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Bring this up again in 2018. Until then, you are hoping it all works out. Except Hogan and Viney... They are going to be great.

Can you please stop forwarding the opinions of about 5 people on here to people you see at MFC training? I don't know why you do it.

That would be the guilt by association... Holding a body of individuals to account does not mean they all must make way. We have found that moving on a head coach, two line coaches, two assistant line coaches, a CEO, and 3 Board members is enough for a renewal of some substance. Why must we damn Rawlings, Nichol, Mahoney, Taylor, O'Donnell, Viney, Lamb, Howcroft, Trotter, and Spargo for having the temerity to want to, and be allowed to, stick around to help their club?

He isn't a bust just yet. And I can tell you are not happy, mjt.

You know, at some point the bloodshed has to end. At some point, people have to get over Gardner's perceived failures, Szondy's perceived ineptitude, Gutnick's perceived conspiratorial nature, Ridley's perceived treacherousness, and anything else people have issues with pre 1996... I liked the fact that three of Gardner's board hung around when Stynes took over, and I have no problem with keeping a few of the old Board around if they, and their compeers, believe they can contribute. Changes have been made, personnel has improved, relationships have been restored, and faith renewed - do we not agree? If we do, then any more desires of people to leave based on the guilt of presence or association, is a tad petty.

I really hope we can shove this back down your throat at the end of 2014 - but until then all I can do roll my eyes because you might be right. But, jeez, you say it like you actually know, and like the rest of us, you don't.

I didn't read anything in that specifically mentions what Clark is now struggling with. My better judgement as a Melbourne supporter is to panic, but I will hold off until the serious stuff gets near.

Especially when we are playing out of Croke Park in Ireland...

lol No it isn't. Unless by 'PR Disaster!' you mean about 20 Landers will complain on here...

No, I know it, I don't think whoever I replied to did. Because they asked a tongue in cheek question relating to Rogers remarks about Dawes.

Roger didn't do that training report. You can thank him but if you want to ask questions about the report - off to Big Footy you go to find Tasmanlvr...

Don't quite know what the point is to this, or the truth you are trying to uncover. An irrelevant piece about Mitch Duncan's views on his teams ruckmen on a slow news day is neither here nor there when it comes to how Geelong is seen off field. Analyse, without stats (even though I love them), how Robinson dealt with the Essendrug Scandal, how Wilson 'reported' on Dustin Martin's issues compared to here usual doggedness etc. Arbitrary numbers used as a relative comparison is useful to the point where your analysis begins.

They have 3 game memberships. It's under Red and Blue in the Package list. The issue with trying to boost this membership as a priority is that it mais just as likely to turn fringe members into $90 members than it is to turn fringe supporters into $90 members. It might cost us money until we start to attract neutrals. We can advertise them prominently when Hogan is doing his thing.

He's not quick, but I think the thing that has hurt his game the most in the last couple years has been - in order of impact - injuries, instructed to be negatively focussed, and terrible form. Work out a way to set him free and hunt the footy and then we can measure how much his lack of quickness affects his game. Don't need quick midfielders, but you do need good midfielders.

All we need is a few games where we look like we belong in this league in the first two months, and Roos' mug in the papers a bit and we can get there. FTA games matter in this regard more than rarely seen Foxtel games - St Kilda and Sydney on Sat Night, and WCE and GC on Sunday Arvo would be choice games to look half decent.

As you wake up on the 21st Jan - we are 2600+ ahead of last year.

If it makes you feel better - our supremacy in the forward line is irrelevant is our midfield is still putrid.

So you can confirm that people at AFL HQ are talking about possible talks this year about a club being relocated or clubs merging at some point in the short to medium term future? If you do not wish to give your source, or who is talking about these possible talks, would you mind narrowing down what they might be talking about? And when, after the talks become fruitful, these talks come to fruition?

When throwing grenades, tell us where it is coming from.

Someone correcting spelling is not bullying - that is laughable. Jonah form Summer Heights High would accuse 'miss' of bullying for pointing out his spelling mistakes. That's how laughable it is.

mjt, we have gone through this. Comedy is only possible if the premise is remotely plausible; if we are in the alley measuring IQs - the money is on rpfc. As for your point - I remember posting in a thread that had a number of posters who had damned him after that Footy Show appearance and his delay of signing his contract. Do we not look silly if we damn his lack of loyalty and then applaud it a few months later? Either we were too quick to adjudge his lack of loyalty, or we are giving him unwarranted praise now. In that thread I wrote this: The thread is here (http://demonland.com/forums/index.php?/topic/34766-jack-watts-more-discussion-for-those-who-havent-had-enough/) for those that want to opine further, or revise, or rehash their remarks as I have done here.

Wait, were we not burning him for his lack of loyalty with his non-committal answers during the season?

They could finish ahead of him. Our midfield is pedestrian, and that is putting it mildly. I applaud Matt Jones. He has had one season and has delivered on his promise, albeit limited, if others emulated him, we won't be in trouble in 2014. Cross, Trengove, Vince, and Tyson have the ability to help the Jones' in 2014.

This thread needs to be cleaned up. Personal slights say more about the one giving those slights.

Tier 2 will struggle to pay the cap that the Tier 1 teams would pay, if this is an actual tiered system and not side-by-side conferences like in US sports, then Tier 2 is not going to be relevant in the minds eye of people, and therefore advertisers won't pay the money that drives the league. If the League centralises the money and divvies it out evenly to all, and if the tier 2 clubs can keep their players then we will have, essentially, two conferences of the same league, and not a tiered league. If you would like to see an ACT, Tas, and 4 other teams to have two 12 team leagues to solve the fairness of the draw issue - then having a conference system would happily solve that conundrum. However, with that said, the NBA has a 'made up' East/West divided conference that is now hurting the comp as the East is severely weaker than the West. 13 of the best 16 teams are from the West, but only 8 will make the playoffs (8 from each conference).