Go Ds

I was hearing that no Indigenous players were going to be in the most recent draft. Thankfully I guess that was wrong.

Honestly I'm not sure why people want to lock their money away for something like 7 or 8 months on things like premiership and finals betting. I have bet on Melbourne before just a couple of times but I've never been compelled to automatically bet on them for the flag, finals or any particular game. I really don't know how many people are like this. I think I've read of one poster here betting on Melbourne to make the 8 and another to win the flag this season. Are there many others on here that always do? I would guess most on here are much keener fans than those among the general public. If most of us don't always bet on the year-long markets it's probably the case that a huge proportion of each supporter base don't either (and token 5 dollar bets are enough to satisfy the ones that do anyway) I suspect overall the punters that bet in the hundreds or thousands across each round are the main 'formers' of the current markets. I know in horse racing overall the markets are very accurate. It's probably the same with AFL matches too BUT less so with the current finals and flag markets (there's so many extra unknowns over summer). But they wouldn't be way off either and the bookies would be careful about having any team at prices much higher than they should be. Sorry, but a team's prices will be quite different from year to year and Gold Coast or Giants won't always be longer than Collingwood.

Why did those good-for-nothings get a long weekend while we didn't? 😄

I'm not fussed if Robbo is in the team or not. I just think Lyon was a much better player.

Umm while I kinda agree with you even if Geelong got those few extra goals there's no guarantee they would have won the GF.

Umm while I kinda agree with you even if Geelong got those few extra goals there's no guarantee they would have won the GF.

Is that like for like? Didn't Lyon most years play higher up the ground leaving player such as Darren Bennett, Jakovich and Farmer to be the main forward. Who were the main forward during Robbo's years?

So not the same with an All Australian nod? Were Frawley's other Melbourne years comparable to 2010. I can't remember.

I thought more Jedi mind powers. "This is not the forward you want to be playing on."

Please tell me she didn't marry into a family of Collingwood supporters! :)

Hmm. Woewodin didn't make the team, did he? A Brownlow's more important than an All-Australian

Calm down. Your 10 dollars is still in play. 😁

What were the parameters for this team? Schwartz was a superstar at best but pre-2000s. Howe, and arguably Hogan, have been high class but moreso at other clubs. Jordan Lewis' career was very good too, but 95% of his reputation comes from deeds elsewhere. Just performances at 21st MFC vs players who were in the team this century would be two different matters

And he should be marked down for his glorified karaoke career.

Coach praise including that their fitness is obviously ramping up. :)

If you weighed yourself 3 times in a day each number could be different. I'm pretty certain there was a heated argument on here hat I'm not gonna rekindle but I suspect that on top of shape and height being obvious the staff can make body measurements, record running times as well as things like vertical leap, notice if a player is now stronger in contests and so on. A scale doesn't pick any of this stuff up.

Does everyone get to choose a player to be their Valentine? 😆

I'm not dyslexic but 'bullish' always looks rude. Russell doesn't sound like he's that confident - scraping into the 8 isn't exactly the same as saying he thinks we'll come third.

Not when the Devils join the league.

Hey! As a traditional Dees supporter snow means snow! 😂

I stand corrected! 😁

It's always interesting when someone volunteers information they don't have to. After games coaches can't admit that actually their team is hopeless and instead have to diplomatically use cliches to keep the supporter base happy. But it was telling that after maybe 2019 Nathan Jones repeated how much faith he had in our team and thus would keep playing. I had my doubts but 20 months later the team was purring along so nicely he couldn't get a game. These player comments don't promise miracles but they're a very good sign.

Some of that is fair. But I'm not sure we can complain about merely having an interstate game first up. While I hate how Collingwood play less interstate games and we always seem to be fixtured for away games against Geelong and West Coast every year only some teams can get a cushy easing into the year and some teams will have to face daunting teams early.

Right now i think we have every reason to be quietly confident. (Admittedly I would have been quietly confident (of improvement at least) in years such as 2013 and 2019.) I can certainly understanding wanting the AFL media to be some neutral entity, not over or underrating any team. But these days AFL, especially for 7/8 months, operates on a 24/7 basis with plenty wanting almost constant engagement with the sport, meaning anything remotely AFL-newsworthy becomes a topic of discussion. I'm sure some on here love that saturation coverage so I can't really criticise it that much. (Except when it's too personal or downright dishonest.)

After I saw his name on here the other day I stumbled upon an article maybe from the West Australian newspaper on Facebook which had maybe 4 or 5 WC supporters comments lamenting Culley's delisting.