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Sir Why You Little

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  1. 11 hours ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

    Shows what a joke the award is.  But maybe some if it is down to the bad luck of Robbie having his best years the same as those of other absolute champions of the game like Bernie Quinlan, Malcolm Blight or a Ross Glendinning played a blinder of a season?

    What year(s) do you think were Robbie's best that went unnoticed by the men in white?

    Robbie was the most consistently fine Player in the league, he was still dancing around opponents and flying gracefully through the air in 1987. 
    He shone in every State Game he played in

    He played a lot of his football in the midfield running past umpires controlling the ball on both sides of his body 

    How could he be missed?

    Corruption 101

  2. 12 hours ago, dpositive said:

    Tom Morris reports

    Clayton Oliver dumps on Christian Petracca thinking he should have won the Norm Smith as he is the best player in the club. Petracca responded everyone knows the only reason Oliver won the Brownlow was because I kept feeding him. Meanwhile the AA team was redrafted when it was pointed out that Max Gawns ruck technique of laying the ball down to Viney, Petracca and Oliver showed limited "ruck craft" despite his comments to the contrary. Umpire displeasure at his comments meant he did not get any Brownlow votes and was the main reason the Brownlow system was compromised. The O;iver Brownlow will be removed from any official records, The AFL will take action to modify the system to ensure Melbourne matches are no longer counted. We cannot have our most valuable marketing medal won by Melbourne players in the future. There was further controversy over the Coleman medal importance as it was ruled that a comprehensive review of video evidence showed that JVR had many goals paid  despite several incidents that should have resulted in his goal being ruled ineligble. IT would be better if these post incident realities had been identified earlier, but now they have been evidenced the Melbourne grand final victory will be removed from all official records. An unfortunate aside is that the Rising Star winner will now be transferred to another club possibly Richmond as he cannot be tarnished by the train wreck that is MFC.

    Melbourne FC  is reported to being relocated to  a suburb of Darwin renamed Melbourne as soon as administrative processes are put in place. The club will have  ground space allocated there and their administrative operations will be run from Timor Leste. It is important that Caulfield and the racing industry are not affected by the apparent malaise of the MFC who will always be remembered as an important part football history although it now hoped that moving them as far away from Tasmania as possible will not affect the significance of this new club.

    I always report accurately any story that I can make up when I can get paid.

    Number 9 Number 9 Number 9….

  3. 2025.

    May it be a significant year in the Rich Long History of the MFC

    I expect all of our experienced Players to have an excellent year, that is why they are signed to lucrative contracts 

    I want the Players to push the standards up, regardless of what the Media Analyst spews out each week 

    Number 14 is the aim for us all

  4. 4 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Agreed.

    Everyone around here blames the AFL for Maynard getting off but he was initially suspended for the grand final. What more do you want?

    You are right, but the AFL’s case against Maynard was pathetic 

  5. 7 minutes ago, Sideshow Bob said:

    'The Demons still think they're in the premiership window, but missed the top eight last year'.....

    This is what [censored] me about the media.... quick to go on about our straight sets and missing last year but fawning over the pies and cats after they both missed the finals directly after the wins... we missed the 8 so are bad - pies missed the eight and are one of the favourites for the flag.... [censored] 

     

    The difference being we couldn’t score, and it was the same problem over and over

  6. 35 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

    As was I, @Sir Why You Little.

    I had forgotten that sky (though I have photos of it trapped forever in a broken phone).

    I won't again.

    Yes i have always wished i had taken photos of that night sky. As i have never seen it so vivid again, it really was such a surreal moment 

  7. 14 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    I think I read a little while back that the person he's about to get married to is settled in Sydney with her own young family and would be staying there. That may have changed of course but doesn't his contract run out at the end of the 2025 season? If so there's been no talk of an extension yet. 

    I think Goodwin will be Adelaide’s next coach, but let’s see how ‘25 pans out 

  8. 7 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

    half the press corp are members of clubs for this exact reason - no need to ask charlie stringbag for the email when it lands in yr own

    Most of it comes from Player Management. 
    They hear most things very quickly….

  9. 1 hour ago, binman said:

    No it's not the point.

    So much rewriting of history.

    #demonland myths 

    As I have noted several times recently, we tried to implement a different, more transition based game plan last season.

    We faced several barriers to doing so successfully, in short:

    - it takes time to implement a new game plan (particularly one so different to the one drilled into the team over the previous 5 seasons)

    - injury meant we almost never had our best 23 play together 

    - we didn't have enough of the right type of players, in particular enough elite kicks who could be relied on to hit high risk kicks (exacerbated by injury to our best players)

    - and perhaps of most significance, we were clearly not fit enough, for any game plan, particularly one that demands so much all team running 

    We could only be ‘in games when we played an unwatchable, unsustainable to win big games, style'?

    That's just not true.

    There was really only one game where we reverted to a defence first method in a big game to maximise our chance of winning - our heartbreaking two point loss to port late in the season.

    Two rounds prior we came out firing, with exciting all out attack against the Giants, up nearly 5 goals at the end of the first quarter before running out of puff in the second half to  lose by two points.

    In another big game, our round 16 match against the ultimate premiers, we blitzed them in the second quarter, kicking 8 goals. Very watchable. Another heartbreaking loss ensued after once again running out of gas in the second half.

    Another big game was our early season win over Port at a sold out Adelaide Oval where we beat Port at their own transition game (coming on the heels of smashing the dogs - our third highest score of the season - and hawks with a fast, exciting, transition game).

    Not a big game given we couldn't make finals, and our opponents were woeful, but our highest score of the season came in round 23 when we played a fast, exciting transition game to smash the Suns.

    Yes we were often low scoring and terrible to watch. And we got hammered more often than we had in the previous four seasons combined.

    But not because of an 'unwatchable, unsustainable' game plan - we just couldn't consistently implement the new game plan we were working on, or defend against that game plan when used effectively against us (hence the number of big losses).

    Ironically, we would have likely won more games last season, albeit not enough, and certainly not have been opened up as often, if we had stuck to our previous defence first method.

    We have been unwatchable many times during 23/24 Seasons. I know this because i was the one who turned the TV off

    Each week “connection” was talked about by the coach in the aftermatch. But each week we played the same style…

    Kicking to a congested Forward Pocket 

     

  10. 2 hours ago, Fritta and Turner said:

    Or more importantly where are the conspiracy theories about Salem and that suit, is Tom Sparrow on the outer, whats with the shades Angus, and who are those faces in the background above Clarries head.  (And if you listen to the audio of the GF backwards it clearly states that Tracc will marry in the gardens).  Believe it or not.

    What are they putting in the eggnog these days.

    All the best Tracca

    Number 9 Number 9 Number 9….

  11. This is a great appointment. It’s all about getting in the “zone”

    Mind and Body working in unison, almost to the point where the play just happens. 
    Motor Racing drivers are a great example, when the reaction time is fully on, the car almost drives itself. 
    In ‘21 the Football Department looked to be in the “zone” most of the year…

  12. 15 hours ago, layzie said:

    Cheers.

    This has been a never ending project for me to find the best way to transfer boxes and boxes of VHS tapes. I've looked at PVRs, Capture cards etc.

    I had a good Panasonic DVD recorder years ago which performed very well with an analogue TV but the moment the TV changed to digital the quality dropped off heaps when recording off tv. Maybe the 4:3 to 16:9 issue factor? There has to be a good way.

    You need a good quality Analog/Digital converter as a bridge between the two to get a quality conversion ( hopefully the VHS is still running at the right speed)

  13. I managed 12 minutes of that Q & A. The first question was bad enough, but i thought it might improve. It didn’t. 
     

    How about “How’s the vibe in the Football Department since Chunk returned?
    How is the forward connection changing with Chaplin now in charge of the forwards?

     

  14. 12 hours ago, Chelly said:

    Agree 100% … and that trip to the Red Bull training camp that he was criticized by the press for attending must have been highly worthwhile physically for him on top of being a great break after the injury he suffered on KB.

    Tracc has one of the most defined Six Pack, all our players should aspire to his level. 
    Top 4 Finish should be the serious goal of Season ‘25