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There is nothing wrong, unethical or against the sprit of the game for our club to treat our last four games any different to how every other club treats the nab cup, that means we have the right to play players who are on the chopping block to see what they have got (remembering we have to cull at least 5 players), we can rest anyone who is sore/injured, we can play players out of position. Every club would do the same and it does not take away from the fact that we are Melbourne the oldest and greatest club in AFL history! 2010 started 7 weeks ago when our finals hopes this year were mathematically over

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There is nothing wrong, unethical or against the sprit of the game for our club to treat our last four games any different to how every other club treats the nab cup, that means we have the right to play players who are on the chopping block to see what they have got (remembering we have to cull at least 5 players), we can rest anyone who is sore/injured, we can play players out of position. Every club would do the same and it does not take away from the fact that we are Melbourne the oldest and greatest club in AFL history! 2010 started 7 weeks ago when our finals hopes this year were mathematically over

Could not agree more!

The fact of the matter is, apart from maybe Warnock and Frawley forward, I have seen most of the players / positions before.

McDonald has played back before, Johnson has played CHB before, Miller has taken centre bounces before etc etc, so the excitement over players being out of position is a bit over the top.

And when you actually look at what both Johnson and Newton had delivered in the forward line for most of the game, it was sweet stuff all!

Warnock and Frawley actually provided a contest, whereas the other two were irrelevent all game!

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A good analogy there BA... solves all argumetns really as thats essentially exactly what we're doing...just happens to be in the season proper..a season with nothing else to offer......except ................

e25 Trident

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A good analogy there BA... solves all argumetns really as thats essentially exactly what we're doing...just happens to be in the season proper..a season with nothing else to offer......except ................

Yeah, brilliant pick up... surprised nobody has noted this before

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Great OP, and every post in this thread has been right on the money. As DB (I think) said in May, there would be lots of experimentation this year, especially towards the end. He's had to be a lot more creative because of our terrible run with injuries for the past few games, and then during the game on Sunday. We've learned a lot about many players in that time that will be very useful to carry forward.

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No diff to use throwing Martin forward and or in the ruck or Garland forward or in years gone by Miller to CHB, the Grimes one was the funniest, he was drafted as a midfielder!

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Couldn't agree more we have been the whipping boys of the AFL for as long as I can remember with getting Sunday games year in year out, not helping us with major sponsorship deals like they did with the Mission and Luxbet Deals ect...

This is our chance to get something off the AFL. If we don’t I think we have blown a big chance to get something all our fans have been hanging for for the last 25years an A GRADE Midfielder someone who we can "hopefully" say in 3-5 years might be in the top 5 players in the AFL. Something I’ve never been able to say.

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Yeah, brilliant pick up... surprised nobody has noted this before

Maybe they have, but didn't go to the trouble of posting it. Nice work 'bruce almighty'.

e25 Trident

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Maybe they have, but didn't go to the trouble of posting it. Nice work 'bruce almighty'.

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