Red and Blue Bloke

This deal really stinks for reserved seat holders, 11 games with an undercover seat costs an extra $130, but it now will be 9 games with a seat and 2 without for the same price! Taking the [censored] a bit.

The 'highlights' video on the club website is out of focus and shows virtually nothing of value. While there has been some improvement in recent times of what melbournefc.com.au offers, this is terrible and lets down all those who were unable to get there.

Does that mean Ricky P is not training with Richmond anymore? I thought he was sure to get picked up elsewhere!

Good points made that clarify it, my intention was not to talk down Evans so much as illustrate that his record is shaded by Magner, so it is odd that he got the spot. That and his issues with injury. I hope he comes good and plays some great footy

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere, but why would we promote Evans to the primary list over Magner? I see that Evans has potential, but why him over a bloke that slotted straight into AFL footy and played a heap of games for us? Evans cannot get his body right, other players were given the arse recently for that, players I would suggest that showed more for us than what at this stage Evans ever will - Pettard was a very, very handy player when fit. What's the deal?

What an insult to Hudson's victims, to be bought up so flippantly, utter disgrace.

Bloke wants photo. Players pose for photo. This is not news, someone at The Age needs to take control of the situation and stop the campaign they have running against us. It is making a mockery of their sports section and credibility as a newspaper.

Hogan does not come onto the list until 2014

With articles popping up everywhere (there is a new one on afl.com.au today), I am confused about us getting Viney. Simply, who has to commit first? Giants, Suns or Us? What date will we find out? It will be decided before the actual draft, right?

Cook was back in the Twos again. Pretty tough to see when Tom Lynch kicked 4 yesterday.

Raising flags before games. Club blazers. Tom Scully debacle. Fighting with Hancook. Public coach interview process. Losing assistants and taking on old boys on tenure. Dumb game plans from the 90s. Sacking veteran players for 18 year olds that need to play VFL. Smug attitude about an unproven list. Pressers about giving famous numbers to kids. List can go on and on. Malthouse hit the nail right on the head.

A lot (yes, that's right, it is two words, not one) better than 'Jimmy's Pool Room'. That was bad AND it had Brodie Holland. A good fit for Robbo and MFC.

Some may be critical, but it would be amazing to get this up. These things when someone has an idea an others get behind it, the first time they did this at European soccer matches, not everyone would have done it, people need to stick at it and get behind it for it to roll on.

Who kicked winning goal?!

Thanks for the report, wanted to watch the game on the NTFL website but had other commitments. Sorry to hear about Aussie's contribution. I have heard that even before the tragic passing of his dad, his hamstring problems had started to put an end to his AFL career. Thought the drop back in standard and demand on his body would have given him a chance to thrive.

Out for 6 weeks! Butcher needs to receive a meaningful suspension, the tribunal let him down last time when his jaw was broken in a pre-season match against West Coast at Casey 2 years ago.

About as good as the grand old flag raising we had last year. This stuff looks just looks plain silly from a club that has not won anything in generations. People don't respect contrived flags and blazers, no one sees this and thinks, 'wow, maybe I have to change my mind about how I think about those guys'. Do a bit of this stuff if we ever get anywhere onfield.

Where do you work, Russian?

So Green should never have been captain? Should a guess between 2 who have played less than 40 games be made? What if one of them have a quiet year next year? Chop again?

Good call. I didn't really mean for Brad Green's sake, I was trying to compare it to the rash decisions that have been made, like James McDonald. That said, he has been romanticised a bit, he should have stayed on, but not as captain. Point I was trying to make is neither JT or Grimes is the clear choice for captain and, unless he meddled in board affairs last year, Green should stay on as plenty of captains have had ordinary years and continued and flourished, he has been, conditionally, a very good player and leader and one ordinary year does not totally rob him of these attributes.

Niall just commentates our issue rather than genuinely proposing anything and he alludes to knowing about what exactly happened at the club last year when I think it really has never been made clear. Which suggests that some people still at the club are being protected, which also suggests that maybe some more blood-letting may be required, but that is another issue... Unless Green overstepped the mark last year with the Baily/Schwab debacle, he should be given another year. He had form issues and did look rather sullen at times, but he was always like that that so to give him the flick for being who he is short-sighted, possibly as short-sighted as giving J-Mac the flick totally? If he did get too involved with board issues last year, then maybe an early transition to JT and Grimes might be in order.

Stating he is an uninformed, clumsy football 'identity' is not stating he was not a good footballer. So you can hop off your soapbox, he does not need you defending him, he is not Bambi!

Wow, express an opinion different to some and you need to get a life! If you feel that strongly about it maybe you need to take some of your own advice!

Because I do not agree with your assessment of his 'talent'?

Dogs had him sparingly for one season. Often mixes players names up and is confused by modern football, if you make your dough on a particular subject, you should know something about it. Clearly his job is to be funny as 7 have got him as far away from the real thing as they can. I'd say puerile rather than humorous. You may prefer him because you can understand him, rather than the '[censored] talk' you find a bit over your head?