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Choko
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I think the Oscar bashing here is appalling.  The guy has played 5 GAMES. 5 GAMES people.  He's a kid in a grown up game.  I heard Jade Rawlings speak about him the other night, and he asked supporter

Ethan Tremblay
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I once baked a cake for 40 minutes when the recipe clearly stated 45 minutes. Yeh I live on the edge and consider myself pretty crazy, so what.

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Kent is very lucky to be in the side IMO

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32 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

This is Misson's injury report this week.  http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-06-01/trio-set-to-return-this-weekend

JKH appears to be available for VFL this week.  Great to see him playing again and hope he has a solid injury free run to show his wares again.

H is listed as 'indefinite'.  Even allowing for the necessary caution it seems really serious.  Can anyone remember the incident when the injury happened.  A terrible injury to deal with so will be good just to see him on the foot field again.

Gus is tracking well and may be back before the bye but I would imagine it will be in the VFL.

Roos said today though that H would be about 3-4 weeks away I believe. H has said he's about 95%, but he's missed a fair chunk of footy training and just been doing weights and running.

Edit - He didn't actually specifically say that time frame, but said he's back in team meetings and training now and they'd start to look at things next week.

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8 hours ago, beelzebub said:

Selection will be scintillating I'm sure. Haven't got this wrong all year

Dees by a gallop

I look forward to the post match where Roos says they got selection wrong. That would make it the fourth time this year.

But of course he's not to be believed.  Believe nothing he says, ever. It's just to take the heat off the players. Or something.

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4 hours ago, ManDee said:

Steve, as a species we include crainies, nutters, loonies,  demented, bonkers, daffy, daft, screwball, psycho silly, insane and you and me. I have never attempted to jump over a charging bull in a black devil suit with a pitchfork. (me, not the bull). I did attempt to water ski naked through flames at midnight, on the Murray river. We used too much fuel and set fire to about 1km of shoreline, it took us about half an hour to put out spot fires, but that's not crazy, .....is it? Oh, and I rode my motor bike down the wall of the Thompson river dam, well rode is a bit strong, perhaps a graceful sliding elongated crash. And there was.......... no that's another story but I'm not crazy.

Man U seem to like being punished and beaten up. A stint In our backline should be right up your alley !

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3 hours ago, ArtificialWisdom said:

People are scared about this week, imagine what it's gonna be like then with Hawks reving up for finals and us tiring 

already have

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Just now, Rusty Nails said:

Paul does this mean you're a clairvoyant and have seen the result from this round already? ~ Concerned Demon tragic

He has seen it, and he's frustrated by the fact that we couldn't beat the Power one week, yet the next week we can beat Hawthorn.

That's what I get from it anyway...

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2 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Your optimism disgusts me.

I threw up typing it. My optimism also relates to the fact I avoided almost the entire game against Port. I let my guard down and listened to parts of the first qtr but turned it off. See no evil and all.

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4 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I once baked a cake for 40 minutes when the recipe clearly stated 45 minutes. Yeh I live on the edge and consider myself pretty crazy, so what.

Keep it to yourself Ethan but I once had unprotected sex in Thailand!

 

Honesty Edit. - I was alone at the time.

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5 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

Your latest pic looks wonderfully academic Ethan. Is this really you?

Correct, I was going for the academic look, apparently women these days prefer nerds. It was quite a tough transformation as I'm naturally quite rugged and handsome with a bit of a rough edge. Other people who have seen this photo have compared it to 'The Colonel' from KFC. 

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3 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Correct, I was going for the academic look, apparently women these days prefer nerds. It was quite a tough transformation as I'm naturally quite rugged and handsome with a bit of a rough edge. Other people who have seen this photo have compared it to 'The Colonel' from KFC. 

Well ... errr ... yes ... it's err... good Ethan. But ..... perhaps a little more workshopping...

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14 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Correct, I was going for the academic look, apparently women these days prefer nerds. It was quite a tough transformation as I'm naturally quite rugged and handsome with a bit of a rough edge. Other people who have seen this photo have compared it to 'The Colonel' from KFC. 

When the colonel was a spring chicken? 

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14 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Reading the Hawks forum was like a trip to the Twilight zone. They think this is a danger game and if they play like they did last week we will beat them.  Wtf!!!!!

I actually laughed out loud at this. 

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17 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Reading the Hawks forum was like a trip to the Twilight zone. They think this is a danger game and if they play like they did last week we will beat them.  Wtf!!!!!

Just imagine if there was such a team that never underestimated their opposition regardless of how they were traveling, I wonder if they'd have any success?

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This is our best chance to take it up to the hawks in recent memory.

They've been average all year and we're improved (albeit inconsistent)

I wouldn't bet on the win, but I expect the lads to keep it somewhat respectable (comparatively)

Hawks by 34

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1 hour ago, Rusty Nails said:

Paul does this mean you're a clairvoyant and have seen the result from this round already? ~ Concerned Demon tragic

Not clairvoyant, but we've been touching our toes for the [censored] Hawthorn [censored] football club since the eighties...

Can't see things been different this week, sorry, would love to jump on the "yes we can" express this week. 

Glad I'm not clairvoyant as I reckon, as Keating once famously said, we're about to have "the recession we had to have", unless some of the older overpayed players pull their fingers out ASAP and come back into the AFL team blazing and we can stop relying on kids in their first 50 games, winning it for us, against the reigning premier...

 

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14 hours ago, Demonland said:

TWELVE AND A HALF MONTHS by The Oracle

Melbourne has failed to come up to the challenge in quite a few winnable games already this year. It has lost it's best player this year to suspension and one of its' few functioning defenders in an inexplicably feeble defence to injury.

 

Can someone help me out? Clearly I must have a comprehension problem, because I cannot decipher what that bolded section means.

 

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10 minutes ago, xarronn said:

 

Can someone help me out? Clearly I must have a comprehension problem, because I cannot decipher what that bolded section means.

 

Saying Galand, who has been ok amoungst a rabble of defenders, is out to injury

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8 hours ago, Petraccattack said:

Reading the Hawks forum was like a trip to the Twilight zone. They think this is a danger game and if they play like they did last week we will beat them.  Wtf!!!!!

Yep. Bloke at work has been worried for a few weeks. He was stoked Viney wasnt playing.  Viney is his fav player outside the hawks. Reminds him of a young hodge. 

They are only plsying one quarter of good football a week. But its mostly enough.

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