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I never thought I'd see someone compare Dunn to Fyfe, but there it is.

Just announced on the MFC website that Clayton WILL make his debut this week! Well done son!

I find the reactions here intriguing. We've gone in with basically the same side that won 3 NAB games and played great footy. Shouldn't they be rewarded? With the new interchange rules the last thing we need is to play guys who are underdone and we run out of legs in the last quarter. I think they've played it very smart and selected the right side for this game.

I love the decision now.

Oscar McDonald concerns me.

N.Jones - more of same Vince - genius defensive switch Hogan - dominates and signs Salem - smooth moving backman Watts - finally silences critics Petracca - justifies the hype Dawes - pales into insignificance Viney - maintains upward rise Lumumba - proves his worth Trengove - the Cinderella story Brayshaw - assumes major significance Gawn - our All Australian Tyson - injury free improvement Oliver - another inspired draft Dunn - successfully marshals defence Stretch - limited game time Kent - a major player Frost - effective swing man Newton - just filling in Garland - career best season Pedersen - a solid season Kennedy-Harris - others are preferred T.McDonald - thrives on responsibility Weideman - learning the art Hulett - learning the requirements O.McDonald - becoming brotherly clone Hunt - slowly justifying faith Neal-Bullen - second year blues Grimes - tries but lacking Bugg - an inspired pickup Spencer - injury plagued year Mitch King - building required body Kennedy - irritating Magpie supporters Garlett - all Australian forward vandenBerg - our own Barlow Jetta - all comes together Harmes - providing X factor M.Jones - a stop gap Terlich - little game time

Your not even a member yet, but your banging on about loyalty!?!??!

Gee whiz pal you're really tempting me to derail this thread which I never thought I'd do.. You're talking absolute garbage

Officially the funniest post ever.

Just mentioned on the footy show. Didn't say how many years though.

Gee I hope Oscar proves you sooks wrong.

This is great to hear Emerald. I believe bad kicking for goal was the reason behind a few losses last year, even on a couple of occasions being competitive. Adelaide 12.8 d Melb 7.13 Melb 6.14 db Freo 18.10 Essendon 10.9 d Melb 7.18 Carlton 12.6 d Melb 7.13 Looking further into it I noticed that our goal kicking accuracy was very much in the bottom 4 at 50%. Not surprisingly Hawthorn were on top with 59%. It's interesting to look at the ladder. If we can improve the accuracy by 5% it will make a big difference to our W/L ratio at the end of the year. Particularly with a number of clubs predicted to be in the 7th to 14th ladder positions. Goal kicking Accuracy 2015 Hawthorn 59% Port Adelaide 57% Bulldogs 56% Fremantle 55% Geelong 55% Adelaide 54% North 54% Richmond 54% Collingwood 53% West Coast 53% Sydney 52% Brisbane 51% Carlton 51% Gold Coast 51% Essendon 50% GWS 50% Melbourne 50% Saints 49%

Vince can play till he is 35. I've always thought that, he is a footballers footballer, and those type of players don't age, not in this game. People always like to say that the game speeds up and older players cannot keep up, and that is partly true, but that it doesn't apply to all players. Players who rely on football smarts, skills, and have never had to rely on speed, they do not age. Guys like Mitchell, Vince, good on both sides of the body, they have lesser need to break the lines.

One of the best trades we've done since I started following the Dees. He had an immediate impact in his first season and followed it up with an even better second season. Great stuff Bernie

still a chance to be a premiership player

Have you been paying any attention at all this pre-season?

FB: Jetta Garland Oscar Mc HB: Vince Tom Mc Salem C: M Jones Jones Bugg HF: Vanders Watts Kent FF: Pedersen Hogan Garlett Foll: Gawn Viney Tyson Int: Oliver Harmes Kennedy Frost I think that's a truer representation of how the team will line up. Vince and Jones will swap back and on the ball. Bugg will rotate to half back, Harmes will come to wing or forward. Kent will have a few minutes on the wing. Frost might ruck and/or will come on forward for Pedersen to ruck or to spell Hogan. Kennedy will come on forward. Vanders will go up to the middle or a wing. Oliver will play forward and in the middle. There's a lot of speed and run, pretty much everyone besides Pedersen who will play forward of centre has speed and we have increased endurance in the backline group, which means run to cover off defensively and run the other way to get some quick rebound. I'd love a class user on the outside and a bit more experience in each zone of the ground but we can't be negative about this team. Carlton are showing tonight what you can do playing as a side and I like that this is pretty much the side that took on the Saints - Grimes replaced Matt Jones at 1/4 time and Wagner is out for Vanders. We ran that game out strongly playing the style of footy we wanted to play. Time to back it up.

“Dunny’s probably a little bit similar [to Brayshaw and Lumumba] – he hadn’t played a lot over the last couple of weeks as well. “So they’re three that from a fitness point of view, we were able to leave out, based on the form of some of our current players.” He's not ready to play, in the eyes of the coaches. Neither is Brayshaw. Neither is H. You don't know better than they do. Neither does that other idiot claiming he wont buy a membership if Dunn doesn't play.

how dare you call my clib that

You spelled Fyfe wrong.

It would be great if it became a challenge amongst the players, who can throw Scully horizontally the farthest during a game.

Bernie had done far more with his career than Col when we traded for him. I did think he was probably past his prime, but still had class. I was half-right.

Deserves every cent of his new contract too. Barrett mentioned that he had already hit all the triggers that would see him get another year in 2017, but the club will rip that one up and give him a new one on good money.

Dawes and Spencer doing boxing and crunches. Otherwise as far as I could tell it was a full squad for a pretty standard session. The ball was moving nicely in the shorter drills that they were doing. The 10 v 8 full ground match simulations were a bit scrappy but not too bad. I thought Clarry looked a bit weary in the legs early on but when the match sim started he was bobbing up regularly. Hard to know whether our forward pressure was really good or if our backline was making mistakes but I think moving the ball out under pressure will still be our biggest weakness. Switches, quick ball movement and 'changing the angle' remain the focus to get out of the backline. Lumumba came sprinting out from half back to a high kick to the wing, timed his intercept perfectly, stuck the mark and ran off forward, dishing off to Kent who nailed the goal. It certainly reminded me of his athletic ability and talent, so hopefully he shows more of it this year.

Just announced as breaking news here in Perth.... So it probably happened yesterday.

When did he last sign a contract? As for the last decade he'll perk up when he's in a contract year. I thought his player review said he'd dropped several kilo's? His 2014 was great, his 2015 left a lot to desire, he stopped attacking games and really it took him until mid year to impact as a senior player should. Maybe he decided leadership wasn't for him? Leading from full back isn't exactly easy. Anyway, they said the leaders would be picked when NAB challenge form was evident, which counted against him. I expect he'll be back in the team very soon. But I'm not unhappy that he's been made to earn it. We can't afford senior players getting games on reputation, we've said that time and time again.

I really don't like the way the umpires are now ruling on the deliberate out of bounds. A Carlton player just got pinged after the ball was followed to the boundary by a Richmond player who intentionally made no effort to get the ball when he quite obviously could have. The umpire asked the boundary ump if the Richmond player had touched the ball, and when the answer was "no", called deliberate. Surely the fact that the ball was ushered out by the Richmond player (who could have taken control of the ball) should mean it was the Richmnd player who deliberately let the ball go out of bounds and who should have therefore been penalised.

It's Coniglio, you rabbit. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Managia, che scemo !!!!!!!!!!!

Talk about a hissy fit. If that's an indication of your fickleness, then good riddance to bad rubbish. Leave now and watch us rise from a distance.

C'mon Oscar. Play a blinder!

Can see him turning into a Shaun Bourgoyne type from Hawthorn that will slowly ease out of the midfield and onto a half back line to utilize his damaging kicking skills and become that quarter back that will need alot of attention. Absolute star.

Will enable him to provide another father/son Very forward thinking by the Club

I'd happily give him a three year extension.

It's petty, it irrational, it's unhealthy and its no longer relevant... But I still despise that little rat. Yes we were well compensated, yes he's a bust as a player, and yes, the money was good. But... I just can't help it.

if they are, they are a day early - tomorrow at 10:30

I tend to agree, but I also certainly get my back up when an unrealistic call is made when we don't deserve it anymore.

This was in my vinyl collection, an ex now has it - the whole collection!

He has been excellent for our club. That's why I paid the extra $5 and got him on my membership card!

When it tears in half you can't fix it, so it's helpful when it rips so you can get over it and move on. I think Jamar had the same thing happen? And the story goes Robert Harvey jumped off a table a few times to 'pop' his. I think most of this is close to accurate anyway.

I didn't think he'd be the gun that he's turned out to be, but Colin Sylvia 2.0? A bloke who never strung two consistent games in a row, let alone a whole season? I reckon that's mighty unfair to Bernie.

And multiple replies for no apparent reason

/feeling the Bern

Great news. He's really embraced the club, and his off field persona of a being a bit of larrikin, isn't reflected by his professionalism on and off the field. I'd say his close relationship with Goodwin would have a bit to do with his contract extension, but he fully deserves it.

pedo is the best tackler in the team #pedoaintnomyth

Petracca was looking really good. Too good for Casey and he knows it, the coaches know it. Hope he makes it by stop doing 19 year old stuff. Full squad, great day for it. They are noisy and talking a lot, a great sense of camaraderie. Goodwin and Watts had a good verbal joust. Watts was also kicking across the ground, pin pointing 50m kicks. AVB will make it. Bring on the Giants!

I made the most of my day off and went down to training today, it looked like the whole squad was there. ANB was first to hit the track doing some solo work. The rest of the team started with the usual warm-up lap,sprints,stretches,side step/agility drills. Morale seemed high with plenty of banter between players, most notable from Watts. Peter Jackson made an appearance watching from the sidelines for the first half of training. Once training got into gear: the team was split into two groups, one doing a handball drill and the other a kicking drill sprinting in pairs Dawes and Spencer alternating between boxing and ab-crunches, it looked quite grueling the team split into 3 groups doing old fashioned circuit training but with opponents putting on pressure Gawn and Pedo did boundary throw in ruck training followed by Gawn and Frost doing ball up ruck work, in-between each ruck contest a bit of crumbing work was done by all three a group of about eight went off to the rugby ground (I couldn't see what they did) while the rest of the team split in two and did ball movement drills (McCartney curbing the enthusiasm by yelling "do the drill well but don't clobber eachother") the whole team spilt into two and did goalkicking practice for about ten minutes at both ends of the ground the team was split into 3 groups, two doing ball movement drills at one time while the other had a spell The team was split into specialist groups, midfield/ruck/marking/forwards Overall the team looked good and were moving the ball fast although there was the odd bad decision and fumble. I had been to quite a few training sessions last year and we have improved greatly. One thing I was impressed with was the whole team doing goalkicking. Last year, goalkicking practice involved about five forward players having about ten set shots so it was great to see the whole team kicking at goal in a variety of ways, not just set shots. It seemed Goodwin was running the show more than Roos, with Roos addressing the team as a whole while Goodwin was in the trenches with the players during the drills. There seemed to be a catchphrase of "kick and carry" that was used by McCartney, N. Jones and others during the ball movement drills. One funny moment of Stretch being made to do push-ups military punishment style in front of the team gave his teammates a good laugh, I'm not sure what the reason was for the push-ups. Bring on GWS!