Grr-owl

They've tried to turn cricket into a sensationalist game. The same is happening to golf and tennis too.... They're not. Lipstick on a pig. Once found myself at a rugby tournament in a sports facility in Dubai. Looked up and there was the ICC, another dusty steel and glass box exponentially decaying in the brutal climate. Sad.

Not big on it cause the kids can't go. I'm one of those old fashioned roll out of bed on a Saturday and wonder what are we going to do today, how 'bout the footy? type of blokes. Can live with the staggered start times over multiple days, but 7:55PM starts mean a late night, so on a Thursday we're out. Keep footy a family thing, I reckon...

Who matches up against McAdam at training?

I think they're orange-bellied yabbies, or something like that....😉

As I understand it, there's yabbies in that pond...

Oh, ye of the small screens, my 100" projector screen is the screen to rule them all!

I hope this applies for the Digital Memberships through the club....

Oh, let it be so. My kids go to that school and it is sadly lacking in facilities.

Right on. And according to the club there is no better option. If there is one, someone should lay it out here. Do a comparison using the criteria Perty discussed at the AGM. Space, accessibility, availability et al., and (I suspect) the biggest issue of all: willingness to cooperate with MFC...

I'm another one in the area. Belly all a-flutter atmo. Great idea. Get it done....

Even Gawn can't afford Malvern.... had to settle for Malvern the Lesser.

Good point. I work in said windswept soulless high-rise wasteland these days with said overseas students. Have made it standard practice to tell them that all overseas students are obliged to support the Melbourne Football Club. I explain that it is a law, and say that they ticked the MFC box on the landing card as they flew in and now must follow through. Doesn't seem to be having the effect I assumed it would, but you never know...

Nah, there's nothing in that...

Unless they're from Adelaide.... BROO-HOO-HA-HA-HAAAA! Oh...... love an incest joke. Probably won't make it past the mods.... 🤪

Marginal seat. Didn't used to be. Is now.

Great news.

Dew could get a job as a ship.

And the teams responded tactically.... Five years on, we aren't going to win that way. Don't have the right players.

And then how would the defence set up? Chaos for them; chaos for us, too. In other words, we'd have to win by luck. The way we attack has a defensive function. It locks the oppo in to a spot they can't get out of. Hence the huge number of re-entries. It keeps the balls in our hand and not the oppo's - with the welcome consequence of them not being able to score - and tires them out. We wear them down with superior fitness and kick goals (most of the time) and win.

EXACTLY. Didn't mean to type in all-caps, but that was the way it came out and I'm accepting the Freudian Typo... The alternative would be spearing it hard and fast to leading players who are surrounded by defenders in the zone (that's what a zone is for) who would spoil it for a quick rebound with multiple options out. To be fair, that's not much different from the situation now, though that difference must be significant in some way, otherwise we wouldn't be doing it. If I was to speculate, I'd say the stats for either marking it or crumbing by blokes running toward goal from the fifty or out the back are better than those for cleaning up after a spoiled lead, offensively and defensively. Dunno. What're the stats on our returns from different types of entries in games we win vs games we lose? Not sure it actually matters; missed shots on goal is the most important stat in footy.

Cheers, Champ. Devastated that I will no longer be able to bellow "HIB-BOW-AH!" at the tele every time he gets the ball...

Two talls in the backline. We don’t win with two talls.

Wet weather. Play slow. Kick behinds. Lose.

Not telling, darling...

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