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Fess up. Who was the Demonland [censored] just on SEN ? Thankfully, Riewoldt hosed down your rubbish straight away.

You mean you can't work it out ?

You need someone to make you ''feel'' better ? As though words will somehow make a difference ?

Exhibit A.

Unless you're in the club you'd have no idea how he's performing or interacting with other admin staff. But you'd have to be a gene short of a moron to think our on-field performances have anything to do with Pert. On a scale of 1-100 his influence is 0.

No there wasn't. It doesn't surprise me that you have a poor memory of one of our better players. It matches your current observations.

Thank you to our resident Essendon fan. Great memories. Lyon was a wonderfully skilled and smart footballer. His only achilles heel was not being a great pack mark, but one v one he was very good. Like most Melbourne players there were often injury concerns, namely a debilitating back. I'm not much of a fan of his media work, but a champion of the MFC.

So many weird new posters.

Oh dear...

I'm very much against dropping Weideman. He needs as many senior games as possible this year with an eye to the future. We're last after six rounds and won't be playing finals, so why on earth would you drop a 21 year old tall forward in his 4th year ? He's obviously down on confidence, but tell him you'll back him. He'll learn far more at AFL level than VFL. Hés just completed six games in a row, which is the most he's ever played consecutively. I'd be getting 22 games into him. The rest of this year should be an investment in his and the club's future. What's the point of dropping him, bringing him back, dropping him again, etc. ? Some on here don't rate him as a prospect, which is fine, but this is a year to develop players for the future. If you're still desperate to play finals I suggest you re-evaluate your expectations. It just doesn't make sense to me to not give him a year in the seniors when we won't be playing finals. At least he'll enter next year as a 40+ game player. What's the point of him entering next year as a 30 game player...

Why would any supporter want to play finals only to make up the numbers ? I have zero interest in finals in 2019, not that it matters, because it obviously won't happen anyway. The club should already have one eye on 2020 and what they need to do to improve the list. Keep developing young players, strategise structures and ball movement, and improve our field organisation. Resident Demonland bedwetters won't see a path forward, which is fine. however the core of our list is still very good and one that can bounce back with better health and shrewd decision making.

A newbie trying to throw their weight around. Cute.

The more I read Demonland the more I understand why people vote for the Greens and Clive Palmer.

I'd usually agree, but Hawthorn is a different beast. Opposition clubs and players would have been in awe of Clarkson and Hawthorn for a decade. If your best mate is O'Meara and you know Mitchell is returning in 2020 and you've seen them land your former colleague in Scully, as well as Wingard, then it adds up to an attractive proposition. If it were me I'd be wanting to go to them ahead of every other Victorian club.

His contract will get sorted. It's not worth being up in arms about nothing. The club will pay him what he's worth and he'll accept. He'll also become a very good player. Clearly a 20 odd game key tall forward isn't playing his best footy at 21. And he wasn't at Casey when he was a teenager. I'm glad he's now getting continuum in the seniors. It will only help him develop.

It appears Rugby Australia is planning on ripping up Folau's contract over his bigoted remarks concerning homosexuality, among other things Most Australians won't agree with his views, including me, but he should be able to express his religious beliefs in a free democratic society. Unfortunately, Australia doesn't really have ''free speech''. It's very restricted. The USA, through its constitution, has much more free speech than this country. If he is sacked it's a disgrace.

It's quite extraordinary to me that the word ''he's'' has become ''his''. I see it everywhere.

Give him a role that he can focus on. Free up his mind. Have him lock down on a key opposition player. Stop them. Harmes is quicker and more dynamic, so is better suited to the outside running role, while still winning contested footy. Try it.

Slow and vanilla. No thanks.

I initially thought the same, so I thought I'd check the contract status of the Vic clubs. Check the link below. It can't be anyone else. https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/out_of_contract_players That said, it doesn't worry me. There are often ambit claims in the beginning.

His body language was one of the biggest non issues I think I've seen in football.

Firstly, I said ''I won't try and second guess Hogan's issues''. I made no reference to mental health or the reasons we traded Hogan. I merely said have faith that Goodwin makes the right decisions for the MFC. So the assumptions you've made about my post are incorrect. Not new for you. Now let me add this... I'll hypothesize, but not in regards to Hogan. Let's say a player at the MFC (not Hogan) had mental health issues. And let's say he was causing the club off-field grief and had for some time. In the club's view this player could be traded for his and the club's benefit. I FULLY support trading that individual. My concern is for the club and its ongoing search for success. I'm far more interested in what is right for the club over an individual and I'll support the club's decision. Now, at the risk of hurting your safe space, I'll further add that I reserve my ''feelings'' for friends and family. I'm not overly perturbed by the issues confronting someone I've never met and don't know, other than I hope they recover from anything that ails them, as I would any member of society.

He was my favourite Demon player, as evidenced by the 1313 no. in my bio, so I wish him well. I won't try and second guess what his issues are, but once again I applaud the club on making the trading decision they did. If you've doubted some of Goody's decisions I suggest you start having some faith.

Disagree. It's clearly reflecting a deep aspirational goal.

vandenBerg will go past him in 2019. Bookmark it. And obviously Kolodjashnij and Fritsch have been earmarked for that outside running role.