Chook

I would argue that you are being a negative poster.

Any nineteen year-old who can take marks and pick up the ball on the half-volley like Jack did on the w/e has a place in my team.

I'm a fan of Westhoff's. I'd take him.

Nothin'. When I hear Melksham, I think of Milkshake. When I think about milkshakes, I think of that song. Just me being silly.

My Melksham brings all the Dons to the yard and they're like, "he's better than yours, damn right, he's better than yours, I could beat you, but I'd have to try."

Did anyone see Sam Mitchell grab two big fistfuls of Nason's dreads and try to pull them out like he was weeding his garden? Absolutely despicable in my opinion. He should get a week for that. I know it's got no relevance to the Demons, but come on, that's low.

But I would ask you this. Imagine you could pick Dean Cox or Nick Riewoldt in the team we played yesterday. Which of those two would have had the most impact on us winning yesterday if they were in our side. In my opinion, it would have been the latter. Thus, I would argue that Jack Watts was the correct pick. Nick Naitanui's best ever game will probably be better than Jack Watts', yet Jack will probably score three or four times as many goals in his career than NicNat, and his biggest haul in a game will probably be larger than Naitanui's biggest, too. Again, this suggests Watts was the better pick for us. This is not a question of "which one of them is good," or even "which one will be good," but rather, "which one will help his team win the most games?" In my opinion, the long-haul answer to that question will undoubtedly be Jack Watts.

There are a lot of people on this site who have claimed over the years that we're a better team without Bruce in the side. Now we'll get to see if they're right.

How pumped are you now? I'm shattered but not really all that surprised.

Absolutely. But it wasn't just our young guys who were bad today. Davey, Sylvia, Rivers, Johnson; all these players and more were really disappointing.

Give him a break. He's been one of our best today, and that's with a bung ankle. Him and Green are just about our only forwards. As an aside, how clean are Watts' hands? It's a shame he's got a bit of Bruce about his kicking action. I hope that was just nerves, but I'm a little worried about that.

He was absolutely pathetic today. OUT: Johnson, IN: Absolutely anyone who has any rucking ability at all. And WTF is up with Davey's rank disposal? Way too cute.

Was there even an official Rivalry Round this year? I know there was a round in which the typical "rival" clubs faced off, but was it actually publically called Rivalry Round?

The answer is quite simple. We all need to start having lots of babies.

Good on him. I'm sure he'll be carving it up at a lower level for years.

To you and others, should the AFL take away his Premiership medallions? Because those are in awards for football achievements. Carey has every right as possibly the greatest player to play the game, to be listed as a Legend, let alone a Hall of Famer, in my opinion. Let the AFL judge him on his footballing ability, and keep the law where it belongs - regular society.

Here's a tip for all the kids. When a coach is talking to you, listen to what he said you did well, but really listen to what he said needs improvement, because usually it means one of two things: that you were really bad in that area, or that he rates that area really highly. For Jack, the coach said that he needed to focus on is multiple efforts and chasing. He also applauded that in a few others. This says to me that Watts won't get promoted until he is tackling and chasing like there's no tomorrow.

Oh, the pain, the pain of it all . . .

Who the hell is this Jack Watts character everyone seems to talk about? And when's David Neitz getting back, because we need a forward to straighten us up. Go number 9!

To the footy God's what?

Cam Bruce probably never goes "this is how you handpass, and this his how you kick," because those are not his strengths. He does, however, say "this is how you run, and this is where you need to be to get the ball." Bruce gives us run and numbers around the ball, but he also loses us run when he loops a handball or flubs a kick. He was noticeable today, that's for sure. Whether he was a benefit or a hinderance is hard to judge at times.

SPOILER ALERT! It's only 3 quarter time on Ch 7 and the Dogs look like winning it.

But the question is, would a VFL-level Jack Watts make us better? If our forward-line machine has not been fixed by consecutive 50 point victories in which we've scored over 100 points, then would Watts make it better? I'm not so sure.

I envisioned the back of the card being an MFC logo, with the front of the card (the one with all the diamonds and numbers and jacks and so forth) facing you in your hand. So I don't see how anyone could know what you're holding until you play it, much the same as in a normal deck of cards.

All of them?