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Whateley is a huge get. An old fashioned type of caller, but adjusted for the 21st century. Clear intelligent commentary and does his homework.

And replace Deeeeeerwayne? One can only hope.

Ease up. Dr Turf has been a clever, successful and funny bastard since his days on 3RRR A lot of the topics he raised with KB were very worthy of discussion and no i am not gambler or horse lover of any note. The Jon Ralph hours were far worse

Thanks for running this again Macca. The beauty of this comp is that it seems so simple - yeah pick 3 away winners - but it's not quite that easy to pick up points. I think 2 or 3 times this season I lost points in games decided in OT so the comp certainly keeps you interested. And I think I got my tips in every round so that's a PB for me ! Congrats Clintosaurus - too good & a great score Bring on the playoffs

Good season of tipping and banter in here. Thanks @Macca for organising and I'll be in the post season version for sure. Hopeful the Jags can get past Buffalo and Pittsburgh to the AFC Championship Game. Good luck to everyone else with teams in the playoffs.

I though KB went alright by himself along with his regular guests. Don’t see a need for him to be paired off.

They will fill the 3pm - 6pm time slot. It will be called " KB and the Doc". I posted the wrong time slot earlier.

Either SEN is going to change sufficiently, to start appealing to more than bogans (I count myself as one, considering the amount of time is spend listening to it) , or Whateley won’t last the year

Dr turf i like and a supporter. I would give dr turf a lead role.

I think that's a furphy. They did well enough to wins some flags there in the last 10 or so years.

Big get, yes. Money speaks. What a waste of talent. One of my faves. Was hoping he'd go to 7 and half of their knobbs get the flick, especially BT. Oh well... http://www.theage.com.au/sport/gerard-whateley-leaves-abc-radio-to-host-sen-morning-show-20180101-h0c5za.html

I want to see Hogan kick 5 in a Quarter against a Top 4 side He is still to hit Top Gear...

Whateley is heading SEN as morning host and chief sports caller. Big get.

I really shouldn’t have posted anything on this thread. I’m off to the park to play on the swings.

Must confess I got pretty ripped myself last night.

I get so tired of economists, I really do. Economic statisticians in particular. There are a number of little fluffy statements that should be read as 'please note massive caveat on data and circular interpretation'. For example " While Melbourne did better with its lower picks, those players generally aren’t as important for team performance as players selected with higher picks. " Terrible charts, badly labelled, inconsistent formats being presented as if they are a like for like comparison. Conclusions thrown in as inserted sentences well before the discussion of the actual evidence. This is embarrassing to read. Anyway, to the substance. Richmond's 2005 and 2007 drafts were among the worst of any club, ever. Their 2010 draft was made respectable only by picking up Houli in the pre-season instead of a trade, unless you're a real fan of Reece Conca. 2011 produced only one player, Brandon Ellis. As discussed in a number of other threads, Richmond's premiership hinged on an amazing surge of recruitment in just the last few years, with close to half their premiership team arriving since 2012. Anyway... back to griping about economic statisticians. What the hell is going on with that first chart? Every year only has two data points, except for 2009... oh... oh my. Oh boy oh boy. I have a hunch... let me just check a few things... yep. capslock time PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS AT UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE HAS INCLUDED ONLY PLAYERS STILL IN THE RICHMOND TEAM FIVE YEARS LATER AS DATA POINTS WHEN ASSESSING DRAFT PERFORMANCE Basically, all failures have been excluded from the sample, in a 'study' that claims to assess success or failure.

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Rename this thread to "Will Bayley Fritsch make Port pay?"

GREAT player. Will we regret this when he ha a premiership medal and we just miss the finals. Fire away. Remember play the post not the man(similar to play the ball not the man or your booked).

Apparently earlier today I was in a 'sel-harm' mood and instead of calling lifeline I went through with it and watched the last quarter of the final game against Collingwood. Jack Watts absolutely stank it up that quarter. From failing to cover his opponent (cost a goal) to spectating and then failing to lay an effective tackle or smother in the goalsquare (cost a goal), to spectating and then arriving too late to affect a contest just outside the square (cost a point, luckily) to fluffing a forward run, to a whole string of really poor body language, it was terrible. I don't have a personal problem with Jack Watts the way some people seem to, but rewatching his last quarter for us has left me with a much better understanding of why he had to be moved on. Wishing him all the best (up to a certain point) at Port, and also confident we made the best decision possible at the time.

KC 20 - Titans 13 Jags 27 - Bills 17 Rams 34 - Falcons 23 Saint 31 - Panthers 17

Mate of mine texted this to me today.... 32. We 31. Should 30. Stop 29. Trying 28. To 27. Predict 26. The 25. Order 24. Of 23. The 22. 2019 21. Draft 20. Because 19. The 18. NFL 17. Is 16. So 15. Wildly 14. Random 13. And 12. Teams 11. Can 10. Turn 9. It 8. All 7. Around 6. In 5. Just 4. One 3. Off 2. Season 1. Browns

How many times have people said that about the poor old Browns.

Saquon Barkley is off to the draft - Browns would be crazy not to take him at #1. Mock I just looked at has them taking Baker Mayfield at #4. They would be set for years with those picks. Browns also have #33, #35 and Philly's second to draft based on need. Think their secondary would be a focus then.

Whately needs a buffoon to deal with the Bogans. Slobbo will be too busy with spell check for his gossip reporting for the Hun,to say nothing of sleeping off hangovers from the night before. Ox comes to mind ..lovable bufffoon who probably knows more than he lets on

haha takes me back to when Lee Dixon scored an own goal over the keeper's head "He's lobbed seaman from 30 yards!"

I quite like Garry on radio. Tim too. I listen to the morning show every, errr, morning.

They did indeed.... I still have nightmares about the "rent a crowd" cheer squad dressed as orange bananas !

10 points for who they beat...

It's right up there with their crowning achievements I reckon. Their innovation is world best. Meanwhile Soccer is stuck, Baseball is a joke... AFL is improving, but still along way to go.

8 new teams make the playoffs ... which means that 20 different teams have made the playoffs in the last 2 seasons. Quite amazing. I'm not sure there's another sporting league in the world where the parity is as it is in the NFL. Every team has 167 million to spend on player salaries which should mean that every team gets to have it's fair share of top-end talent. Except for the Browns it seems

Well there you go. Good call Gorgoth SEN just got serious. Still should have kept The Ox

This if Richmond win the flag next year I might take them seriously, a good run with injuries anyone can win it. do Richmond win the flag if they have our injuries? No way I doubt they play finals we lost gawn, hogan, viney, Jones for big chunks Richmond Lose riewoldt, rance, Martin and cotchin for as long as we lost our boys absolutely no chance they get anywhere near the top 8

Have we....?? I see a lot of potential but none of them have taken a match by the scruff of the neck as yet.

We have recruited well in recent years. We have not developed playing styles and all-ground intensity, direction or communication. We allow our coaching staff to separate players into like-groups too often, without coaching for support, support and some more support whatever the position on the ground. Skills develop from on-ground linkages and common purposes. We have allowed clearances and fwd playmakers to 'bomb' as there are no runners getting into positions to make a difference. Our recruits tend to fade when these overt characteristics of our long-term game plan and problem-solving emerge, dictating and advertising our approach across a game. Some recruits on game day are good enough, now, to overcome these issues. It is far from a 'whole team' approach. This is not always the case but our Mr Reliability in the backline is about to become a forward in the coming season. Although he telegraphed his intent with disposal, often he did not thanks to the young breed who have come into the side. Patience and effort may make us more potent to play the game that we have seen as the Demons' Game, with the young brigade running, running and advancing the pill to our best advantage. Just an opinion, nothing more.

How about he stop being lazy and spend his time actually getting us some good stories. This Ben Collins bloke a real POS.

5 years after the event an academic can tell me that Richmond picked better players at the draft than Melbourne....wow!

Melbourne last night. It's better than anything that can be Photoshopped. I'd like to see us use it in our marketing.

If there was an incident but the woman involved doesn't want to pursue it for whatever reason then to me no further comment is the only feasible outcome. Should the club come out and name the player involved in said incident when he could be totally innocent? should they say it's been investigated and handled when maybe there is no conclusion because she doesn't want to speak to the club or AFL?I mean why should she, they are hardly relevant & non biased legal authorities. I know it would be good to have a conclusion, everything nicely wrapped up but sometimes this is not possible. I would be interested to know who leaked the story though....

Agree totally!

Cannot tolerate this thread, at all. Poorly managed alleged incident; poorly developed into a real witch-hunt. In Melbourne during the week, without encouragement, guys in a pub we convinced of some errant insider information that the player concerned in the allegations was identifiable and outwardly stated that case. Rather sickening, really. Speculation and all-knowing rumours destroy one's faith in the processes of law and/or the sanctity of innocence before proven guilt. Sorry state of affairs.

Last year the Casey jumper and name was changed to Demons. Now, we have significantly beefed up the Casey staffing. http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2017-12-26/exciting-times-at-casey-maynard This is a far cry from the pre Roos days. He recruited Plapp to start integrating Casey and Demons. Looking at MFC website the Casey staff are fully integrated into the MFC structure. It is no coincidence that most of the recent AFL premiers have very successful and integrated VFL teams. Bodes well for the future of both teams.

Lol. Oh dear. because the lives of women have never been ruined by men have they? Or gone unnoticed or uncharged. I think the pay gap between genders is a simple example of women's lives STILL being ruined by men.

If you drink enough, you'll find that he does!

are you suggesting the club is fractured?

After over two years I thought it was time for an update. No. of deaths attributed to radiation from Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster ? Zero. This is good news, right ? Probably not for some.

are you part of the football department, support or ancillary staff?

No it won't it what it WILL point out is in the player management stakes Roosy and Hinkley will be better player managers. I'm tipping some "Serious" Mental disintegration of Demonland people when he has a "Stellar" Season which I firmly believe he will have!

Good on him if he snags a flag. I doubt he will become a better player though. JW is JW.

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