Uncle Fester

It's quite fun watching a bunch of souless, in it for themselves people, get used by a bunch of souless, in it for themselves people... who happen to be a lot smarter and more ruthless at the game

Make money?

Now I know who you remind me of.

As a kid I loved Steve Smith..I've always prefered a tough backman over a flashy forward. Matthews.... Great player but a thug. He could have won multliple Brownlows but he was a thug. Some of the thing he did should have seen him in jail. I don't mind biff when 2 guys want to go toe to to toe - happy to do it myself if that is what it takes -, but Matthews was never anything more than a king hit coward

If we let him stand in the forward pocket with a machete I'm gonna put my house on him winning the Coleman

No from me. I loved his brief but glorious stint with us but he went crazy. Really messed up crazy. We don't need that. We are a football club not a psych ward or a parole office.

And there it is. Don't think for a moment that I think what I said will make a difference to you. But it needs to be said. By all of us. You are a pain in the arse that ruins almost every good thing around here, You aren't alone, but you do make the top three. People come here to read and talk about football, not to see Stuie up on the bar, pants around his ankles, telling everyone what a figjam he is. Anyway... floor is yours. Gif or sarcasm or troll away. I'd prefer go away, but do what ya gotta do, bud

Nah, Stu. He's right. Every thread you post in becomes some sort of game where you have to run away with all the prizes. It's boring. Nobody wants to have to wade through page after page of you having to be 100% correct on every single point of every subjective internet discussion. That said... I'm not sure we'll get either unless we have a break out year and figure out some trade magic like we did this year. I'm not ruling out some sort of WTF? how did we get that moment, but it will take both of those conditions being met.

Concur with the title of the thread... but I've thought that a long time Funnily enough so did the other 17 clubs when he was shopping himself around

Had my CC stolen midyear so it was cancelled and new numbers issued. Only realised the other day that I needed to contact Demon HQ to tell them the auto rollover needed some tweaking. Anyway... all is good... and I'm gonna get Jack 'Give me my [censored] ball back or I'll put you in a house of pain that will make hell look good' Viney on my card.

Id rather Grimes doing the 1% 'ers and stuffing up the kick occasionally, than Harry O doing SFA hard stuff, getting the ball on the cheap, and then running like hell and bombing it to the other team. Like he does every fricken time

Scully got us Hogan. It was a great draft

I was right there that day. About 30 meters from the gangbang. I dunno if it made or broke the bloke, but it was a nasty hello to the big game, especially with the BS we trumpeted about him before he ran out. It wasn't the pick we screwed up; it was the way we managed the boy we picked. Collingwood just smelt the blood and acted like I'd hope we did if the situations were reversed.

Your first point is the one that stood out most for me: he hits the pack hard - bash and crash style - but always has it in mind to dish it out to a player that is free if that doesn't work. I know... highlights and all that... but its nice to see a talent that knows that instinctively rather than someone that has to learn it as in the case of the Jones boy.

I'm actually going to be a bit surprised if we don't take Oliver. I think having him and Petracca (assuming they both come on as we hope) rotating as forwards / mids with big bodies can only be a good thing for us. Throw in Kent and VDB we can have fresh skilled and tough players rotating all day.

Maybe... and I say this having no dog in the fight as I haven't seen any of this years crop other than youtube highlights, and am not interested in second guessing the professionals... but spending #3 and spending #46 are differnet things. You expect a top ten pick will be a ten year player. You hope a later round pick will one day be a best 22 player.

No. I meant Echuca IIRC. Maybe I didn't IIRC at all.

From Echuca too IIRC

Two blokes I owe apologies to: Lynden Dunn: other than his first handful of games where he looked like he'd be a good HFF, all I could see was a bloke that was prone to brain farts and who was more interested in being phoney tough than playing football. "We'll never be a good team as long as he's in our 22" was something I was pretty fond of saying until not that long ago. I don't know if it's maturity; him finding a position that suits him; the right word in his ear at the right time or shaving off the mo, but I'm pleased that he is comfortably picked each week and is someone dependable in our backline. Clint Bartram: "Why the hell is he getting picked at all? Bloody useless. We'd be better off a man short." Yeah, that's what I thought of him for his first couple of years. But geez at the end he was the shutdown king on small forwards. If his knee had have held up we'd be a 2-3 goal a week better side with him in it (that is 2-3 goal we don't have to worry about getting kicked on us side). On the other end of the scale: Tom Scully: Yeah I was seduced. I thought he was going to be the Fyfe of the new Melbourne era. That 18 touch last quarter against Footscray seemed to prove the point. But he's proved to be a very expensive good ordinary player. Still he saved us $300 million a season and got us Hogan, so I can't hate him for his backstab. Nah, who am I kidding. He's still a turd, but lucky for us he's not our turd.

Sat behind the city end goals that day about four rows back from the Sydney cheer squad (all ten of them). Nine of them were silent but the really, really camp guy in the red and while leg warmers kept chanting 'bring on Hawthorn *clap clap clap*' everytime we kicked a goal. I'm not a compassionate person, but I felt sorry for that mincing, mixedup, misfit that day. I reckoned he'd made as big a fool of himself the week before when Hawthorn drubbed them by 99 points (IIRC), and here he was doing it all again looking just as stupid. And the really sad part was he was too stupid to know just how stupid he was was even as the good humoured (and out numbering him 5000 - 1) crowd met his idiocy with laughter and thrown harmless objects like lollie wrappers. Ahhh, good times.

Getting away from Jordie (thanks for your service, mate) Vandenburg will be, I think, an incredibly useful player for us over his journey. Not only is he a good - very good footballer, he's also one of the players that we are assembling that make the rest of the team walk a little taller when they are on the field. We had a bunch of them under Northey and it was those hard as nails blokes that dragged us up from the bottom as much as the talent did. I'm not talking mean or sniper tough guys, I'm talking about fellas that take a hit, get up, grin at the other player, and go again twice as hard and win the ball. V'burg has that, and so do a few others, and they are the players that win you the really important games by making their opponents second guess themselves when everything is on the line.

I don't know where V'burg will end up. High HHF rotating through the midfeild maybe... but it's harsh... really harsh to accuse Jordie of skating. I never saw him take a backward step. Jordie only ever lacked the abiltiy to hurt when he had the ball, never the abilty to give 100% when he didn't have it.

Yay! If you are there then we are finals bound!

Courts might play that game. I don't. When it comes to that stuff I have a very jaded and bias eye. The courts play their games. I play mine.

I remember my Carlscum mates crowing that the beat us to him, and I also remember me being happy they did. He was a spud that just happened to be 15'10. But a tall spud is still a spud. Still, he can't complain. $1.6 mil plus whatever else he earnt before that isn't bad just for being an overgrown spud. I'd take that in a heart beat.