Chook

Hell, Richmond supporters can probably say to each other, "Yeah, we lost to Carlton, but at least we're not 'Melbourne bad!'" Oh, the shame, the shame, the shame of it all.

So, put simply, an inability to execute a), b and c) are results of d) and e), which are in turn caused by f), itself the result of an attempt to provide options so that a) may be executed. Thus, b and c) are caused by an ill-conceived attempt (f)) to rectify a). Am I right about that? If so, then the elimination of f) would vastly improve our chances of properly executing a).

In all seriousness, this is our actual gameplan. It's a shame we have no plan B and no ability to even execute plan A.

The only people who shouldn't be in our forward line are those who can't take marks, for that is what we need. Anyone who can't either take a mark or pick up the crumbs of someone who is capable of creating a contest needs to get the hell off my football field. HF: Sylvia Green Petterd FF: Davey Jamar Maric Is my forward line for next week. But really, Green, Petterd and Jamar would be fine. I don't care who else is there, just as long as those three are.

6 - Jamar 5 - Green 4 - Petterd 3 - Trengove 2 - Dunn 1 - Scully Dunn was actually okay. In a team of absolute dunces, he was one of the least bad. EDIT: Voted Trengove twice. And yes, wrong as I may be, I thought Dunn was okay.

Extremely harsh on Petterd, who I think was one of our only three forwards today - Jamar and Green the other two. The rest can go jump.

I remember that passage of play, but I don't recall the comment. I had the sound up, so I guess I'm just going deaf in my early twenties.

No, I must have been at the footy. Either that, or in that hole I mentioned.

You damn well better go to every game this year, then. Oh, by the way, have you got your ticket to Darwin yet? After all there are no excuses for not going to a home game . . . Not everyone is as passionate about Melbourne as us. The key is just to improve the ratio every year. As long as we're improving, we'll one day get there. It's when we go backwards that we are in trouble.

Provided you don't by any of either venue's outrageously priced food, the footy costs twice as much - and you generally don't come out of a movie wanting to crawl into a hole and die.

Good question. I guess we would have got Naitanui last year and Watts and (if I had my way) Trengove this year.

I agree with that.

"Just kick the bloody thing!!!!!!!" yells some genius. Player complies. Opponent takes uncontested mark. Ball rebounds and a goal is scored. "Thanks genius," I think to myself. Needless to say I won't be booing Brock when we play the Blues. As much as I hate 'em, Brockie's cool with me.

I think the AFL's opinion is that they are one and the same. Vlad would say that record attendances = healthier game. I'm not so sure I would argue with that.

So that would be: Backs: Jamie James James HB's: Joel Jared Jordie Ctr's: James Jack Jordan HF's: Jack Jack Johnson FWD's: Jetta Jurrah Jake Rucks: Jamar Jack Jones Res's: John Coach: Josh Pres: Jim V/Pres: Jalland

I don't care in the slightest about any of the Essendon or Collingwood players that have won the Anzac Day medal. But enough Essendon and Collingwood players go to that game for the tradition to continue. Event Games usually don't mean diddly for any supporters except the ones whose teams are playing. And when it comes down to it, as long as my team plays every week, that's the only thing that matters to me. Why strain your brains trying to come up with ridiculous 'themes' for each round of footy? All it does is make the ones that already exist - the only ones that really matter, less relevent. The Heaven vs. Hell (cue dramatic music) idea is totally contrived and would only serve to lessen the impact of our other big games - whether they be named so or not. Melbourne vs Essendon, Carlton, Collingwood, Hawthorn are big games, and only one of those has an actual name. So I don't see why thinking one up would somehow make it that much different to what it already was anyway.

Pringle. Once you've popped (your top) you just can't stop.

People still go to Tigers games when they're bad, so what I said doesn't apply to them. If we get good, then they'll come. When they come, we'll be put in time-slots where more people come. It's like adding fuel to a fire. Richmond's fire is already burning, because of the kind of crowds they get normally. Our fire has only just started.

He did make the wrong decision, but we got some good out of it too. We can still like Brock and also get stuck into the Hawks at the same time. The only way he can know if he made the right decision is if he plays in a Carlton Premiership.

NEWSFLASH: Footy-Watcher Upset With Umpires. Tomorrow's weather: Hell likely to freeze-over . . . not. I wouldn't worry about it too much. I would consider myself pretty good at figuring out what free-kicks are going to be payed and which are not, and I'm still not having too much trouble. But it sure does suck when you're teams on the comeback and gets stopped in its' tracks by a momentum-shifting umpire error; like that Eddie Betts "mark."

And the thing about the Tigers is at least they can score some goals. We'd probably lose just because we can't score as much as they can.

It would be interesting then to see how he rated Eddie Betts, who's value would obviously have increased with Fev's departure. But re the OP, not even people who are payed to do so can come up with good football analysis. How can you expect any of us to? I would say though that if you listed all the people who were directly involved in goal-scoring and goal-preventing passages of play, and added up who had the highest goal-scoring/preventing to goal-costing/missing ratios, then you would find what I would consider the best player in the AFL. How one could go about doing that would be, I guess to watch every second of every game and decide what constituted "involvement" in the above criteria.

Exactly what I would have said. He is a chicken for not staying at Melbourne, but I obviously still love him.

When we play well, more people go to our games. When more people go to our games, we make more money. When we make more money, the AFL makes more money. What makes the AFL money, the AFL does. Ergo, when we play better, our games will be put at times when more people will go to them.

I know how you feel. I just got my membership today, which I promptly let fall behind my piano. Half an hour later and I finally got it back where it belonged.