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Interesting concept there....kicking more ( near double ) goals v points..

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    I see where this is going Song

    You don't give a TOSS about midgets!

    The Saints may not give a TOSS about midgets either, but they sure get fired up about them

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    The Saints may not give a TOSS about midgets either, but they sure get fired up about them

    :lol: haha i forgot about that incident...nice

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    This game will be significantly closer than what people anticipate. We shot ourselves in the foot through bad kicking against St Kilda and we are a much better side at the G(perhaps more so with an improved midfield).

    Not brave enough to predict a win but will be surprised if the margin is over 30 points.

    Ps- for what it's worth, this is a game I would have loved Michael Evans in. Knows how to find space and I would have thought that he could cause headaches if allowed to float around half forward.

    Love your optimism RTG, can i have some of what you're having?

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    Biffen sent me some "get well" cookies. I've lost touch with reality since.

    Some of those would be nice too

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    GWS all over Saints with Hayes and Montagna. Fair indication of where we're at

    There is no doubt that the MFC has the least amount of talent on an AFL list.

    Mark Neeld killed any spirit.

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    Don't know why we bothered with Roos, we could have just rotated some of the luminaries from Demonland through the coaches role.

    They could save us money and we would obviously win the flag every year as well.

    T is your Demon emblem sitting down and crapping up there? Maybe on us demonlanders as we spew forth a myriad of.... well....

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    We seem to have lost all/any pre season enthusiasm already, my guess is we will lose by around 25 points.

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    We seem to have lost all/any pre season enthusiasm already, my guess is we will lose by around 25 points.

    I think the overall enthusiasm ddropped in direct correlation to the withdrawl of one fwd after another.

    Funny that

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    We should have no designated forwards instead all backs, we have had trouble with forwards for years so if they were all classed as back men then the footy gods wouldn't know which ones to strike down.

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    GWS all over Saints with Hayes and Montagna. Fair indication of where we're at

    No indication at all.

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    For fack sake, cut Jack Watts some slack. He played well last week. What did you want him to do? He may play well or he may play poorly this week. If he plays poorly then do your thing and get stuck into him. But until then try being reasonable.

    he looked at the stats sheet, saw a zero in the tackles column and decided to focus on that - instead of what intelligent people do, and look at the impact he had on the match - which was his best ever and our BOG as stated by Roos himself.

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    There is no doubt that the MFC has the least amount of talent on an AFL list.

    Mark Neeld killed any spirit.

    You tell them WYL. Neeld was never able to establish the spirit the team demonstrated on 31 July, 2011 and the weeks that followed at the end of the season before he took over. He murdered the fabulous spirit of that fateful day you refer to often as 186 and for that he should be tarred, feathered and burnt at the stake.

    Fact is, Neeld wasn't much chop as coach but thankfully the club isn't wasting its time on the carp you espouse and it wouldn't help anyway.

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    There is no doubt that the MFC has the least amount of talent on an AFL list.

    Mark Neeld killed any spirit.

    So are you complaining about talent or spirit?

    St Kilda is 2-0 because of spirit/effort and luck. Not talent. Some accuracy in front of goal and they'd be 0-2. I don't think they're any more talented than we are.

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    I don't think we were too bad on the spirit thing last week. Effectively, we've managed to get hold of the ball more than 400 times in the two NAB Challenge games and the one AFL game that we've played so far in which statistics are kept and in all of those games we've had well below our best forward line set up. Our execution might not have been great but I don't think we've played without spirit under Roos and I don't expect that to change tomorrow.

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    I don't think we were too bad on the spirit thing last week. Effectively, we've managed to get hold of the ball more than 400 times in the two NAB Challenge games and the one AFL game that we've played so far in which statistics are kept and in all of those games we've had well below our best forward line set up. Our execution might not have been great but I don't think we've played without spirit under Roos and I don't expect that to change tomorrow.

    It's their relentless attack on the ball or anyone that stands in their way that impresses me.

    We have shown some spirit but they ooze it.

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    he looked at the stats sheet, saw a zero in the tackles column and decided to focus on that - instead of what intelligent people do, and look at the impact he had on the match - which was his best ever and our BOG as stated by Roos himself.

    that even despite the comment by Roos.( yep same one ) ...very gracious for mine. "Watts was good with ball in hand"....in other words...thats the only time he was effective. thats not good enough these days

    not all capable of looking outside the square it seems

    Watts game is nowhere near a multidimentional effort thats needed. He has very little defensive game, he needs to get one.

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