Sylvia flattening Maxwell.

Beautiful

Robbo left the door open for either Newton, Jetta or Jurrah.

Jetta??? Hardly. Newton I doubt... Jurrah...still a project player.

I thought he had dislocated his shoulder at one point, but it seems he was just enjoying his last smell of the MCG grass.....or looking for his heart I couldn't tell.

Its called his second effort! I cant work out why he just lay on the ground. He was fine when he got up. I guess Its just Robbo again.

[size=1]G'day toad. I thought exactly the same thing, he slapped the ground with his hand, out of frustration & just lay there. That was the Worst example of leadership i've seen from Robbo.

He looked incredibly unfit & slow,,,, & overweight.

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Two weeks he demonstrated leadership flat on his back. This week he showed leadership flat on his stomach.

Main positives for me was that hopefully Watts learned he isnt up to it yet, and being the number 1 pick makes it harder not easier to play at this level. Ensuring he works harder on the track and takes nothing for granted.

Sylvia also a few good games in a row but now he will draw attention from opposition coaches and have to lift agian to have the same impact.

The Walk to the G... great buzz to start the day

A photo with a super champ, No.5 David Schwarz............thanks Ox

Glass of red in the Hassett Room

Listened to the great no 4 ( in Hassett room after the game)... John Lord

NOTHING.......

if i haft to sit through another game watching melbourne play like that i will follow GC17.....

Sylvia

Jamar's ruckwork (and can we please limit it to his ruckwork. I thought his around the ground efforts were nothing special)

No injuries

McDonald's hip and shoulder on Swan

Sylvia flattening Maxwell

Positives.

Obviously Sylvia.

Jack Watts got his first taste of AFL football.

Umm other than that..........well, at least we weren't as bad as the West team in the womens football curtain raiser. I did my best as a spectator to will them on to a score. But no luck. I'm not sure who is running the womens football league, but surely they could have come up with a better matchup to showcase their league. I felt sorry for the poor girls.

"Its called his second effort! I cant work out why he just lay on the ground. He was fine when he got up. I guess Its just Robbo again.

Two weeks he demonstrated leadership flat on his back. This week he showed leadership flat on his stomach."

Rino - He actually had just face planted the mcg turf pretty hard - got up and was bleeding from nose/mouth.

Positives:

Sylvia

Jamars big marks

Sylvia's big hit on Maxwell (and mark)

Jack Grimes for the first half

Sylvia's long goal.

I admit, I may have been wrong about Colin Sylvia. He seems to be coming along quite nicely.

"Its called his second effort! I cant work out why he just lay on the ground. He was fine when he got up. I guess Its just Robbo again.

Two weeks he demonstrated leadership flat on his back. This week he showed leadership flat on his stomach."

Rino - He actually had just face planted the mcg turf pretty hard - got up and was bleeding from nose/mouth.

Yeah on the replay on tele it showed that he SMACKED his face into the ground pretty dam hard.

Good idea! Let's pick one passage of play from each young player in our side and condemn them on that basis.

I've got one: Jack Watts will be a spud because he missed a shot from 40m out in the second quarter that any No.1 draft pick should nail.

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If, as supporters and critics, we allow our opinion of young players to be clouded by errors of judgement, we're doing both ourselves and them a disservice.

What about the time in the first quarter (I believe, or it could have been the third) that Cheney backed into a congested Collingwood forward line to mark over his head, without flinching?

Or the clever kick out in front of Bate to find the boundary line when there were no options ahead of him during the second half? Or the poise he showed working the ball out of defence on several occasions?

Should we just forget about those good pieces of play because he made a mistake on one occasion?

Being a critic means thinking critically - not negatively.

I agree. Thought Cheney was definitely one of our better players today in terms of endeavour, courage and commitment. He was beaten by his direct opponent on the day, but showed plenty to be excited about for the future.

Grimes

Colin.

It ended

Grimes

Colin.

It ended

What about making profit on a home game for once

Ohh and one step closer to picks 1 and 2.

We learnt how ... when you may be down on ability you can make up for it in endeavor.

Collingwood gave our boys a very good lesson today.

Very interesting ... IMHO our two worst games of the year so far have both been against Collingwood.

That should send us a message ... THIS is a tape we all need to watch many times over.

One point in the game he (cheney) kicked the ball off the ground to the boundry, dane swan ran straight passed him to get the ball and it ended up in a goal.

Cheney didnt even try to run with him.

i noticed that

Cheney seems to be courageous.

Davey never stops taking the game on, as does Col, and sometimes they get caught but good on them anyway.

PJ, Bell can go back to where they belong.

I won't feel bad jettisoning our senior players after seeing how completely ineffectual they were on our most important day in the H&A fixture.

Good read. Thanks for the memories and the hope for the future from such a poor day.

Pendlebury wasn't their best. All of his stats were cheap. And all of his goals were handed to him on a platter. Brad Dick was their best in my opinion

Fantastic write up as usual WJ. Didn't unravel the Fairfax press this morning but will happily read Demonland journalism any day of the week.

Much appreciated. Well done you and Col.

Fantastic write up as usual WJ. Didn't unravel the Fairfax press this morning but will happily read Demonland journalism any day of the week.

Much appreciated. Well done you and Col.

Colin Sylvia is growing in stature with every week. The way he's been playing over the past four to six weeks is a credit to his application. He's our next hero!