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1 hour ago, Dee*ceiving said:

Great work @deejammin'...classic stuff. 

Matt Rendell can eat a bucket full of *****

I particularly love him citing Ed Langdon’s kicking as a reason we couldn’t possibly win the premiership. Had he even watched the first 17 rounds? Ed’s kicking had improved markedly!! It wasn’t even an issue. 
Our very mild form slump was due to a combination of inaccurate goal kicking and taking time to get the centre square balance right with Viney coming back in, even then we were in positions to win both the Hawks draw and Dogs game had we kicked straight! 
How can you be an “expert” if you can’t grasp the fundamentals of how the best team is playing? 
You’re exactly right on what he should chow down on…

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I find it interesting that he lists Bedford as a potential A/B, but Chandler as a ‘needs more time’. 

I feel like he’s making this up as he goes. I doubt very much he knows much about either. All of that is relatively excusable, except for the fact that this is his actual job. If I was this bad at my work I’d get fired (and I work for myself).

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5 hours ago, deejammin' said:

One of the unexpected joys of the great many joys of this premiership has been laughing at these so called “experts” back-track on their Melbourne-hate laden commentary. 

Buckenara has been one, he hates the Dees, he’s been pathetic in his analysis of our lists over many years, his failure to rate Trac, Lever, May and Oliver for starters. 
Like many in the AFL media he hates us and has traded on the ‘Melbourne will inevitably fail’ narrative that has pervaded all commentary on our Dees. I think we all know why this exists, and in the past it’s been deserved but it has genuinely prevented a lot of football minds from viewing us objectively.
 

I’ve been going back through watching all our games this year (I mean, why wouldn’t you?!) and it’s really interesting listening to the commentary and thinking back on all the experts this year, Whately, Derwayne Russell, David King, that [censored] BT, Jimmy Bartel, they all refused to believe Melbourne was capable of anything even when we were 11-1. Listening to the commentary of BT screaming “I just don’t believe they’re good” when we’re 30+ points up on Carlton in round 9 is particularly funny now. Even in the second half of the season there was this begrudging acknowledgment that Melbourne was good but a constant narrative that others were better and we would fall down when it counted. Ahhhh the schaudenfreuder!

For me the biggest [censored] of all is Matt Rendell, I listen to draft radio as I love footy but why does anyone listen to a word this guy says? Picked 3 of the top 8 this year, had the premiers 15th losing our coach in the first half of our season and in the greatest [censored] move of all still had us unable to win the premiership with a list that’s not good enough in round 17!!! Check this out: 

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2021/07/28/the-biggest-worry-for-melbourne-right-now/


Also just last week the genius Rendell declared Max Gawn had “done his job” as captain and was one of 16 captains who could lose the role next year. Also didn’t have him in the top 3 captains in the AFL. The Melbourne hate lives on in surreptitious ways. Bring it on! Let’s prove him wrong again! 

MATT RENDELL = [censored]

Didn’t lose a game after Rendell wrote that piece of Rubbish. 
How close did he go to winning a Flag…?

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Gary keeps trying to befriend me on Linkden.

It'll never happen.

He peaked in '87 thanks to bad umpiring .

He can Naff off.

 

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50 minutes ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

As an aside Biff, what is your professional title on said website?

I've had several titles Col.

Few of them complmentary.

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