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13 hours ago, Nasher said:

I know right?

So many impatient people. 

He’s connected to Collingwood by lineage. Having them make rumours up about him is just part of the territory. I’d be amazed if there was any truth to that at all.

They can have him for

stephenson

treloar 

taylor

and 2 first rounders

and if they send Hoffa to the orthodontist.

been a big fan from the start. Will be our key man up front for next decade. Roos toke him and Oliver for a reason. 

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Posted
37 minutes ago, Dirts said:

They can have him for

stephenson

treloar 

taylor

and 2 first rounders

and if they send Hoffa to the orthodontist.

been a big fan from the start. Will be our key man up front for next decade. Roos toke him and Oliver for a reason. 

Stop the presses! It took a Melbourne supporter to find Jimmy Hoffa. And there was a clue in his disappearance all along:

"Hoffa disappeared on July 30, 1975, from the parking lot of Red Fox restaurant."

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Posted
6 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

Are you saying he's buried next to Dominick "Big Trin" Trinchera or Dominick "Sonny Black" Napolitano?

They can scan concrete these days so expect many underperforming mob lawyers will start re-surfacing.

Either way you've made me hungry.

Posted

How good was Weed when he took a long line of backward steps to mark near the boundary. Most players either turn around and mark it over their shoulder or trip/stumble getting back.

His backward motion was safe and steady and he judged the drop of the ball perfectly.

His marking skills such as judgement of the drop of the ball and timing for the leap are excellent and if left to develop over time his marking ability will become a weapon. He should also develop as a mobile ruckman who can do more than just negate. A candidate for the McCartney development school.

Its been a long time since we had a follower (as they were once called) with strong marking and rucking ability to cruise around the ground and influence contests. He is potentially too valuable to be just a forward.

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Posted
20 hours ago, Mad_Melbourne said:

Good contribution knuckle dragger. The ball definitely swings strongly and looks like he miskicked it. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t aiming at goals, but he definitely didn’t kick it sweetly

Knuckle dragger! Nice one. Did you spend the full hour before you replied coming up with that one?

Posted

Let's hope that bloke that said he's going to geelong at the end of the year was wrong because we've got a future star in our hands...

 

I think him and TMac can be the key pillars next season with jesse Hogan playing a Jarred Roughead type of role mixing between full forward, HFF and mid 

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Posted (edited)
On 8/26/2018 at 9:39 PM, Clint Bizkit said:

He's holding his marks now but what impressed me most was that goal he kicked.

 

On 8/26/2018 at 10:45 PM, Mad_Melbourne said:

I think he miskicked that from the TV. Looked like one of those ones that curved late due to a miskick, could be wrong though 

 

22 hours ago, Go the Biff said:

It looked better on TV than it did from behind the goals. Bit of a floater that seemed to dip at the goal at the last second. Great result for him though. He'll be ramming them through from 50 on a regular basis next year

The ball was swinging around at that end all day, drifting towards the south goal post. Weed took the mark and immediately put his hands up: he was taking the shot.  He then proceeded to slot it from nearly 50 m out, almost on the boundary.

He knew exactly how he was kicking it and nailed it. 

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Posted
3 hours ago, tiers said:

How good was Weed when he took a long line of backward steps to mark near the boundary. Most players either turn around and mark it over their shoulder or trip/stumble getting back.

His backward motion was safe and steady and he judged the drop of the ball perfectly.

His marking skills such as judgement of the drop of the ball and timing for the leap are excellent and if left to develop over time his marking ability will become a weapon. He should also develop as a mobile ruckman who can do more than just negate. A candidate for the McCartney development school.

Its been a long time since we had a follower (as they were once called) with strong marking and rucking ability to cruise around the ground and influence contests. He is potentially too valuable to be just a forward.

At 21 he possibly has 5 years more than Max. His ability around the ground may come in handy when we reach that transition in the future. 

Posted
6 hours ago, daisycutter said:

and he also speaks well. ...see video interview after game on mfc web site.

LoL... shakes head... what, like English is his first language, dc?   or has he already developed a bloody plum in his throat.

 

Lets let boys be boys, and footy players be footy players, and not spoil therm by smoothing off the edges, just yet... please. Let then have their roughness's. and their aggression.

 

 

Posted
7 minutes ago, DV8 said:

LoL... shakes head... what, like English is his first language, dc?   or has he already developed a bloody plum in his throat.

 

Lets let boys be boys, and footy players be footy players, and not spoil therm by smoothing off the edges, just yet... please. Let then have their roughness's. and their aggression.

 

 


?? no idea what you are getting at d_l

i said he spoke well because he did. handled himself impressively and confidently.

Posted
1 hour ago, deanox said:

 

 

The ball was swinging around at that end all day, drifting towards the south goal post. Weed took the mark and immediately put his hands up: he was taking the shot.  He then proceeded to slot it from nearly 50 m out, almost on the boundary.

He knew exactly how he was kicking it and nailed it. 

Was right behind that shot. Went left peg and it looked pretty deliberate. 

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Posted
37 minutes ago, daisycutter said:


?? no idea what you are getting at d_l

i said he spoke well because he did. handled himself impressively and confidently.

Yes, but surely the only imperative is that they can play footy, 1st, 2nd, & even yes, 3rd.... I don't care if they're illiterate.   We can always send them to school after footy, to learn the alphabet.

 

It's high time this club stopped worrying about grammarians,,, and focused on footy players.... as a priority. 

Or we will go for another 50 something years, again.

Posted
16 hours ago, DV8 said:

Yes, but surely the only imperative is that they can play footy, 1st, 2nd, & even yes, 3rd.... I don't care if they're illiterate.   We can always send them to school after footy, to learn the alphabet.

It's high time this club stopped worrying about grammarians,,, and focused on footy players.... as a priority. 

Or we will go for another 50 something years, again.

What's wrong with someone who speaks well and plays football well? Not like they're mutually exclusive.

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Posted

Really liking Weids at the moment. Something that i've noticed is all our picks in the Roo's - Goodwin era are all great characters who are willing to crack in. When we drafted Weids i was amazed watching his introduction interview in which he said he was prepared to wait for his chance. Granted when he had his chances at AFL level he wasn't a beast like Hogan was, but he has grown a lot this year and i think he will be a weapon in the final series and hopefully a more permenant starter next season.

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Gradually working my way through the replay, I am more and more impressed by some of the little things (are these the so called one percenters?) with knock ons, bullocking, shepherding and also his ruck work.

Seeing grandpa (the ‘great enemy’ of the late 1950s) and dad in the crowd supporting him made me, hopefully not getting too far ahead of myself, dream of Sam playing the game of his life, his true “breakout game”, being pivotal in an upset win against Collingwood. 

Go Dees. 

Go Sam. 

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Posted
15 minutes ago, monoccular said:

Gradually working my way through the replay, I am more and more impressed by some of the little things (are these the so called one percenters?) with knock ons, bullocking, shepherding and also his ruck work.

Seeing grandpa (the ‘great enemy’ of the late 1950s) and dad in the crowd supporting him made me, hopefully not getting too far ahead of myself, dream of Sam playing the game of his life, his true “breakout game”, being pivotal in an upset win against Collingwood. 

Go Dees. 

Go Sam. 

Deep down it must really bug Murray that we got him! I’m sure they are very proud.

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