Smokey

Why do you keep using that word? No one here has a problem with Jesse personally. No one is ‘denigrating’ him. No personal insults thrown, only an assessment of football abilities. Telling us we can’t be critical of a football player simply because he once wore our guernsey is simply ridiculous. How somebody finds the phrase “better player than hogan ever was” offensive really is a sign of the times isn’t it. God, you can’t even compare players against each other anymore according to some. You don’t need to get upset on jesse’s behalf unless he has asked you to do so. Guessing he hasn’t. You also have a choice in whether you go out of your way to get offended at something and make it out to be something it’s not.

Many MCC members, such as myself, are interstate members. I’m an MCC member and an MFC member, but many interstate members aren’t Melbourne supporters. It’s really no great surprise.

Surely Natalie Portman is in the conversation if we’re talking about pre season form

To suggest comparing two players and having a preference between the two is denigrating Is pretty dramatic mate. They are footy players, we are allowed to have opinions on them,

You seem easily offended. I agree with the comment. I’d have tmac over Jesse 10 out of 10 times.

Agree 100%. He was criminally underrated last year and look how many goals he kicked after a late start to the year. He will be regarded as one of the best key forwards in the comp if he finds that next level next year.

Yes please

Are you actually offended by this? Wow this is a new one ...

Thank you all for the insights and reports, I love reading them. Sounds like we are in good nick early which is very pleasing. Can’t wait to see what 2019 holds for us.

It wasn't a full time job back then!

Dangerous thinking in my opinion. Even suggesting to players that they shouldn't get tattoos for this reason has the potential to cause derision and be quite harmful to esprit de corps. Lines needs to be drawn, suggesting to players they shouldn't get tats is one.

To keep the sweat off their brow?

You ex army mate?

5 year contract with an "are you the right guy?" clause which allows the club to question his ability and chastise him in a public forum for a period not exceeding 1 week after any loss

What exactly do we need reassurance for?

offensive? to who, you or jeffy? seems a hugely dramatic response, especially since jeffy has seemed disinterested

"give me my avatar any day" you sound like a smooth operator with the ladies lol

Thanks Nick, its hard to imagine that fitness is a focus of pre-season training without these valuable insights. Next headline - Nick Dal Santo thinks the sky should focus on being blue during the day

Wowee, my childhood crush is wearing a demons Guernsey ...

Gee whiz you sure do get defensive easily. The irony here is I recall you referring to be people as snowflakes before. Your first response to my reply was to tell me I am cognitively impaired as to not have a grasp of your brilliant references. Might be time to start being more aware of how condescending you are. Anyways, listing the statistics of two players and then claiming you aren't comparing the two is idiotic, I'll leave it at that.

Right. So instead of just saying that last sentence, you compared curnows average to pluggers average without drawing a comparison between the two and then spoke on behalf of 18 football departments with authority. Good lord indeed.

Haha right, that wasn't a comparison at all. You were just comparing their goal kicking accuracy statistics side by side. Duh. Curious now - what point were you trying to make when you compared two players goal kicking accuracy whilst not making a comparison between the two players?

This comparison seems dubious at best Lockett vs Curnow Games played - 281 vs 47 Total scoring shots - 1950 vs 93 The disparity in sample data is too big for this comparison. A better way to look at it is Pluggers stats after his first 3 seasons (175 goals @ 68% accuracy). Either way you look at it, you've basically just proven that the two players cannot be compared. Pretty interesting that you are prepared to speak on behalf of every football department in the league and state that his accuracy has never been discussed. All in all - thanks for the fake news

Free kick starts at the centre square for 1 player in violation of the rule. Add an extra 25 metres toward goal for the non-offending team per other player in violation. Problem solved ... I guess Gee footy is becoming convoluted when you need to think of mitigation strategies for new rules like this.

I wouldn't take it so seriously. People come up with stupid and unrealistic ideas all the time, it's just getting forced in to the spotlight right now because media outlets need to keep their website traffic ticking over in an otherwise completely boring off season so far. This is the problem with the internet in general - it gives the soap box of a lifetime for people starved of attention.