Chook

Oops. My mistake. I thought it was obvious that I was comparing a thirty year-old David Neitz to a 30 year old Brad Green. Sorry.When your midfield is not winning, rotate anyone who can play there through, to see if you can spark something. When you're on top, change of any kind can really halt your momentum, and we didn't change enough, IMO.

This has been true as long as I've watched Melbourne (and apparently in the decades before that, too). I remember watching us warm-up in the old Daniher days. We'd lazily perform our drills, take a few pot shots, then hey, what do you know? The game's about to start, so we'd saunter to our positions, engage in a little ruff stuff and promptly get flogged - unless it was an even year, in which case the floggings would be confined to just the top four teams and anyone we happened to get paired up against in the finals. I know for me, it takes about ten minutes of full on work before I'm operating at top notch. That should be what our players aim for. I don't think these guys get it at all - and they haven't for years.

Jamar full forward/ruck, switching with Big Max Gawn. Martin ruck/follower. This should help us a litte in the "big-bodied forward" regard. EDIT: Apparently I don't know the difference between the AFL's second tallest player and a dude who can't get on the park.

I love Greeny in the forward-line as much as anyone, but why the heck was he never tried in the middle? David Neitz couldn't be blamed for getting stuck in the goal-square because he really couldn't play anywhere else. Brad Green can. When things aren't working, change them!

The Good - Collingwood (unfortunately) The Bad - Melbourne (hopefully not for much longer) The Ugly - This forum (after a loss)

6 Sylvia - Practically kicked our entire score 5 Morton - Beat Shaw who I rate unbelievably highly. His hardness is something he has to work on, but he played well today. 4 Watts - Kicking is brilliant verging on shocking - but that's usually not his fault. 3 Moloney - One of the only men in a team full of boys. 2 Howe - Lively forward and a hard worker (unlike some of our other lively forwards). 1 McKenzie - Effort personified. Our young midfield let us down badly today. Don't blame Rivers for balls being put to Cloke's advantage time after time.

Actually, talking about the opponent's form over the past 18 months says nothing about us at all.

People who are saying effort is the problem have no idea. Collingwood are playing like the Premiership side they are. This is a development year and I can see development from our players . . . so that one day we can be where Collingwood is at. Poor disposal has really cost us today, though.

I like the clash strip as it is. Best one we've ever had and second only to our awesome home guernsey.

Over Nine Thousaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnndddddddd!!!! But seriously, I think we'll get around 68234. I would have said more, but the big Cats/Hawks clash only got that many, so I would'n expect this game to beat it by much

For god's sake don't put him on a leading forward. That's all I have to say.

Karma is all about attitude, if you do something with a poor attitude, or for the wrong reasons, then Karma may not be your friend. Stabilising what we already had might have been a better option, given that the Dogs, Roos, Power, Lions (and until recently, us) are all in debt at the same time as this corporatisation push is occuring. But on the topic of Cale Morton, he probably is not very happy with his recent performance, and wants to play well for the rest of the year in hope that he can turn his form around and pick up a few more dollars. In a way, that's good for Melbourne.

So they've finally done it. They've cloned Liam Jurrah.

Let's just hope he doesn't explode all over us on the Queen's big day.

You can pretty much mark him down for a poor performance on Monday, then. I am a firm believer in the Footy Show Curse - that it's very difficult to play well the week you appear on TFS.

If Jamar is going to become our big forward, he damn well better learn how to kick for goal. That is one aspect of his game that is definitely "B-Grade".

45HG is one of the only people on this forum who actually seems to have seen the Judd incident.

Well then I'm stumped.

He's got pretty poor endurance for a midfielder, IMO, which is probably why he can't play there at the moment.

The Queen doesn't stay up that late. Therefore, no.

I wouldn't drop Jetta. He was pretty damn good against the Dons.

"I want no-one in our forward 30. That's our space to lead into." Could that be the instruction that a few of our boys are misinterpreting? We're exciting when we do this right, but when our forward structure falls over, we look like a rabble.

Irrelevant, as he's no longer at the club...

Petterd went alright against the Pies last year. Should that come into consideration?

"The Grand Final is our Grand Final." That's what I'd say.