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I think you are picking on a few mistakes he makes, he is always helping his fellow defenders. Always willing to provide an option and run to position. He is strong over the ball and in the air. He has courage.A few on here are using last night to run through names and strike them off - I am sorry to tell you but Clisby, Terlich, Toumpas, Byrnes, Jones and the other fringe players are not the only ones making some mind numbing howlers. Why not rewatch the game and write down where they came from? Everyone in the team was giving lazy handballs and ambitious 'switches' - if I am giving Watts time to get his head around this gameplan, I am also willing to give Matt Jones time. Remember we have to play 22 players every week, not the 8 that are reliable decision makers...

He and his friends strangled our run with terrible handballs - either the wrong handball, or simply a poorly directed one.

That 5 minutes of nonsense in the third cost us the game, which is quite something considering Geelong cut us up often and we over possess the footy. The game plan is going to test the players - Matt Jones tonight was case in point - he struggled to make good decisions and when rushed was making horrendous, even comical, decisions with the ball. Vince, Cross, Tyson, and Nathan Jones will get 100 touches a game and will make us a different team - it is just what the other 6 or 7 members of the midfield do with their 100 touches that will determine how close we get to teams. Hogan will be fine for Rd 1, he looked at ease out there. Watts looks lazy from time to time but runs hard to position. The handball happiness got out of hand against a good team. Everyone has to be patient with this possession footy - it won't happen overnight...

Happy to have a new thread for Watts as well (I started a new Trengove thread recently). It really does feel like a new beginning for the players from what they have said. He just needs to work hard and keep running and it will come, he will rely on others to get him the ball that isn't necessarily a bad thing (especially now that we have some help for the Jones' to actually get the ball). He can be a damaging outside midfielder.

Do you have Aspergers, or something similar? I don't want to offend, but you have casually called me a pedant for taking what is written in the first two sentences as factual. I take exception to that. I can see the bigger picture, and details are what makes up the bigger picture, the fact that she got some intrinsic details wrong set up a conspiratorial bigger picture that wasn't true and wasn't fair to the club or the individuals involved. You say it is of no substance but what if you were accused of ordering a secret meeting that you code named explicitly to discuss tanking. That misrepresentation directly affects how you are seen in this story. And it directly affected how we as a club were seen. If you change the context, it affects the story. If you get your facts wrong, you are going to get criticised.

Well, I don't know what the 'many' don't like about her but my objections to her reporting were the misrepresentations that were made in her reporting; the 'vault' that was the code name of the meeting specifically called to discuss tanking the season in which threats were made to staff. The above is the beginning of her article with the sentences in italics added in the online version after her 'facts' were found wanting. Probably due to her ego, the previous two lines - those bolded - remained. These lines directly contradict each other (1. The codenamed Vault meeting that wasn't codenamed, and 2. The 'secret meeting' that was a match committee meeting) and underline why I was so 'offended' by her reporting. She made us look diabolically conspiratorial not hamfisted and tactless, which would be the better descriptor. The ideal is to 'write when you get it right,' not re-write when you get caught.

lol You are always abusing posters.

M_9 is the poster who was so spiteful toward Clark that he said 'Clark won't bother attending the Richmond game' and that it will be a measure of his devotion. Well, Mitch Clark is not the one found lacking.

He's done. He should get his life right and play footy for fun and try to keep his life on track after all these years. AFL isn't for some people, no-one needs it to get their life back on track.

This is what happens when a few people expose their character.

I doubt Scully will ever see himself in the future as a Demon. I am talking about those that wish to be embraced as a Demon - they should be embraced.

Absolutely. All players should be welcomed back. We are a club after all and anyone that spends any time here is trying to do their best and should be afforded the respect that we would all expect at local clubs we have played/worked/volunteered in.

Or the beginning was last year in the NAB Cup... Yeahnah?

This is the beginning? The beginning will be against St Kilda on March 22nd.

lol

I would prefer the sound grab of one of the breaks in the intra club - that was just running commentary of a few good things Roosy saw (and we didn't see).

The truth is patronising? We all do it. I did it with Wines when he was being touted as a pick, I can recall seeing Rockliff train with us and then - off to Brisbane. And 'worse than BH' - come on, now - we would both be offended at that.

I just hope they guilt their children and grandchildren into following the Dees before they die. Was that too blunt?

Easily excited. Let's not get into 'easily pleased' argument again...

Sorry, couldn't find any numbers for late Feb, but it will be interesting to see in a week how far we are ahead of that number... I sense a slight spike in the last ten days. Around 200 more signed up than the ten days previous to that, so essentially 90 new members a day to 110 new members a day. If that happened due to the Tigers game, imagine what a win against St Kilda in the real stuff will do...

Share match day revenues. It's not a hard sell (to the masses), we already share TV money equally. It is essentially the same idea.

Because people make emotional attachments to players they think the club should draft, even when they are not drafted.

I assume he means when two players lead from the same spot but in different directions - in the form of a V. It helps when you can't move the ball quickly and/or the other team is pressing. It is slow going and can be brought down by those without the skill to do it consistently.

Clark and Dawes have the issue of not being fit - they would have to be fit to progress to worrying about match fitness.

There are not many players who are 'match fit' in Feb/March. The point of playing these practice games is to progress ones match fitness.