Surely the story of the day is Port losing to the bottom team. Seriously how pathetic are they?
We will lose to Geelong and Sydney next 2 weeks, and then we'll be feeling satisfied again.
Congrats to Jurrah and Pettard!
I've been thinking about this all week. On the one hand it would be absolutley fantastic to win 2 in a row (first time since round 10-11 2007) and to destory an opponents finals hopes. Plus I know we have un-winnable games V Geelong and Sydney coming up week.
On the other hand I can't help but think we still have Freo and Richmond on hand.
Your thoughts guys!
At the moment I would swap Morton for Rioli.
It's no coincedence that since Rioli has been out of the Hawks lineup they've been pumped 3 weeks in a row.
I'd actually like to beat North Melbourne at Etihad for 2 reasons:
1) We've been North's [censored] for the last 3 years. For a team low on talent, they've sure made fools of us. I've never forgiven North (or the Dees for that matter) for spoiling my bucks party by killing us in round 4 last year at the G. My mates couldn't believe how bad the game was and how bad Melbourne was.
2) Would be nice to finally win a game at Etihad. May help overide the unwarranted negative perception that heaps of MFC fans have over the stadium. Plus would be our first win away from the G for 2 years.
Very disapointing that our pick 17 (Blease) and pick 19 (strauss) have both had season ending surgeries in their first year.
Hope Blease, Strauss and Maric will be ready for day 1 of pre-season as they're a big part of our future!
Ideal scenario:
Win V's WCE (For Jimmy)
Win V's North Melb (a little bit of pay back for us being their [censored] since 2007)
Win V's Freo (the only other win that looks feasible)
Richmond beat us and another team for 5 wins.
North win one more game for 5 wins.
WCE win one more game for 5 wins.
End result:
We get picks 1 and 2 and still win more games than last year
Miller getting dropped 2 times in 4 weeks.
Is this the end?
And not that PJ deserves a game, but the Dees sure have faith in their 1 ruckman plan. Perhaps PJ is on emerg list as insurance, if Cox plays.
EDIT - Cox not included.
You enjoyed our 5 goaless quarters in the last month? Wow you're easily satisfied with the game plan and style.
BTW Bailey could only dream of Clarkson's performance in 2005/2006. Clarkson had 15 wins in that period. How many for Bailey?
I'll happily eat humble pie if it all comes togethor, but I ain't seen nothin yet!
Would be happy with that arrangement.
Bailey gets demoted to a player developent management role while Laidley takes the reigns on match day.
From what I hear, Bailey is a great teacher but isn't a capable match day coach.
YM is an entertaining poster who brings colour to the forum.
But his constant bagging of Bruce is beyond an unfunny joke, or an uhealthy obsession.
For example he suggests that Bruce should be dropped this weekend even though he was our second best player V's Brisbane and looked like 1 of about 4 Demon players who looked capable of playing at AFL level last week.