Redleg

I haven't surrendered, I am just being attacked by overwhelming forces.

Can't be done, as the misery is restricted to our club.

Don't be concerned, I have been advised that the Cyclone has changed course and will hit Gosch's Paddock in the middle of an MFC training session.

8 years and counting.

And then the AFL brings in 2 new teams, who get all the picks when you are awful, drops the PP when you qualify and need it and then brings in FA to destroy what's left.

Amen.

Don't forget that bloke who went to GWS. 25% of our team will have walked out in a couple of years. But at least according to the AFL we don't need any help.

Has been backed off the map for this week.

We are a lucky club.

Why not, whose next?

y If we finish at the bottom after an 8th poor year we would have to get one, especially as we would be even weaker without Frawley and possibly Clark. 2 young kids won't save us, remember last time. One is gone and the other is in the VFL. We will need a significant amount of on field help and that means a high draft pick and a few more to trade for players added to the picks we get for where we finish and for possibly losing our full back.

I posted this on another thread and thought it was worth repeating. While we are to blame for poor recruiting, for the position we find ourselves in, the AFL has also contributed significantly. When we were at the bottom they brought in 2 new teams, gave them all the best players and made our chances of recovery very difficult. They then brought in 2 new rules which led to senior players Moloney, Rivers, Sylvia and maybe Chip being allowed to go to top clubs or at least clubs of their choice and one to go at age 19 to GWS. That is 5 players or 25% of our best team. That is nothing short of murder, committed on a football club. Worse still it was committed on a club at the bottom of the ladder, struggling to improve. They then put the cream on the cake, or buried the corpse to use another analogy, by changing the PP rule, when we clearly because of games won, would have got one and then even though we filled the criteria for one under their new rule, refused to give us one, using a totally BS excuse. I won't even mention the tanking farce punishment, for being found not guilty and with no other club who did the same as us, even being investigated. Yes, we are to blame of course, but so are the AFL and it should be made crystal clear to them, when we ask for help, as we should.

While we are to blame for poor recruiting, for the position we find ourselves in, the AFL has also contributed significantly. When we were at the bottom they brought in 2 new teams, gave them all the best players and made our chances of recovery very difficult. They then brought in 2 new rules which led to senior players Moloney, Rivers, Sylvia and maybe Chip being allowed to go to top clubs or at least clubs of their choice and one to go at age 19 to GWS. That is 5 players or 25% of our best team. That is nothing short of murder, committed on a football club. Worse still it was committed on a club at the bottom of the ladder, struggling to improve. They then put the cream on the cake, or buried the corpse to use another analogy, by changing the PP rule, when we clearly because of games won, would have got one and then even though we filled the criteria for one under their new rule, refused to give us one, using a totally BS excuse. I won't even mention the tanking farce punishment, for being found not guilty and with no other club who did the same as us, even being investigated. Yes, we are to blame of course, but so are the AFL and it should be made crystal clear to them, when we ask for help, as we should.

Carlton working up for their big win this week against us.

Maybe using the words of former PM Paul Keating, " this is the 8 years of crap we have to have, to become a good side again".

Gysberts and Morton, now there is $2.00 worth.

No prefer the daughter.

It is hard not to agree.I dislike Carlton intensely and yesterday someone asked me if I was happy they were being belted by the Bombers. My answer was simply I don't care anymore. Because we are so bad and can't win a game, there is no pleasure or interest in another teams misfortune. I just couldn't care less. The next step is just not caring about us either. Football interest and passion gets sucked out of you after 8 years of pathetic performance. We have a big job ahead of us to resurrect this side, though, it can be done with some help. PS. I haven't taken that next step yet.

Free agency will stop what the draft was intended to do. Dumb move by the AFL?

What upset me was that GWS players and it was the younger players, targetted our players and we did absolutely nothing about it. The only one I saw have a go back was Viney. That is just simply pathetic and inexcusable. That attitude was then translated to the tackles where they absolutely killed us.

He did drop Jimmy and JT this week, not a bad start.

That is why I said we need to demand multiple picks, not just one, as one would make no difference.

Looks like a girl I once went out with.

But we are the best in the AFL at that.

Not bad for 3/4's then terrible last. Killed in the ruck and the clearances. Last quarter stopped.