In Harmes Way

13 minutes ago, sisso said:

Prob pour with rain

BoM needs to work on a 3 day radar.

13 hours ago, Deestroy All said:

I swear he was my cantine lady in highschool.

How slick was your canteen lady at handpassing the sausage rolls?

9 hours ago, Demon Disciple said:

It's called an orgasm, sbf

Nah, not quite there yet. Need to win a flag...

I'll just bring this thread back to Jason Taylor.

I must admit on 2015 draft night I was surprised when I didn't see Parish picked up then looked up Clayton Oliver's highlights package and specs. Was even more surprised to see a heavily built player but liked his contested possession highlights.

It's a credit to Taylor + recruiting team that they looked deeper into whether he had the mental strength to condition himself for AFL (he had done some work prior to draft night, which would have provided confidence) and an even bigger credit to Clarry for the work that he's done between then and now to get to where he is now. God only knows how good we'll be if he keeps working at the same rate.

I've just got a warm fuzzy feeling all over at the moment... 

Reports now confirming Bernie has accepted the one match ban.

Have a look at the vision in the attached article - he's hit him with his armpit in the upper back. FMD. Don't want to lose him for two games though....

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-03-28/mrp-vince-varcoe-offered-bans-fines-for-catsdockers?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News 

14 hours ago, Moonshadow said:

I thought this is how most others saw Melbourne supporters:

I love the feigned looks of amusement from those around him. Priceless.

2 hours ago, A F said:

 Nah, it'll take off. You watch David King.  #goodyfooty

I was looking at your hashtag and it reminded me of goody two shoes.

Maybe we need to send Alan Richardson some #goodytissues

Clearance and Max included in this week's team of the week. Nate Jones unlucky to miss out.

What odds would you get that Max will make the team every week this year?

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2017-03-28/team-of-the-week-round-one?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=RSS+feed%3A+AFL+Latest+News

1 hour ago, Cards13 said:

Who takes his place JMc?

I'd be happier with Frost in the backline over Oscar at the moment. I think Oscar has a long future in the backline, but needs to hone/perfect his craft at VFL level. I also think Frost is a better intercept/rebound defender.

Not sure how Frosty's toe is holding up at present.

Just been released - 2 weeks for striking (intentional), low impact. Down to 1 week with an early plea

Casboult got a fine for rough conduct (careless), low impact.

Not sure how these muppets operate

6 minutes ago, binman said:

Seems like there no anagrams of luck:

http://anagramscramble.com/anagrams-of/luck

I don't know - ol' f..k works for me

1 hour ago, Cards13 said:

Haha he has to be a Deelander

Who's the most opposite of Saty poster on this site?? That'd be my guess....

Are you playing next week Jack?

The other factor I haven't seen discussed is that it's an away game for us and as such I suspect we'll be wearing that awful white away strip. NBG.

2 hours ago, ProDee said:

Did you see Cripps last night ?  He was a shadow of his 2016 and that's because he's underdone.

This is where I place faith in the sports science guys and match committee to know who's right to go.  Sometimes a player is only a week away, but that week can make a difference.

Round 1 gets a lot of attention, but the season is long and every player we like doesn't have to be played in round 1 if it's deemed they're not ready.

Hopefully Cripps is more than a week away. I'd be happy enough with 2 weeks away at this stage.

2 hours ago, Die Hard Demon said:

The one area the Saints have dominated us in the past is getting numbers around the contest & then smashing us on the spread. This is the area we lacked gut running & pace. I think we've shown in all our JLT matches that we have rectified this. Our MOST talented extractor did not play once against saints last year. Oliver.. who has developed a tank. If he can win 50/50s more often than not, & get the ball out to our new runners in hunt, stretch, hannan & smith. All of a sudden we look like a quick unit who can reverse the trend & beat saints at their own game. I'm not saying we're going to win, but i am saying we could finally have what it takes to beat the saints. Which we have never realistically been in that position. 

If he's an 80% chance to win a 50/50 ball, then in all probability we're between a 50-100% chance to win the game.

take it to the bank.

19 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

He reminds me of Mitch Hannan.

Passing resemblance only ET

There's some elements to this team selection that I really like, some elements I'd do differently - but what I'm really pleased to see is that Goody in picking his first up team hasn't gone safe. He's honouring the guys who have pre-requisite fitness through a hard pre-season and it gives the squad clear evidence that there's a spot in the team for you if you continue to do the right things. 

We have a good team on paper this week, and our depth understanding that they've got good future prospects given a match committee who fully considers all options.

The only way is up.

On 3/22/2017 at 3:55 PM, Fifty-5 said:

Gollum?

THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I SAW THE PICTURES FIRST UP....KB; the horrible house elf.

On 3/22/2017 at 10:26 AM, Biffen said:

Deary me.

You should be charged for that.

I took that one literally Biff (because I agreed with the sentiment) - then I worked it out....

Any more surprises GNF??

41 minutes ago, TeamPlayedFine39 said:

We played about as poorly as we could have that day.  

StKilda were all over, but we were well off our game.

I blame myself TPF. I was playing golf that day, got back to the clubhouse and the game was on the telly. It was halfway through the second qtr, and we were giving them a towelling. From the point I sat down, we stopped and the wheels completely fell off.

I humbly apologise. I have learned my lesson.

1 hour ago, america de cali said:

THe clubs should also ask the AFL for a written guarantee that the turf won't shift and is safe. 

I'm sure the AFL has legal obligations to provide a safe workplace and accordingly hope they undertake due diligence via inspection by expert before sanctioning to use the venue to cover their backsides. I also hope they are contingency planning, but I think they'd need to call it (a change in venue) today/tomorrow am latest and can't see this happening with timing of other games planned at the G.

I also hope they are using the right dirt glue (earlier post still tickling my funny bone)

5 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Could've fooled me.

The report obviously overlooked the whopping 8,500 crowd we got to a recent home game on the Western fringe of the CBD.

We'll get about 34 Melbourne supporters at Etihad Stadium this weekend.

This is what the article is suggesting, though. We've got roughly 70 supporters, and 34 of them are going to the footy (48.7%)

7 hours ago, billy2803 said:

Cheer up champ.  The season is about to begin, and with any luck, it's going to be longer than normal for us.

And the fact that we'll be playing in finals has stuffed my September holidays plans