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Preuss won't be selected. If they were going to play Gawn and Preuss they would have trialed it in the JLT. The fact that he was training with the mids is irrelevant. What else do you expect him to do at training ?

Was it poor to leave Smith on when he'd clearly injured his groin ? Sure. Would he have most likely have missed games even if he didn't come back on ? By the way he was hobbling I suspect it wouldn't have mattered much.

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.

Petracca and Melksham are good contested players and good overhead. If he really wanted a third tall he could play Fritsch forward. We have enough versatlity to cover a player of Smith's standing.

It did seem a poor decision, but let's not pretend Joel Smith is an irreplaceable player. He's far from that.

Eight years since Fukushima and one death has been attributed; and an unlikely attribution at that. The worker in question died of lung cancer, which isn't the type of cancer typically attributed to exposure to radiation. Four other cancer patients have been attributed to Fukushima, which are more likely due to the cancer type, but none have yet died. This was never the disaster some hoped it would be, despite the hysterical reports. I don't believe in the climate change hoax, but if you do, you should be a champion of nuclear energy.

I agree. If we don't call it the ''Malthouse Theory''. Players missing from their 2018 best 22: Wingard, Polec, Wines, Hartlett (only played 5 games) and Dixon. With a big query over Ryder. This is a game we shouldn't be dropping at the G.

His comments are in keeping with previous comments. He hasn't predicted we'll make the eight, because we drink our own bath water, but recognises the quality of the list.

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.

He's often isolated deep because of his one-v-one contested ability, as evidenced in round 23 against West Coast and in the semi against Sicily. In reality, they all rotate around the front half of the ground, so where you put them doesn't overly matter.

It's a big year for Nathan. At best he gets one year and at worst he gets tapped on the shoulder. I suspect he'll get one year.

I don't think May should be suspended. Did you see the drivel I was responding to ?

Why are you quoting me ?

I plan on making this my last post re this matter, as it's not a big enough issue to warrant too much time wasting. Your post is drivel. I don't know if you've ever played football, but one player knew there was a collision coming and the other didn't.

Unfortunately, I think that's right. A few pages ago a poster posted a slow-mo video. I paused it at around 5.7 seconds and it appeared to me that the first contact was to his chin.

Being on the ground or off the ground is irrelevant. The only thing that's relevant is where contact was made.

I'd like to know what was in the ''medical report''. Like others have already said, the ''look'' of the incident should be entirely irrelevant. If the first contact was to the chin and not the neck then unfortunately he will not get off. Hard to tell from the video. He could have hit the chin first, or he may not have. This is where Berry's recollection of events comes in.

I didn't think he got him in the head. I'm obviously wrong. But gee, the game has been sanitised to within an inch of its life. Yeah yeah, I know it's still tough and they hit hard, etc.

I suspect your cousin is right. No-one is better placed to know a player's deficiency than a teammate. This is where the good clubs develop players and improve their weaknesses. That said, I believe we've earmarked him for an outside wing role.

I have more patience for a 21 year old key forward still learning the caper.

Do you think that Goodwin and McCartney would have recruited him if he wasn't hard enough at the footy ? It's in their DNA. It's part of the club's ''esprit de corps''. Clearly there are degrees of hardness, and Kolodjashnij isn't an inside mid, but the club wouldn't have recruited a player they thought had been to the Jack Watts school of hard knocks.

In a bad way. I saw every player you mentioned and there's not one great of the game other than Flower. There are greats of the MFC, but not greats of the VFL/AFL competition. There were great stories, like Stynes, who was a champion of the MFC, but wasn't a great of the game. Simon Madden and Dean Cox are greats of the game, but Stynes falls short of their lofty status. By the end of his career, if not now, Gawn will go down as a better player than Stynes. For me he's already better. In the midfield group you've listed there is not a single champion midfielder in the Voss, Black, Judd, Ablett, Riccuito, Williams, Buckley, Fyfe mould. There's no Matthews, Bartlett, Skilton. There's no Lockett, Dunstall, Carey, Lloyd, Riewoldt, Brown, Quinlan. Or Blight, Jezza, or Hudson. And I've missed many. In fact, I don't recall a single club with as little star power as Melbourne in the last 50 years. We're simply bereft of the ''greats''. In my opinion our best ''collective'' would be the worst in the league among the established clubs. I could not disagree with you more.