If there's anything this whole Clayton Oliver thing has taught me is that no matter what your club does, opposition supporters will start to get scared when the status quo begins to shift and the laughing-stock is no longer quite so funny. Draft picks, AFL "charity", Paul Roos being given to us by the AFL, "tanking", the premiership drought and associated irrelevance of the MFC, low supporter numbers, "staging" (during the halftime break no less)....

The list goes on. The only people whose opinion on the MFC we should give a rat's tossbag about are Melbourne supporters. Everyone else is irrelevant.

Edited June 28, 20178 yr by Chook

Ask em if they mind that we also get QB as a home game. I have Magpie mates at work who always bring that up. I really gets up their nose

Hmm, I wonder.

Daniel Wells (pick 2), Lynden Dunn (15), James Aish (7), Varcoe (15), Treloar (GWS concession pick, de facto 2), Hoskin-Elliot (4), Adams (13), Grundy (18), Scharenberg (Pick 6), Freeman (10), De Goey (5), Moore (F/S 9), Sidebottom (11), and Pendlebury (5).

Top 6 picks -   6.  First round picks total - 14

vs

Lewis (7), Jones (12), Watts (1), Melksham (10), Trengove (2), Tyson (3), Hogan (mini 2), Salem (9), Brayshaw (3), Petracca (2) Weidemann (9), Oliver (4).

Top 6 picks - 7. First Round picks total - 12.

 

HAAA HA HA HA HA.

Hey look, it's another way Collingwood can go and eat ---- .

I couldn't care what other supporters say or think. The 1st game of Footy i remember going to was the 1970 GF, since then i have watched just about every other club win Flags. 12 of those going to Whorethorn!!

let's win 6 in a row just for starters, like we should have done with The Red Fox 

being despised and hated as a club will be a joyous thing

Edited June 28, 20178 yr by Sir Why You Little

To paraphrase Marie Antoinette.

"Let them eat sh!t"

Jack Viney at pick 26

Priase the universe for the father son rule

2 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

Jack Viney at pick 26

Priase the universe for the father son rule

Yeah that is the outlier here. No way in hell was he worth pick 26, he would've got top 10 for sure. 

But as has been said, as we get better we will get more and more hate coming our way, and I love it. How patronising has it been over the years hearing opposition supporters say "oh I like Melbourne, they're my second team because they haven't had much success."

I want us to be a team hated and feared. 

On 26/06/2017 at 4:39 AM, Stevienic23 said:

Now that we've come good, I quite often here the old 'yeah so you should be with all your draft picks' yet let's look at the 22 we had on the weekend.

 

B: Hibberd (pick 30*) McDonald (pick 53) Jetta  (pick 51)

HB: Lewis (pick 48*) Frost (pick 23*) Bugg  (pick 43*)

C: Melksham (pick 31*) Oliver (pick 4) Salem (pick 9)

HF: Stretch (pick 42) Pedersen (pick 63*) Petracca  (pick 2)

F: Hannan (pick 46) McDonald (pick 53) Garrett (pick 61*)

Followers: Viney (pick 26) Gawn (pick 34) Vince (pick 23*)

Bench :  Tyson (pick 2*) Harmes (rookie pick 2) Neale-Bullen (pick 40) Hunt (pick 57)

Note * is what we gave up in trade and not their original pick number.

I count that as only 4 first rounders that played on the weekend. Make no mistake we are being coached and developed properly to go with some excellent trading. 

 

 

Very interesting. Excellent post. I will use that on my Pies and Blues doubting mates. We should shout it from the rooftops...

On ‎26‎/‎06‎/‎2017 at 8:39 AM, Sir Why You Little said:

Ollie Wines is the only one who should be in the current side that isn't, because of incompetance. But it  completely blows the "Whiteboard Wednesday" theories to shreds!!?

Spot on ,  but I still torture myself with the thought that at least a Preliminary Final appearance would look certain  with the " Man-Boy" alongside his once best mate .

24 minutes ago, dee-eee said:

Spot on ,  but I still torture myself with the thought that at least a Preliminary Final appearance would look certain  with the " Man-Boy" alongside his once best mate .

So many "ifs"

IF Ollie had come instead of JT then we may well have done a little better that year and not had the picks we have had, and used so well, in the following years.

IF IF IF.