If you support him but though the injury may threaten his career how about "injury threatens career"? Or is that a bit hard and you thought "Goodbye Ding Dong" was a really clever play on words?? If the answer is "yes" then you missed the mark, you just sounded like one of the nuff nuff's and totally disrepectful to a kid who has done nothing but give his all over the journey.

Bell went off in the last minutes of the third having had 7 possessions in that quarter. So lets not wriggle out of it on a technicality eh DD, he had 60% game time which was only 10 - 15% less than players like Jurrah, Morton, Jamar and Moloney, easily enough to evaluate his performance.

Oh for the love of Christ, how about you calm down with the emotional chest beating.

I agree with that whole first statement, particularly the bit about him giving his all. If you care to waste a few days of your life you can go through and find I've written a great deal more words than would be reasonable in Bell's defence... sometimes through overwhelming torrents of abuse directed at the poor lad. So don't sit here and lecture me about giving respect for the player. It's a freaking 3-word analysis mate. I COULD have said "7 possession quarter" or "played ok game" or "good until hurt"... but all those things would have added NOTHING to the thread, and only reinforced joeboy's original thread, which it was established I was questioning. Harmlessly. I stand by the fact that the MOST PERTINENT FACTOR pertaining to Bell's game was that he sustained a pretty bad injury that will threaten his career. If it was "Joeboys 50 word analysis" it would have a been a different story.

As for the Ding dong comment. It's a play on words. Goodbye Ding Dong just sounded at least a little different than Goodbye Daniel Bell... And decidedly less boring. I seriously doubt Daniel would be as touchy about that as you apparently are. If he was, he'd never have been playing footy in the first place. And don't for a minute call me "totally disrespectful." I didn't put his reputation into any kind of doubt... Just his future in the AFL and at MFC. Which, I thought, was the point of these kind of sites. I notice that through the storm of threads about Cam Bruce you don't call certain other posters to question...

Having said all that, your last paragraph is news to me. Quite surprised that he played that much game time. However, I still stand by my 3 worder. It was, as soon as news came across that he was hurt, the main thing I thought... Along with pity and sympathy for a kid that deserved better from the fates.

Dunn is a gun player, how many goals did he set up with pin point kicks into our forward 50 to LJ in particular this boy should be Centre-Half Forward IMHO. He's also a good kick for goal.

This game was the end of Bell in my view, the jokers who contracted him till the end of next year should be fired IMHO the worst decision was to sign Bell in the first place but to do it again??????

How good is LJ? He's a better kick for goal than Jeff Farmer was in his hay day :D

If you care to waste a few days of your life you can go through and find I've written a great deal more words than would be reasonable in Bell's defence...

I haven't and I won't look at your previous comments on Belly. I looked at this one.

Thought today was one of his better games for the year, even more so after watching the replay.

He used it well, ran extremely hard to the right spots, took one very good strong mark, and had a spoil today where he then pounced on the ball and delivered it forward to a goal, which was all class.

Still has star written all over him for mine.

Must work on his kicking though. And his tendency to give off a handpass straight away, without checking to see if there are options up the ground. But overall I thought he played OK yesterday.

People underrate the value in having someone like Morton who consistently reads the play, knows where to position himself, and gut-runs all day to ensure he provides a target.

Edited July 13, 200916 yr by titan_uranus

I haven't and I won't look at your previous comments on Belly. I looked at this one.

Daniel is a soft target in my opinion. In a team that is recently devoid of players who will "have a go" and "take the game on" he seems to me to have put his own needs second to that of the team. Always does his best to make the hard contest; to carry the ball instead of blazing away off the half back line. Is he Lindsay Gilbee? Well, with respect, no. But he is whole hearted? Yes. Doesn't he launch himself into the unknown for our club? Well, yes.

Surely there are other, many other, targets on our list for those seeking to vent their spleen.