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Our ball handling is sub standard. Hardly any one-touch possession even when not under pressure. By the time we eventually get it in the clear everyone is manned up or the oppo defence is in place and there's no one to kick it to. (Meanwhile the oppo have slammed on two gimmes.) We work so hard for every goal. How can you win consistently when every goal is a battle and you get no cheapies. Leppitsch is the best thing to happen to the Tigers in years. By god we need someone like him. We were strangled as we were always going to be. Every team is playing us the same way. And we're walking right in to it. Like the silent movie star who always ends up with a pie in the face. We have been worked out. "Game plan" and individual players. Oliver, Hunt, etc. Oliver is too good, will work his way through it. Others won't and already their best is behind them. I'm OK with Goodwin trying out youngsters to see what they've got when the heat's on. Don't give them one game and then bin them if they don't perform. But some players have had enough games and shown sweet FA. I was OK with the effort shown even if it tailed off at the end. That's the minimum they had to show. But by god. For what end? All that frantic effort is supposed to be for some purpose. The "game plan" is a shambles. It's hardly better than Nathan Buckley's at its worst. Be strong at the contest and the rest will follow? Doesn't look that will cut it in finals, not that we'll ever get to find out. Because you're up against oppo with equal effort and an actual functioning system.

It's a reverse addiction! The high you get is when you DON'T have MFC in your life!

I once saw a druggie in the CBD, lying on the footpath surrounded by cops. She kept shrieking out "just don't call me pathetic! Just don't call me pathetic!" Funny ... that's what I say to my footy supporting mates when I see them. Now it's starting to add up in my mind.

The amazing thing is, there are players on every club with no left foot. (Or "wrong" foot.) Tonight, many times players (both teams) had a clear kick with their wrong foot but chose to bang it on the preferred boot because that was their least worst option. These are the best players in the land. They can't kick the ball.

Take ages to get your mitts on the pill, look up to find you're surrounded by oppo, kick or handpass randomly, repeat

Not in front of the children!

Alternate lifestyler, naturist and gay rights activist?

We can still panic though, can't we? Can't resist a good panic. Don't waste the opportunity!

Are you the AFL umpires director?

Sorry Stormy, I have some problems with what you say. (How's Don by the way?) The small errors are egregious faults for AFL-standard footballers [censored] happens So it's ok to put the cue in the rack when you've realised you're going to lose? Danger is, you do that at 3/4 time. Next week you might decide to do it at 1/2 time. In no time at all you might be doing it at 1/4 time and it's Neeld all over again. It's crucial to fight the whole way for a few reasons. 1, so your opponent knows they're in for a battle next time. If you're pushovers they will treat you like it. It can become self fulfilling. But if they're worried about the fight, they will play differently. 2, it is essential to be in the habit of going full on the whole time. If you are picking and choosing when to turn it on, you will find that your bad habits have a way of letting you down. This is Bernard Tomic's issue. He thinks he can turn it on at will, without cultivating the habit of fighting out every point. Compare with Hewitt, Nadal, countless other tennis stars. Yes it is. I've heard that competitive scrabble is less taxing for those not cut out to be AFL footballers. And you can represent your country. So percentage is important? I wish the players had that insight before the last two rounds of 2017. Or before letting 10 in a row sail over their heads last week (while kicking 1 in 3 quarters). Finally, we have the talent and the list to make finals. For chrissake, why are the players squandering that???

So there have been some topsy turvey results this season. That doesn't change a goddamn thing for the MFC. We squibbed it against HFC We are repeat offenders for squibbing We need to show backbone against RFC, win or lose We need to show backbone the week after that. And keep showing backbone every week, win or lose Doesn't matter what other clubs are succeeding at or failing at We need to give fight, 4 quarters, week in, week out. That's our issue, it's on us and no one else.

BB, they'd probably fine us for bringing the game into disrepute

WHY DON'T WE DO THAT??? God, we're hopeless, etc.

Clarkson's no good. Brad Scott is the new football genius.

"If everything is random, and nothing matters, maybe the Tiges will have an off night and I can take it easy?"

Clearly we softened them up for the Roos.

Those who can, do Those who can't, teach Those who can't teach, coach Those who can't coach, analyse Those who can't analyse, seek to understand Those who can't understand, commentate Those who can't do, teach, coach, analyse, understand, or commentate, are recruited by the AFL umpires department. They may just have what it takes to be an AFL umpire.

Bugg is a bit of a livewire and has provided a spark which has turned us around in two games I can think of. There is no point in pressuring and tackling if it doesn't result in goals. And kicking 0.4, whether from pressuring and tackling, or from standing in the goal square like Joe the Goose, is letting himself and the team down. A "defensive" forward is a strange kind of article. Even a defensive forward should be expected to kick goals. A goal kicking Bugg has a place in our 22. Otherwise, not.

GWS Dynasty continues with Watt's 3rd flag as senior coach But doubters claim this softest three-peat in history

Kero is the better drink (with orange juice and crushed ice)

No, you were safe. When they want to kill you they put polonium in your tea, or novichok on your doorknob.

Oh Teacher's I need you like a little child You got something in you to drive a Dees fan wild You give me consolation from the Melbourne blues Help me admit, come out and say Teacher's I, Teacher's I, Teacher's I, Teacher's I need you

Ridiculous that coaches & teams exploiting shortcomings in the umpiring are now a standard part of the game. I know it's been a "thing" in the past. Sheedy spent most of his career doing it. (Then there's Bartlett, Selwood, other skilled practitioners.) But that was Sheedy. Apart from him it's been a pretty sporadic effort. Now it's industrial scale. It seems every rule is subject to it. And the AFL don't seem to care or want to do anything about it. The only one they've clamped down on is deliberate OOB (and its cousin, deliberate rushed behinds). Like that was a chronic problem. With all the throwing, dropping, ducking, etc etc, they chose of all rules that one, wring their hands about others (throwing: "but what if we gave ONE free kick that was really a handball??? gosh!"), and doing absolutely nothing about a bunch of others. Not to mention the umps coaching the players. Watch any game. See how many times the umps are taking on the players responsibilities. "Get back one. Get back. Rory .... back one. Rory .... Rory ...." Bloke goes over the mark, 50 metres. Bang. Problem solved in two rounds. (Two rounds so it's not a rule of the week that players can safely ignore the second week!) Umpiring in the AFL is in a crisis and the AFL are too blind (possibly wilfully) to see it.

Pretty sure. There were a bunch of jackals and hyenas just down the road so I knew I was near the Holden centre. Also saw Tarzan (Hunt) and a wounded buffalo (Viney). So it had to be Gosch's.

It was one of the Hawthorn coaches. It was a set play. Swung the game. Hes a fair dinkum genius, that Clarkson.