PeterJames

Howe - Park Footballer. Take a specy and snap a goal. That's about it. Toump - Very good. Getting better by the week. Gawn - Will be great for the experience. Kent - less said the better

Just not playing smart football at all. So many dumb decisions. Just sub Kent please.

Matt Jones, what was that kick? No excuse.

He just shouldn't kick!

Toump looking good. Bit unlucky bit hopefully they stick it at. Geelong in 2nd gear. Toss up between Dunn (why punch it back in to the corridor? Not going up for a spoil!) and Kent (how does he get a game???) for the worst players I have ever seen.

Wonder who there are going to play on Murphy and Griffen. I think Dunn will go to one of them. Must shut down Murphy if he plays half back.

Surely you take this to the tribunal! Not sure it can be downgraded through the points but just to show how rubbish the system is!

Jimmy is a good mover. I like the way he goes about it! Will be a very good player.

I still can't understand why they re-signed Evans ahead of the likes of Watts and Sylvia though. Surely you work out the guys on the more money then look at guys like Evans down the lower end. Might be just me but I though it was strange.

So he just made it up..

Yep Ricky used the hand clap emotive and I think Meeson had a laugh at it as well. On ther other side ex rookie Danny Hughes used the crying emotion towards him!

This is the funny part. Everyone on here slamming Moloney because he left whereas other players have continued not trying. Moloney left worked his butt off and will probably finish top 5 in Brisbane's b&f. One point I will make is that does everyone actually believe he was voted out of the leadership group by the players? What was the one thing that changed from 2011 to 2012? While Moloney wasn't an out and out superstar he worked his butt off harder than anyone else at training and wanted the club to be back in the finals as soon as possible. The over reasction to an instergram photo is laughable by some people.

I don't understand this and everyone saying Moloney didn't want to do the extra work. He was the hardest trainer and was always doing extra work for e.g boxing camps during the bye. Also people saying it was Mark Neeld's best move getting rid of Moloney is bizarre. Why does everyone think we didn't offer a contract just because we didn't match Brisbane's?

Would like Ayres as well. My brother is now playing at Port and was listening to him in the huddle. He was fantastic, challenged the players and they instantly responded. Gave my brother a great spay which was good to watch as well! Would love to have him involved at Melbourne.

I nearly spat my drink out when they were talking about that! They couldn't even name 5 midfielders! Then they threw in Ebert and chad Wingard...

It's funny how Caro's inside sources have dried up since Anderson has left. It comes out about the bullying tactics by the investigators and then Anderson quits. Pretty interesting really.

I have a brother that was an addict and one that was on an AFL list for 4 years. While there are illicit drugs being used by AFL players they are doing an amazing job for an organisation that has men aged 18-35. If my other brother had the support shown t AFL players I have no doubt there wouldn't have been such an issue. People don't understand the AFL policy which is where the issue lies. AFL does more testing than other sports, it does out of competition testing which other codes like cricket are not doing. Cricket recently has had more issues than the AFL, especially with the Warriors players.

The thing is managers always 'shop' players around to get a market value. It is there job, especially now with free agency this will happen all the time. It's happening at Melbourne because we still have so many out of contract players. Denham just doesn't understand how it all works.

We only have about 5 senior players and Rivers and Moloney have put the feelers out there so he is kind of correct. Being overseas at the moment i am very much out of the loop. But from what I have heard from a former player is that Neeld was more than happy to ship the older guys on and start as fresh as possible. One thing I have missed is people telling me that Frawley might go to the Saints. Am i getting cranked here or what? He must have a couple of years on his contract to go.

Smart clubs structure there pay deals. Clokes may be front ended say 1mil one year and Swans back ended so 1 mil towards the end.

The way Melbourne treat Casey around finals time is the reason. Whats the point of coaching all year then Melbourne pull all the listed players? Stand alone is the way to go.

I didn't want to start a new thread but someone texted me (I'm in Canada) that neeld was going to step down due to health reason and Ratten was taking over. Eddie to announce it Wednesday. My old man on crack or what?

it's the injured player theory. The longer the player is out the better he becomes!

Its not bad for us that are overseas and have no one to talk footy with! Besides his brain farts Garland is a very handy player and will stay a dee.

In our game it's actually a lot harder as the ground shapes are so different. Every other sport i can think all have the same dimensions.