Redleg

Actually I think we bought the batteries for Salem. Didn't he have a thyroid problem the first couple of years and missed a lot of footy?

That has been another feature of the poor start to the season.

I am working my way through Game of Thrones and am now into season 4 and what I find very strange, is that I haven't seen a single banana. Clearly if the Director was looking for realism, he would have shown a few bananas.

Not sure about great player, but when fit he is a good player and tough and we don't have a lot of them.

No, we wanted to keep him, obviously on the back of the last few games and first 2 finals of last season.

He should have been fitter at the start of the season.

Keeping him, in hindsight, is looking like a bad decision, when he wanted to go to the Swans and we could have traded him for a young player or pick. He has been injured for the last 3 years, with a run at it only late last season.

Wow. Pretty hard to win games with 13 players out injured. Jetta is getting close to the rest of the season. AVB and KK could be as well. Joel Smith is possibly round 15 resuming in the VFL and will then need a few games to get fitness up, so nearly the end of the season. Lever , May, Hannan, Maynard and JKH at least the 2nd half of the season at best. Just wow.

Therein lies the problem.

Bu the boat could be on a trailer in the garage.

My usual position.

Feel free, I am a sharing person. BTW, it is an original.

Disagree with the barn door bit, as he actually passes pretty well. Better than most of his team mates, who couldn't hit a wall if they were locked in a small room.

You are meant to position yourself before your team mate passes it and in our case there is no one in position when he gets the ball. Therefore he looks like a headless chook, trying to work out what he is going to do with it. I think he has been one our few good players this season.

Have they blamed the MFC yet?

Pretty quiet on the banana front today.

Totally agree.

From what I saw I agree. He seems to be playing not to get hurt and avoid body contact and his disposal has become like ours.

Touche.

Tim is a 28 year old who had a good first quarter and then disappeared. He is not our future. Agree Sam was poor tonight.

The kid will come good and we can't afford to lose another key forward. Who else do we have coming through?

Wise, I think those of us who are heavily invested in this club and have been for years, are just so disappointed and frustrated with the terrible start, to what most thought would be a very good season, that we are scratching around looking for the reasons. Obviously there are more than just one, many of which we have identified and discussed on DL. Anyway I take some solace that others are as upset as my family and me.

Agree with statement that poor skill kills you. I have mentioned lack of pace and skill to MFC officials and been politely told I am wrong.

Fair enough. I just think that we had later picks that could have been used to fill weaknesses. I know hindsight is easy but as an example Petruccelle went well after Spargo. He is not the only one taken later in the last few drafts with pace. If we had taken Petruccelle for example and say another young Garlett type, with later picks over the last few years, the story would be a bit different. Anyway it is now spilled milk and we will need to do something about it in the drafts and trading periods ahead. We also have been unlucky in trading picks for players who are now injured and that always exacerbates the problem.

Same place as everyone else, drafting and trading. Look at who Port brought in and other clubs. This was an area of concern to me and others on here at least for the last few years, not just this year. It is interesting that we are now called the slowest side in the AFL by all the media, which includes many past players, who should know. We have chased contested beasts only for the last few years and I am sure the FD will acknowledge that. Pace and skill was not our priority and that is why we have skill problems and are slow. Pace and skill are a big part of our current problems.