DiscoStu17

Not sure what you’re saying here?? How?

Yeah. Good old Fred. He’s a destination club for sure. Besides Peter Bell, has any player actually returned – and stayed there? Chris Tarrant? Trent Croad? Josh Carr? Rory Lobb? Lachie Neale? They are on fire! The only reason Jacko isn’t here, is that there isn’t any mid-season trading at the moment. I tend to think that players from other clubs will see MFC players happy to commit long-term to the club and read into that the positive environment here.

To be fair, it seems that Ralphie can’t fathom a hell of a lot. He’s a bit like that little guy in the Princess Bride.

Yeah! What a [censored]! Always has been. (I thought he was a list manager for a sec!!)

Ha ha! When I clicked on this thread, I was taken to the last page I looked at: February 15, P. 48. So much doom and gloom, no wonder I hadn’t visited this thread since. And the season hadn’t even started. I often wonder if the perpetual nay sayers are just visiting to stir up trouble, or they have a nasty case of MFCSS?? Let’s toast to a long and distinguished career 🥂

I think the main problem with 4 umpires is that they can overrule from a distance. If they had designated boundaries in each quarter of the field, I believe it would be better. By allowing umpires that are further away to overrule, as soon as the crowd roars they assume that the closer umpire cannot see a free kick, and so insert a free kick for the team with the dominant number of followers. And we all know who that is. I also cannot believe that there is no definitive statistics to point out which umpires are guilty of overruling incorrectly.

thought about doing that on YouTube

There was obvious accidental head trauma to Anderson. Wouldn’t it be surprised if it’s delayed in a similar way to Viney. Even minor accidental head trauma is reportable from a tackle. How can a front on bump be safer? Or any different? It’s certainly more reckless. It certainly looked a lot more reckless than Kozzie’s bump on Moore last year. Did Darcy even come off the field?

The umpire blew the whistle for a free kick while the ball was in the air. Everybody stopped to see what the whistle was for. Either player (Adams/Hore) could’ve marked the ball. One pies player continued on and conned the umpire into calling advantage. Pretty sure that can’t be called advantage, but they might as well give it a try, eh? They almost got them over the line.

Consistency is never going to happen. Stewart did nothing to mitigate contact. Anderson’s head made very forceful contact with the ground. Seemed to be a lot more reckless than a lot of so-called reckless acts. E.g. Peatling’s dangerous tackle on Friday night. Is there a possibility of this one being used for the defence?

Goldie is still one of the best runners in the AFL. TDK is more of a power athlete.

Bill Laurie played another good game in the VFL last night. As always. Dropped after not showing anything in his 10 minutes on ground after being sub last week. Conditions would’ve probably suited him tomorrow. Oh well. Jeff needs to pick up another few bags of 5 goals in the VFL before he’ll be trusted. Looks like it’s just because he can’t play as the second ruck? He probably could. He certainly couldn’t do any worse than AJ in the centre bounce. Surely pressure players should be small and mobile and able to tackle, and, well, pressure.

Might be a decent day for pack crashing. Nobody really expects you to hold them in the wet. Even better if we have some crumbers front and centre. Better still if Darcy Moore wears a knee in the kidneys.

I take it from this that you don’t have any bustle in your life Here is hoping you can find some bustle. And if you see Lionel, say g’day.

No, [censored] it. If teams can’t announce their…teams(?) the Sunday before the next game, then I don’t wanna know. And while they’re at it, just make it like fantasy footy and have a maximum number of changes each week. That might sort them out.

Occasionally we would have training where I would not let the players go in until they hit the post. Probably illegal now.

Must admit that Brisbane‘s last quarter reminder me of us last week. Also Casey last night did the same thing. As soon as there is any pressure – whether that’s in the first quarter or the last, players tend to try to all win it themselves, and regress to taking low percentage shots on goal. Several times last night Casey players ran to the front of the square only to have the ball bombed over the top of them. Midfielders and forwards need to be made to kick it there. It’s much harder to miss from in front of the square.

Seriously 6–16 Pfft…. Amateurs.

Damn, I was going to watch that one too. But I was flicking through and found a really interesting episode of escape to the country…

Where is the 🤦 when you need it?

No, but some of the frees from last night could make a good start for a AFL comedy umpire video.

Well, we do live in an age of “alternative facts”.

Close. The pies tonight had 33 to 17 for Casey. And yes, that thread was melting!

Well, it was either one or the other? Or maybe sometimes that is the big big sound?

Hopefully not. I think that Bill could be a good AFL level player if he was given a reasonable go at it Unfortunately, for us, I wouldn’t be surprised if that was at another club.