Neil Crompton

After all the preceding comments, surely we have to be asking ourselves 2 key questions: 1. Is Goodwin the right guy? 2. WTF did we sack Jack Watts? Seriously though, it’s loses like yesterday’s that has prevented our membership numbers from growing substantially. 70K is a pipe dream until this type of perfomance is eliminated. You have to trust in something before you want to belong to it.

Fat muscle?

I think we should be aiming for at least one better than last year - ie win a prelim final. Why should a pass mark be any less than this?

“Not enough people have said this.  It needs more.” Well at least from people with the qualications to say so.

And this makes you happy now?

Seriously?

My best wishes to Jesse for a speedy recovery. At Melbourne he was the one player that inspired our recovery from a dismal side and the one player who first gave us supporters hope that we were on the right path to becoming a AFL force again. And now, although at another club, I couldn’t be happier than to see him become the true champion that we all aspire him to be.

Possibly the best view in the house condolences to the family. He was grand old Dee.

What concern is that to you? Hogan’s private life should be private, and not really relevant to us any more.

I’d like to see a new role for Lewis once May is able to take over the “general” role in our backline. We don’t have a general in our forward line and I believe he could well play that role. Just a thought.

In each of the years 2013, 2015, and 2017 Max only played 13 games. praying that sequence doesn’t continue in 2019.

That would explain a lot if he was Jacks father.

Ding, you need to go back on your happy meds

Thank god for that. Now it all makes clear sense! FMD.

Binman, I'm sure May now does feel remorse for what has happened, despite my previous light hearted comment. But what's done is done, and all the chat in the world won't change the outcome unfortunately. Personally, if that's the worst thing that happens to Melbourne this year i'll be a happy man. As Wiseblood said earlier "Round 1 can't get here quickly enough"

i wonder what May is feeling right now? Probably relief that Watts won't get the chance to take him apart.

OMG I had no idea - sack the bastard

yeah but i wanted May to scare the bejesus out of Watts

I guess the tribunal didn’t read the 12 pages of expert witness statements on this site. i also guess that Oscar and Frosty get another chance to redeem themselves

The opposition player was not watching where he was going. I think May probably thought that the player would look up and avoid May - but he didn't till it was too late. Mind you, if May missed his chin and only collected as far up as his upper chest, the players chin would have gone forward initially, then back. If he struck the chin at all the head would have gone back straight away. judge for yourselves

yep

oscar having a shocker so far

must be hard to walk without a limb

Can’t imagine the Brisbane reserve side being much competition for our guys - but probably a great hit out to develop our game plan and see what our newbies can do.

I always watch the D's no matter what the standard (just complain later). I'll watch any other game if it is a good flowing exciting match. I think a lot of people turned off the game when keeping off-football was the rage. In its infancy that was often slow, boring, bruise free football - and for good reason people turned away. Then congestion football tended to thwart the keepings-off style and many more fans were lost. In more recent times teams like Richmond (spit!) initiated a style of game that was exciting to watch - and others, including the D's, have produced their own versions that have made watching footy so much more enjoyable. Like most things in nature, natural selection generally works out in the end - it just takes a bit of time. In the case of football, it is also the desire and quality of the coaches to produce a winning formula that has the satisfaction of the viewing public - who essentially pay at least part of their salaries (us!) - as a prime factor in their plans. Imagine a film director making a film that didn't consider the viewing audience. He wouldn't be allowed to make another. Perhaps if we had more intelligent coaches, we wouldn't need the Gils of our world interfering with our game so much.