Lord Nev

To be fair, Joel himself was quoted saying it was OP to supporters at a pre-game function earlier in the year.

Whilst I very much agree that our lack of top end picks could hurt us in a the distant future, I also think that at some stage you have to stop looking to the future and look at the now and have a genuine crack at a flag.

Everything I've heard was that Jeff was very keen on Kobe being at the Dees eventually, so I'm not giving up hope just yet!

No one denied there wasn't any kind of problem, and I'm amazed (actually, I wish I was amazed) that people still refuse to believe media articles that don't suit their agenda, but then immediately jump into misquoting ones that they think fit with what they want to say. The article says: "Some of Marvel Stadium’s controversial crowd controllers are among hundreds..." Nowhere in the article does it say any of the following: 'All Marvel Stadium security personnel are new Australians' 'All Marvel Stadium security personnel are Indian students' And do you know why the articles doens't say that? Because it's not true, and because it is flat out racist to make assumptions like that based on an anecdotal glance across a TV screen. I understand that social media and forums etc have become places where people ditch understanding and nuance and just try to be as outrageous as they can within their limited character space, but let's grow up a bit hey.

Score review system will be back in the news this week.

Weird that Oscar was named given the club said during the week he would play VFL this week. Hibberd for Wagner seems like it could be the only change, unless maybe C.Wagner replaces ANB? Or could Lewis come in for Petty and we go with just the two talls?

Must have put the moz on him, Kent now out for the rest of the year (quad injury).

I wasn't the one taking that position. I never said anything about Weid 'taking the comp by storm'. Again, slow down, take a second to understand what is being said, maybe even have a think about it, then compose your reply.

Unfortunately not, just usually a dead giveaway if you see them getting super excited for someone on a Thursday so was hoping Kev might have been able to word us up.

Don't know exact specs other than he's apparently a "tall utility" type.

Thanks @kev martin! By any chance did you spot anyone celebrating a debut for Dunkley?

Tried to PM you but you've got messages turned off I think. Drop me a message and I'll pass on some info.

The Pig is back! (Hope it's not rushed....)

Sounds like a bloke we're keeping an eye on. Don't know much about him personally, but an athletic and agile backman/utility with a "prodigious kick" sounds great to me. "EMERGING Noble Park defender Ariel “Dell’’ Lual has signed at VFL club Casey Demons. With half forward Cory Machaya out with a knee injury and on the long-term injured list, the Demons have placed the tall 20-year-old on their books ahead of the June 30 clearance cut-off." "The Sudanese-born Lual spent time at Norwood in the SANFL. Media reports suggest Port Adelaide had assessed him as a potential Category B recruit. Melbourne Next Generation Academy staff put his name up to the Casey Demons before the start of the season. But with the Demons’ list almost finalised they passed on Lual’s details to Noble Park, which was looking for a key defender to replace Ryan Morrison." Casey Demons sign on-the-rise Noble Park defender Ariek Lual

"Peak Demonland" seems to be more about lamenting our skill while simultaneously wanting everyone to be Jack Viney. We need skillful players on the outside, Petracca can be that, and he can also be fantastic at winning the ball at ground level. No need to turn him into yet another "bash n crash" type. We have more than enough of those.

Read it properly. Understood it. Explained it to you. Your reaction says plenty.

Born there, moved to Vic when quite young though.

I believe he's talking age. Brown turned 22 at the end of 2014. In 2014, at the same age as Weid, Brown did kick 18 goals across 11 games. Probably wasn't worded well, but worth taking a second to think before trying to wack someone, I was able to understand it so I'm sure you could have if you tried.

MFC Fans: We need more outside skillful players. Also MFC Fans: Let's turn everyone into bash n crash agro inside mids.

We can. It's a rolling 4 year period. We just have to use a first rounder either this year or next year.

Which backs up my point about our list.

I think he's slow based on the entire AFL and our needs, he's probably about average for us, but that's not exactly a compliment. I don't dislike the bloke at all, love his intensity and pressure, and he gave us some really lifting moments late last year. I'm more reflecting on us deciding which injury prone player to gamble with and yet again we go with the hard at it, 'not fast', inside mid type of player rather than the speedy, skillful and scoreboard impacting player which definitely seems like something we lack. For mine, Kent was more important late last year than vB was, it's just that vB had more of the cult status to him, bit like people who think Preuss is the answer this year (not saying you think that btw). FWIW, my info was that we offered Kent a 1 year deal, but St Kilda offered 3, and with a new young family he made the mature decision to go with the better security.

8. Why did we sign up an injury prone, slow, hard at it player, whose main talent is tackling, for 3 years, but ship out another injury prone player who was a fast, hard, goal kicker and great user going inside 50 (Kent, that is) because he wanted 3 years? To me, the second player has all the attributes our list is clearly lacking more than the first.

Look mate, I don't have any personal problems with you, and I even agree with you on the odd occasion, but this tendency to repeat things over and over again is really wrecking your impact and cred here in my view. Take it on board or don't, entirely up to you, I'm just some guy on the internet so doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things, but leaving a little space for others to contribute will make this site more enjoyable for everyone, maybe even you. Have a good one.

Yeah that heard too, I think Garry was saying he was watching with his sons? Weid was always going to be a slow burn (no pun intended), and I recall Taylor saying something along those lines on draft day. Only turns 22 today, so plenty of development to come.