Chook

Sorry, I'm already aboard the reality bus. It's going in the opposite direction.

How DARE she support her team! Sounds like she was just enjoying the game to me. Was there any cursing or offensive language ("GO PIES" doesn't count)?

Old Dunny-brush was alright today I thought.

Your opponent doesn't care what age you are. He'll beat you just the same.

One of our other gems like Davey, Moloney or Sylvia?

Me too. I said on the other thread that he's the only player from the Daniher era who's managed to avoid the awful funk that permeates our senior group. Sign him up pronto. Yes, I just said the word pronto. Big whoop! Wanna fight about it?

O'Brien did a pretty good job of keeping himself quiet, and Beamer frustrated me to no end today.

That sounds like a cut line from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I love the Dees, I love the damn Dees. I want them to lock the ball up in the pocket Just give them a rocket Give it to them Now! I want a side filled with brilliant midfielders. Ten thousand tons of hard ball. And if they don't look like buff bodybuilders I'm going to scream!

Couldn't agree more with you there, Doc. The only think I'd say is I've made up my mind on Moloney (GTFO), but not yet on Sylvia.

The player I really want is Tyson Goldsack. I really rate that guy,

"Gee that's a slow backline sir!!"

You know who's conspicuously absent from that list? Jarred Rivers. Take a bow, Riv, cause you're the only one of our relics from the Daniher era who has escaped his evil curse.

It's bad enough getting destroyed by crack midgets, but hack midgets? Please!

Why? Because he has no defensive skills. If so, then how in the hell can we expect him to do any better as a DEFENSIVE forward? Pretty much the only place in todays game where you can get away with a total lack of defensive mindset is on the bench - and if it's come to that, then I reckon it's about time to give it up,

Yeah. Just a hunch, but I think Bartram's probably gone past Whelan at this stage. Highly underrated and incredibly important to our structure. It's no coincidence that Jarryd Blair et all destroyed us off the deck today. Even the lumbering ruckmen were grubbing gimme goals off the back of packs today.

Interesting.Why do you think I'm right? If it's just because my opinion happens to agree with todays atrociously inconsistent umpiring team, then that's no ringing endorsement at all!

On the contrary. I think it's in perfect working order. It's just that it rarely has any passengers. In this case, "no passengers" is bad.

I think he got one for the Tapscott whack, and he got a second for Garland's tackle on whoever it was that grabbed the ball and (to Garland's mind) played on. Fair? You be the judge. I refuse to believe that Garland's stupid enough to tackle the wrong bloke when he knows some other player has just been awarded a fifty-metre penalty. Whoever the officiating umpire was totally botched that whole messy saga.

That whole passage of play was a mess. The umpire was derelict in his duty by not adequately informing the players that a fifty had been awarded. I reckon the Collingwood bloke thought he could take advantage and Garland evedently fell into the trap.Horriffic umpiring, not because of the decisions (of which there were quite a few crappy ones today), but because of his inability to do his job and ACTUALLY LET THE PLAYERS KNOW WHAT HIS DECISION WAS!!!

First of all, a goal had already been given. Second, the Collingwood player's boot was touching the post. The ball bounced off his boot. As far as I know, that means it's still in play.

Good point. The best footy I've seen him play is when he's bursting his way out of the scrum like the juiced-up lovechild of Chris Judd and a raging bull. The forward flank is probably the best place on a footy field to get cold, and Sylvia looks like an ice-block at times.

I actually think they'd be dying to get out.

To be honest, I feel like I'd be able to do it too, but I know a lot of people who wouldn't. Not everyone has that kind of balls. To you and me, it might be easy, or you might feel that not looking at the coach will only make things worse. But not everybody is like that.

Well put.

Sad to hear the captains talking like that. Jamar is also a little suprising. Moloney, not so much. I don't think he has his priorities straight. You don't play footy for the crowds.