Redleg

Love to, but I hope I don't die of thirst waiting.

Thanks for the apology but you don't need to, as you and I know each other well enough to know, that we wouldn't intentionally offend the other. I believe that as I said Don will stand down and I think others will too. I don't think all of them need to go as we may lose some real talent. For example what if 3-4 talented board members were against all of the bad decisions, raised arguments for their views but were simply outvoted, Do you suggest they should go? As for the Gardiner Board they stepped aside for another Board, that was ready to take their place and made up of on the face of it, by some pretty impressive people and headed by a former Demon great. Yes the Gardiner Board could have refused to go and fought an election. Who do you think would have won that fight? Maybe they saw the writing on the wall and did the right thing. At the moment I don't see another ticket of impressive people ( MFC members ) offering to lead the club. Why are you criticizing the current board for not abandoning their posts when there is no alternative ready to take over? I don't understand that position. Only a coward or quitter runs away. It would be different if a viable alternative was ready willing and able, that is not the case. To be perfectly honest, other than perhaps someone like Kennett, I don't give a damn who runs this club. All I want is a competitive football team to watch. I haven't got one. I was close to tears on monday. I actually went to the fence and shouted at umpire number 6 from about 4 feet away over the Watts free kick which robbed us of any impetus and led to the onslaught of Pie goals. I have never done that before. Incidentally the umpire turned to me and shrugged as if to say he made a mistake. Mc Burney just smiled. This is what this debacle is doing to me. I am devastated at the poor decisions, made by my club that has led us to this calamity. None more so than BP. I can't believe again I am saying this, but I actually feel like I hate the guy. That is not my usual character. I feel for every supporter of our club. I understand every angry Demonlander venting their spleen. They have every right to do so. I feel sorry for my kids. My son is a fanatic beyond belief and I actually believe he would make a better President than most we have had recently. I feel sorry for my wife who WAS in tears over what has happened to us. Our family is but one of many that has given and invested so much into this club over so many years. You know me well and you would know how much this hurts me, but I actually told my Pies supporting son in law, that he could join my 2 grand daughters up as Pies members, so that they could have a chance of success with their team. They will however probably be members of both clubs. I wish I could cuddle Jaded who I have never met and tell her hang on, don't give up we will come good. I wish I could cheer up Old Dee and Why You Little. I wish I could make Stuie and JnrMac happy. I wish I could do something to make us better. What we must all do however, is not eat our own. I accept that the mistakes are just that, not deliberate. We must pray for PJ that he gets it right and that he screws the AFL for everything he can get. We must just keep faith in our club and when we are successful, we will enjoy it like nothing else, because of our suffering and we will tell the rest of the AFL footy world to go to hell, we are back.

I doubt Pedersen is 193cms. I have stood next to him and compared to him other players, to guage his height and I was a little stunned given what we had been led to believe, that he was going to be used as a pinch hit ruckman. To me he looks about 191 cms, but I stand to be corrected.

You forgot one detail. As to the bit about kicking to where the player is, we think the player is 20 metres up in the air.

BB I don't think the Board have done a good job and have never said they had. I have never commented on the review, so I am unclear as to why you suggest that may "curry support from me". As for asking me what I think of the review done by one of their own, well to be honest and if Trotter is, it may have more credence and relevance than if done by an outsider. Trotter will have some idea of exactly what each member has done, said, voted for, contributed etc. I am unsure how an outsider can actually evaluate individual board member's performances. You might care to enlighten me on that. My mail is Don will resign soon. He won't or shouldn't sit on a sub committee evaluating the Coach. BB you seem to have taken a lot out of my last post which was: "You don't really fire yourself when you are an honorary board member, you just walk away. You generally do that because you are sick and tired of being burned by the media and supporters. You think you should probably have kept all of the money you have donated to the club and then probably don't donate anymore, because of the way you were treated for trying to help. Alternatively you get beaten in an election." Not sure where your post in reply has come from. PS. Do you really want such a failure of a board to pick their successors?

Not sure how useful Pedersen will be for us, but I thought his game yesterday was ok and his best for us so far. He also was prepared to run hard and on a couple of occasions did just that to the team's benefit. I also noticed as Scoop Jnr pointed out, his failure to run through Cloke, but on reflection that may be put down to the penalties for charging. On the other hand, simply, that he was too scared to do it, I don't know. I see him as a handy replacement for injured players, who has some versatility to his game. From what I have seen so far of Gillies, Rodan and Byrnes, Pedersen when compared to them is Wayne Carey.

Agree. He just needs to play a number of consecutive games and get his confidence up. It is tough when you are playing and thinking, " oh sh-t if I drop this mark I will be back at Casey". Give our younger players a run of games to get their confidence up and some valuable experience. That is probably all we can offer to therm for the rest of this season. BTW, I think he will make it.

You don't really fire yourself when you are an honorary board member, you just walk away. You generally do that because you are sick and tired of being burned by the media and supporters. You think you should probably have kept all of the money you have donated to the club and then probably don't donate anymore, because of the way you were treated for trying to help. Alternatively you get beaten in an election.

Disagree on Byrnes. Doesn't use the ball well, is slow, adds nothing and will soon be gone. Play a Taggert or anyone else with a future. JV might be ok to play.

Whatever the reason, it is the thing that most of us have banged on about for the last few years. We get the ball, but can't use it to AFL Standard and as a result you get smashed on the turnover in the modern game.Is it skill, game plan or development. I don't think it is development. It IMO is skill. Yes you could say we are not sure of the game plan, but that is not the reason you miss kick 20 metres to a team mate or you handball to a player standing still, with an opponent next to him. IMO we simply can' t execute basic disposal. We have drafted non skilled footballers. Someone posted that they attended training recently with some media people and they all agreed that our training and skill levels were the worst they had seen.

I know how you feel, I was at the game.

As we near 200 pages and 5000 posts, I think, for only a second, we should reflect on the post MFC career of that person, on Ablett like money up West of Sydney. Saturday, another typical day at the office, 13 possies at 60% effectiveness. Oh well back to bananas.

We have finished quite a few careers already.

Moving on.

Agree. Into the cotton wool.

One of my first jobs as President.

Don't know how happy Josh Caddy is playing in the VFL.

No that was Kennett the cocky. BTW Mrs. Redleg is not amused.

Today 's Australian says we are looking at AFL man Matthew Drain as the head of football. He has wide experience at several clubs and in a number of different roles. He would also probably have the AFL 's blessing bringing us closer to much needed financial and draft assistance.

Good idea, we use the Hawks membership numbers rort. Yes we sign up our Alpacas, budgies, turtles, hamsters etc and suddenly we are a major club again. Sponsors will see us worthy of of their sponsorship dollars with our huge data base.The AFL will once again see us as the major club we once were. I will even join up my pet cockatoo with the loud screechy voice, who we named Kennett.

See, when we all put out heads together we can come up with these great ideas to save the club.

CS never was able to implement his Red and Blueprint. We should be able to implement my Blue and Redprint. It is far simpler and doesn't dwell on our history.

I think we need to change the MCG seats to banana lounges. We will steer away from pies and chips and sell banana fritters, banana splits, banana bread and cake, banana mousse, duck a la banana sandwiches and washed down with those healthy banana smoothies. I will get the trumpeter to play the banana boat song and have the bananas in pyjamas selling raffle tickets at the games.Every new member will get a free banana . I will get this club moving again.

Do you reckon I will get a gong for being MFC President?

I can. Brogan will retire and they have only Giles left. Jamar would be a big get for them as I can't see them getting Leuenberger, who they want. Gawn, Spencer, Fitzy in the ruck with Sellar and Pedersen pinch hitting and maybe with Mitch for a few minutes here and there. Also we could rookie another young ruckman.