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    Another tough night sleep for Travis.

    There are plenty of reasons to forgive the players.

    The coaching and development teams from the years of 2007-2013 have proven to be the worst in AFL history. Mark Neeld, our most recent messiah cannot even get a job as a line assistant coach. How a board elected him to lead our whole club is a farce. Sadly, the players who have developed to be high grade footballers are the ones who force themselves success.

    Jones and Frawley are literally the only two.

    We may never know how good the above mentioned players are, and we have ourselves to blame for that. Petterd is a perfect example of a player, widely consider a dud here, who run around with a 90,000 crowd in the middle of September due to a team who used his potential.

    This Site is nothing without outlandish statements, but I'll be gobsmacked if im not sitting here next year praising Roos for catapulting Strauss well beyond the 'good average footballers' of Clisby and Terlich.

    I guess we will wait and see.

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    .....This Site is nothing without outlandish statements, but I'll be gobsmacked if im not sitting here next year praising Roos for catapulting Strauss well beyond the 'good average footballers' of Clisby and Terlich.

    I guess we will wait and see.

    Arrow - I guess though some here will be calling for Roos' sacking mid year if we "lose a few games". Such is the nature of a blog site like this.

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    Obviously MFC supporters will notice injuries to our players and groan about it, but we'll take less notice of injuries in other teams. Has anyone actually analysed the data over all clubs to show we are particularly injury prone?

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    lies

    played 61 games in 10/11/12

    and how much footy are you supposed to play in your first two years anyway, was he even injured or just developing in the twos?

    show some respect to your fellow posters and do your homework

    Spent all of 2007 and half of 2008 out with a knee injury before playing his first game.

    Perhaps you should practice what you preach.

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    Another tough night sleep for Travis.

    There are plenty of reasons to forgive the players.

    The coaching and development teams from the years of 2007-2013 have proven to be the worst in AFL history. Mark Neeld, our most recent messiah cannot even get a job as a line assistant coach. How a board elected him to lead our whole club is a farce. Sadly, the players who have developed to be high grade footballers are the ones who force themselves success.

    Jones and Frawley are literally the only two.

    We may never know how good the above mentioned players are, and we have ourselves to blame for that. Petterd is a perfect example of a player, widely consider a dud here, who run around with a 90,000 crowd in the middle of September due to a team who used his potential.

    This Site is nothing without outlandish statements, but I'll be gobsmacked if im not sitting here next year praising Roos for catapulting Strauss well beyond the 'good average footballers' of Clisby and Terlich.

    I guess we will wait and see.

    Strauss better than Clisby and Terlich ?

    Buckleys.

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    This sucks he needs to be up and running

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