DubDee

I agree. I assume Johnny Farnham must be busy? but the thing is, who would you have instead? garauntee it is impossible to please everyone with music I'd just You Am I to play it every year. but thats just me. :-)

I don't see GWS improving much. Lost Patton and Boyd. Plowman out again so not many good key backs. Deep through the midfield but I suspect a few lads will be looking to leave at years end. I reckon we will finish above them. I see us above gws Carlton, dogs, dons, west coast, st kilda finish around 12th West coast have lost Kerr cox embley waters and now b&f Mckenzie. Not a good midfield

Can't believe Beer is not being lowered. Its the only thing I buy at the footy and I have a lot of it, mostly to numb the pain have to go back to sneaking in some whisky

Far out this is depressing. Season hasn't even started and people are thinking a pass mark is losing 16 games?! We really should have won 6 in 2014 given how many close ones we were in. I know it's easy to we should have, but I believe that So saying 6 is a pass is expecting not much improvement at all. Surely we have more expectation than that? Anything less that 8 wins is not a pass for me. I'm expecting 8-10 wins. And it's not about saying which other teams won't improve, that'll take care of itself. There are so many surprises each year. Who would thought flag favourites west coast would not make finals. Or that we would beat the crows away etc. We have a lot of middle tier players that should improve and are in their peak years watts howe garland grimes And we have heaps of young talent that should naturally get fitter and better viney Tyson Salem etc Go dees!

Thanks mate. Guess I'll have to head up to Ballarat for the dogs game then

Hi all. Anyone know which of our games are televised?

Well I've had a good sleep and the dust has settled on this terrible news and Im still as angry and devastated as yesterday!!! The poor bloke! I am just hoping to any higher power that might exist that this does not lead to re-occurrance and that he still becomes a great player for us

of course not. Im worried about his career. how many times do we see re-occurrances of ACLs? Anyway just wanted to be able to rant and have a sook without being told to calm down and look on the bright side thats all

You are right, there is no evidence that this potential number 1 draft pick can play football. ill calm down and give it a few years to see if this injury ruined his career thanks for the advice

can everyone telling people to 'calm down' just pi$$ off??? possibly our best recruit has done his ACL, one of the worst and hardest to recover from injuries you can do. We are allowed to be upset. if you are not upset, good on ya. i could have taken a shoulder or an ankle but not a fricken ACL from our new dynamic midfielder forward. FFAAARRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKK! cant we just have one high pick come in and be awesome? too much to ask?

The thought of Salem rolling off half back and hitting up the hard leading Hogan is enough to give up my search for a meaningful relationship

What a horribly ignorant post. If you don't know anything about depression, the mental illness, it's best to say nothing. Depression is a disease that can strike people for no reason. It's like saying someone that has a brain aneurysm is weak of mind.

I just hate the word 'Cliche'. Ban it

Not lucky at all. We went out and got him and had the balls to trade pick 2 which was widely criticised DT is quickly becoming my fav player

thanks for the report TDI bit harsh on the Kiwis but, you aussies pronouce Trac and Truck pretty the same I reckon! (assuming youre an aussie) anyway, just thought id tackle the big issues

thats 2,000 in a week! might be to do with the flyers that went out last week. "You have picks 2 and 3, but DubDee you are pick one" yada yada. sign up you lazy ba$tard should get onto it

Wing, high half fwd. he is bloody fit. wasted deep in forward line. imagine having him on the wing one on one. T Mac has the ball under pressure in def 50. best bail-out kick there is. look for Howey, hack it in his general direction, he'll sit on the blokes head! then hit up Hogan and BANG! GOAL!

coverage starts at 6:30? does anyone know when the first pick will be announced? I want to avoid the rubbish coverage as much as possible I especially love when they have panel chat or interviews with parents while first round picks are being announcing! I think they are going from pick 1 to pick 10 this year and not the opposite which is better

I think the main problem is the lack of people at the game. As some have mentioned, the croud noise is the real atmosphere. The MCG is so big that you can get that good atmosphere unles there are 60,000 plus at games. as we know only one of our games per year is the stadium half full. Thats why Adealide oval is good and Aami park for Football, you only need 15-20 thousand at Aami for it to have a great loud atmosphere. Etihad just sucks as a stadium, just has no soul. Better planning could have meant, Waverly, Princes park, etc could all be used, giving the real home ground feel to different teams Anyway, not much we can about it aside from getting bigger crowds and winning some goddamn games

when the ASADA report came out there was the list of drugs that were confirmed to have been taken or highly likely taken. the only banned one was TB4. from memory most of the others eg AOD, were unapproved for use. AOD was in phase 1 clinical trials for treating obesity. the odds of AOD getting through all trials and being approved would be less than 5%.

I work in the Pharma industry (yeah im a sell out) and can confirm the vial would not be an approved drug by the TGA. There are extremely tight regulations around registering drugs, submitted the package and labelling for approval etc. What I find interesting is that there seems to be no consquences for Essendon taking all the other unapproved drugs (regardless of if they are banned). like AOD etc. So ASADA/AFL is basically saying it is cool to inject random drugs that have not been approved for use just because they are not on the banned list? sounds crazy to me, these drugs could do anything or nothing or when combined with other unknown drugs could react adversely. They got punished for governance but this is more than governance issues. This is an unbelievablly reckless act that shows no regard for the players safety I am staggered that the media has decided to go easy on the bombers (aside from Caro). I would expect nothing less than Hird sacked and banned, Board sacked and all players getting a minimum of 12 months

yep id prefer Frawley, pretty easily actually. I know he was distracted at times this year but I put that down to the move he was about to make and playing out of position al year. he was still our best forward most weeks He was a very solid player for 4-5 years and would have looked a lot better if we were a decent team. our best year of his career was 2010 (8.5 wins) and he made AA - as the ball wasnt coming down his end every 2 minutes pick 3 could be anything, injury prone, not able to handle the pressure etc

I reckon Joel Selwood would disagree with you, he'd prefer his couple of premiership medals I would think! Everyone is getting carried away with raising the draft age stuff - so a few lads quit to do other stuff or draft picks arent gaurunteed, so what? I'd rather be able to see Selwood, Judd, Wines etc tear it up on the big stage in their first years, and the ones that arent ready can play in the 2s and train in a professional environment

So you think a tougher fixture would mean we might win more games??

I take your point. I wasn't trying to downplay the role we play in raising money for the club. In essence I just much prefer to talk about footy and potential wins rather than making money. I think it's sad when the fixture comes out and most posts are about sponsors and gates Where's the excitement!?