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    4 hours ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Doubt it.

    Knowing our luck we'll back in Perth for round 1 to face Freo and then round 4 to face West Coast - both in the middle of a scorching late March/early April Perth afternoon.

    Not sure how clubs in any professional sport can stump up the motivation to fly 4 hours across the country for a meaningless trial match - but it is what it is.

    I feel for Geelong. They're making their big road trip to Moorabbin.

     

    They just released our first 6 rounds

    Riound 1 vs West Coast (Perth)
    Riund 2 vs   Brisbane    (GABBA)
    Round 3 vs  Geelong     (Geelong)
    Round 4 vs GWS     (Darwin)
    Round 5 vs Port Adelaide (Wuhan Stadium)
    Round 6 vs Fremantle  (Perth)
     

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    11 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

    The most interesting parts for me:

    - Bowey is going to start with the defenders.
    Which I like. Confirms what I saw in his footage that his best attribute is his ability to change angles and kick quickly and accurately.

    - Laurie will be with the forwards but has midfield potential. Great spacial awareness and ability to release a team mate in space
    - Petty resuming training with the defenders
    - Nietschke always finding the ball at training (which I’ve witnessed). Will be with the wingers
    - Sparrow made good progress last year 

    Is Deakyn Smith still eligible to be added as a cat B rookie? If he is I’d imagine he’s a decent chance to get a year if he trains well.

    Would prefer Boweys creativity inside forward 50.   Will be wasted in defense.  Seems like a Goodwin decision to play him down back (see James Harmes).

    I like Petty as a forward but we are now loaded up there for talls... if he can make his mark as a CHB look out.  Has some great attributes that compliment May and Lever.

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    9 minutes ago, don't make me angry said:

    2 full season can you count? 2020 is over, end of 21 is 1 full season!!! First you thought QTR went for 25 minutes plus time on, now you think it's December 2019, maybe get checked out for Alzheimer's.

     

    You seem a little agitated.

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    The jungle drums are beating that President Trump may be pardoning Julian Assange.   Not that he should need  a pardon since hes done nothing wrong.

    It is one of the great injustices that he is rotting in a jail cell.

    11 hours ago, Paulo said:

    I kind of remember him having numerous injuries, he had a crook back that he either lost games to or played injured.

     

    His 1996 and 1997 seasons were write offs due to the back problems... a real shame as he was at the peak of his powers having kicked 77 and 79 goals in 94/95.

     His comeback in 1998 in Round 2 against North was one of my favorite Demon games ever.  He kicked 40 goals that season and helped us into the prelim final.

    I still believe that Gary Lyon is hugely underrated by the footy world. 

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    33 minutes ago, dieter said:

    Indictment? How many clubs landed a Coleman, Lockett, Dunstall, Longmire etc? 

     

     

    To answer your question  -  almost all of them.

    Heres how many clubs have had century goalkickers -

    Adelaide
    Carlton
    Collingwood
    Essendon
    Fitzroy
    Footscray  (Westen Bulldogs)
    Geelong
    Hawthorn
    North Melbourne
    Richmond
    South Melbourne
    St. Kilda
    Sydney
    West Coast

     

    Most of those clubs have had 100 goalkickers on multiple occasions, some have done it many times  (Hawthorn 12 times for example, vs Melbournes zero times).

     Our record is abysmal and yes, being around for 120 years with such a  lack of goalkicking talent (and talent in general) to come though is an indictment on the club and a stain on its history.

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    Darren Bennett kicked 87 goals in 1990.

    Thats the most by a Melbourne player since Fred Fanning in 1947 and the third highest ever in a season for a Melbourne player.

    Great season by Bennett, but an indictment on the 100+ year history of the club also.

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    3 hours ago, dieter said:

    I'm including all of the 'Colonial' Escapades of the West. Um, tally up the victims of their weapons of mass destruction before we even reached the end of the 19th Century. Then we had two -so-called World wars indulged in mainly by Western/'Christian' powers when weapons of mass destruction reigned.

    The we had the unnecessary use of Atomic bombs in Japan- once again, the WEST.

    Since then, the US has made horrific war in Korea, Vietnam, Panama, Granada, Somalia, it raped Libya, attempted to rape Syria, destroyed Iraq by using one of the biggest lies in history, and is still raping Afghanistan. If Netanyahu had his way, it would have raped Iran by now as well.

    Between you and me, Grr-owl, I don' t trust the so-called West. It lies, time, and time, and time again. For example, you are no doubt aware of the pretext for invading Afghanistan, aren't you? Come on, you remember, it was to capture Bin Laden...

    Now, give me, please the tally of deaths caused by the ones you claim can't be trusted with weapons of Mass Destruction?

    By the way, have you ever experienced the horror of War? Has anyone ever bombed your town or your city?

     

     

     

    You don't need weapons to be in a war.

    China are at war right now with the U.S and to a slightly lesser extent, Australia.

    I was going to call it a 'covert' war but it is so blatantly obvious it needs to be called for what it is.

     

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