Elusive Tunbridge

I haven't heard that Mitch and Chip have made a pact to go to the same club. You didn't hear it first here. My lips are seals*. *performing.

I agree. More of an upper deck sniper.

If Essendon make him head coach, he'll stay. If not, is there a vacancy at another club? If it comes down to a choice between deputy to Hird or Roos, he won't think twice, especially if he is the designated successor - and they may do a deal for him to take over in 2016. I'm guessing he'll be head coach at Essendon next year.

I didn't know you were Aboriginal, Enyaw. Had you revealed that here in the past?

Indeed, and cheering is something children do, too. The proper behaviour for supporters is to sit quietly through wins and losses, meditating upon the evanescence of the universe within which "winning" and "losing" are mere illusions. And we could gently appreciate the way Jack Watts has replaced the tackle with the non-violent but intrusive cuddle.

Your rationale for posting this delusive BS is what?

Trade him. Trade him for a bag of marshmallows. Pink ones. Like for like.

If they made it without consulting their managers, I think it doesn't count.

Jetta for the coach's award.

I'd give him permission to train just to give Roh Bail the chance to run through him.

Be nice to know just which of their teammates they will go to bat for.

I could never understand why Lyon wanted him. I guess Lyon's wondering about that himself, now.

I don't think it has anything to do with his injury, but I do love his bandy-legged run.

Is that a red sky at night, or in the morning?

Is this the best you can say in defence of your feeble grasp of reality?

Matthews' idea of a contact sport is played in an octagonal cage.

Surprised that I sucked anyone in. Of course he's ours for good.

Worried that he'll want to go play with his former team-mate Ollie Wines. Re-sign him NOW, FFS!

Agree that Gawn, Blease and Georgoiu are ready for selection. Fitz, Toumpas and Tappy not too bad, Harmes promising. Casey are scarcely playing as a team. Lots of turnovers, poor backing up, long kicks to contests. We don't have much in the cupboard. Forgot to mention JKH. Of course he's ready too.

When you believe something so strongly that it is essential to your ideas about yourself and the world, direct evidence to the contrary - not merely the opinions of others - is disturbing and painful. This is the state Leon Festinger called cognitive dissonance. He studied members of a cult who believed a prophecy that the world would end on a given day and prepared by giving up their jobs, worldly goods and so on, then waited for the end. It didn't come on time. They were in a dreadful state - if the prophecy was wrong, they had not only lost their material possessions, but also their core belief system. They preserved their beliefs by deciding that the computation of the date had been wrong, their actions were justified, and they had only to wait for the new date. Many Essendon supporters, though not all, believe so strongly in the goodness and superiority of their club that the mounting evidence of drug abuse and the dodgy behaviour of their club (i.e. loss of records, payoff to the coach who accepted "responsibility", etc. etc.) causes acute psychological discomfort. This is resolved by reasserting the core values and developing a conspiracy theory - "they" are out to get us, the process is crook so the evidence can be discounted, "they" do it themselves anyway. Then you turn up to the game waving a placard, "In Hird we trust", and yell loudly "Nah, nah, I can't hear you!" Of course, the new date for the end of the world eventually arrives.

I think Georgiou was recruited specifically as depth and did a good job in Garland's absence. Although his recent form at Casey hasn't been good, he's a necessary insurance policy and he'll be retained until someone else fill that role better.

So, you've got more guts than most, you're not snide or petty, and internet etiquette is beneath you. Onya.

"I am more than reasonable in my judgement of McKenzie. I am what you'd call an unbiased supporter of a club which can sometimes make you standout on a place like demonland. Because of this, my view can be hard to acknowledge on a place where there's so much cognitive dissonance floating around. I've already said that McKenzie held Stanton well on the weekend without providing much himself. Here's a take of a non-biased Melbourne supporter's view on those passages of play McKenzie was involved in:" Delighted to have such a reasonable and unbiased view presented. Personally, I am quite biased, and I think your self-congratulation is full of it. And look up cognitive dissonance - if you want to sound educated, it's better to be so.

Obvious extreme exaggeration. And if other Dee supporters ever behave badly at the game (hard to imagine, I know) I can't see why that shouldn't be mentioned. BELLOWING IN CAPS IS UNPERSUASIVE!!

The only likely change is Terlich for Riley. Blease and Nicholson receive the Coach's Encouragement Award.