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3 hours ago, sue said:
There are a lot of worse things that go on as model behaviour. Eg. gloating and mocking over an opponent when you get the better of him, and well, Tom Lynch.
Also derided, generally.
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3 hours ago, Turner said:
u read the media too much, have u ever been a part of a football club, these boys are best mates they made a joke together move along, happens everywhere and defines absolutely no one as a person or a footballer and is in no way related to what they dish up between the sirens
I don't agree at all. If Goodwin didn't go to Hunt and tell him that is exactly the reason why he doesn't play regularly I would be surprised. The time for playing feelies is in the dressing room after a big win against brutal opposition. They can get a room together after that for all I care. In fact, I'll pay....
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4 hours ago, picket fence said:
Just on Melksham.The coach made him Captain for one game. You are correct and why how he continued to get a game is one element of Goodwin playing clear favourites!
As I understand it, Melksham is an excellent on-field organizer. His role is to organize the forwards, so when he is out of the team, there is nobody to fill that aspect of the role. I think that is why he doesn't get dropped... for better or worse.
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7 hours ago, Redleg said:
Do you feel the same about the other guy he was doing it with?
No.
Good question, though. But no because Hunt initiated it. If I had a preference for Trac's response, rather than tolerate it, it would be to have seen him turn on Hunt and tell him to f*!# o@# and get his head together. But maybe Trac is too nice. Or perhaps has another forward step to take in that regard. In any case, Trac has credit in the bank for being generally awesome with obvious and scary-good upside potential, whereas if Hunt has an account, it's one of those State Bank ones we had a primary school...
By the way, 40-odd years later, what with the miracle of compound interest working in my favor, my ten cents must be worth a pile... but where is it?
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Well, I wouldn't begrudge Nev an opportunity. If he feels he needs it, he has my blessing. What I want, though, is the bloke to stick around and be a clubman and teach the youngsters how to behave.
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23 hours ago, Wunders said:
I think that doesn't help Daniher or hurt Essendon though. Lions are probably paying way under what essendon can afford, so if they put the offer in at whatever it is, and Essendon match.. To me that equals Essendon winning big time as they get Daniher for a long term deal for way less money. So although i agree with you that it would be good to let them match as a stuff you, in this case it won't work (it would be a gift).
If Jeremy cameron was a restricted free agent (hypothetically) on the other hand and say he wanted to go to geelong for 50-100k more than GWS was offereing and GWS said no we are matching. Then that is a situation where i can see it [censored] GWS up as they are meant to be super tight on salary space (although surely with williams gone this isn't so much the case, but worst comes to worse they pay cameron more than they wanted to and they may lose another player later :).
What is the point of contracting players long term to a club they don't want to be at? Recipe for disaster, I'd reckon.
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7 hours ago, adonski said:
Hunt for one of those vacant spots...
I’ve been a fan of Hunt, but somehow I get the feeling he upsets the balance of the team. I reckon it’s his personality. His priorities, as suggested at 3qtr time with his liaison with Trac’s nether regions, at a time when his mind should have been on other things, don’t seem to be quite right.
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Just now, demonstone said:
Just read mine and it looks like we're getting Earl Grey. Anybody know much about him?
Watched his dad kick 6 in the mud at Morabbin back in '54. A chip off the old block, so they say....
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1 hour ago, Action Jackson said:
I agree with this.
I'd also say that given Pickering mentioned Dees keen on Smith this one is a fair way down the road as well.
You need to read between the lines with these types of things until the news comes out.
Also the trail on Polec has gone quiet. Does that suggest Smith is close?
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The team to gel.
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This makes me haaaaaaapeeeeeeeeeeee!
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1 hour ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:
on which side of the ledger?
The right one, fortunately. He was down back for a while, but got so cold the coach moved him forward to prevent his joints siezing and he played a role, spearing the pill onto the chest of the winner of the Victorian U12's Lockett Look-a-like Comp.
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1 minute ago, DubDee said:
Brown knocked back 3 years at north. He’ll go to the club foolish enough to offer 4 years on big coin - i.e. the drug cheats
If he wants success, he won't. We need a bloke like him and he needs a club like us.
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56 minutes ago, Better days ahead said:
I guess it depends how large the debt would be Old Dee. Nothing wrong with debt as long as we can service the interest and meet the repayments.
I haven’t seen any costings or plans so have no idea what kind of $$ are needed but we have a sum of $6m odd from the Leighoak club sale and could dispose of the Bentleigh club and tip those proceeds into the project as well.
The club appear set on the MCG precinct which I think is the right call (but will be difficult to secure). You can generate better commercial returns in a central location. I think the club has a large latent (we packed out the MCG for those 2 finals in ’18) following as well if we could just get on a run of sustained success (big if I know).
And I wouldn’t be in favour of unsustainable debt levels. Any debt has to be sensible and manageable.
A sustained period of success would make us the smallest of the big clubs, but big enough, I reckon.
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2 hours ago, old dee said:
But we have to want him and I don’t think he suits our game style. We don’t seem to be able to hit a leading Weideman let alone another of the same type. And why do North want him out so badly. Something does not ring right with this one.
IMHO Weid needs to play deep forward. Brown the lead up. Jackson the roaming CHF. M.Brown depth.
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2 hours ago, A F said:
Let's wait and see, OD. Think you'll find we're a far better destination than Essendon.
Who in their right mind would WANT to play for the Bummers at the moment?
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2 hours ago, KC from Casey said:
Awesome. My boy played his one and only 12s league game for the Bullants in 2019 - 15.10.100 to 00.00.00.
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Best of luck to Rhyce Shaw. Thought his last few media performances showed very alarming signs. Copped a bit of criticism too, form those who should've known better given their closeness to Danny Frawley...
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5 hours ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:
I'm not advocating this as a strategy but surely it's just a case of staying one step ahead of the two worst financially viable clubs at any given time. All of the most recent expansion clubs are being propped up with AFL money and I can't foresee a time where any other major city could could accommodate a third club. If the AFL have no appetite to expand the competition and the broadcasters want nine games each week then that would leave us with two existing clubs relocating to Tasmania and possibly the NT or Canberra.
Just wanna put my two cents in on a loosely related subject..... I stopped watching footy for about 15 years when I left Aus. When I turned back on, Carlton and Essendon were crap, the Hawks were still winning and there were two new clubs -- one in the western suburbs of Sydney, FFS, and the other in some cocaine resort town south of Brisbane. Could not believe it.
Then the thought crossed my mind... in a country of only 25 million, only two thirds of which play the sport, isn't that at least two teams too many? The talent is spread thin, IMHO. Just imagine how much better the league would be if all the talent gone to Suns and GWS was spread about.....
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3 hours ago, Ethan Tremblay said:
Smug, Anchor and a Flosser.
Pretty good at football, though.
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11 minutes ago, pitmaster said:
Very good McQueen, I fully support your post - except there's no apostrophe in 'its' as a possessive article.
You missed the unnecessary capitalisation..... ?
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57 minutes ago, Coq au vin said:
Ablett was the greatest player I ever saw. I withdraw all foolish comments.
Okay, fair enough..... but what about his LEGS??!!!
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22 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:
You could be right.
Brown has a knee injury s so we are no wiser about its severity and how it affects his main assets: running speed or leap.
At 28 they both have only a few years left and are injury risks. Tbh, I would prefer others.
But can we get others?
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4 hours ago, PaulRB said:
Such a stupid view to hold...
Hall of fame players... without premierships
- Haydn Bunton Sr
- Roy Cazaly
- John Kennedy Sr (none as player)
- Tony Lockett
- Kevin Murray
- Bob Skilton
And this was from the time when the rich clubs could buy the best players to add premierships to their names...
And then there's those players in the cue to join the Hall of fame, including a player I rank as the best I've ever seen in Garry Ablett Sr...
I reckon if your list of players you deem to be "not a true great." includes the above list of champions, it's time consider "what the hell am I talking about?"
I remember seeing Ablett live as a kid. I remember being shocked at the size of his legs. So thick. So strong. Maybe that's why he didn't play in a premiership team...? In fact, maybe that explains why all those players can't be considered 'great.' Held back by leg girth. Now that I think of it, Lockett's legs were just outrageously big....
Whaddya think, Coq?
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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - BEN BROWN
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It's the truth, PF. Watch him pointing and explaining and moving things about. Goes on every game, from start to finish. In any case, he's not that bad, being a lovely kick that nearly always hits the target. Would like to see a stat on that actually before committing to it.... ?