Chook

I changed my post to reflect your opinion. Thank you for pulling me up on it.

Forgotten? Not by me. There are some people on this board who are not in the Nathan Jones camp, but I am. Most tend to unfairly put him in the "not a Premiership player" pile, seemingly unaware that some pretty spudley players have won Premiership medallions. REASON FOR EDIT: My "garbage" opinion was corrected by Nasher.

He is where Jack Watts was about 1 year ago. He knows he doesn't deserve a game at the moment and is playing like a man who's afraid of what might go wrong. He needs confidence. How he can get it is another matter...

Good man, good man.

Full credit to you for recognising Joel Macdonald's blatant flouting of the rules. Obviously he'll expect some sort of AFL reprimand, I s'pose. But at the end of the day, most of these players are just regurgitating the junk they hear their coaches (and media managers) say.

I have to say that as good as his clearance work is, his delivery to the forwardline is still a little too indiscriminate for my liking.

Hi Aaron. Why don't you tackle someone for a change. You know . . . like you used to.

No thanks. I prefer my Liam Jurrahs kicking goals all day long, not just in the last quarter.

Ice on the knee from a knock sustained in the 2nd quarter. Likely to just be precautionary.

Jack Watts! Gets the one back he cost us. Carn the Dees. Put 'em away!

Have a listen to his pregame interview on DeeTV. Is that a personality I see? Amazingly, he seems to be one of the only footballers with some originality and thoughtfulness in his comments. In this day of metrosexual, media trained robots, it's good to see that there are still some real people playing the game.

Cause West Coast, North Melbourne and Collingwood are all quite tough opponents.

That's a pretty good team. If Jamar does play, I would confidently pick Melbourne by around 40 points. I'm surprised the Footy Dept. had the guts to drop Bartram. Despite his poor disposal, I though he had a few more credits with the coaches than that.

I have a feeling Port Adelaide are really keen to hang on to him, so I don't think the usual "Spud + Spud = Good Player" trade of Dunn and Bate for him will quite do it. I'd love him here though, if only for the off chance that it would explode Dwayne Russell's head like a wad of cookie dough.

I suggest you read other people's posts a little better in future . . . mate.

But it's easy to kick when Jack Watts handballs it to you four times in 30 seconds. Eventually the penny should drop that you should kick the damn thing before you get caught with it.

Not to Stef, it would seem. Although, I've read that he has had some personal troubles recently. I guess we all have problems from time to time.

I like the "run into space" game plan, but I would like to see a situation when we're deep in our own defence, instead of having every forward inside our D50, we would have one up around the centre square and a marking target inside the offensive 50, just so we have some semblance of a get-out kick on the fast break. Other than that, our forwards will need to have very good endurance in order to work this game plan for 26 weeks of the year.

Exactly. The guy gives me so much confidence when he's one-on-one. Runs and carries the ball and doesn't just dish it off for the sake of getting rid of it. Sometimes makes people nervous cause he hangs on to it for longer than they'd like, but I think his disposal is more effective than it looks.

Easily my favourite player at the club. You can tell he's a guy who actually LISTENS to what people tell him. He has all the physical attributes plus a brain the size of a small European nation, and I can't wait to see how good he'll end up.

Richmond Away G WIN I honestly think we're a better side than Richmond, and can't see us losing Doggies Away ES LOSS Etihad...need I say more? BYE Port Home TIO WIN The Brotherhood up at TIO should get us over the line. Hawks Home G LOSS The start of a crazy-hard four week run. If we can win any of the next four games, we're right in there with a chance. I rate this one as our hardest, given that we suck against Hawthorn Gellong Away Skilled LOSS Unlikely to still be "up" after all this time, I'm predicting a close game, given our similar playing styles Carlton Away G LOSS Carlton seem to have our number, but we'll be breathing fire for this game. Definitely not "bruise-free" footy. Eagles Home ES LOSS This is the pivotal game. Playing against a side who works the press very well (something we cannot deal with) at a ground we can't play at. Huge game Richmond Home G WIN Port Away AAMI LOSS Have you noticed where this is being played? Port Adelaide may have totally put the cue in the rack by this time, though. I only give us three certainties, but I could easily see us winning against the Dogs, WCE and Port Adelaide the second time, which would put us on 11.5 wins. I doubt this would get us into the Eight.

"When a rocket reaches the moon, the rocket always has had very few technical difficulties. But when the mission messes up, the rocket almost always has had some trouble. Therefore, the rocket is a down-hill skiier." Failed logic, right there. People say similar things about Brent Moloney's game, but honestly the only Melbourne player who's consistently good even when the team sucks is Colin Sylvia, who I'm sure we all know has some serious talent and ball-winning ability.

BUMP Thoughts? This is our performance against each team so far #2 Collingwood - lost by 88 #3 Carlton - lost by 47 #4 Hawthorn - lost by 45 #5 Sydney - draw //home #6 WCE - lost by 54 //away #7 Fremantle - Won by 89 //home #8 Essendon - won by 33 #9 St Kilda - lost by 20 #10 Melbourne #12 North - lost by 41 #14 Adelaide - won by 96 #15 Brisbane - won by 11 #17 Gold Coast - won by 90 Our effort drops right off when we lose, but we've really beaten every team we should be expected to beat. There's a chance our "on-off" form is simpy a side-effect of our draw. Based on our performances this year, I would expect an easy win over Richmond next week.Our only losses against teams close to us on the ladder have come at Etihad (St Kilda and North Melbourne), where we've been known to play quite poorly.

6 Jack Watts - Very good at ground level for a tall player. Has good kicking skills and makes great decisions. Can also take a contested mark from time to time, too. 5 Stefan Martin - Rucked well, drifted forward. Very coordinated for his size, and has really developed almost every area of his game. Can't wait for next week against the Tiges. Jamar and Martin - together at last. 4 Jordie McKenzie - "See ball, get ball" at its' very finest. Has patches from time to time where his handballing is a little slow, but he has been so important for us. 3 Tom Scully - Was on fire early in the game. As a marathon runner, he makes a pretty good footballer. 2 Jeremy Howe - Has a fantastic leap and a very high work-rate. Petterd + effort = Howe. 1 Moloney - Could have given this to Sylvia, but Moloney's centre work is brilliant. Gets his best friend back next week, which should be nice.

Say hello to running, weight-lifting and the like. They're some of the only sports not bastardised by new technology.