Chook

Some flashes of the old Aaron Davey today, which is nice to see.

I tipped against us this week. If that's what it takes for us to show something, I'd gladly tip against us every week.

I often think Jack Watts overthinks the game. Hopefully with a couple of whacks on the head, he will stop thinking so hard and play a blinder.

Substitutes Addam Maric for the Tigers and Lynden Dunn for the Demons. Good choices on both accounts.

Carlton used to get the tanking label, but they couldn't give two sh*ts, so the media stopped bringing it up as soon as they started winning again. We should have the same attitude. Who gives a rat's tossbag what the media says?

Thanks for the quick answer. Looking forward to something . . . anything from Cale Morton and Aaron Davey today. And it would be nice to see Mitch Clark pick up a couple of strong contested marks one on one inside the forward fifty.

I just thought I'd kick off the game day thread with a question. Does anyone have any inside info on whether our jumpers will be covered in stickers and masking tape like last week, or will they have had enough time to get them professionally altered?

Loving your posts, Yoss. Lots of interesting comments.

It really is bizarre that we've elevated Tom Couch on the back of consistent good results in the VFL, and yet we've neglected to play him in one of the least promising Melbourne sides I've ever seen.

I'm hoping to see none of the following: Token chasing Misskicks High tackles Out on the fulls Losing 1-on-1 marking contests Long, blind bombs to the forward 50 Casually taking kick-ins Attempted speccies with no-one to crumb the ball at ground level Being drawn to the ball like little-leaguers Ruck taps to disadvantage More behinds than goals

Agreed. Not many Pies did, and all the while Bucks was going mental and I was loving it!

My jury has been well and truly in on Davey and Bennell for about two years. I just want to see Jetta's body let him string a couple of games together before I judge him, and the jury literally is out on Liam Jurrah.

Kidding about what? He was better than Cloke.

He's too busy being a fantastic assistant coach at yet another successful South Australian side.

At least he tried. He could teach that work ethic to a couple of our players. What about the "great" Travis Cloke, who couldn't take a mark to save himself? I would have preferred Dawes' performance over Cloke's tonight.

Because Betts, Yarran and Garlett are hungry, but Davey and Bennell are not. Jurrah's going through some tough times and Jetta's injured, so the jury's still out on them.

I have Pendles, but my opponent has him as Captain. I'm happy to take the hit this week if it means my enemy's captain is out of the equation.

Maybe we should campaign to get Dane Swan on The Biggest Loser. He's looking a little porky.

He's out of contract at the end of next year.

We've already done that!

If Bate's the sub again, then Mark Neeld is clearly an imbecile. He won't be the sub, so Neeld's reputation will be intact.

I have been thinking for a while that we should have a thread where people can put all the interesting twitter updates the Dees boys come up with. Maybe Jonesy's surfing tweets aren't all that interesting, but Brad Green's reaction to his being dropped is. Same with Sellar's early call that he'll be selected to play his "first game for the Dees on the G" this week. Some of us aren't up with the "twitter machine" as Brian Taylor calls it, so it would be nice to provide a thread for anyone to place the tweets they hear from the players. Talk is cheap, but most of the time, it's better than nothing. I'll start off with two from Brad Green tonight. I posted them on another thread, but I'll put them here too: "Get behind the boys on Sat, I want to see a huge demon crowd at the MCG... I will be doing everything I can to get back in the side...." "Thank's for the msg's. I have the utmost respect for Neeldy, we always have open and honest discussions.The reason I am not picked is form."

Greeny's a classy guy. His twitter reactions speak for themselves: "Thank's for the msg's. I have the utmost respect for Neeldy, we always have open and honest discussions.The reason I am not picked is form." "Get behind the boys on Sat, I want to see a huge demon crowd at the MCG... I will be doing everything I can to get back in the side...." Hopefully he can recapture some of his form from 2010. There's a reason we were all clamouring for him to be given the captaincy at the end of that year.

So it's at least a million dollars per year, then?

That can't be right. Several usually means three or more. It's a one year contract, and the old one was for an unprecedented 2 million dollars. Unless the two-year extension is included in the "several million dollar" figure, this report appears incorrect.