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14 hours ago, Jesse Christ said:
The kid is a star! Quick, evasive, always keeps his feet, knows when to go for the grab and when to stay on the ground for the crumb, excellent acceleration, can turn on a dime, rarely (if ever) fumbles, elite goal sense, elite forward pressure, great field kick, great football brain, can be used for short bursts in the middle to get effect, can quickly turn with a few quick k goals with ease.
40 goals in 2015. 25 years old with many more classy years left in him. Cost us pick 61 FGS!! Lol thanks for this beautiful gift Mick.
careful what you wish for.. it seems to me that garlett may well be at his best when a little insecure but with confidence.
pump him up & risk him getting arrogance, bad behaviours stem from this position.
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2 minutes ago, Ted Fidge said:
Yes, he is in trouble. Largely because of the lottery system underlying the MRP. Anything could happen.
I can still remember Moloney getting 2 weeks for NOT hitting someone!
that'll teach him to miss.
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1 hour ago, McQueen said:
A cringeworthy performance by him today. I estimate he called the wrong player at least ten times with the worst being when he called Hogan 'Holmes'.
Seriously, Fox.
is he unwell ???
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Just now, Demonland said:
We're back after a forum meltdown.
phew, that's a relief,,, I thought i must have been abducted by aliens. i seemed to have lost about 18 - 20 minutes of my life.
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2 minutes ago, Curry & Beer said:
yeah what a [censored]
what about Dunstall suggesting we 'bench' Paul Roos and have Goodwin take over because we won our preseason games. Yeah great call mate just change the whole program on a whim. Idiot.
he's just throwing a hand-grenade into the Demon forums...
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Just now, DemonOX said:
U can see us losing this!
well we;'ve come from behind in the last, past wins. maybe this is the other way around? is it us thats had 10 less rotations?
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Just now, DemonOX said:
Who's who??
I assume the 32 hitouts must be maxy?
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1 minute ago, Peter Griffen said:
if it turns into a slow contested ball game it palys into our hands
yep, but doesn't have to be slow, open spaces can produce very fast flowing footy.
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1 minute ago, Peter Griffen said:
you can just see how much more tired players are
Just now, Wiseblood said:The players are stuffed!
this is good, soon we may see players playing 'head to head', against one another. imagine that?
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8 minutes ago, Forest Demon said:
Hogan is having a bit of a mare. I remember last years NAB Challenge he played ok, but wasn't clunking any marks, so hopefully a similar story this year.
Gawn awesome again.
Watts is playing his third good game on the trot.
I like Kennedy, and I really like Harmes.
I still feel there is one spot on a back flank well and truly up for grabs. Wagner had a crack at it today but has been well short of the mark.
vince
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8 minutes ago, Scythe said:
Our recruiting haul from this offseason (Oliver, Bugg, Kennedy) looks bloody good so far. All three are super hard at the ball and just seem to always win 50/50's.
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competitors competitors competitors !!!
bugg kennedy oliver viney jones
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25 minutes ago, chook fowler said:
We hope Brayshaw will be an Oliver type
do we go after his kid brother?
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42 minutes ago, Ted Fidge said:
Northey had many great attributes. He gave us back our self respect for a start. Not to mention the "red hot go". An era where we won more than we lost. He is rightly remembered fondly.
But I can't forget the many games where we won 10 goals to 9. Or 9 goals to 8. Really ugly football, watchable only because we won. I recall one game where we kicked 6 in the first quarter and it was so unusual, so out there, it brought home that we were a low scoring side playing the opposite of "champagne footy". We went on to kick another 3 or 4 for the match.
Also when we made the finals, we always did it by falling in to 5th place, late in the season if not the final match. Regrettable especially when we had chances to sew up a higher slot and give ourselves an easier run at the flag. As it was we always did it the hardest possible way and of course never got the choccies.
Yes, your right TF, I remember now you've mentioned that angle... we always seemed to slack off mid season some time & then have to push to get there. Instead of winning early season games & then consolidating our position.
This made it near impossible to get to grand finals, or we were spent, once there.
We did things the hard way by not playing well mid season.
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49 minutes ago, Bossdog said:
I think it is very hard to judge coaches from different era's
Checker coached when the game was a kick and mark game, in a time where place kicks, drop kicks' stab passes and torps were all the go. It was a game that part time footballers player on the weekend for a bit of fun and most players had full time jobs. It was a time when if you coped a knock and had concussion you just got up and kept playing. The game was stop/start and kick it to the pack. He was the only coach and had no assistants.
Compare it to todays micro managed professional footballers of today where speed and skill are mandatory, The whole week is devoted to football, medical tests are just about a daily occurrence, skin folds are measured, players are rested if work loads indicate and there are coaches for every line, there are kicking coaches, ruck coaches, movement coaches. The head coach needs to manage all this stuff and keep it all together and then face the every hungry media twice a week.
I have captain/coached my own sides with some success and you need to be sometimes tough, sometimes a best friend, sometimes a plick, some times a father figure.
The only thing you are judged on is WINS.
I think its easier to see the outcomes from a coaches influence, during their time with the output & conviction of his current list players (how they go about it).... & then following that coaches reign, what he left behind him, regarding the culture, & the young talent he left behind on the list he oversaw.
The only thing is not wins, & should not be so. for any thinking supporters....
The longer term view of a clubs on-field health (culture/list) is the barometer of its long term viability & so success.
This club has in the past decades been booted about off field, & so onfield as well, by seriously poor management, & a culture of being too polite to push its own agenda aggressively... & the in-house part of our club has also allowed the outer support base to dwindle to a point of being inconsequential within the competition.
'Left' out in the cold.
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On 24/02/2016 at 2:42 PM, Sir Why You Little said:
Hmm it is fascinating he is being protected.
This has enormous ramifications to the Vatican if Pell is nailed with a guilty verdict.
These old institutions do not understand one aspect.
Social Media
People now get information quicker and more of it.
Pell will not ride this wave out.
He will either come home to court or die soon...
wish i could go to The Vatican and escort The filthy Basterd home...Wearing a Demon Jumper of course...
maybe even worse SWYL,,, is the possibility nothing comes of this good (royal commission into institutional child sexual abuse) in the face of real corruption within the holy sea.
I wonder if the (cabinet) is overruling their puppet. the leader of that cabal. If the senior 'faceless' men behind the pope, are undermining him & any desire he may have to clean up the criminal bastards in his church. Then its possible he is cornered, & is now just they're puppet.
Only seeing actions take place, & sackings happening publicly, will resolve this perception of corrupt & criminal activities being allowed to go on unpunished, within the catholic church.
By criminal actions taking place in our courts of Law, we can maybe start to start to believe that the church genuinely wants to clean itself up.
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Pope's record on paedophile priests tarnishes report card
AFP March 12, 2016, 3:46 am
Pope's record on paedophile priests tarnishes three-year report card
Vatican City (AFP) - Many words, little action: three years after Pope Francis's election, victims of priest sex abuse are bitter and disappointed, accusing the Church of having failed to punish guilty clerics and end a culture of complacency on the issue.
The recent Australian Royal Commission hearings of Vatican number three George Pell and a preliminary criminal probe into accusations that Lyon's archbishop, Philippe Barbarin, covered up for a peadophile priest have reopened old wounds, with Francis perceived as having stood by both senior clerics.
The Argentinian pontiff came to power promising a crackdown on cover-ups and a zero tolerance approach to abuse itself.
But victims feel they are not been listened to, that bishops are still failing to hand criminal priests over to the appropriate authorities and that a conspiracy of silence remains the order of the day, right up to the top of the Vatican hierarchy.
The growing discontent with Francis's record on ridding the Church of the taint of paedophilia is in sharp contrast with how he has performed in other areas.
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As he prepares to celebrate Sunday's third anniversary of his election, the Argentinian pontiff boasts genuine star status around the world thanks to his charismatic, simple style, his defence of the world's poor and efforts to reform the Church and bring it closer to ordinary believers.
But despite an encouraging start, Francis has failed to definitively draw a line under decades of abuse which ruined the lives of tens of thousands of young Catholics and badly tarnished the standing of the Church in the eyes of believers and broader society.
Francis has made it clear bishops who cover up for abusers have no place in the Church and has put in place legal structures enabling paedophile priests to be tried under Vatican law. He also established his own advisory panel on the issue.
But the panel is now disintegrating with one prominent member, Peter Saunders, recently telling AFP he felt betrayed by Francis and that he had been tricked into taking part in what he described as a whitewashing exercise.
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2 hours ago, Earl Hood said:
Another week another muso gone. This time it is Keith Emerson of Emerson Lake & Palmer aged 71 years. Tarsus was one of my first vinyl albums when I was just a new teen. I played it to death, probably because we didn't have any other non classical albums in the house. I loved Fanfare for the common man, (especially the video shot in the Olympic stadium in Montreal) when it was released as well and was one of the few people it seems who liked their Works Album, well parts of it at least.
When the London Olympics were on and as part of the entertainment they were trotting out all our old English rock favourites I was waiting for ELP to appear in the Olympic Stadium with Keith on the Organ banging out Fanfare but it didn't happen. A major oversight in my opinion by the British OC!
a haunting sound that in the stadium in the stiff frigid air... FFTCM
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regarding an existing list payer having a breakout year, I think more likely Kent & Salem. however Oliver may do it in his first ?
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15 hours ago, Whispering_Jack said:
Port Adelaide's Sam Gray (not to be confused with Robbie Gray) came from out of almost nowhere towards the end of 2015 to become a vital component of his team's lineup in the midfield.
Three years ago at the age of 21 and a member of the Port Adelaide Magpies, Gray was runner up in the SANFL Magery Medal. He was rookie listed by Port Adelaide AFL and made his debut in round 4 of 2014 after being elevated to the senior list to fill a long term injury vacancy and managed 7 games.
Retained on the rookie list last year, Gray didn't play his first game of the season until round 8 where he played in 4 consecutive games as a small forward before being dropped back to the SANFL Magpies.
With Port Adelaide's spate of midfield injuries late in the season, he regained selection for the last six games in which he was a prolific possession gatherer, averaging 35 disposals in the last three games as his team stormed home to finish with four wins on end including decisive victories over Hawthorn and Fremantle. The 176cm Gray polled Brownlow votes in each of last three games of 2015 finishing with a total of five and was elevated onto Port's senior list.
Gray has maintained the momentum in this year's NAB Challenge series and was among his team's best in every game.
There are many instances of players at clubs coming from virtually out of the woodwork to become star players.
Is there one such player on Melbourne's list who could do the same in 2016?
I suspect we will have to try to draft a class small in this years draft.
We are lacking in this area, but IMO this 'positional player type' is the icing on the drafting cake, rather than the meat & potatoes main course. I think the time is now for us to find a nippy small to follow Garletts lead. hopefully one who can run thru the middle more than jeff.
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1 hour ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:
Balmey was a decent bloke and I think he has found his true niche as a football manager where he is among the best in the business.
I reckon however as a coach, he let the players get away with too much. I have heard him say that it's been a long time since he has seen fire and brimstone work and that is true. However, Ross Lyon doesn't suffer fools (hello Colin Sylvia) and he is no fire and brimstone man.
He also started to oversee the culture that would later become known as 'Hollywood Boulevard' (though that may have started under Swoop as well).one thing is for sure, 'Hollywood Boulevard' would not get any oxygen under Barassi/Jordan. IN FACT, they removed that type of arrogance, when they came onboard. (mostly) the spores were still in the place.
And for sure, it regrew, in absence of tough rigorous coaches & disciplines... right to the point where it became more obvious, as the talent waned. chase, tackle, keep your feet, head over the ball, go when your turn, etc, etc, etc,
more than one coach let the club down whilst keeping up appearances.
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On 07/03/2016 at 8:49 PM, dazzledavey36 said:
From all then training reports I have read it seems Trengove is ready to play and moving really well. Just a matter of getting the green light.
I'd play him after the 15 minute mark of the 1st Qtr, & the same in the 2nd Qtr, to give him a taste of the tempo & keeping him fresh. then in the 3rd Qtr, unleash him after the 10minute mark for the remainder of the game. rotating when necessary.
this would give him a feel for the tempo after so long out of the action, & also ease him into the senior footy again. Then the following game I would give him 80% game time.
8 hours ago, Nasher said:I get on a plane to Sydney tomorrow then on a cruise liner on Monday for 11 days around New Caledonia and Vanuatu. First family holiday for me ever - I'm 32, never went on one as a kid and am 10 years in to parenthood without having been on one. Excited would be an understatement!
Got my tickets to MFC vs Norf at Bellerive, and wife's study schedule permitting will nip over to Melbourne at least once again this year, hopefully for QB weekend. All I need is for the MFC to win a few this year and the year will be sweet as, starting with this long weekend.
Wait, what's this topic about again?
is this the Fairstar? I did the same tour (then Fairstar) in the '80's, went to F1J1 port vila, noumea, vanuatu, around there. good fun.
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2 hours ago, DeeVoted said:
Pretty much agree with demonwithin and Miracle's summeries. So I cant add anything worthwile as there wasnt many positives from todays game.
Willy were just too good all over the ground.
Players spotted in attendence, Gawn , Trenners. Dunn, Harmes and Oliver who has a compression bandage on his left? leg. Has a minor calf strain.
Todd Viney and Brett Lovett were seen having a long discussion.
Lets hope Jake Lovett lifts his game this season, & gets to be a farther/son pick this coming draft.
2 hours ago, DeeVoted said:Don't write him off just yet. But a strain is a strain, how bad I don;t know, Smart move might be give him a rest
PS: He has done alright for himself in the GF stakes. Nice looking blonde tagging along with him
It wouldn't hurt to have a rest before the season opener, but we also need to maintain forward momentum running into the season. I'm sure he'd want to play.
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55 minutes ago, picket fence said:
For discussion, Norm Smith clearly the best Melbourne Coach and maybe the best coach of all time!
I know Checker Hughes statistically just on Premiershipos alone must have been a superb coach, but given what John Northey after us being so down and out for 25 odd years, is there any merit in thinking that he was a better coach than Checker Hughes??
Then of course we have a raft of coaches after that The Rev, Barrassi etc. Anyway just thought I would spark a bit of debate!
wow, pickett... this is so off the mark in its concept. Checker & Barassi came into the club to fix the culture & get back winning cultures. Checker taught the club how to be fierce & to be winners & dominate.
Smithy adopted that ethos & cultured team from Checker, then Smithy added his own ideas.
Barassi returned after 25 years of humiliation for supporters, to spend all his time & effort totally rebuilding the club from the ground up. From the recruiting & development under Rod McNabb, to the list, with himself, Slug Jordan, Barry Richardson & others on the match committee a;ll working together to sort & rebuild the list. And every player had to relearn the ways to win.
A mammoth task, bigger than this current rebuild.
the club also had to be rebuilt off field, but had been started prior to Barassi's return, under Dicky Seddon.
John Northey took over a club slightly less prepared, than what Smithy took over from the Checker rebuild.
Neil Daniher took over a club that was used to playing finals regularly, throughout the previous decade prior to '98.
So we have 2 types of clubs to take over, the easy-beat club, & the win-hardened club.
which would you prefer to take over?
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Round 1 Team
in Melbourne Demons
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RND - 1 team, based on fitness, form, availability?
FB: Garland Dunn Jetta
HB: Salem TMc Vince
C: MJones Oliver Tyson
HF: Kennedy Hogan Kent
FF: Pederson Watts Garlett
Foll's: Gawn Jones Viney
IntCh: AVdb Bugg Harmes Michie
Emerg: Frost
* as Hogan is currently a bit out of touch I have him upfield away from FF, so he can run thru the middle to find the footy & touch.
* so with this I'm starting Watts as a mobile FF, forward of the square.
* Pedo in the pocket, I don't want him to stray too high in an open & quick forwardline, saving his legs, & to switch with Gawn a couple of times per Qtr.
I have Brayshaw, Lamumba, Trengove, Patracca all as underdone, so will get fit at Casey.