On 19/04/2024 at 11:35, IRW said:

He's been underrated as part of a cohesive backline team ,how he goes in the chaos of the Melbourne forward line is uncertain ,given the small sample.

Either way they'll miss him

 

We’ll miss him not THEY?  Who are they ? 

On 19/04/2024 at 19:57, leave it to deever said:

I'm really surprised by those stats. I didn't think he'd played fwd that much. There not flattering performances.

M9 has got wrong just like his opinion on Harry,

since his 6 goal haul Petts has played only THIS season, and kicked one goal in 4 games. 

He has limped other previous cameos etc and mulled the figures.

its his confidence that shot and the naysayers are harsh he needs a real good game to hit form 

Hoping this week vs Tigs is the breakout game and he is NOT NOT trying. It’s called confidence!!! 

Go Harry !! 

1 minute ago, 58er said:

M9 has got wrong just like his opinion on Harry,

since his 6 goal haul Petts has played only THIS season, and kicked one goal in 4 games. 

He has limped other previous cameos etc and mulled the figures.

its his confidence that shot and the naysayers are harsh he needs a real good game to hit form 

Hoping this week vs Tigs is the breakout game and he is NOT NOT trying. It’s called confidence!!! 

Go Harry !! 

Limped means Lumped !! Sorry . 

2 hours ago, 58er said:

We’ll miss him not THEY?  Who are they ? 

Maybe you can enlighten. I've often wondered if your moniker relates to our disrupted six-peat as some sort of angst you've been holding onto for 65 years? Like the MFCSS version of long-Covid? 

5 hours ago, 58er said:

We’ll miss him not THEY?  Who are they ? 

The Melbourne Football Club .

Conflating the Team with its supporters is like sixteen year old girls dressing up as Taylor Swift 

 

 

Edited April 20, 2024Apr 20 by IRW

3 hours ago, Skuit said:

Maybe you can enlighten. I've often wondered if your moniker relates to our disrupted six-peat as some sort of angst you've been holding onto for 65 years? Like the MFCSS version of long-Covid? 

Yeah something like that, I joined Ology around the Neeld era and remembered greater  competitive spirit, commitment and results from the glory years of my youth. 

I have never seen a need to change  it even though most of those matters are now irrelevant .

Numbers 6 , 9  , and 31 still belong to that era  for me emotionally

I do remember a power Club off the field though and a genuine rivalry with Collingwood as a primary issue.

Off course that's just a teenage memory I seem to share with similarly aged mates who support Collingwood .

 

 

1 hour ago, IRW said:

Yeah something like that, I joined Ology around the Neeld era

It was the worst of times.It was the worst of times.

it was what it was.

Actually-The whole quote from Dickens sums it up far better.

It was the best if times.It was the worst of times.It was the age of wisdom(lack).It was the age of foolishness.it was the epoch of belief,it was the epoch of incredulity,it was the season of light,it was the season of darkness,it was the Spring of hope,it was the Winter of despair.

I never even saw Charles at the ground.He must have watched it on Tele.

 

Edited April 20, 2024Apr 20 by Biffen
Plagiarism

10 hours ago, 58er said:

We’ll miss him not THEY?  Who are they ? 

 

4 hours ago, IRW said:

The Melbourne Football Club .

Conflating the Team with its supporters is like sixteen year old girls dressing up as Taylor Swift 

 

 

We/Us/Our = MFC

They/Them/Their = Everyone else.

This makes it easy to distinguish between the two.

 

4 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

 

We/Us/Our = MFC

They/Them/Their = Everyone else.

This makes it easy to distinguish between the two.

 

Don’t tell me the other clubs are now gender neutral and non binary WCW. 
 

😳🤪😂

5 minutes ago, Demonsterative said:

Don’t tell me the other clubs are now gender neutral and non binary WCW. 
 

😳🤪😂

I saw Collingwood taking a leak in the women’s toilet. 

5 hours ago, IRW said:

The Melbourne Football Club .

Conflating the Team with its supporters is like sixteen year old girls dressing up as Taylor Swift 

 

 

Are you a lawyer?

5 hours ago, IRW said:

The Melbourne Football Club .

Conflating the Team with its supporters is like sixteen year old girls dressing up as Taylor Swift 

 

 

Genuine nuffy level comment.

It's a lack of nuance in the English language that it has only them and us (as opposed to other languages that have multiple words to describe groups that may or may not include the speaker, the reader, etc).

But if you really want to get technical and claim supporters aren't "part" of the club: as a company limited by guarantee, any paid up member is legitimately a member of the club, with voting rights and other rights under the constitution and therefore can quite correctly refer to themselves as part of the Melbourne Football Club. So "we" is entirely appropriate in most instances around here.

Edited April 21, 2024Apr 21 by deanox

34 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I saw Collingwood taking a leak in the women’s toilet. 

I saw them taking a leak all over Port. 😭

8 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I saw them taking a leak all over Port. 😭

Just saw McCreery and ex-Pie, now Bulldog Poulter having a coffee.

Really wanted to ask McCreery if he would like to come across to the Dees.

His pace is a real weapon. Good player.

11 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I saw them taking a leak all over Port. 😭

Thought Leek played for GWS!

34 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

I saw them taking a leak all over Port. 😭

lotta leaking up at the gabba last night

persisting down all night

55 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Just saw McCreery and ex-Pie, now Bulldog Poulter having a coffee.

Really wanted to ask McCreery if he would like to come across to the Dees.

His pace is a real weapon. Good player.

Average player with good speed who plays a role. Are you playing him ahead of Koz, Chandler or Nibbler?

37 minutes ago, Lil_red_fire_engine said:

Average player with good speed who plays a role. Are you playing him ahead of Koz, Chandler or Nibbler?

He’s an inside mid just waiting to happen though isn’t he? Wasted at half forward in my opinion. He’s got the weapons to be a bull inside, we’re very skinny for depth in there as well 

8 hours ago, deanox said:

Genuine nuffy level comment.

It's a lack of nuance in the English language that it has only them and us (as opposed to other languages that have multiple words to describe groups that may or may not include the speaker, the reader, etc).

But if you really want to get technical and claim supporters aren't "part" of the club: as a company limited by guarantee, any paid up member is legitimately a member of the club, with voting rights and other rights under the constitution and therefore can quite correctly refer to themselves as part of the Melbourne Football Club. So "we" is entirely appropriate in most instances around here.

My reply was in response to a question.I dont need to justify it.

I did like your notion of nuance in language and the possibilities that it present.

I find some of what I have called conflation embarrassing,  but it doesn't matter much to me .

I am content with watching them play and supporting their efforts.Apparently unlike the supporters on the balcony vs the Lions who were abusing the players( our team) 10 minutes into the first quarter.

Summary ..Carry on ,I didn't raise the issue and I'm happy to watch them play ,appreciating their skills and courage.

The "us and them " nonsense around here is sometimes embarrassing and childish though.

At least outside of the coaches motivational instructions.

Vicarious triumph and despair is for fat Presidents  who imagine they could/ should  have been a player .

I was a little  like that in 64 without any of the qualifications you list.

I don't think Dannyz would make the comment he made unless he had heard something pretty firm on the grapevine yes?

IF this is another 2022 LJ situation then i'd much rather see us put more time into Fullarton in the short term from here.

We could also trial other mediums that can play tall like smacca McAdam (once fit from approx end of this week) or of course Melk later when he's back.

No matter what anyone says, if you've made the decision to move on, your body may be here but your mind / spirit has already left the building a la LJ in 2022.

Playing Fullarton (at least in the short term) also frees up Roo from his chop out role for Max, allowing him to focus solely on his forward craft in order to get the best out of himself as a KF for the remainder of 2024 and beyond.

Edited April 21, 2024Apr 21 by Demon Dynasty

10 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I saw Collingwood taking a leak in the women’s toilet. 

Collingwood used actual human facilities??

I mean, that’s progress but the cost of the clean up alone…

23 hours ago, Biffen said:

 

I never even saw Charles at the ground.He must have watched it on Tele.

 

Was that the replay or just the last quarter live.  Not sure we were on the telly much, way back then.  And not many at the ground watching either. And I cannot remember anyone called Charlie 

Play him back

May and Lever make him look good

On 21/04/2024 at 01:09, 58er said:

Limped means Lumped !! Sorry . 

Thank god because the last thing we need right now is him limping. 

21 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

I saw Collingwood taking a leak in the women’s toilet. 

I bet there were no toilet rolls left.