Chook

"Moneyball" is the act of 1) discovering which statistics correlate positively with victory; and then 2) recruiting players who measure up well in those categories, relative to their price. That's all it means.

Yeah. No thanks.

He's from the Robbie Flower school of deciding to be awesome even when the world is going to shite all around him.

I once saw an article that said he was the best player ever picked at his number in the draft. That's some sort of accomplishment at least.

Nice avatar. It suits you.

I sat in front of a Collingwood supporter a couple of years ago who just went to town on the bloke all game--so much so that I wondered if he hated him for some other reason besides his poor disposal. Every time Harry did something good, I waited for the guy behind me to say something nice about it, but he didn't.

Fixed.

By that logic, any money Mitch Clark spent on his little girl or his wife is wasted money. Not EVERY cent Melbourne spent on Mitch Clark actually went to Mitch Clark himself. What's the difference if we payed for a Uni course or he did? In the end it's all the same.

Petition to rename this "the no m¢ no b¢ thread". We need to get with the times.

Being a Melbourne supporter hurts. The trick, my friends, is not minding that it hurts.

Actually, he said he'll be meeting Mel Bourne, acclaimed photography critic.

Agreed. What kind of world do we live in where you have to hope someone has depression because the alternative is that he is a lying scumbag with no morals.

Needs to be black and white and shot at a dutch angle.

On Harry Lumumba, Robinson asks if Melbourne is "mature enough" to handle him. ME: We're over 150 years old. I think we can handle it.

PAUL ROOS: Lost our best player, talked to him about what he'd actually have to do if he plays (not just the glory of gameday, but everything that goes with it). Roos is concerned first and foremost with his well being, and we'll be doing research over the next week. Wanted him to come to the club first. Got a bit messy, but through no one's fault. Mitch's intention was always to come to Roosy. Wished it had come out tomorrow.

I think Sydney have...look I'm not saying...relative to the other coaches, maybe...I mean you have to look at all the senior coaches' media performances, but at the end of the day being succinct is very helpful, and not changing your thought mid-sentence is, probably, if you look at it closely, the most important factor in whether you like or don't like the media performances of a coach.

Paul Roos rambles like an 80 year old. I do not rate him at all in his media performances. I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, but I sure don't.

If the worst case scenario is the injection of Clark and Hogan into our forward line with the addition of multiple experienced role players in exchange for the massively overrated James Frawley, I'll be pretty happy.

Mitch Clark stooged Brisbane, then Freo. Is he now stooging Melbourne too?

Trolololol Richmond. Halfway through the first. Port lead by 43 points. Richmond yet to score.

Yeah. I don't like fish either.

We don't dislike them cause they beat us. We dislike them because they're a club full of staging, whingeing punks.

We need a medical dictionary. If a patient gets difficult you quone him.

He's a slightly richer man's Sam Blease.

I like a player changing/keeping his number because it means something to him, but moving to a "good" number just because seems silly to me. For example, Rohan Bail is a 44 because that number means something to him. I wouldn't want to move him down to a "better" number for anything, even if by some miracle he became the next Gary Ablett (presumably after abduction by aliens or some other equally unprecedented event). Jack Grimes would have been welcome to move to 31 if that number were particularly special to him, but just moving him there because it was Barassi's number is superstitious at best and "masterbatory" at worst. EDIT: Can't believe that third last word is censored. What kind of world do we live in where "shitful" is fine, but you have to misspell a word like masterbatory in order to slip it past the keeper?