DemonDave

Riley, Michie and McKenzie are all fairly similar and interchangeable in that they can all find their own footy and are hard at it, but all 3 are too slow to be effective when the heat of the game is on, hence they are being used as subs. Riley seems to have the better levels of ferociousness to try and bury opponents with a tackle as he did last night, so that might give him the edge over Viv and Jordie.

The amount of intercept marks he took on that backline yesterday was reminiscent of Rivers in his pomp..

So I assume Stretch didnt play and will be the emergency tomorrow?

It allows a player from the TAC Cup or similar, under a certain age, to be given a run, without taking the spot of someone in the 22. Someone else will be able to fill this in with more specifics..

Should we be paying all of our players the equivalent wages that they would have been earning in 1964 (adjusted for inflation of course) until they bring us No.13?

I read the first 2 pages of this thread, but not reading the other 7 as it looks like it's devolved into a slanging match about why we didnt draft x instead of y. Back to the Open Mike itself, I did enjoy some of the anecdotes about Todds days playing chess on the beach with RDB in Hawaii, the Scuds dad being every bit the monster everyone assumed he was, and of him being gobsmacked to see Robbie Flower pick him up from the airport and took him to his family home in Croydon with his man cave, for Flower to come out the next morning at breakfast in a silly outfit. Great stuff. Was also heartbreaking seeing the footage of two of them knowing Tulip is no longer with us. (plus, I still want one of those Adidas tracksuits they had on!)

Great thread rpfc, I like these analytical numbers. Interestingly in our 3 losses this year, our second half goals conceded is: GWS - 13 to our 1 Adel - 7 to 3 Freo - 10 to 1 Are we not fit enough to be able to keep up our pressure on the better teams? A total of 5 second half goals in our 3 losing games,while conceding 30, is dreadful no matter how you butter it.

I might add, a massive whack to the Western Bulldogs who had the gall to try and charge $5 extra on top of ground admittance to have the pleasure of sitting in the grandstand. Disgraceful greedy policy that we didn't take up

Barely touched it first half when there was a bit more speed in the game. He was only having 5 minute bursts before going to the bench. Second half he was in and under almost every pack and spent a much bigger % of time on ground. Has good hands in close, but his lack of speed and stamina will have him found out in the next level up

The logical ins for next week would be Grimes for Jetta and Toumpas for Kent.

no standouts overall but best for mine were Toumpas, Grimes, Riley for his second half and maybe Terlich. Don't let the goals tally fool you Pederson was terribly quiet today.

Anyone know if radio mentioned if Bail is injured? Haven't seen him out here for quite a while and we do seem to be one rotation down on the bench

Will be kicking with the strongish breeze in last quarter but ill discipline continues to cost us frees in our defensive 50 and goals. Too far back now

Grimes has taken two magnificent marks this quarter running back with the flight of the ball. Playing on ball for large chunks of this game

Do either of the Pies or Essendrugs give a cent of the match takings to the Anzac Appeal? As far as I know they dont....

Michie completed the 'activation' session today i was there. Garlett wasn't there but i was assured by one of the players that he was just getting a later flight. not much to report it was pretty low key stuff just a light jog and quite a lot of huddled chat. It started drizzling during session but Salem was as slick with the sherrin as he was one of the two soccer balls out there.

I'm flying over for this one. Not confident at all, given we've now seen how poor Gold Coast after their thrashing at the hands of the Saints, and how woeful we were after quarter time last week. Still,looking forward to seeing the Adelaide Oval, do they have Coopers on tap at the ground, or only stinking West End Bitter?

Won by maybe 4 goals? No scoreboard there. My best were gawn spencer and Jordie McKenzie.

Our two ruckmen putting on a clinic all over the ground

Byrnes has his calf on ice at 3-4 time huddle, done for the day

We went a couple of times on the scenic railway, and Jack Watts was for at least 30-40 minutes during that time (just after 10AM) seated on a bench by himself with a long line of willing auto/photo hunters in front of the line for the roller coaster, he seemed very relaxed and engaging with them. And Jones did spend quite a bit of time around the same time hanging out in the New Balance Run Challenge tent, so those two weren't hiding away in a back room anywhere were both out working the crowd well.

Apart from Melbourne having a presence at Chinese New Year? http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/topic/37944-kudos-to-the-mfc-at-chinese-new-year/ I dont get what Family Day was supposed to do other than be for families. I went along with mine and had a cracking time as usual. There's a season launch next Monday if thats more your thing for the adults, and a pink breakfast the week after to continue our awareness campaign for Breast Cancer. Oh and that whole game that we dedicate to it with a curtain raiser of womens football. Which has a concerted media push all week. http://www.melbournefc.com.au/the-club/events

Maybe we should play an exhibition game there..what could possibly go wrong? Oh wait....

They didnt play the theme song at the end. At 8:00 on the dot, to the second, it was over. No song.

Ye Georgiou RR Elsternwick is exactly the suburb I was reaching for when writing that. No idea where I got Aspendale from! Just from the half muttered aside from PJ, he wasnt happy about the rumblings of trying to oust us from Aami either.