Mazer Rackham

Hey ... Neeld tried that same approach. Only he had such high regard for his players, he did it to all of them. Dunno why it didn't work. Maybe it diluted the excellence too much.

Can't we all just agree that the media are terrible, the umps are biased, the AFL are incompetent, and Hogan is going to Fremantle?

'sokay RtG. No need for violence. Just send the boys around to put the frighteners on. Or maybe a bullet through the front door.

All they need now is Toby Mitchell as vice president and Dustin Martin and Jake King will be right at home! Forget Tassie, forget Ballarat, forget western Sydney ... Richmond are going for a new untapped market ... the crim market! A rebranding ... the Richmond Coffin Cheaters ... big furry wharfie with bolt cutters as their game day mascot ... it's a sure fire recipe for success. Which players, which coach would dare not to win! (unless ordered to throw a game or two)

Too right it was a hasty move. The club had just told Vlad we had nothing to do with Dank, but did a quick roll call just to make sure ... only to find we had everything to do with him ... a few mild heart attacks ensue ... followed by the swift removal of Doc and Dank. That's a bit like saying Mark Waugh and Shane Warne didn't do anything wrong apart from have dealings with an Indian match fixer. If they continue their association, what do you think is going to happen? Nothing that the football world at large hadn't already worked out. Viz, stay away from Dank. We're lucky not to have half a dozen blokes training in private with the Essendon 12. Had it not been for ASADA's botching of the AOD business. And thank Christ for that. How much can a koala bear?

Do kids running around in the playground know about "franchises" and the difference between a "fake" club and a "real" one? Or do they just run around booting the oddly-shaped ball for the sheer fun of it and some of them want to play it all the time, and some of those want to make a career of it. The AFL are putting up goalposts in rugby heartland. Literally. They are getting kids in to Auskick. They are getting families in to the Giants because they love the spectacle. It's an uphill struggle and it might work or it might not. It will take decades to know. Think of the rich history of the game in Victoria, WA, SA, Tassie. The great clubs and the great players and the great coaches. Now imagine if NSW and Qld were "Aussie Rules" states, adding to the pageantry. It could happen ... Or, we can sit back and not have any northern clubs and forget about growing the game, and wake up in 25 years wondering why kids don't play Aussie rules any more, and wondering why there are 2 rugby league clubs in Victoria, 1 each in SA and WA, 4 soccer clubs in Melb, etc.

It will be him. He has higher thoughts and deeper insights in to the game than most people, let alone players. He is a very perceptive individual and an original thinker. Really, various unnamed journos around town should be ashamed when they hear and read Judd's thoughts. Just what you would expect from a Melbourne supporter!

To put a finer point on it: more Carlton supporters in the media than Demon ones.

I've known people like that. One day, warm, generous, good company. Next day: effin psycho. Sometimes next minute. Not a put on, just the way they were built. A well regarded ex (in every sense of the word) Collingwood player was like that.

Somewhere in Brighton Sam Newman is spewing his guts out and telling himself he has to up his game.

Or dead on time.

Maybe all the Russian athletes are Aussies?

If sending Dee supporters on a downer was a bannable offence, half the posters here would be banning themselves from life.

Aw, Jesus. Can't this club get anything right?

Hey all you MFCSS sufferers. Chin up. Game is not over.

Where's the rule that says a number one draft pick has to turn out to be the best player in a side? Does it follow that the number 2 draft pick then has to turn out to be the second best player? Thought experiment. If you were parachuted in after years out of the country to coach a team you had never seen before, what would you want to know? Who are the best players, maybe? What position does each player play best? Would you demand to know what draft pick number each player was and build your team based on that? Not likely. Only form and results count and right now Jack has got that. The draft pick way back in whenever it was is irrelevant now.

Off topic but this quote sprung into mind. "The force has a powerful effect on the weak minded." Darcy would be perfect in the media as a stooge sidekick to a more dominating personality, someone with strong opinions but constant need for validation. Someone with little self control and who needs simple minded sycophants to agree with everything he says and stick up for him on the many occasions where he puts foot in mouth. If only there was a media platform like that for Darcy. He'd fit it like a glove.

I've got this one! ... Why not have both???

Karl Langdon. No more needs to be said.

It's almost as if the selectors don't read the team notes and recommended lineup he sends in every week!

Only the real Einstein would have said that. Now I don't know what the hell's going on.

Ha! Your cover is blown, MD! We should have realised this ages ago. Reasons we can tell he's not Einstein: He's not 137 years old. (Are you, MD?) He would have posted the gravitational formula adjusted for relativity, like so: The real Einstein didn't care for the AFL competition. His famous quote: "God does not play dice, unlike the AFL umpires" summed up his attitude. Some other famous Einstein quotes. "Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I'm talking to you, Dawes!" "That's dropping the ball! That's dropping the ball every fückin' day of the week! Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

That's Jess Hogan. He's the common denominator at FF and has no limit.

Unfortunately there's been that at the club for as long as I can remember. I think just about every player has copped a defeatist serve like that at some stage. But some have been more "favoured" than others. Robbie is probably the only player who never has. Has always amazed me. If you're not going there to cheer on your own players, pus off and barrack for some other club.

? Surely ... it's more like ... his gravitas (gravity) has produced the potential for high energy performance, but inertia, in the form of friction, held him back, but having overcome that, we are now seeing a change in momentum producing high wattage output ... Or to put it more simply,