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If we could organise it before the break, or in next years case before the bye that would be preferable. And i still hope the boys win, but Scully & Trengove have become two of the more important players in our team.. if they arent injured then we arent playing our best team giving us less chance to win. Maybe thats not conceeding but its not ideal.. is it?

Posted this in the other thread, but really its a discussion that shuold have its own thread. If we had of lost by a point instead of won by a point last week, surely everyone would be screaming that a home ground advantage wouldve made a difference... Added on that apparently some of our best players are too stuffed from playing in the Darwin heat that they need to be rested against Geelong. Now we got some great PR about our visits to Yuendumu(sp) and the Tiwi Islands and the rest of it, but surely our main focus should be winning games of football, not to mention those that didnt have foxtel couldnt even watch the match last week. We love to bang on about the MCG being our home and not just being tenants yet we still sell home games. Is it worth it?

for me it really brings up the question of whether we should be selling home games to freaking Darwin. If we had lost by a point last week instead of won by a point, it wouldve been fair to say that a home ground advantage mightve been the difference. And if our players are too stuffed the week after that we are basically conceeding 2 days before the game it hardly seems worth it.

With Miller & Wona both possibly coming back in the side, this is worth watching again to get the blood pumping Hell its worth watching anytime to get the blood pumping. great clip

its interesting as soon as he got a deputy we started losing again. Martin, PJ & Spencer dont warrant a place in the team for 10-15mins of ruck work a game, then have to hide them on the bench cos they have no other strings. If Jamar needs a chop out for 5mins a quarter dont see why Warnock/Miller cant do it.. Dunn/Newton certainly did enough in the early games

really happy for Jetta & Wonna if true, but will they both fit with Bennell? are we copying Carltons forward line structure?..

cant wait for him to start dominating, somuch material, this week a big game could have Too much Watts blows Power out

All the more reason to wear the jumper we already know everyone is in love with at every possible oppurtunity.

We dont need to goto battle. We just need to wear our home strip. Which is our right. The footy community will fight the battle for us. A clash is preferable to rolling over on this.

wall paper over cracks. none of these guys are A grade, which is what we need. Either stick with our B graders and develop them or give up something to chase an A grader.

Put it this way, i wouldnt pay money for one.

Nor I, doubly so because Essendon supporters themselves will then see sense and lobby their club to fall in line with a credible clash strip

Whys it assumed that it would be us making an error? Whos to say it wont be an Essendon player making the mistake costing them the game because of a clash. How sweet would that victory be, the scum losing because they were too arrogant to have a proper clash strip. (thumbs up) Either way id rather wear our home guernsey & clash, because unless the issue is highlighted it will just be swept away and we'll be revisiting this at every future home game against Essendon

And therein lies the problem, the AFL should have seen this coming, and gone back to Essendon and told them their clash jumper is not acceptable. That they didnt is not our problem nor should it be made our problem by directing us to wear a clash jumper at our home game. And when you say "are not allowed" to be changed during the year? who do you think allows/disallows these things. The AFL has shown in the past they are capable of changing rules midseason, see the Sydney/North 19 man fiasco, this is the AFLs problem, and the AFL can easily fix it.

because if both clubs wear their "away" jumper. Essendon win. They wont come up with another clash jumper they'll just expect everything to be fine because we rolled over this time. Roll over once, and people expect it from you. Its Melbournes home game, we will run out in our navy blue jumper with the red V. if there is a clash and the AFL is made to look amateur SO BE IT. Because when the AFL approved Essendons clash strip it was amateur hour. They can reap what they sow. When they cop a blasting in the media for not being tougher on Essendon about alternate strips and do something about it we might finally see Collingwood & Essendon come out of the dark ages and realise what applies to the rest of the clubs in the competition applies to them.