Timothy Reddan-A'Blew

Dieter...puh-lease!!!

I'm not voting, having not yet seen the game, but I just wanted to comment on how totally lacking in negativity has been the voting above, indicating that today was very positive for the club, despite the 'loss'. Often even our wins have had a negative cast in the votes thread. We seem to have been a real 2016 AFL football team today.

Keip an eye on Keilty

I think you'll find that's a leg and a kneecap. Father/daughter?

Advice to the hardy ones supporting our team 'live': Don't confuse low temperature with no sun effect. Hobart is the land of wafer thin ozone layer: if the sun is out, you may freeze (particularly with the wind chill factor at Bellerive Oval, famous for a direct line of sight down the Derwent to Antarctica) but you will also crisp up nicely in half an hour.

Lloyd: "I know they're talking to him internally" "He'll get over it"

Footy Classified in 45: He'll be quizzed on it I reckon. As to the issue, Jesse seemed to have a licence to roam - and impose himself on the whole game - last year and the earlier games but usually seemed bolted into the arc on Saturday. A role miscalculated?

From what I've seen down at Casey, if he does enough with his final(?) rookie year, I see a lot of similarity, and a future, in Max King. The weekend's Casey game sounded promising.

Sorry if this one's been pointed out before. 1st quarter, 11:18 in: Parish 5 metres away running at him, with momentum, directly in his line of sight as he marks. How could he possibly have thought he could play on safely? Is this (lack of) awareness reparable? He has so much upside, particularly the crunch intercept marking. These moments are letting him down.

Ooh, look! A puppy! What was I thinking

Allow me to be the first: "That's not going to help..." (so, a special appeal to the as-yet-unsigned: give us something to be positive about this week. Please?)

51 years is 1965. Commiserations, Deever. You have earnt venting rights.

I reckon there's quite a bit of the "Don't Argue", physically and mentally, in our team now!

What I've been liking over the 3 NAB games and Round 1 is the style we've been playing (when we haven't been lapsing a la the middle of last week) - vigour, run, flair, instinct, persistence, etc - and I'm looking forward to more of that, and a win will certainly result if (when!) it happens.

It'll be just our cluck if we lose. Serious note: Any response by MFC members/supporters should respect ND (and to some extent PJ too)

So, had there been a grand final (next weekend being available!), we would have been in it, and probably at our new favourite venue, against a team that - if I'm not mistaken - didn't have to travel out of their home state for their 3 games!

Was right in front of me. Nate initiated it and sucked him (Dylan Roberton) right in, with the umpire no more than 10 metres away with a great view! Always worth a try! The Saints-heavy crowd on that wing gave Roberton heaps, which added a nice spice to the occurrence!

I'd like to see Max King grasp the CHF role like his business partner, the other Maxy, grasped the ruck role at Kardinia Park last year, including the seeming come-from-nowhere aspect that would certainly be true of Max K should he do so!

Redleg, your post was perhaps prompted by the Pies' narrow win (coming from 6 goals down at 1/2 time) over a 'full strength' Dogs today? Raising 2 questions: How does our defeat of a lesser-strength Dogs rate us? How do we compare with that fuller strength Dogs and the Pies that narrowly beat them? Against the background that we have - in a pleasant new development - won both games so far coming back from well behind. I think if we can quell teams' rebound from halfback, as the Pies appeared to do to the Dogs in the 2nd half today, we can match it with the Pies and Dogs of the comp. The half-forward pressure we have exhibited so far, in terms of numbers at the ball and the tackling, in the relatively substantial parts of the games so far, will go a good way to achieving that if we can keep it up.

Don't let them finish as far away as 10th (pick 9). 9th is their calling (pick 10). Mind you, after last night's carnage, they might be in line for pick 1 and a priority?

Top quality pics O'Fiddy! I've noticed this in the two games so far and it's also evident in your 6th and 9th pics and in the background of your pic 3: We should run a book on which round Ben Kennedy will be blood-ruled off having bitten his tongue!

The logical conclusion of the article, and the examples used to support it, is that the grand final winning coach would always be the coach of the year. Probably the right conclusion btw, in these days of equaliseverything. So why do/would they even bother with a year-long-voted award? Not only mickey mouse but probably daffy ducked, too.

There was a survey(?) a little while go as to whether there should be a separate women's section on DL. Has that been decided? I think (as I think I posted then) that it should be just as much a part of DL as Casey discussions (if not more so). Apart from the watchability, and the expectation that our team's games will provide us with the curtain-raiser experience again, at last, this is going to provide us with premiership satisfaction - possibly even before this current crop of boys do!

How deeply can he get back into the media (for 'the big bucks') and still have a meaningful role at the club (for the 'not so big')? What sort of media might be off limits? He manages '360' while deeply in the club...

"Kalani"? Anyone want to forecast other first names in that 2024 premiership team (apart from the Jesse/Jack/Angus/Christian(s)/etc senior leadership)?