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Oh, come on! Surely some of us are craving a win. We are the joke of the competition, our kids know nothing but losing. V. WC should be winnable. I want a win!

The way things are going on the field, who on earth would want to come to our club? All very well that we're rebuilding & that we want draft picks but our recent performances have just created an image of a losing environment. Sorry, I've lost all the optimism I felt until a couple of weeks ago.

I think Matera is too young for the next draft. I am a WA Dee, so forgive any parochialism, but surely the WA side's dominance in the under-18s means that side is worth a look. For a lower-round pick I'm always pushing the case for Lewis Jetta (19yo).

Naitanui & Josh Kennedy playing a big role in the last quarter.

$20 from me.

Haven't seen the game so didn't witness this myself, but on SEN Dermott Brereton was v. critical of the Melbourne players' happy demeanour after the game -- wandering around, shaking hands w. Essendon blokes, having a chat etc. "They're happy enough to lose," he said. "22 embracing 22." He excluded the indigenous players from this criticism as they have a cultural bond. Think he's right that they're not feeling the pain of a loss.

Fabulous news. LJ to play: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/afl...7-19742,00.html

This is where the list management argument loses me. Davey is such a wonderful player, so good to watch & having a good year but could be deprived of game time while he's in form; deprived of possible wins, Brownlow votes for a strategy that might or might not work. If we "manage" the season aren't we blighting the careers of some blokes who aren't the worst (I'm thinking of Brad Green, too)? Why wouldn't Davey want to go to Essendon where wins are easier to come by? & I'd rather the kids got wins as reward for effort & so they bond & want to stay at the club. Hate it when players get snappy at each other when the opposition get a goal. I also think we can't win more than four so no management is required.

I watched that game to see NN & reckon he did well for a first gamer. But it's so different coming from the WAFL -- he's used to playing on big blokes & although in some ways he plays like a bull at a gate he has presence beyond his 19 years. I also think they're doing something right at Swan Districts -- we got Bennell & Jetta from there -- they had something like seven go in the last draft. I'm pushing at every opportunity for a look at Lewis Jetta.

Sheahan is a Melbourne supporter but doesn't have much passion, I guess for professional reasons. The only time I remember him admitting this in writing was a pre-season feature asking various people about their football dream. His was Garry Lyon kicking the winning goal in a GF (shows how long ago it was).

I reckon Sheahan's right. We've been enjoying having no pressure because we're all about the future but Monday was a real downer. We need a good performance v. Essendon -- please, a win! -- just to avoid sliding right off the radar -- & the awful consequences the AFL could visit on us.

I worry about the players' intelligence (in commentator parlance, "smarts"). Having to watch it on TV, w. Channel 10's revolutionary "this is how the game looks from the moon" coverage, was maddening, but how often were Collingwood blokes standing on their own. At one point one of their ugly forwards -- might have been Anthony -- had marked on the boundary inside 50, he was obviously looking for someone to kick it to & there was one of our defenders in the foreground on the screen, back to the player, not having a clue that the ball was about to be centred. Can they be coached to be smart?

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I reckon it was the Coodabeens who started the snow thing, back in the mid 1980s. It was funny the first couple of times. Rob Sitch, good Dees man that he is, wrote a great piece in The Age at the beginning of the season many years ago. There were some memorable lines in it -- "we threw the party & everyone else are just guests at it", for instance -- but he made the point that there are lines (can't remember the one he used) that show up people who have no sense of humour & snow jokes about the demons are among them. v. tiresome. I've been to the snow three times -- in 1974 on a school trip & two times to Lake Mountain, which were more like sightseeing. Hate four-wheel drives.

Punishment taken. Am rinsing w. Imperial Leather now!

How about Hip, hip, Jurrah!

Far be it from me to be negative & I wish JW, & therefore all of us, the best on Monday but have painful memories of the first round of '97 (96?) when the MFC brought in the Cockatoo-Collins twins, which was a headline-grabbing act, & we got trounced by Geelong (it was the first game of the AFL's centenary season) & the C-C twins were never really great. Having said that, neither were they a No. 1 draft pick, & Jack seems well equipped to deal w. any tough times that may come in our rebuilding process. Good luck Jack!

Carlton. Judd. Love to wipe that smug look off the greedy one's face.

Did he say Nick Maric? BT was gushing about Addam. Started to say he loved him, changed it to like.

Think this link might have been posted here before. http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?Men...ontentID=139260 Heard Scott Watters (WA coach) talking about him on the radio. Said he had concerns about him playing in the wet because he's so light. Jetta assured him that he was "sensational" in the wet.

Watched the last quarter of the WAFL v. SANFL game today. Lewis Jetta got three goals for the day and shapes up as a player with personality. He is tall and skinny and has a go. I reckon he would be worth looking at later in the year.

Call me irresponsible ... but I would hate to take a leaf out of the Carlton book in any way -- just never want to emulate their crooked ways -- & would love our young players to get accustomed to the thrill of winning & the team bonding that comes with it.

I know for sure that he is a Geelong supporter.

When he was at West Coast Judd's image was of someone who had class off the field, too -- perhaps not as money-driven as some. Based on that I -- & others -- believed he might do the romantic or superior thing & play for the club he supported. How wrong we were! Money was his prime concern & then he proved what an ordinary person he is by messing around w. us although he was always going to go to the Blue$$$$ & had was been fibbing about his intentions all season. To top it off he turned up his smug nose at the MFC because of "the facilities". A real rat. Re W. Perth, aka the Falcons, they when I was growing up they were the Cardinals (a name that was deemed too old fashioned). When the Dees first wore the red away strip, a friend rang me to say he'd turned on the TV & thought it was the Cardies running around.

Talking of bad commentary, was forced to listen to AW as the only coverage of the Geelong game in WA two weeks ago. Tony Leonard's intro was something along the lines of "the undefeated Geelong side up against Melbourne who are yet to get a win" & Rex Hunt went on to keep calling a Demon player "O'Keefe". After about a quarter of confusion it turned out he was referring to McLean! It is pretty slack that this is these guys' job & they can't get it right but sometimes I think they just don't try when it comes to Melbourne.