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Hhhmm Doubt Riv has the tank to go with Richo when he is roaming from wing to FF, Martin would be my option on the big fella. Messen will play another 3 or 4 games unless he puts in a Newton type performance from rnd 1 last year. Bails has shown time and again once he elevates a player he plays then for a number of weeks in a row unless they are really putrid.

Was dragged along to see Janine Garfoulo (spelling?) the American "comic" last Friday and she was launching into football players in general. Turned me off from the start and thought it was a typical over reaction

Could care less if he kicks no goals, just get the games under the belt and take it from there with no long term injuries... Great to see Wheels, McNamara and Grimey named in the 1's, not sure all will play in the 1's once the Melb squad is finalised. Bail and Strauss que?

Really good news! Hope it moves quickly to happen for next season. I love the fact it is back to a red and blue desgin but as you said it is a slap dash, LAZY logo.

We tend to have most of our fwds stop moving at points during games, it is very frustrating to see. I have not hadmuch time for Bater for awhile now but this season he is leading well up the ground, most of his possetions against the pies were earned up on centre wing and through the centre of the ground leading up marks and then pushing hard (slowly) back into the fwd 50.

You will be interestedin the final sides on Friday Chok!

He has worked really hard on his game and trying to improve every season after his first two or three seasons. He realised he needed to add more strings to his bow and become a harder working forward rather than that bloke who just flys for everything. Credit to Danners on his development and continued role at the club and hopefully he can be around for a tilt at finals! Ah disappointing Tingles, hopefully it is not too bad and you can get on the park sooner rather than later.

I love the traditional jumper but am happy to have an away jumper if it raises extra $$ for the club and if it is does well then it is a jumper you'd love to have. BUT this jumper is hideous. I really liked some of the ideas floated on here for the red based alternative jumper with the MFC initials but I think this jumper with the Demon logo looks so so so so so so 2nd rate it is not funny. Looks like they have pasted the logo in a word doco and stretched it to far tot he sides just to fit it on the jumper. Needs to be rectified.

I think our tackling is horrible. From an offensive (when we have the ball and are trying to break tackles) and defensive (when we don't have the ball) point of view. The amount of times from an offensive point of view we can not get our arms free or only one arm free from a tackle resulting in a stoppage or turn over and the amount of times on the defensive side the opposition team does get both arms free from a tackle we lay and get the ball off to a team mate in space or the opposition is able to break our tackles is hugely frustrating. Yet I still see it as having improved some from last year, we seem to be laying more tackles and more stoppage producing tackles. It still needs to improve significantly for us to be anywhere near the likes of St Kilda who are leading the tackle count so far.

Do the Tig's have enough cash to pay Wallet out and bring another coach in during the season? Not sure they would.

Wonna and Maric in the same fwd line applying defensive pressure for a change (we apply virtually none at present) snapping goals from left and right... can not wait to see it in action. We kicked over 10 goals this week too, adding these two will help us even further!

story "of a guy" huh............. <_<

Didn't they name Messen, Newts and Dunn as the ins for this week on footy show last night??? Can not believe Maric has not been named.

I know it is a long way off but gee wizz I hope it does go ahead.

How many members will they loose if/when a Tassie side comes into the comp? 10,000/15,000? I hope at least as many to wipe the smug of the president and supporters faces.

His skills are not great but he handballing was better than his kicking from watching the replay on the weekend.

reckon they might need a game or two to get match fit???

Maybe we should move on and forget about it... He said his piece and it is done and dusted. I am sure he is fully behind the club in the future plans.

was kidding mate..... and yeap that is what I meant Rhino.

2 years in a row we get a priority pick before the "first" pick in the draft so essentially picks 1 and 2.

Are you Hazy in disguise... (who we elect) ha ha. It is not a matter of the board putting up with it, they are there to keep us on the field. They then appoint people to run the on field side of things, they need to appoint people who will take us up the ladder again and be the club everyone (have to swear here) farken hates because we are so good and so ruthless onfield. We have to make lemonade at present I am afraid WYL....

The chicken or the egg.... They were either never good enough when drafted or did not develop to there potential... It is all so subjective when picking kids who are 17/18 yrs of age. Whatever it is they are not good enough at present and will probably never be. It will be the next generation of players that will get us there. Will the next generation have developed fast enough to allow some of the senior guys to play finals again? Not sure. We have to put up with it WYL, who else do we have to play??? The last point is so spot on the money but at the same time are they top line players? Even if they have beentop line draft picks?

Yea and I admit I do sometimes get caught out inbetween on that point. I look at other sides and see players coming through, at places like Port and the Crows, in there first years and think where are our guys doing those things.... crumbs, if we had half the senior guys like those clubs our young guys would be looking like future stars too. Something Hirdy brough up on (is it) On the Couch. I can't recall who he was talking about but he said the player is lucky to be at a club like the Bombers as if he was at a club like Melbourne he probably wouldn't develop into anything much. I nearly broke my TV but that is how we are viewed in the football world and hopefully this will change now we have a training ground like Casey and the new staff bails has brought on this year to improve the development of our young guys over a number of years.

I must admint this is something I keep jumping between... Watching other sides "find" these young players and I think where are ours..... far out they are all over the field. As Blight mentioned during the coverage we are sporting close to the youngest defense ever put on the park! We have a lack of senior, mid level players carrying the load so our youngsters are doing it all and need more time to develop, unfortunately a lot more time.

I remember watching Locket just choking blokes and ragdolling them silly and cheap shotting Caven at the SCG but don't think of him as tough. Didn't see Dittch at all besides the glorious 80's videos. Albett was a cheap pr! ck too, I remember him running through blokes backs more than anything else. Dermie and Arch for mine. Dippa was a tough bugger. I used to play in a yearly charity event for Asthma charity and Dippa joined in each year. Ten pin bowling, 9 holes of golf followed by a knock out tennis tournie. The footy would come out during the tennis and Dippa to this day still smashes the biggest blokes we put up against him, his dislocated a finger one year, he popped it back in and kept going not a worry in the world.