Engorged Onion

The fact that anyone would start a thread on this is hilarious. SEN is pulp fiction - it's media trash and has been since Crocmedia moved in and should thus be treated that way. If you're getting your news from this source and subsequently taking personally, I'd be questioning a range of things...

Why not @Mazer Rackham?

It is my understanding that allegedly Beams was paid outside the salary cap through personal means of one or a few leviathan(s) of the club. If this is true, what galls me is that the AFL have provided a means around engaging in punitive and public measures. If this is true, then we are all witnesses to a sport which unfortunately whilst bedded in grass roots, is now as cynical as any business. We know this to be true and yet we still engage with it - we are complicit. Perhaps I need to go support the local BFL teams more fervently.

2 things. 1) I hear how long demonology was around for, and then I myself only realised there were AFL supporters forums online, 4 years ago... and stumbled across this one, and wish I had come across it early in my life. The Demonology personalities sound like they were far more abrasive than on here. 2) This is a pretty meta thread.

I'm not crying! no no, You're crying!! no, no no, no no - We're both crying!!!!!

Whilst it is apparent for some that Goodwin can't coach, it appears EVERYONE loves Goodwin at the club, so why WOULDN'T Merrett want to come (sorry for yelling)

Imagine if it was Cyril..

I'm sure there is no coincidence that Christian was not sighted on AFL 360 tonight - me thinks....

Rhys Stanley? ?

Geelong did an us last week - an us of 2019 that is. Inside 50's through the roof - but failed to capitalise. Geelong lost it, Sydney did not win it..but got the points....ahhh you get my drift. The concerns for me are like everyone. How does Petty go second time around? Great that it's a forced change as he will get a run in the team for continuities sake. With Viney a confirmed out, does the in - Sparrow? Harmes? operate in a Viney-esque way - even at 70% Viney, and is that sufficient as a defensive midfielder. I'm excited to see Ben Brown second time up - I look forward to him kicking 6 goals, 4 of them free kicks for chopping of the arms :) I wonder about Gawn being down, as to what drove that... is he slightly ill/injured? Hickey will throw his weight around. Finally, Fritsch is a huge loss - I feel he is underrated on here. But... we have the luxury of being about to lose a match (and perhaps one more) without falling back to the pack so to speak. So there is time to build synergy again with the newbies coming into the squad for a lengthy period of time. Prediction: Melbourne by 11 points, running over the top after trailing by 7 at 3/4 time.

Holy Moses @dieter!! Happy to chat about it if you want to PM me, I’m all for a classless society and debating nuances - but can we leave the Kozzie Pickett thread for views on Kozzie Pickett??

I'm not going to 'pile' on you Dr.D - but your comment re: Petty - is this true, that he is a superior forward? In the games that he played in 2019 I thought that to be the case, strong in the contest, could kick a goal. So for me, I guess I bow down to the FD who are with him daily at training etc, have a range of metics, and in the end ascertain that they think he suits the side best in the backline. How do you come to a different conclusion?

Mate I reckon @Elegt is long gone... you're shouting into the wind.

Petty is yer man @Cards13

Not about you @Nasher How the [censored] can we all be following the game for 20, 30, 40,50, 60 and 70 years, and still not understand how % works... ? postscript On reflection, it's because we've always being concerned about merely wins and losses over 56 years, not the nuances of %, because the % has never mattered!! (except in the final game in 2017...WTF)

Agreed @grazman, he's clearly a very good player, do you move him on because of injury issues? Nope. It's a maintenance project - always has been, and always will be. Jack himself, and the FD will be well aware of this, and whilst always optimistic - take a risk management approach.

Rab - this is what good teams do... play like $hite and then go on to win... it's a [censored] weird feeling eh.

To be fair, I rode my bike home from the local watering hole along the beach at half time, so my optics may not be bang on. But how things have changed that it's not the old stagers dragging us over the line. Jackson, Pickett, Rivers, ---> bloody fantastic to get things going for the team.

Seriously... do some people expect fairness and equity in free kicks? It's not a conspiracy.

Cool (I don't really care, about people I don't know) - but was GH more supportive of The Dees or was AH salty re: Geelong's loss?

What's going on there @ProperDee, got any scuttlebut?

What is with the language of 'dragging us down'? To anyone who says it, not just you @Mazer Rackham In the EPL - 15 years ago it was Jose Morinhuo 'parking the bus' as a way to diminish an opponents skill sets. NMFC exploited our weaknesses... bloody good on them, they should be commended for it. Cunnington is a rock... I would have had him on our team many years ago. Each match is a process of refinement anyway, not game after game throughout the season, but against the same team 1, maybe 2, perhaps 3 times a year. Good on NM.

100% !!! MFCSS is like the [censored] poltergeist. There is no one on this forum that wasn't abusive to the team, to the umpires, to Tasmania, to whatever, in their head at half time.

@Better days ahead, sorry for being preachy, and I'll be preachy. Don't let your own personal expectations of things that haven't even occurred yet (the game) - get in the way of your version of 'deservedness or not'. We won and we deserved to win. There was a truckload of adversity... and a truism in football is that, if you are a very good team (or above) and you can grind out a win, then that is a great win. We just did that. Viney out Tomlinson out within the game Ben Brown's first game (synergy as a forward line, taking time to adapt). Baker in... A range of things showed up for adversity... we did bloody well.

Mmmm, our defensive wall is a brick short. Bloody feel for Tomlinson.