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yze was named last week but was a late withdrawal...and he was out the 2 games before that. he had scans done on his groin to check for OP and apparently he had a mild case. Do you get the feeling they don't want to risk him but might if they have too? i reckon he'll play for the dees or not at all, and it wouldnt surprise me if he doesnt play at all. neitz out, newton in, yze rested, leaves 12 payers in the line up for sandy, perfect solution.

sorry i think i was typing while you were posting. im sure if it looks that way we would put in a submission, but if the shoe was on the other foot, would you swap a home game at the g for a game at TD if hawthorn wanted to give cawford his 300th at the G? i wouldnt want to and i dont expect them to do. i would love to be there and see it, and neitz deserves to get it at the G, but there is no point resting him to engineer this gam being at the G, he wouldnt want to sit out for personal glory.

hawthorn are playing brisbane on the mcg that day already. the mcg is also being used on friday night. perhaps it could be moved to a sunday game, but there are already 3 games on sunday, including one at TD. there are contracts in place specifying the number of games played at each venue and at what time. i understand what you are saying, and i wish it could be our home game at our ground, but the mfc does not have a choice. we could lobby, but when has the afl ever done anything like that for us? its not going to make them any money is it? dont blame the club because david neitz's 300th game happens to fall on a fixtured game away from the mfc. you are being childish.

i dont think its a disgrace. it has nothing to do with the club. it is slightly disappointing though...

yeah your right 15cm does make a big difference to the geometry but the boys seem to always have the tallest on the last line of defence...perhaps they are worried that a tall would be run around easier?could you have two on the makr? one lifting another up? lol

if they named him this place would go into melt down...

actually, has anyone thought that perhaps there is no chance of him playing but he has been named just to settle us all down? i wonder if there has ever been so much hype over a player being named for his first emergency?

omg how am i gonna be able to study tomoz now? havnt been so pumped for a game since...since...well queens bday...but before that it was a while ago lol

b@stard

if he is the answer as our next KPF however i would like to see him in and playing regular footy before neitz retires so that we can adjust straight away. i dont want to see neitz out and then someone else in, its too drastic a change. out of interest, does newton (and i spose the other younguns) train with the dees or with sandy? the players who wont play senior footy this year for sure, do they work with sandy at their sessions then come to melb on the other days? how does it work?

its because of threads like this that i hope players read this site. just so they can pass this on to brock. wouldnt it be great if they started calling him chuck? lol

and here is a captain list from wikipedia... Captains * Charles Speer 1919-1920 * Percy Wilson 1921-1923 * Albert Chadwick 1924-1927 * Ivor Warne-Smith 1928-1931 * Percy Beames 1941-45 * Norm Smith 1945-48 * Adrian Friskin 1949-53 * Geoff Collins 1954 * Noel McMahen 1955-1956 * John Beckwith 1957-1959 * Ron Barassi 1960-1964 * Hassa Mann 1965-1972 * Stan Alves 1973-1978 * Carl Ditterich 1979-1980 * Robert Flower 1981-1987 * Greg Healy 1988-1990 * Garry Lyon 1991-1997 * Todd Viney 1998-1999 * David Neitz 2000-Present

davey magik, i think you should check this out then... mfc website: tracking time

get a copy of the adelaide game. one of the best games by an individual defender i have seen.

interesting point you make BRFE. i wonder if the plan for newtons promotion could also involve 'him' being ready. could the footy dept have said 'tell us when you think you're ready to take that step and then we'll consider you'? maybe not in so many words or explicitly, but could newton have some say in the process given his apparent issues...

not football related, but an interesting stats conundrum nonetheless... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall_problem

look my stats and math isnt my greatest strength but i just seem to recall when i was doing stats in first year... a quick web search found this from the clinical trials centre at the university of hong kong... "To estimate the proportion of having a certain disease in a population, Dr. Yip produced some tables to help us calculate the sample size to attain certain accuracy level. The lesson was "if you want accuracy you need to pay", roughly, to double your accuracy, you need to quadruple the sample size: so while you only need 100 patients to be 90% accurate, you would require 400 to be 95% positive and 10,000 patients to be 99% confident of your outcome." http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:TUHXaF...lient=firefox-a i think it seems to be a general law in stats...

my original mistake was that i thought he must've started in 1971...good bit of research though...

http://www.fullpointsfooty.net/k.htm#Peter...ne,%20Essendon) "when he retired from league football in 1982 he had played 131 senior games for the Demons, and booted 88 goals."

Crackers Keenan?

well i reckon its one of this lot, who all made their debut in 1971 John Gallus Bruce Brown Gordon Lawrie Shane McSpeerin Mike John Collins John Tilbrook Henry Ritterman Peter Williamson Steve Kerley

newton 193 cm 90 kg dunn 192 cm 90 kg miller 194 cm 96 kg according to the mfc website...

newton came in the same draft as bate and dunn (newton is a month older than bate). they were all bottom age players, and i think the footy dept thought they would all come close to top 10 picks the following year if left to mature. (bate was taken at 13, dunn at 15) newtons first season was apparently a write off with a back injury. last year he kicked 52 (?) goals for the sandy seconds including a haul of 12. this year he has managed 26 in the sandy 1st side from 9 games. apparently the preseason just past was the first he completed fully...

there is also a law in there somewhere that says you need to quadruple the sample size to double the accuracy. so they testing 24,000 ppl. to make it twice at accurate you need to now test 100,000, a hard task...

you can make statistical observations- i mean thats how they do tv ratings and election polls however i think given the way footy is split (10 teams in vic and only 1 or 2 in each other city, these statistical things are a bit hard. fwiw tho, i did like the one showing that collingwood fans shopped at dimmeys and forgers