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I spend some time at the pub and at work discussing my beloved Melbourne FC.

Interestingly people that know a bit about footy often say to me that rather than we being a side of 'thin reeds' - rather we have a bunch of players that are too big for footy. Ive heard from many people that we have a list of 'no where' talls and over-bulked players.

Not sure I really agree, but for a while we did have a fair amount of not quite talls - Meeson, Lamb and Johnson come to mind as does Spencer. And they generally suggest that Moloney, Sylvia and Tapscott are just too big and consequencely too slow.

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    what we lack is players that are nasty. We have plenty of good players but they are all too nice. We need to start recruiting players that like to fight. I played years of local football trust me thats whats lacking.

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    what we lack is players that are nasty. We have plenty of good players but they are all too nice. We need to start recruiting players that like to fight.

    Not sure about your basic premise given we have a player currently up on a charge of attacking a guy with a machete ...

    Though don't know about your basic premise in any case.

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    We lack class where it counts and mature and developed talent at both ends of the ground. And we currently dont have a go to player or players when things get hard. Its that simple.

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    Not sure about your basic premise given we have a player currently up on a charge of attacking a guy with a machete ...

    Though don't know about your basic premise in any case.

    Just on Liam ... when he's fit will he be available for selection or is that up in the air as well pending an outcome of the 'incident' up north?

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    what we lack is players that are nasty. We have plenty of good players but they are all too nice. We need to start recruiting players that like to fight. I played years of local football trust me thats whats lacking.

    Spot on IMO

    Two of our best, Mitch and Magner, also have the highest mongrel factor

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