P.S. What's up with the posters who are trying to turn Jones into Ted Striker? Shirley you can't be serious?

Anyone else out there who had no idea who Ted Striker is?

I broke my wrist when I was a kid and it aches in the cold now......

Now that is probably because of the awful medical attention it got, but it still aches nonetheless !!!

Fair enough. Sorry to hear that

I'm not sure that's the case with all broken bones though, is it?

If you want to avoid going hard into a contest then you play SOCCER!!

Guess you've never played competitive soccer then. I have played soccer for five years and have had plenty of hard contests where you either go all in or you back out. I have played footy for 15 years as well. I play both games with the same attitude and find that I probably have more "hard contests" in footy, but about the same number of "go or back out" decisions in each. I don't back out in either, and neither do my team mates. In either sport.

Really devo about Greeny. He and Davey were clearly our two best players this season, arguably the only two top-class players we have. Will be a big miss. To sum up Greeny's quality, when he took that mark at the top of the 50, I said to my uncle, 'he'll slot this for sure', and he goes back and drills it. Absolute legend. Really disappointed for him that he will probably not reach the 200-game mark this season now. I would say that there is no chance he will come back before the mid-season break if his injuries are as reported (broken cheek bone, broken jaw). If we can take anything out of it, at least it opens a position for a Maric/Grimes/Valenti-type for an extended run in the side.

This is our biggest injury this year, and even of Rivers were to take a game or two off with injury, it would still be our most telling absence.

I'd say Garland's injury, in terms of hurting our structure and development of the backline, is our most telling (not to mention the possible complications of such a delicate injury, which has ruined the career of another great defender).

Not that Green's loss is not huge either. Both are horrendous losses for a team that could ill afford to lose any class players.

By the way, can we please not mention the name Rivers and injury in the same sentence?! You'll jinx it! 6.5 games and counting... :D

Dappa, I'll own up.

Probably 2005 I could hardly stand him, thought he was a soft outsider who should've stayed in the forwardline. I've been happily proved wrong with him, one of my favourite players whose courage can never be questioned

Yet another fearless act by this bloke! I was amazed at our hardness and tackling y`day and I reckon Greenys effort and courage may have had something to do with that!

Melbourne forward Brad Green to miss six weeks with broken jaw

Brad Green is an example to the whole team. He is a great player. The only one in the first Q who could kick straight. He put his jaw on the line for the MFC

I want him to be captain (no offence Junior but ever since the Qual Final in 2000 Brad has been a "Quiet Gun) I feel he may not be captain as he comes across a little shy off field. But he certainly puts in beyond the call on the Field. Get well soon Greeny. Soft foods for awhile!!

A fortnight away best case

Would be great if he were back in a couple of weeks.

We've missed his polish.