1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Not sure why people are worried about who's going to line up against us next week v West Coast when we have a big assignment against the Bullies who get back four of their better premiership players for this Sunday's "season defining" game at Etihad.

What happened to one week at a time?

Boring. 

1 hour ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Not sure why people are worried about who's going to line up against us next week v West Coast when we have a big assignment against the Bullies who get back four of their better premiership players for this Sunday's "season defining" game at Etihad.

What happened to one week at a time?

It's more efficient to do one week at a time two weeks at a time. Economy of scale.

4 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Not sure why people are worried about who's going to line up against us next week v West Coast when we have a big assignment against the Bullies who get back four of their better premiership players for this Sunday's "season defining" game at Etihad.

What happened to one week at a time?

Clubs and players have their cliches so here's some other mangled cliches to help answer your question: If you're not looking at the big picture then you're not seeing the woods for the trees

AFL.com.au click bait states "a star saint in doubt" but you when I clicked through to the story I find out that it's only Joke Carlisle who is in doubt to play...

Also an update to my post last night that Mitchell had been reported, it was actually Selwood reported for striking Mitchell (not the other way around), but Mitchell still likely to be looked at by MRP for his attempt to strangle Selwood in response... (If only MRP stood for Melbourne Review Panel - he'd be out for sure.)

Any ladder-obsessives  to tell me whom I should support tonight - St Kilda or North?   (Personal prefernece is of course St Kilda, but the ladder looms.)

15 minutes ago, sue said:

Any ladder-obsessives  to tell me whom I should support tonight - St Kilda or North?   (Personal prefernece is of course St Kilda, but the ladder looms.)

Hmm it's a tough one, but I think I'll actually be going for the Saints. Although they are only game behind us I think North are stronger and will end up as more of a challenger. I also hate North.

Not really sure though.

40 minutes ago, sue said:

Any ladder-obsessives  to tell me whom I should support tonight - St Kilda or North?   (Personal prefernece is of course St Kilda, but the ladder looms.)

Short term a North win is better as it would then leave both teams a game and a lot of percentage behind. Long term who could ever know the way this year has gone.

North's run home is not  too bad

The only teams they play who are now in the 8 are Essendon, Port and us.

St Kilda have a much tougher run with Richmond twice, Port, Eagles , Essendon and us plus a game against the Swans in Sydney .

Based on the run home a North loss might be best at this stage.

1 hour ago, sue said:

Any ladder-obsessives  to tell me whom I should support tonight - St Kilda or North?   (Personal prefernece is of course St Kilda, but the ladder looms.)

 

North for sure. Will put both teams at 5-7 with percentages below 100.  So while they will both still be in the finals hunt,  they'd both need to win 7 of their last 10 games making it hard for either to make it, and extremely unlikely both make it.

Going for a draw.

That will shaft them both equally.

15 minutes ago, Biffen said:

Going for a draw.

That will shaft them both equally.

not really.  They may both end up 2 points ahead of us with poor percentages.  Better that one of them is 4 points worse and may battle us on percentage.  Trouble is which one, and guessing what happens to them in the rest of the year. 

Pertraccattack and Diamond Jim are both equally persuasive.  Arrggghhhhh.....

Edited June 16, 20178 yr by sue

Just on a different match, I find it incredible that Richmond (on the betting side of things) is going in as the underdog vs Sydney at the MCG. 

I know pretty much everyone agrees that Richmond aren't as good as their 4th placing has them, and Sydney aren't as bad as they're 14th placing has them, but it just seems completely backwards.

Just now, sue said:

not really.  They may both end up 2 points ahead of us with poor percentages.  Better that one of them is 4 points worse and may battle us on percentage.  Trouble is which one, and guessing what happens to them in the rest of the year. 

Pertraccattack and Diamond Jim are both equally persuasive.  Arrggghhhhh.....

We really have to put Norf away or we are going nowhere.

North are an unknown unknown .

Saint are a known unknown.

If you know what I mean.

Huge crowd at Etihad. 

Yawn. 

Nought v The Aints

and Bruce....

No idea why they've given Norf and St. Failda a Friday night game.  There is barely 10,000 people there.

6 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Huge crowd at Etihad. 

Yawn. 

Nought v The Aints

and Bruce....

The crowd is amazing ..... they had more for Carlton v GWS last week on a cold afternoon.

You wouldn't think this is a game between two old Melbourne clubs fighting for their season

Sloppy seconds football

10 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

The crowd is amazing ..... they had more for Carlton v GWS last week on a cold afternoon.

You wouldn't think this is a game between two old Melbourne clubs fighting for their season

This Comp is run by fools.  

11 years since we have beaten that junk

Edited June 16, 20178 yr by Sir Why You Little

Thought I'd jump on here and see a stream of people complaining about how we "shouldn't have" lost against the Roos. Turns out I was wrong. Maybe Demonland is maturing.

1 minute ago, Chook said:

Thought I'd jump on here and see a stream of people complaining about how we "shouldn't have" lost against the Roos. Turns out I was wrong. Maybe Demonland is maturing.

I was waiting until they're 10 goals down, but at this rate I won't be waiting long

2 minutes ago, Chook said:

Thought I'd jump on here and see a stream of people complaining about how we "shouldn't have" lost against the Roos. Turns out I was wrong. Maybe Demonland is maturing.

I doubt it, Chook.  Just give it some time.

saints look on - great attack on the ball and the man.

kangas' skills pretty poor.

Late goal to the Kangas means that the 16 point margin is about half what it should be

23 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

Give Shuey a week for the hit on Dangerfield please.

Low impact, unintentional, contact actually initiated by the player lying on the ground. No cause to suspend Shuey. It would be a travesty for him even to be fined for it. The MRP should apologise to Shuey for wasting his time. Case closed !!!!!

Pathetic crowd.