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Does not make sense Doug. If it is a political issue then why penalise players and the supporters of those teams? Anyway it is an absurd proposition.

Yes, I would not have picked him but he did his best for us, all you can ask. Seemed a quality bloke.

Jack was a tall, co ordinated kid who played full forward for his school in a nice competition. He had an edge on opponents for height and smarts from basketball to lead out and take an easy mark with one undersized defender on him. Yes he was a beautiful kick to get three or four goals in school footy. i was so underwhelmed when I saw the footage Shifta Sheahan played to accompany the fanfare around Jack. That said he was a lovely footballer to watch and a nice guy. Maybe a Mark Williams would of helped but it is all history now. Good luck to Jack.

By a long way.

Spot on. I just think it is a great sign for the future.

Hats off to Kate Roffey. Kate will not be going to Perth due to the limited number of MFC people allowed into WA. I am sure Kate could have found a way to be included in the party of 55 but she put others ahead of herself. A real leader.....

Seemed like yesterday for me. For the younger ones, life goes so quick. Enjoy the ride. Memories of the Pink sporting globe. reading the results of the seniors Reserves and Under 19s in one go. After games in the rooms with the players for any kid who had the balls to ask the doorman. Drinking/sharing the players aftergame cordial, the slightly wild boys of the Melbourne cheer squad on the wing of the Old Great southern stand. Many losses and hard times but all worth it.

Bravo for the game he played last night and his honesty in talking about how he found Lyon.

Way way off track. Nothing to do with respect. We had an AFL umpire doing his job, umpiring, subjected to an unprovoked deliberate bump by a powerful built professional footballer. It was bullying more than anything. Toby Greene the more powerful in a physical sense demonstrating his power. I have more times than I wish to recall seen the same behaviour in bars and clubs.

Old world boys club anti umpire brigade. None of us much liked umpires in the good old days when it was also ok to hit an opponent with your elbow, but this is about lessons for kids coming through the system to respect umpires and encourage young kids to be umpires.

Analyse it all you like in slow mo etc.. Back in the real world we all saw Tobys anger, strutt, finger pointingm directional change, shoulder dip and then his comment when he said it was the heat of the moment.

Meaning what exactly.

Rubbish,

Well, the last time i saw a similiar act was a lout strutting toward a bloke who was not aware he had offended this guy. Likely committed a grevious act, like looking at the lout. Next up the lout made a beeline to the unsuspecting bloke, dipped the shoulder to provoke a fight. The only thing missing was the sneaky headbut. A lout, more more, no less.

Collingwood left Victoria park because the Council wanted the land back for Public use. It is an outstanding public open space. Move on .

Zero chance of even taking Public land in Collingwood or North Fitzroy. Waste of breath.

To give another perspective. Three or four years after our last Premiership a Hawthorn player or official would come to my school to try and give away free tickets to the Hawks game at Glenferrie on the Saturday afternoon. No one would take the tickets for love or money. The Hawks were a lowly club with only one flag. We were the Mighty dominant Demons,, Our home ground at the MCG all to ourselves. Friends and allies of the all powerful Melbourne Cricket Club. Only Collingwood and Essendon on 13 and 12 Flags respectively could challenge us for footy jumpers in the School playground.

Seven years old for me.... Seems like yesterday though. Enjoy your footy, enjoy your life too.

I have watched Smith carefully having know the family. Very ordinary player who gets a lot of mid time, runs forward all the time getting easy kicks, Disposal is average with little penetration.

I see it that way too. Never had as much faith in the match commitee as I do now, except for Northey years. Time to be steady but brave and go for broke and not to die wondering.

Club is bigger than the individual. However I like many have given the best part of sixty years of support. Not so much recently but cheered on and stayed positive on many cold and dark days through the seventies.

Well, that is settled then.

Grand father the great ruckman Michael Green

I am surprised but ok with it. Hoping for a Liam Jones turnaround

My thoughts too D. The only reason people like that want to know the details is to try and pull it apart, find some tiny part of it that thinks something similiar happened to them, like being called an anglo nickname, Bluey, Slim, or such and then saying I copped it to. Then you have the Ted whitten type brigage who thought it ok to to say you just r........ your sister on the ground but take offence if you didnt want to share a beer after the game. always left me cold that stuff. A bit like the rubbish about having a beer, shaking hands after a fight. I learned long ago, one party in a fight never forgets. On Eddie, I watched from just behind the goals in our carlton game. It wasnt his best game but you were drawn to him each time the ball came down. He engaged with the crowd, cheer squad seemed to like him, to our credit.