Chris

Why shouldn't it have been holding the ball? The Adelaide player ran miles, was tackled, didn't dispose of it and held it across the boundary. If it wasn't holding then it had to be deliberate.

Any chance you can go back to school?

After thinking more on game and being slightly more rational. Last week I though Viney starte working into some form, this week he started showing really good form, hopefully next week this keeps going and he shows it for the whole game like he did for much of last year. I also thought Tyson was starting to find form large week and I still think he is, just slower than Viney is. Vince is another who is starting to find some form but I wish he would stop the big blind kicks that seem to always end up with the opposition. I think Oliver is coming off the boil but I hope he proves me wrong. I think part of that is opposition attention, with the others coming into form that may change. Lewis hasn't impressed me as yet. Watts had an off game but I am confident he will be fine this weekend again. Jetta does his job week in week out. Cyril and Poppy were barely sighted on the weekend. Frost, Hibbert, and Hunt are doing well and settling in as a good team. Tmac does great things but...... Omac shows enough in patches that I think he will be good and is a more natural looking kick than his brother. Salem was a little off but is very good, but not in a brutish way, more in a finessing way. Hannon showed a bit in parts and I think will be pretty good but he is very raw. I would love to see Kent back in purely for his attack, but he must defend more. Stretch is also missed as he generally makes the right choice and uses the ball well. All in all I think the team has been out of form and hasn't played to our potential in any game this year (especially the mids). If they do come on song together we will do very well. If not we miss the 8.

With Gawn we could very well be 7-0. There has not been a game this year where we haven't been in a place to win it.

A few things. [censored] we were bad in the first, but we did work our way back into it. Some of the missed frees were abysmally but didn't affect the game Leigh Matthew's is a biased [censored] who is losing relevance by the day. BT is an absolute [censored]. Hamish Mc is clearly a Hawks fan as he was livid at one point and could hardly talk. I really hope foxtel tell Ch7 to get [censored] in all games and [censored] off theses tosses in the com box. Viney was good Jones got better Oliver was good Hogan was good in patches but needs to chase harder (can forgive him at the minute but it needs to change) [censored] you you mother [censored] arse hole hawks. You can all go and shove you head up each other's arses you bunch of arrogant flogs.

So it is just like listening to BT!

Dunn vs Omac. Easy. One is getting old and seemed to be finding it hard to stick to team rules, although is fairly good as a lock down defender. The other is young, is average as a lock down defender but is getting better and has potential. If your argument is essentially that we should have kept Dunn at the cost of Omac then there is no way I could agree. If your argument is simply that we should have kept Dunn then firstly I would agree there is a good argument to that, and secondly would ask why is Omac mentioned in the title. Surely the better comparison would be Garland or Dunn.

India is an interesting one. As a nation they aren't very focused on sport full stop. Their Olympic teams are tiny when compared to their population, the last Olympics they sent over one hundred athletes for the first time, sine 200 it has been around 70 for the other games. In the same time period New Zealand, a country of 4 million people, have sent between 148 and 190 or so athletes. In saying that they are very good at Hockey and absolutely made about Cricket. I will be interesting to see if another sport can get any traction in India as they clearly haven't been able to in the past, but have any really tried? As noted Melbourne has a large Indian population, if would could be seen as the team of choice it is a big potential fan base adding members. Being able to do that is entirely dependent on being a good footy team first!

If that's the one I think it is Bernie tries to hit the ball out and it bounces off a leg and ends up under him. It doesn't look like he drags it in though and it would have been paid many times this year alone. Simply the umpiring was deplorable both ways on the weekend.

The big positive I took from the game was Viney, Tyson, and Jones. Both have seemed flat the last few weeks, especially Viney and Tyson. During the second half all three really appeared to be working their way back into form a little, still a way to go but hopefully the start of a great streak of form from the three of them, especially exiting as with the three of them flying we are a much much better side and will trouble anyone.

[censored] [censored]! These umps have paid every possible deliberate against us and not one for us, their players just handball over the line and nothing

Enjoying Jason dunstall calling the umpiring out as being [censored]! How did Garlett not get a free?

We playing in the wet on Monday night. It is barely an advantage.

They have only kicked two more points than us

That is [censored] [censored]. We can't buy a 50 and then they get one for free. [censored] these [censored] maggots!

Plenty of non member supporters out there.

Not sure where you were sitting but was easily 1 in 3 and more like 50/50 where I was. Other areas I could see were dominated by the tiges, but large areas weren't. We easily had 30k there, unless we make a hell of a lot of noise with not many of us.

I would go to 35 to 45 but it is really hard to tell that difference and is influenced heavily by where you were. Certainly wasn't 15 to 70 though!

Depends where you were. Up around me was 50/50 in the Ponsford stand. I could see down the bottom was heavily tiges in areas though.

I think they need to slow down a touch. Against the saints it was clear that once we had the ball we slowed down and systematically shredded them. I remeber Roos saying he felt like he was watching us play at half pace. The thing was though that the players slowed slightly in body and mind but in doingeneral so the ball didn't slow much and away we went. If only you could bottle that!

Really? Where I was it was 50/50 right around the northern top deck. To say there was only 20k dees is laughable.

I was thing more 35-40 dees and 45-50 tiges. I was top of the Ponsford, the top deck was a 50/50 split due to the dees members up there. The lower levels looked more tiges.

My thought on why we lost. Lost Smith early which changed structure, Watts seemed to be down back a fair bit, which removed a tall forward. Lost Spencer fairly early, which removed a tall forward all together and exposed us down back as Watts couldn't cover that either. Couldn't use Trac as usual due to injury, putting more on the mids Had Melksham in the ruck at one point! Couldn't kick the score we should have as we only had one tall forward. Completly ran out of puff, was clear as day they had nothing left. We also as a team haven't learnt how to win. That sounds absurd but is actually a skill that needs to be learned and at this point we don't have it. All in all I wasn't overly disappointed last night, the Tigers are yet again the paper Tigers and will be smashed next week. If not for the above mentioned I think we would have won by 6 to 8 goals.

What I would love to see is a bloody big sign outside the G (or even better, inside the G) stating 'Never forget the dons and Dank'. Would be a nice touch as a tribute to our diggers as it plays on the sign in the primary school in Villers-Bretonneux which reads 'Never forget Australia'. This sign is in place as thanks to not only our diggers who took the town 99 years ago tomorrow, but also as thanks to the Victorian School children who raised money after the war to help rebuild their school in France. On an aside and sorry for the history lessen, the school children of Villers-Bretonneux in return raised money for the rebuilding of the schools lost in the Black Saturday bush fires, a truly special relationship forged in blood and tears that far too few know anything about.

They stopped the Melbourne Brisbane womens game due to lightening earlier this year. It has to be pretty close for them to do it though.