Chook

I don't want to wait another 7 years.

Jeez I musta missed that. Then again I'm not getting paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to see it, so I have an excuse.

If I had an agenda (and Clarkson does, just as we all do), I would play to that agenda. In this case the agenda is benefited by Melbourne being "a Finals Side", crippled by the rules. Of course we all know that's a laughable proposition. Melbourne? Good? Meh-heh-heh-heh!!! what a larf!!!

Unfortunately I can't foresee a situation where Tom McDonald will ever take a mark again. I just don't see how it could occur.

Feels weird playing a game this weekend. Usually we play once every 3-6 months.

Why not just play chess. Take 21 players off the bench. Make teams of 1. Opening up space, causing players to think harder to check. If checked without a move, it's a game loss. 21 players in reserve, for any who can't get up if sick.

I regularly clear both my nostrils of snot while running even in Summer. Crap tweet.

I mean I'll take it but by gosh and by golly what a train wreck this club is.

Can I just say I picked Trent Rivers to play 22 games this year. I will be wrong only on a technicality.

Carlton looks awful.

"I'm impressed." – Me, about every boss I've ever had

I dreamed last night that Max Gawn decided he would leave the Dees to go elsewhere. If Moloney hadn't done the exact same thing (in real life), I might have considered voting Moloney over Gawn just based on that alone. Reality hits, however, and I must vote Gawn. #KarmaIsABitch

Jackson should not play this year unless we get injuries. He's a kid. A tall talented kid, but I mean c'mon it's like putting a baby giraffe into a battlefield. Yeah the giraffe might stomp someone but it's not the place he belongs.

Then he obviously sucked

Brown will play between 22 and 26 games for us this year.

Langdon streaming down the wing? I like to see that.

Adelaide looks terrible early.

Rivers will be a seriously good defender from the very start of his career.

As a defender whose last name is Cole, I'm not sure I am comfortable with my name being associated with a clearly pointless area of the ground.

Sure. I’m ready to get the hope over for another year and return to normal — dreading every weekend.

Agreed. Everyone's wrist-slitting when he got an injury in the preseason this year had me totally befuddled.

This is not a Steven May thread. This is a Cale Morton, Patrick Dangerfield, Melbourne drafting thread, in that order.

Jeepers I like the look of this kid.

The positive is there is no way any sane organisation could ever try to hide from a year as bad as Melbourne had in 2019. The negative is there is no way Melbourne could ever be thought of as a sane organisation, no matter the year.

Let's face it, we're all pathetic losers for being on this site at any time, let alone in the offseason. Hostility towards Saty and Kev is simply a projection of the dissatisfaction that comes from knowing you shouldn't care about the offseason combined with the awareness that you care enough to read a website but not enough to visit in person. They do, and so they're better losers than all of us combined. Go Dees (at all times, but especially in the parts of the year when the games are being played)!