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Ah OK, thought you bolded it because you were saying it's wrong as well.

I think the proper outlook lies somewhere in the middle between this post and the outrageously positive ones seen on occasion. Our draw is tip top, and our best players have an extra year under their belt. If injuries don't cripple us, I see no way that we'll take a step back from 12th with 8 and a half wins.

The three consecutive bottom 3 finishes relate to 2007-2009. In any case, it's 4 bottom 5 finishes in a row. Agree with your point on the players though, that's quite poor journalism.

This is like how we stuck around the Luke Ball decision just to talk our team up. This is an amazing amount of press over a rumour.

Geez. Hale, Watts and Scully. Pick the odd one out! Shows how much fans love individual players (even considering that most would say they love the club more than the players). The top threads are those three, with Bruce's and Mclean's threads close by.

I agree that he won't go anywhere - but they're fanciful figures to say the least!

Have been at school - can someone please sum up the last 7 pages of MFCSS for me? I'd reckon the reaction here is emblematic of what will (has) make this into an issue - if this was footy season, it would have blown over already.

Exactly.

Pretty sure this has been the aim all along (and why not?). Outlining it doesn't mean that the building blocks will not continually be built upon or ignored.

Who?

I always thought our previous jumpers, even up until last year, looked much more red in person than on the telly. Especially the Sunday 7 games, they looked very pink. I'm wondering if this is a similar problem? Jaded?

I remember an article from 2004 (I think), where a host of ex-players were claiming we were better than the side of '64. It may have been the week we went top - the week before we lost the last 5 games of the year. (Oh dear)

Good captaincy to put Johnson in ahead too.

Green said it the time I was thinking (which was said at 1-9) - but I think Bruce said it early 2008 (0-4).

Not since 2007... Most infamously, Brad Green's 1-9/2-9 comment that we could still make the finals - days before being thrashed by the Tigers in Daniher's sacking match. (If memory serves)

Channel Ten just said that the police wanted to speak to someone about bringing forward false charges - so I'm not sure there's anything in this one.

Probably wing-forward(ish)

Isn't he still going to Carlton on father/son?

Can someone be the bigger man here and just agree to disagree? There's nothing new (or particularly intersting) being said IMO, and it just seems to be going in circles.

Wasn't much of a barb either.

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Why win one with co"@!'wood when you can captain Melbourne to one?

No we won't! It's on a Thursday!

I'll assume that you see the irony here, B)

Seriously? Who has said that? Many here have (rightfuly) stated that Brad used to be that way incined, but a lot of credit to him he has managed to change his game and is now one of the bravest players going around - no mean feat. And Dappa, not sure why you're going on about "keyboard heroes," IMO many at the club (including possibly Brad himself) would feel he used to be a little "soft."