Engorged Onion

I guess the beauty of forums is people get to write what they want - yourself included - if you're not into it - do you need to comment, or just like TV can you flick the channel and move on.

I''ve sad for many years that Melbourne tends to employ the crap brother of any other brother circulating in the AFL/VFL, I was trying to formulate a list. Feel free to contribute. Donald Cockatoo Collins David Cockatoo Collins Luke Ottens Greg Healy (bit harsh) Troy Longmuir Damian Gaspar

I see Melks is 'named' on the wing - does a reduction in defensive positioning free him up to be more...um....useful?

Enough employment of the crap brother. We've had plenty of crap brothers...Ottens, Cockatoo-Collins(s), I remember about 10 years ago I made a list of about 10 who had fantastic brothers from other clubs, and we recruited the dud...

mmm, was rather drunk when I wrote that Bombay... and slightly significantly miffed about the loss - a more reasoned head would have said words to the effect of - he will be great, just not in the time frame that some of us are after... and his impact on games similarly I'm sure will be significant...

Current list 25/4/17 Colin Garland* Knee Season Max Gawn Hamstring 11 weeks Pat McKenna Hamstring 5-7 weeks Christian Petracca Knee Test Joel Smith Shoulder 11 weeks Tim Smith Rib/punctured lung TBC Jake Spencer Shoulder 6-7 weeks Aaron vandenBerg Heel 5-7 weeks Josh Wagner Shoulder 11 weeks Sam Weideman Corked leg Test Personally, I'd say 9 out of the 10 are either best 22 or floating 23-28. We are doing remarkably well to be a) well and truly in games and b) 2/5 at this point in time considering our 'young' list. All though there is short term pain - I for one do not doubt Goodwin's philosophy and the development of our squad from a) a list management perspective and b) a training/education perspective

Jack is still classy at times in the ruck/ruck work - look at his flick over the head tap in the lead up to Hunts goal...he is very underrated - http://www.afl.com.au/video/2017-04-24/hunt-has-tigers-covered-for-pace and although I reckon Clarry would win the B&F on the amount of possessions he gets - Watt's work ethic in these dire circumstances may fly under the radar.

There is obviously a massive difference between an attack on Christian directly and an observation re Demonlanders views on his 'break out ' game - if that's too nuanced @Wiseblood let me walk you through it

You can be a patronising [censored] @Wiseblood - I'm not worried about the loss - the game speaks volumes of were we are headed under Goodwin in a positive sense. It's the demo landers perspective of Petracca and how he should 'tear a new one ' each and every game - he won't because team defence has changed.

id like it - but more than that... here is 'composure' in a forum sense...

oh Jones over your 11 year career, you have been an outstanding player and perhaps within a better team, a genuine 'considered' super star amongst the media, can you please never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever [censored] up, as you are human.

perhaps you should convince them all more of this all the time - you are right off course. or is that right of course?

Petracca is not the messiah, I am siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick to death of people vaunting his 'coming of age' - on this forum, for eff's sake stop it. he may jag 3-4 goals twice a year , aside from that he will spot up 5 players a game - he's a good player, will be a very good one, he aint no selwood, and he aint no hanneberry. *****happily proven wrong. He will be very serviceable - and an enigma...

I presume it was this then...

Getting smacked with lightning and thunder direct overhead here on the Bellarine - IT IS BUCKETING DOWN

Someone mentioned a bukkake moment earlier... either way...I'm hard.

is also special guest on 1116 this Friday night...

@dazzledavey36 Petracca into the midfield tonight Youngest list = less composure under pressure -> equated that to why we lost against Freo. Oliver = ceiling is huge -> accelerates into contests- excellent work habits response to Mooney q - of fast tracking composure under pressure - Goodwin - talks about giving strategies - but through direct exposure...

I agree with his notion of transparency- there appears to be a no [censored] policy - and unfortunately (or fortunately) - we are not privy to it.

5.59 - Rain has hit the Bellarine...

Personally, I prefer my own internal commentary than C7's...more expletives too...

A very very VERY measured quote - sense and reason - I like it ProDee

wish we could play at 10am a la junior footy - the day just drags and drags and drags...

Just a passing reference to the headband *ahem* issue - nonetheless a jolly good read about focusing on the real issues by the afl. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/apr/24/it-often-pays-to-be-sceptical-of-the-afls-social-responsibility-epiphany

I can't see it any other way about Pedersen - and I actually quite like him. He does very well in marking contests, typically good defensive pressure, and I believe he has deserved a spot now before wiederman (considering his lithe frame)...clearly I am missing something - perhaps thats why I'm a keyboard warrior and not on the selection panel eh...