Wiseblood

You're spot on here, mate. Not only that but the 50 metre penalty was a soft as they come with Walters going down like he'd been shot. Lewis is doing far more positive than negative for our side and there's simply no chance he gets dropped.

True. Saty will tell you that until he is blue in the face. Your opinion can be wrong, though, and it's not as if Gaff has been up and down this year. He's having a sensational year and everyone, bar one, agrees. It just seems as though he's sticking to his opinion out of stubbornness more so than actually believing Gaff is nothing but an accumulator. That, plus he also lied a few times when he said Gaff had never won a B&F, then when he was corrected on that claimed that he has Eagles supporter friends who didn't rate him that highly the year he won it... which made no sense considering he said he'd never won one. He hasn't exactly covered himself in glory on this topic.

Yeah, how dare he rack up important touches and hit targets further down the field. Just the player we don't need... On a serious note, there was piece of play in that third term that summed up how good he is. He got the ball on the half back flank, ran and took two bounces before hitting up Cripps 50 metres away to help set up a goal. It was great to watch. He would look superb in the red and blue.

First two lines are fluff. He is generally pretty good regardless of the opposition. And I rarely see Lewis panic with the ball in hand. He isn't quick and he should keep his feet a little more often, but panic isn't something I see him do. The 50 metre penalty shouldn't have been given. Any player with more than pea heart would have kept on running. Walters, however, milked it and suck the umpire in. Your thoughts on his performance on irrelevant to me now. You're so fixated on potting the bloke that it overtakes any form of rational thought on the matter.

Outside of the 50 metre penalty, which had Walters going down as if he was smashed by a battering ram, I though Lewis did his job well tonight. He was part of a backline that dominated and he played his role with minimal fuss.

If you're saying it's a rubbish deal because of Josh Kelly then remember that Roos said we would have taken Jack Billings anyway. As a side note, I hope your username is something we're all saying later on this evening.

He does fix our problems. Our backline was on fire before he went down, and that was due in large part to his leadership, footy IQ and footy skills. You are selling the bloke short. As for this years top 20 being 'exceptional' - we've all heard that before. Our first rounder this year still has every chance of being around about the 11-12 mark, which isn't superb by any stretch. The last 'super draft' that everyone refers to from 2001 had far more misses than hits. If you take out Judd, Ball and Hodge as the Top 3, an area we wouldn't have been picking in anyway, from picks 4 through to 30 only Bartel (#8), Dal Santo (#13), James Kelly (#17) and Steve Johnson (#24) could be considered gun picks. There are a heap of no name players who did nothing with their careers. After pick 30 you had guys like Sam Mitchell, Leigh Montagna, Dane Swan (pick #58!), Jarrad Waite andBrian Lake (#71) all taken in the second round and beyond. They can talk it all up all you like, but I think having what is considered a strong Top 20 works in our favour. Jason Taylor has a proven track record of securing talent later in the draft and I'd back him in to do so again. We didn't overpay at all for Lever. We paid market value for a bloke with 50 games under his belt and almost AA selection in his first few seasons in the game.

No, we didn't. Seriously, we didn't.

He clearly didn't watch the game. He saw the Crows won and just made an assumption which, just recently, he criticised others for doing.

He had 9 touches in the last term. He was one of their only players not to go missing. At least try and do a bit of research before you're wrong. Again.

Another swing and a miss from Norf. I wonder who they'll end up getting? Maybe they can offer Dean Kent a million a year for 5 years?

Butler and Caddy. You don't always need 'pace' to keep up with an opponent. Footy smarts and positioning, which he has in spades, play a role as well.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-06-27/salem-praises-lewis-and-vince

Lewis ain't the problem, and he was way better than many others out there last night. DS won't admit it though as, after being wrong in these sort of threads before, he desperately wants to be right.

It'll happen. It will be confirmed by the end of the footy season.* *I have no tomato source, just a gut feel. I can't see us leaking this sort of stuff it we aren't in advanced talks to get it off the ground*

Here is a picture of roughly where it would go when completed. I will add that in the article it says no formal decision has been made, but we have been in talks with the state government over this option for some time.

Here is the article: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/demons-grand-plan-for-yarra-park-training-ground-revealed/news-story/2b03a10790eb2d8e7fda2a34eaa0aef6 Here is a little snippet for those who cannot get around the paywall. This sounds pretty sensational: The Herald Sun can reveal the ­Demons are eyeing a prized parcel of parkland, in the northeastern corner of the MCG precinct, for a full-sized football oval. The bold proposal would also see a six-storey complex boasting an ­office wing, a world-class gym and medical facilities, built on top of rail tracks next to Jolimont Station

Is that what Rehn actually said? All I got was that we were 'rumoured' to be interested, nothing about big offers being tabled.

If we're looking to get out of it then I take it as a sign that we won't be affected financially by this decision. It's the right one to make as well. I understood why we agreed to play games there, but now that the MFC machine is running well we don't need to play games there anymore.

Good on him for signing a new deal. Always like seeing players show loyalty to the club that drafted him. I hope he also looks forward to have Clayton Oliver crap all over him on Friday night as well.

Still haven't answered Bob's question about how you know this, yet earlier made the bold statement that he had never won a B&F for the Eagles. If you knew it already, it stands to reason you would know he had won a best and fairest.

Your fascination with his efforts on Friday night is interesting. It's like you're basing your entire feelings around Gaff on one game. His year has been stellar outside of that game and he has shown, numerous times, that he can perform when the heat is on. With so many in and under types he would complement our midfield group superbly. Billy Stretch has been on our list for years now and, if anything, his contributions have gone backwards. He doesn't have the footy IQ or running capacity to be on a level like Gaff's. I'd love for him to do it, but on the output I've seen I highly doubt it will come to fruition.

So why is the club interested in Gaff if he is nothing more than an accumulator, Saty? Seems like you know more than the club. Again.

Bottom 4. Not big 4.