Stigga

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I'm going off what its saying here: http://www.sportingpulse.com/comp_info.cgi...mp;compID=80515

3pm on Ten Delayed. Was thinking the same thing.

Back to the old hunting ground... Anyone going on Saturday?

Went to numerous Nab Challenge matches at the start of the year. Was absolutley fantastic. Very low crowd numbers made it feel as though you had the whole place to yourself watching two afl clubs go at it in a suburban setting.

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Alex Silvagni I thought was very impressive down back. Took a hanger deep in defence in the 3rd quarter.

This 'work in progress' is being hindered by the fact that we have no forward line. They've got no one to kick it to! How can the skill and confidence set of the players get better if there is no one to kick it to? It may not be realized but the return of Robertson and the eventual introduction of Watts playing out of the goal square is paramount to the development of the team. We are almost going backwards at the moment.

As of today 26, 492.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/newsart...74/default.aspx All up, everything equals 6.5 million.

Updated: 25, 691

Martin will definitely play. How could you leave him out with Petrie and Hale up forward?

Membership as of this morning 23,367

The Melbourne squad for Saturday's HANKOOK Cup clash with the Bullies (from): 1. Simon Buckley 2. Nathan Jones 3. Clint Bartram 5. Brock McLean 6. Matthew Bate 7. Brad Miller 8. James Frawley 10. Cale Morton 14. Lynden Dunn 15. Ricky Petterd 16. Jack Grimes 18. Brad Green 20. Colin Garland 21. Daniel Bell 22. Brent Moloney 23. James McDonald 25. Kyle Cheney 26. John Meesen 27. Jared Rivers 29. Michael Newton 32. Cameron Bruce 34. Stefan Martin 36. Aaron Davey 37. Matthew Warnock 39. Neville Jetta 41. Rohan Bail 42. Jake Spencer ® 43. Jamie Bennell 44. Shane Valenti ® From: Squads named.

Yes he did. Was fairly quiet.

Bit harsh there Hannabal. I thought he did well today, especially in the second half. Showed much more endeavour today.

Good afternoon all, Just returned from a beautiful afternoon day at Princes Park. Always enjoy going to games at the old suburban grounds. Final score was Sydney 9.9.63 to Melbourne 8.7.55. To cut to the chase there were a huge amount of positives to come out of today's game. The scoreboard is irrelevant in the greater scheme of things and I think both teams may have had this mindset as well. As far as I could tell Sydney pretty much had a full strength line-up. I believe they were only missing of note Kirk and Leo Barry. Melbourne on the other hand was missing Batram, Bate, Blease, Buckley, Jamar, Jurrah, Maric, McNamara, Rivers, Robertson, Watts, Wheatley, Whelan and Wonaemirri. The match was a great contest and one thing i noticed was that generally our kicking skills are so much better than last year. The days of 100 point losses I think are behind us. However one thing is certainly clear and that is we will really struggle to kick goals this year. This will not be the fault of our defenders or midfielders but rather the fact that we have a shell of a forward line. I thought our endeavour and attack on the footy was great and as long as we can keep this up all year we will manage to give every team a contest. I will go through my thoughts on each player individually: Bail: Didn't play the first half and had a few touches in the second half. First touch was a nervous shot on goal from 40 out that fell short but did some nice things. Runs hard and layed a few great tackles, in particular a corker on Goodes. Bell: Started ok then fell away as the game went on. Was very hard at the ball early on. Bennell: Extremely promising. Don't want to build it up to much but gee wiz he reminds of one A. McLeod. Great skills, may not have the pace of Mcleod but has great accelaration. At one stage did an amazing 40m kick of the side of his boot and hit a target. No idea how he could have seen this in his perephiral. Bruce: Workmanlike as per usual. Ran hard without dominating. No hospital hand passes and hit targets. Cheney: Also a postive. kicking was a lot better than last week and he reads the play really well in defense. Test will come for him when he routinely needs to man up for an entire game as opposed to playing loose like he occasionaly did today. Davey: Lively. Created play and brought others into the game. Layed a fantastic smother in our forward line late in the game when the contest was in the balance and unfortunately didn't get a free kick for holding the man 2 seconds later which would have put us in fron with 2 minutes to go. Dunn: Looked lost for a lot of the game. I don't know what the issue is but he certainly doesn't look injured. Don't really know what position he was playing and neither did he I think. had a few touches but they weren't great. Frawley: Solid performance. Kicking style is still the same but was routinely hitting targets today which is a great postive. Showed a lot of composure in traffic. Looks like he has really good accelartaion and speed as well Garland: Doesn't put a foot wrong. Sets up play, fantastic skills, hits targets and spoils fantastically. His accelaration is fantastic, he is so quick of the mark. Green: Was busy for most of the game but didn't get a great amount of it. Grimes: Awesome. Love the kid. Will be a ten year player of our half-back line. Got heaps of the footy. Cool calm and collected. Hard at the contest and ALWAYS hits targets. Jetta: Again, Awesome. Reminds me so much of Leon Davis. Doesn't have Davey's closing speed but is so clever, ran rings around numerous opponents and kicked a great goal on the run. Marked well and a great kick. P. Johnson: played full forward for most of the game and was lively. I love his seconf efforts. If he knows he might not mark it he always tries to keep the ball in fornt of him for the second contest. N. Jones: Quiet but more lively towards the end. He does get tagged a lot by the opposition and he seems to be struggling with this at the moment. Martin: Good performance. Does his job, spoiled well today and reads the play well. McDonald: Fairly quiet performane. Goodes layed a big hit on him in the second quarter. McLean: Workmanlike but like Jones gets a lot of attention. Sydney were not giving him an inch for most of the game. Meesen: Doesn't have the tap ruck skill to compete with Spencer. Ungainly and Underwhelming Miller: Always presents and marked well today. Very vocal. Moloney: Played well I thought. Got a lot of the footy and set up play well. Morton: Did a lot of nice things. Doesn't like the in and under contest though. Newton: Better than last week. Took a few solid grabs but still doesn't present enough. Petterd: Very positive. Gee he looks a player. Quick of the mark and great decision making. Strauss: Good first hit out. BEAUTIFUL kick and always hit targets. Played most of the game in defence. Was a bit starstruck by the speed of the game which is not surprising for a first gamer. Sylvia: MUCH better than last week. Personally I thought he had a super game. Lots of nice grabs, chased well and hit targets. Warnock: Solid game. Played well on B. Hall. reads the ball well and takes a lot of marks in defense. Kicking is still not great though and it never will be. Any questions fire away Cheers, Stigga.

Yep, great idea. Really liking how much the club is trying to get members and supporters involved. It makes people feel as they are part of the machine, not simply paying money to watch a machine from afar.

I agree PP. They still had: Sewell, C. Brown. Bateman, Young, Rioli, Birchall, Morton, Roughead, Williams, Osborne, Mitchell, Gilham, Dew and Tuck. A lot of experienced premiership players present there.

http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tab...43/default.aspx Maxwell Cleared.

Stated on SEN that they are going to appeal the decision.

Or the bump he he put on Luke Ball at the start of the 07 (or 08 season, I can't remember). He would have got 6 weeks for that!

Agreed. This Luke Hodge role is becoming very important. Green will be a fantastic in this role as he showed last year. He is fantastic at reading the play, is a great mark, has much courage and is a magnificent kick to boot.

There are unsubstantiated rumours that we are creeping up towards the 25,000 mark. I guess maybe someone could call the club to check.

Here is a link to the Gold Coast's website: http://gc17.com.au/index.php?id=52&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=63&tx_ttnews[backPid]=47&cHash=23d1921152 The Entry Rules for GC17 will be as follows: 1. 2009 NAB AFL Draft: GC17 to have the capacity to sign 12 x 17 year-olds born in the January – April window (Jan-April 1992). 2. 2010 NAB AFL Draft: GC17 to have Pick One in Each Round. GC 17 to have Picks 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 in Round One. 3. 2009 NAB Rookie Draft: GC17 to have Selections 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. 4. 2010 NAB Rookie Draft GC17 to alternate Queensland priority selections with Brisbane Lions. GC17 to have first selection. 5. Zoned Access GC17 to have zoned access to up to five Queensland players prior to each of 2010, 2011 and 2012 NAB AFL Drafts. GC17 to have zoned access to up to three Northern Territory player prior to the 2010 NAB AFL Draft 6. 2010 Post Season, AFL Listed Played Access GC17 to have capacity to pre-list 10 players who had previously nominated for the AFL Draft, or were previously listed with an AFL club. GC17 to have capacity to sign up to 16 uncontracted players. Mr Demetriou said GC17 would also have an expanded list size and TPP allowance in the club’s initial four years from 2011 to 2014, which would be as follows: 2011 – 48 senior list, nine rookies with $1m TPP extra allowance; 2012 – 46 senior list, nine rookies with $800k TPP extra allowance; 2013 – 42 senior list, nine rookies with $600k TPP extra allowance; 2014 – 40 senior list, nine rookies with $400k TPP extra allowance; 2015 – 38 senior list, nine rookies in line with other AFL clubs. While the Working Group considered an expanded list and allowance for the first three years, the AFL Commission accepted a recommendation from the executive that given the challenge of building a club, the list and allowance should phase out over four years. Further, as part of the entry rules for the GC17 side, Mr Demetriou said the AFL Commission had resolved that any club that lost a player to the expansion side would be eligible for a compensation pick (after the entry of both GC17 and the second club to be based in Sydney ). Compensation picks will be tradeable and can be used by clubs at any time within five years . First round compensation picks can not be used until the end of the first round in the 2010 and 2011 drafts. Clubs will be required to nominate the year in which they plan to use the compensation pick before the first round of the Toyota AFL Premiership Season in that particular year. The compensatory pick would be assessed around the player’s age (greater weighting for younger players), club contract ranking (greater weighting for club key players), on field performance (greater weighting for strong club best and fairest performance) and draft position if less than four years experience. This ranking system will then determine if a club is eligible for a compensatory pick in one of five spots -- first round pick, end of first round pick, second round pick, end of second round pick or third round pick. Under the model, the round one, round two or round three picks would be taken immediately after the pick the club already has in that round in the draft that year. Please find attached below an example of how the 2010 NAB AFL Draft would look, under these concession rules. The List Management Group was: Andrew Dillon (Chairman, AFL General Manager Legal and Business Affairs), Graeme Allan (Brisbane Lions FC Football Operations Manager), Adrian Anderson (AFL General Manager Football Operations), Derek Hine (Collingwood FC Recruiting Manager), Andrew Ireland (Sydney Swans FC Football Operations Manager), David Matthews (AFL General Manager National and International Development), Tony Peek (AFL Assistant to CEO), Ian Robson (Hawthorn FC CEO), Cameron Schwab (former Fremantle FC CEO), Kevin Sheehan (AFL National Talent Manager), Steven Trigg (Adelaide FC CEO), Stephen Wells (Geelong FC Recruiting Manager). 2010 NAB AFL Draft: (Example Draft Order before trading) Round One 1 GC17 2 GC17 3 GC17 4 Club 16 on 2010 ladder 5 GC17 6 Club 15 on 2010 ladder 7 GC17 8 Club 14 on 2010 ladder 9 GC17 10 Club 13 on 2010 ladder 11 GC17 12 Club 12 on 2010 ladder 13 GC17 14 Club 11 on 2010 ladder 15 GC17 16 Club 10 on 2010 ladder 17 Club 9 on 2010 ladder 18 Club 8 on 2010 ladder 19 Club 7 on 2010 ladder 20 Club 6 on 2010 ladder 21 Club 5 on 2010 ladder 22 Club 4 on 2010 ladder 23 Club 3 on 2010 ladder 24 Club 2 on 2010 ladder 25 Club 1 on 2010 ladder Round Two 26 GC17 27 Club 16 on 2010 ladder 28 Club 15 on 2010 ladder 29 Club 14 on 2010 ladder 30 Club 13 on 2010 ladder 31 Club 12 on 2010 ladder 32 Club 11 on 2010 ladder 33 Club 10 on 2010 ladder 34 Club 9 on 2010 ladder 35 Club 8 on 2010 ladder 36 Club 7 on 2010 ladder 37 Club 6 on 2010 ladder 38 Club 5 on 2010 ladder 39 Club 4 on 2010 ladder 40 Club 3 on 2010 ladder 41 Club 2 on 2010 ladder 42 Club 1 on 2010 ladder Round Three 43 GC 17 44 Club 16 on 2010 ladder 45 Club 15 on 2010 ladder 46 Club 14 on 2010 ladder 47 Club 13 on 2010 ladder 48 Club 12 on 2010 ladder 49 Club 11 on 2010 ladder 50 Club 10 on 2010 ladder 51 Club 9 on 2010 ladder 52 Club 8 on 2010 ladder 53 Club 7 on 2010 ladder 54 Club 6 on 2010 ladder 55 Club 5 on 2010 ladder 56 Club 4 on 2010 ladder 57 Club 3 on 2010 ladder 58 Club 2 on 2010 ladder 59 Club 1 on 2010 ladder