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Saty is a must. There'd be no shortage of Melbourne players. He'd just give them a wink at training, and they're on the panel.

Couldn't disagree more, and is the major thing that worries me about this season. Hogan is the only legitimate goalkicking tall forward option we have, likewise Garlett as a small/medium forward. Dawes, Pedo and Watts have been round long enough, and can't be relied upon as goalkicking tall options. The rest have no track record, and I'd be over the moon if Frost managed to kick more than 20 goals in a season as a key forward. Unless we get over 20 goals from the likes of Petracca and Kent, and 2-3 mids kicking 15+, I see our attack as being impotent.

Sorry DD, but even at VFL level his skills and decision making are ordinary. Contrary to what Saty may have you believe, senior players rarely improve on these areas over a preseason.

With a competitive ruckman in Gawn, are we not better off playing a run-with tagger like Vince ahead of a negating tagger like Bugg? I'd prefer to have the likes of N.Jones, Tyson, Viney, Brayshaw, VDB and Vince at stoppages than Bugg. TBO, the only role I see for Bugg is a shut down role on medium/small half forwards.

You have to remember that preseason match sim doesn't involve 18 on 18. You have more space, and can get away with a slightly errant disposal, that you won't get away with during the season proper. Good luck to Terlich and Jones, but can't see either of them getting a senior game unless we have a massive injury list.

That was my initial reaction. I'm not questioning the credentials of the appointees as such, but these roles at a football club are minor, and barely newsworthy. Like the China experiment, nobody cares if we're not winning games.

Just a question to the majority on here who are applauding the appointment. Are you doing so because it's an affirmative action initiative by the club, or do you believe that the appointment will strengthen our football department? If the appointment is a display of affirmative action by the club, then they should be applauded. Do I think the appointment will change our fortunes in any way? No. My views on any new appointment to the football dept is ambivalence. At the end of the day, the senior coach is the be all and end all, and drives the football dept. So whether the appointment was a male or female, it matters little to me from a football perspective.

Not sure why people are getting all upset, and throwing up things that Ralph has said in the past. The facts are that we are still a long way off being a finals contender, amd he is right to include us in his list. Maybe fanciful of him to not include Essendon, but that should be of no concern to us. We haven't earnt the respect of the football media, and until we start winning games, comments like this from Ralph will be common place.

GWS were happy to trade away picks, so Freo's 1st rd pick this year was next to useless. The onus was on Freo to give GWS something of value to get the deal done. They wouldn't, so why should GWS just cave in?

What garbage! He'd signed a contract extension 6 months prior, and nobody put a gun to his head. Good on GWS for playing hardball. If you want a state of origin set-up where every kid gets to play in their home state, say goodbye to the QLD and NSW teams.

I'm sure this line is just cut and pasted annually after every preseason.

Hird's response, "It was Wally's (Dean Wallis) job to keep the records. He kept the records on the back of his TAB tickets, so the TAB should have the records if Wally had a win. Wally had and still does have a close relationship with Danksy, so he was the most qualified to keep medical records. Nothing to do with me, I'm innocent."

Pretty sure that he's been playing up in Darwin, so it would make sense that the Bombers would target top-up players who have some fitness levels ahead of those who haven't done a proper preseason. Doubt that he'll make a huge difference, so good luck to him.

Coming off an ACL injury, playing basketball would be considered stupid, which is where Roos is probably coming from. The toe injury was probably the result of someone landing on it in a rebound, or something innocuous.

Are you serious. Regardless of what people think of Neeld as a coach, to insinuate that he was partially to blame for Jurrah going off the rails is ridiculous. Jurrah was responsible for his own actions, not Neeld and not the AFL.

Wasn't he supposed to be fit and firing by the end of the season, but the club decided to hold him back? I hope the scan was just precautionary.

I suggest you re-read my post. With his athleticism, Frost "could" become a decent key backman. I just don't want him, T. Mac, Garland and Dunn in the same side because we'd lack creativity coming out of the backline, which I think has been a big issue for a long time.

Ha, ha, this brings back memories. I was also involved in a mediation where the other party was represented by Steven J. Peake, but I was the defendant. I didn't find it necessary to hire a lawyer for a dispute over a bain marie (go figure!), but the landlord I was up against did. After continually refusing to pay the initial claim ($20,000), and subsequent reduced claims thereafter, the mediator spoke to me one and one, and said that I was doing a good job, and to hold out until their claim came down to $5000. That amount was little over 2 months rent which was outstanding because the locks on the doors were changed, hence I stopped paying rent. The mediator ripped into the landlord/SJP for doing so because I'd been up to date with the rent payments, and was in the process of thoroughly cleaning the place after closing down my business. If SJP was giving her advice throughout, she should have refused to pay his fee. The landlord lived in Sydney, and I can assure you that the agreed upon settlement definitely didn't cover her legal costs plus personal expenses.

It's a regular theme amongst Demonlanders that players who are out injured are 50% better than when they were on the field. From the small sample size we saw of Frost, he's an athlete who'll never be a key forward. He has potential to become a key back, but at this stage he's a poor man's T Mac. We won't win many games with a backline consisting of Frost, T. Mac, Dunn and Garland.

You know what, I'm happy to wear that.

OK, similar then. Are you happy now.

The fact that anyone would suggest to "run a poll" on a football forum to determine right and wrong on such an issue like this beggars belief. Like all issues of this nature including racism and homophobia, breaking down stereotypical thought processes of the masses takes time. BTW a family of someone who was murdered in a doemestic violence incident would have empathy for the woman at the restaurant, and would understand her anguish. Nobody of any intelligence would try to quantify anguish and grief.

The results would be like an "Islam should be banned" vox pop in the Herald-Sun.

Did you actually comprehend what Nasher wrote? Clearly not. The point he was making is that in some instances the mental anguish of a threat can have more lasting effects than an actual physical assault. It's an individual issue, and not up to the likes of yourself and others to determine what's worse. Sadly it's seems that many on this forum have a "harden up" mentality.

Based on his own comments, I seriously doubt it. As for Prestia, I think you're right when you say that it depends on our performance. But he may still have intentions of returning to Melbourne (city), and other clubs could come into play.