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Ricky Pettard isn't a footballer's shoelace. But I reckon Ricky Petterd is good enough to kick 35-40 goals this year.

Some of you missed my point, and some of you are childish... I am trying to say that the MFC made a big step on Saturday; playing a very good team and matching them, or beating them, in all areas of the game, and we should applaud and welcome that step, and look forward to the next one - consistency. Just not next week. I'm not giving them an out for putting in a shocker next week but I am saying that the inference that all their good work on Saturday would mean nothing unless they show the same next Sunday is disengenuous. The Demons right now are younger than they were in 2008 and 2009; we still need patience. Because the next 'Hawthorn debacle' is right around the corner...

The love for Bate comes and goes like the tide. The bloke didn't have a pre-season and was servicable across half forward with 8 marks and 15 touches. The fact that he is straight into the team without a preseason illustrates the esteem that he is held with by the Footy Dept. He gradually got better last season after many posters thought he should be dropped and he finished 4th in the Bluey. He is trying to play CHF at 22 when he is far more suited to HFF (and an effing good HFF) and he is trying hard. Let him be.

Consistency is the next step but I don't expect the next step the very next week. Brent Moloney has become a valuable leader on the field and consistent player by 'lowering his eyes', I suggest some of our fans do the same...

I have read nothing but teeth gnashing and hand wringing and a desire with the Demons to gain Respectability © for a week (and summer), and yet when they play a game like they did on Saturday a few of you what to bathe in your self-righteousness and move the goalposts for our beloved club. Not satisfied with the game because they didn't get the win over a top 4 team coming off a win over a top 4 team. I will have that attitude when we play a top 4 team in 2012, but to say that, coming off two wooden spoons with a young (and getting younger) team, is misguided and disengenuous. You have to crawl before you can walk, and that game yesterday was a massive step in the progress of our team. Yesterday, we got to our feet for the first time and fell over, and many of you said to this emotional toddler - "I'm dissapointed in you. You made the effort to stand up and you didn't walk. I'm not satisfied with that and neither should you be." Talk about anal...

It's endemic within the supporter base; decades of irrelevancy have left many bitter and pathetic, faithless and unreasonably cynical. The only thing you can do is not give in to their comfortable pity parade and tell them off when they say the stupid things they say. Welcome to Demonland - Somewhat confused since 3/4/2010 (the Collingwood game that saw 'the Bailey narrative' challenged).

Considering many here believe one bad game against quality opposition merits renegging on a 1yr contract, does playing a very good game against quality opposition lead to consummerate result - perhaps a 2 year extension for Bailey? I maintain my annoyance and impatience with the bulk of MFC supporters - pitifully lacking in intestinal fortitude and desparately afraid to look bad in front of peers. During Bailey's tenure we have become younger, and the younger players have become better. That is what I see with my own two eyes, but please tell me my eyes are lying... But bring a decent argument.

Didn't think we would be as crap as we were in the first 45 minutes but I am not going to indict anyone on 45 minutes of rubbish football from a group of footy players who have given a lot of rubbish since 2007. I mean Cam Bruce trusts Jamie Bennell to do more with 4 blokes around him, or on him, than his left foot with three metres of space. Do I blame Bailey for that? Frankly, our senior players, lest Macca, were awful on Saturday, and I couldn't give a flying about how they go - I have seen Warnock, Jones, Bate, Frawley, Morton, Sylvia, McKenzie, Petterd, Grimes, Garland, Jurrah, Cheney, Wonaeamirri, Martin, Jetta, Bennell, and Spencer get better since Bailey has come to the club and, as we are not looking at the immediate, that pleases me.

You have used one NAB cup round to indict Bailey and champion Scott. I form opinions on posters and remember their contributions well. That is all I will say... Some on here are trying to say that we will lose 14 games, and that that will be a successful season, and yet you don't think being belted at Subi is acceptable. That dog don't hunt.

Sorry KS, I should have remembered it was Iverson. This match means nothing to me, other than a chance to see the kids. And some here to thicken up their skins a tad, just wait until the season starts and everyone is back - you won't survive if you cannot take posters being facetious.

In the words of Vince Carter - "You talking about practice?!"

Yeah, I want him to fail... I hate some of our supporters sometimes. Kid's going to be special, but that doesn't mean I won't pass along info on our great hope - good, bad, or indifferent. Think before you type.

This is the problem, I'm not the one arguing trivialities. I talked to a coach of the club, gave everyone his view. I didn't say it was a coffin nail, I just relayed information to my great friends here at D'Land... And now you have parsed my post and are now making a major issue out of the small, albeit negative, aside I gave earlier. So I can't have an opinion on the personality of a bloke I have seen once a week all summer (Brad not Jack) because I gave no substantive evidence to back myself up? If the internet required substantive evidence as a prerequisite for any information it would implode in on itself.

I mean it's not as if anyone a few posts ago sourced an assistant coach at the club or anything... Gotta love self-righteous, dismissive, and patronising posts in preseason... Hypocritical? Yeah, but I do it better.

Have the occassional chat to Brad Gotch and he thinks that Watts should be in the VFL for the first three months of the year as he is just not ready in the body or upstairs to play AFL. Hate to write it as much as you guys must to read it but that's the situation. He does have high standards though, and Jack will blow up a few times at Brad - he's an honest talker is Brad...

Ricky's doing fine. Oh, he has to play well if he wants to continue to play? No sh!t...

Well spotted. I should have said 'next season' rather than 'next year.' Those that want to wait until mid-year are, as Nasher says, giving themselves only the window of three months of footy to make a very big decision.

Bump. Prescient.

If KS is reading this - I wouldn't worry. No-one on here has posted anything, remotely worthwhile, since October.

A little older than Colin Sylvia. I'm trying to recall what posts I've read from you. You're an excitable fella aren't you? I really don't think me being patronising during this ridiculous discussion during the 'nutty' off-season is 'unbelievable.' But you can accept this thread as epitomising great thought if you want to. I'm not going to control what you think...

If its any consolation, you all look like hobos fighting over a wheel of imaginary cheese... Can't spell. Edited.

That's what many say. Personally, I question it.

How dare you?! How can you sit there and belittle the inane chatter and pointless threads that make up Demonland in the off-season? Bradshaw is a Swan. So what?! In the alternate dimension on Fringe, he might be a Demon. Ever thought about that? And..and it is socially implored that we celebrate birthdays. Hence the thread dedicated to Max Gawn turning 18. And a person's VCE score is absolutely...OK, it's pointless and no-one has anything useful or relevant to post. But you don't have to point that out... Because that's rude.

I'm with you on posters having little perspective...or idea, with Martin, but... Depth is a useless meter people bring up when they want to include the average, the diminishing, and those with unrealised potential into the positives that will lead to the success of their team. I think the club is giving him the best opportunity to be in our best 22. He won't beat out Warnock, Rivers, or Frawley anytime soom so back-up ruck or forward tall is his best bet. And I like him in the ruck.

A "classic rpfc patronising, condescending, and mean comment" to many in this thread. Boy, that's a time saver.