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Redleg

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  1. Will be signed by end of season. Boyd the elder and Morris will be two who will go and free up salary cap room.
  2. Weid. 196 cms
  3. Seems Garry Lyon agrees with you and used the same phrase, failing to play to expectation. Says we only play well when the expectation goes in games whenever that is.
  4. We needed to impose ourselves on this game from the start, not let them jump us and get some confidence. Soft easy goals to the other side is exactly what can't happen. If it looks like you can't score early, you ensure the other side can't, by pressure, more pressure and then even more pressure. Didn't happen. We played dumb, soft footy early, with no pressure, poor skill, stupid handball, poor defence and a lack of basic football fundamentals. This lack of pressure at the man and attack on the ball, allowed them to score easily and then their football skills came to the fore with the confidence that easy goals bring. Is there a rule at the MFC that you handball at all costs, in every situation when you have the ball? Is there another rule that when contesting a mark, all MFC players in the vicinity are to jump and leave unattended opposition, for the inevitable crumbs, or the polar opposite, no one contests and allows the opposition to mark easily without pressure? Is there another rule that you don't go straight to goal when you have the ball, to have your forwards one out, with a chance to score, but rather chip backwards or across the goal every time, until you lose possession? We play these rules beautifully.
  5. Agree with you Mick.
  6. Make no mistake the Hawks are in a corner and will come out fighting.
  7. You mean a hip flagon.
  8. Which of the Hawks emergencies Langford, Sicily and Brand played yesterday. I don't think the first two did, which could be a replacement for JOM and one held over.
  9. I think as Initiator and Contributor I am the man.
  10. That will do, once it is in we can fix the voting like the AOC just did.
  11. That is why we are on this planet, to help our fellow man.
  12. Obviously Fox Mulder had a bad night.
  13. Fair go. He has played well in both games back from injury and this would have been 3 games in 12 days. He was never going to play.
  14. My opinion of him is he is a great endurance runner, having good handball skills, with fair kicking skills over a short distance, but unable to kick with any penetration and scared to go into a hard contest. He can often be seen waiting for the soft possie out wide, or turning his body in a contest he can't avoid and not going for the ball, or simply avoiding hard contests altogether.
  15. What I find surprising is that we have selected players off a one game return from injury, or performance at Casey, over other uninjured players. I think Wagner, JKH and Hibberd at least have fallen into that category so far. It would be fair to say that from the above 3 we are one all atm, with Hibberd playing well and JKH not as well. I have posted before that the FD have a high opinion of JKH and he is clearly being given plenty of opportunity to perform in the team. It may well be the view of this match committee, that they will play a player they believe is a good player, even though he is not as match fit as others, who they deem not as good, despite better form. For example, IMO, Billy and Kent are better players than JKH, yet it is JKH in the side. I would guess the FD see JKH as the better player. We can agree to disagree, but in the end, I accept they are in a far better position to assess than me, who just sees games.
  16. Can he ruck?
  17. Totally sober, oh hang on I had a few margaritas at that wedding last night.
  18. They don't need to be a big fish if they fit a role we have a need for.
  19. Why would the Pies trade the only young key forward they have?
  20. In a quiet moment I had cause to reflect on society and I can't believe how much this thread has added to a fairly ordinary world. All contributors should be proud of themselves. I can't even imagine how much a discussion on bananas is helping the Us/Nth Korea situation and being informed about the goings on at the Gatwick, must be so uplifting to the people of the Sudan and Rawanda. We have done the world a great good. Perhaps I might even be nominated for the Nobel Prize for starting this truly magnificent thread. Have you blokes got nomination forms handy?
  21. Next you are going to suggest that recruiters sometimes get it wrong.
  22. It is amazing what part luck plays in our game. Injuries, umpiring and suspensions often determine or greatly influence games. We know our bad luck this year. Look at the Saints, who are vying with us for a spot in the eight, at full strength, play Hawks without Rioli and Birchall then play a weakened Giants who lose 2 more in the game and get 22-10 frees and some gifted goals. Luck can be as big a factor as good play. Hopefully as well as playing well for the rest of the year, we get our share of good luck.
  23. Loved the story on the Tigers selections this week, saying they were decimated, as Prestia is out with Nankervis, who was suspended for one week. Two players who weren't on the list last year out ( one for a week suspension ) and they are decimated. Wow!
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