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41 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

DubDee, are you not paying attention or just being mischievous: Dunn injured, Cloke dropped.

Maybe he was thinking of the VFL?

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Grimes to the fwd line for mine.....Kent has little defensive pressure and Grimesey will provide it in spades...

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Grimes to the fwd line for mine.....Kent has little defensive pressure and Grimesey will provide it in spades...

Might not be far off

Roos on Grimes being an emergency almost every week: We're looking at getting him a position on the wing and a little half forward, if Viney doesnt get up there will be another position available. (paraphrasing a little)

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/2016-06-10/rd-12-roos-views
 

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Posted
16 hours ago, Watts the matter said:

Like Stuie, I do find your preseason reports very helpful, but you still have not given your opinion on the matter, you have said you weren't surprised. 

Do you think Garlett deserves to play? 

While he does get a lot of goals over the back, I would imagine we break down going forward just as often because he doesn't/cant lead at the ball carrier and we lack players capable of breaking the lines.

And the last line is that same line we hear every pre season and not even close to true. We have a list now with a bunch of list cloggers and it appears certain players have already had their papers stamped. I would struggle to find a player in the VFL team that I would want in the AFL team. 

We've had a fairly good run with injuries and an easy draw, yet we are not in the 8. I expect more and like many others use this forum to voice my concern.

Negative or realist.

 

It doesn't matter what I think, which is true of all posters on here, what I said was he seemed to be down on form and confidence,  my opinion, so in the new MFC world he is omitted, and I am not surprised, a couple of years ago because of who he is we would have kept playing him, and possibly nearly destroyedv him, like we did with others As for yourvother point Roos when he came on board said it would take at least 3 years to turnaround the team, he didn't spruik a miracle   we are exactly where I thought we would be this year As for the VFL team have you watched them live    of the new young ones White and Hulett are 2 who could be fine AFL players if given the time  

Posted
2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

Grimes to the fwd line for mine.....Kent has little defensive pressure and Grimesey will provide it in spades...

Isn't Grimes one of the guys who has had his cards marked according to some on here    they will be horrified 

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Posted
9 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

Isn't Grimes one of the guys who has had his cards marked according to some on here    they will be horrified 

His cards are marked, doesn't mean he wont play some more games but fat chance he will be on the list next year.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

His cards are marked, doesn't mean he wont play some more games but fat chance he will be on the list next year.

I thought he wasn't good enough to pull the jumper on again, you cool with him playing?


Posted
4 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

I thought he wasn't good enough to pull the jumper on again, you cool with him playing?

Yes I am cool with him playing, I like him and hope he gets to 100 games

Posted
21 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

It doesn't matter what I think, which is true of all posters on here, what I said was he seemed to be down on form and confidence,  my opinion, so in the new MFC world he is omitted, and I am not surprised, a couple of years ago because of who he is we would have kept playing him, and possibly nearly destroyedv him, like we did with others As for yourvother point Roos when he came on board said it would take at least 3 years to turnaround the team, he didn't spruik a miracle   we are exactly where I thought we would be this year As for the VFL team have you watched them live    of the new young ones White and Hulett are 2 who could be fine AFL players if given the time  

Unfortunately I can't watch them live as I don't live in Australia these days.

Most weeks I will watch the replay on the website. I was talking more specifically to being ready to play right now. Hulett is showing some promising signs and I am looking forward to seeing how White goes at AFL level (I'd expect in the coming weeks). But to say he can come in and replace anyone probably speaks volumes for why we struggle. A lot of the players in our team are replaceable because they aren't that good.

If it didn't matter what people thought, there would be no point in having this forum, we could all just go to the club website and agree with Matt Burgans puffy pieces.

 

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Roosy made it pretty clear in Roos Views that BenKen will come in for Jeffy. He thinks Viney will play but if he doesn't get up then Grimes will replace him. I think at the expense of Harmsey unfortunately . 

Posted
3 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

I thought he wasn't good enough to pull the jumper on again, you cool with him playing?

Stop carrying on like you are the team owner.

Your incessant whining at other posters is so tiresome.

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Not too worried about the ins and outs. We are starting favorites, I hope the lessons of Essendon are still at the forefront of each players mind and never forgotten.

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Posted (edited)
1 hour ago, DemonLad5 said:

Roosy made it pretty clear in Roos Views that BenKen will come in for Jeffy. He thinks Viney will play but if he doesn't get up then Grimes will replace him. I think at the expense of Harmsey unfortunately . 

If Viney does not get up then Michie will get the call up. Roos wants Grimes on the wing and HFF. But I think Jack will play. Gotta beat Collingwood.

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just watched dawks bummer game  how the hell they beat us or we beat ourselves  ? anyway  halftime they showed a talk by ND  to our group and wow  if that dont get em  up nothing will  ND  your a bloody champ  so love to be there monday  cheers  and enjoy 

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Posted

Kennedy replaces Garlett. I'd have dropped Harmes first, but so be it.

I'm sure Viney will play if fit but if not I think Roos' comments might mean we see Grimes get a game. I think one of Harmes and Kent is going to be dropped to make room there. I hope Harmes.

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I'm actually really happy the Pies have dropped Cloke, although his form this year has been terrible he always seems to get up to kill us on QB. Like the first time around this will be won in the middle with Gawn dominating the hit outs. Looking for big games from Jones, Vince, Tyson, and Viney (if he gets up). 

Would love Hogan and/or Watts to kick a bag. 

I'm cautiously confident, at least as confident as you can be with such an up and down team!


Posted
11 hours ago, dees189227 said:

Poor Eddie just doesn't have any sense of humor especially if it relates to the love child Bucks.  ?

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Posted (edited)
18 hours ago, faultydet said:

Stop carrying on like you are the team owner.

Your incessant whining at other posters is so tiresome.

Don't read it precious, just repeating what other posters posted   ok for them to say it obviously  You will also see the poster I asked the question of, answered   so didn't have an issue   so pull your head in

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Not so sure of all the talk of Viney being an almost certain inclusion.  If his injury is only 75% healed, personaly I'd almost rather he missed another week or two than play out the season carrying a niggle which didn't properly heal and his form and devlopment suffer as a result.

I'm sure that the club medicos are on top of it and will make the right call, just saying having him for this game doesn't mean as much as having him full fit for the rest of the season and I think the teams depth is at a point where the longer term perspective is more paramount.

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Grimes isn't good enough for any of the positions, but he'll play a couple of games towards the end of the season.

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Final Selections:

I/C: Jack Viney, Clayton Oliver, Dean Kent, Ben Kennedy

Emg: Viv Michie, Jack Grimes, James Harmes

In: Jack Viney, Ben Kennedy

Out: Jeff Garlett, James Harmes

Michie and Grimes playing at Casey today, so leaves Harmes (dropped) as the real emergency.

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