we play them

[QueenC 74]

we need to bottom out again this year anyway to give us a chance to rebuild so i dont really care about the predictions. i want us to improve without getting the wins

Dont start this debate again Freak, mate please!

Yeah but he's not entirely wrong......unfortunately!!!

[rusty_kingswood 0]

Yeah but he's not entirely wrong......unfortunately!!!

Ok WITHOUT starting the argument again. I am of the opinion that the key to success is a winning culture.

Sure priority picks would be very handy, but its not like we are going to be finishing 9th 8th 7th or better. So the picks will still be there (assuming the next draft is even any good).

I would much prefer Melbourne to string some wins together and instill confidence within the team....for a change.

[pringle 42]

I'm sick of that debate too. Please don't go there.

But back to the actual topic, that magazine today was one of the most useless pieces of tripe I've ever seen. Useful only to look at a few player stats and team lists. Surely a small article about each team wouldn't have been too hard? It looks like they threw the whole booklet together in 10 mins just in time for publication. Waste of trees. 1 star only from me.

[Dee tention 611]

Rohan Connolly is an Essendon supporter. He has never had a good thing to say about us!

I think we will at least finish above the Eagles. We are better than them arnt we?

[dreamin' man 0]

Jesse Hogan is an avid Melbourne supporter so his optimism has to be taken into account.

[Junior 46]

Jesse Hogan is an avid Melbourne supporter so his optimism has to be taken into account.

Hmm, as is Garry, obviously.

Who is Emma Quayle?

[DustyDemon 0]

The Age guide was very useful for sorting my Supercoach team in order to determine exactly who each team's rookies were

(i.e. most are very unlikely to get a game this year)

BUT

Player profile/information was rather varied in quality, to say the least.

e.g. (Good supercoach price and likely firsts player), Dayne Beams (Coll)

comment: "Midfielder likened to Simon Black. (because he's from?) Qld, but resisted Gold Coast entreaties. Tattoos".

(great comments, I imagine the tattoos must make him tougher)

[Yencks 8]

is it on the internet?

[H_T 2,941]

Personally, I believe G.Lyon is on the money with his prediction West Coast). I'm a little surprised Essendon failed to get a mention. I don't think many of them thought hard when asked which side did they think would get the wooden spoon. Melbourne was an easy answer based on last season still fresh in their minds.

[Pepe Dee Pew 0]

Given our youthful list it looks to me like a bottom 3 finish. WCE and Freo have definite home ground advantage and Freo lost a lot of games last year by a bees. Injuries of course will also play a part.

I think we will definetly be better than last year. We have a number of players available who were injured last year.

[titan_uranus 22,562]

i really have to wonder about who wrote the assessment, some of the player comments were made by someone who hasn't seen a lot of the team during the preseason ie. meesen comment?????

The Age guide was very useful for sorting my Supercoach team in order to determine exactly who each team's rookies were

(i.e. most are very unlikely to get a game this year)

BUT

Player profile/information was rather varied in quality, to say the least.

e.g. (Good supercoach price and likely firsts player), Dayne Beams (Coll)

comment: "Midfielder likened to Simon Black. (because he's from?) Qld, but resisted Gold Coast entreaties. Tattoos".

(great comments, I imagine the tattoos must make him tougher)

Have a look at the back page of the Sport section of today's Age (the Sporting Life column). It explains that someone was asked to do something a bit different for those little player comments this year, and it seems as though people were complaining to the Age about it too.

[Rhino Richards 1,467]

Ok WITHOUT starting the argument again. I am of the opinion that the key to success is a winning culture.

Sure priority picks would be very handy, but its not like we are going to be finishing 9th 8th 7th or better. So the picks will still be there (assuming the next draft is even any good).

I would much prefer Melbourne to string some wins together and instill confidence within the team....for a change.

And you string wins together by........?????