Freddy Fuschia

You and Kiss of Death in the HUN. Hope you're right against all the odds!

Obviously you're not an optimist like Demon Head who wrote the match preview for the game v Lions.

Like Jolly, he's also lived in Jeff White's shadow at Melbourne and needs to go elsewhere to establish himself. White should be # 1 ruckman at the club for at least to the end of next year.

Someone has to be the emergency and Valenti has had a couple of full games at Sandringham so he looks the best choice.

Maybe the plain and simple answer is that Newton's knee hasn't come up well after last week and he's out injured again?

Apparently the Zebra ressies were short of players because of last minute changes to their senior team and this would have made it hard for them given Petterd was being eased in on his return to the game. A funny quirk of the VFL reserves draw has them playing Casey again this week so at least he'll be familiar with the type of opposition he's confronting.

Here's agreat story from the ABC Grandstand Site - HANDS OFF

Aren't the Tigers front runners to get Robert Warnock?

GOLD

I'm all in favour of playing youth but I also believe it's possible to reach a point where you're playing too many young players all in the team at once and then your youth policy can become counterproductive. You need some experienced hands on the ground and, in the absence of Jared Rivers, I think the selectors saw the need to have Benny as a back up. He's been playing quite well at Sandy so I think it's justified especially in view of the fact that the other youth candidate Stef Martin has just been so so the last couple of weeks at Sandringham.

Well, the list of players set out here will be well worth studying in advance of next week's team selection. I can't believe that Bate, Buckley, Maric, Martin and yes ... Adem Yze won't come under consideration this week. Also "Juice" Newton could also come close.

Final result a win by 88 with Sautner kicking a lazy 9 and Poyas 5.

Zebs by 94 points halfway through the last but Juice has been reported (not much in it though). Reserves won by 4 goals. Trent Zomer kicked 3 goals, Kyle Cheney in the best players.

Stef Martin and Michael Newton (if they play well)

I wonder if anyone knows when was the last time that both Neitz and Robertson fired together (if at all).

Is there any other football B & F going around where the winner could be decided to one thousandth of a decimal point?

Surely, our biggest mistake because it's virtually irreversible at least during the course of this season. We're stuck with most of these guys as team leaders (unless they go off speeding in the cars or get [censored] in public) and we can't change them. That means it might be some time before the rat dies!

You see, that's the problem. The point that I was making is that after last week's piddling effort by the players it was necessary to make some changes in order to make a statement to the whole club. You would refrain from making that statement because you ask the question "to be replaced by whom?" So the statement isn't made at all and we continue to languish. We continue to play people who can't perform any more and we don't play the younger players. Jeff White got 28 hitouts and stuff all possessions last week. David Neitz did stuff all last week. We were undermanned in defence last week and could have done with one extra tall. Let's assume they're under advice from the medicos not to play Rivers and Whelan. Does it hurt to give Jamar, Frawley, Chris Johnson and even someone like Addam Maric a go? The worst thing is to do nothing or not enough and all underperformers to keep their place in the side after what was, after all, almost doubly worse than the next effort in the entire competition. Dropping only 3 players suggests to me that a 104 point defeat didn't hurt too much.

I would be even harsher on the brains trust at Melbourne. This was Dean Bailey's chance to send a message to all and sundry at the club about performing to the required standards. Even assuming Moloney is out for the reasons given about his lack of pace, there were three or four others who IMO failed to perform to adequate standards and who should have been sent to Sandringham this week.

What we need is not branding but a removal of all the confusion about our identity. We should get back to being ferocious Demons and put an end to this melbournefc garbage and the silver away strip both oof which lack popular support and are typical of the bland look that characterizes the way the team's travelling ATM.

It's hard to argue with people after the performance we put on at the weekend but a Swans supporter pointed out on radio that in Rodney Eade's first game the Swans lost by 90 points to Adelaide in Round 1 of 1996. The score was Adelaide 20.10.130 to Sydney 6.4.40. Their percentage after the game was 30.8%. The following week they played Fremantle in Sydney and the Dockers, who were no great shakes as a football team, beat them 13.22.100 to 9.17.71. After 2 games, the Swans were struggling and they were considered in as poor a light as Melbourne is looked upon at this very moment. They broke the ice in Round 3 against Collingwood, fell in by a point against the lowly Tigers and slowly built up momentum from then onwards. At the end of the year Sydney finished on top of the ladder:- Team Won Lost Drawn For Agst % Pts Sydney 16 5 1 2152 1737 123.9 66 Just because we got flogged and looked terrible first up it doesn't mean it's curtains for the season.

The AFL injury update after round one Melbourne Matthew Bate – hamstring – 1 week Jack Grimes – groin - 3-5 weeks When was the last time we had only two players out through injury?

Can we sneak through a few goals while the lights are off at least?

We can also say that it appears the Doggies fans don't give a rat's either. I decided to check up on their fan sites just in case they might be a source of information this evening and came across two of them:- 1. Bulldogs Barking at http://www.thebulldogsbarking.com/portal/ and 2. Sons of the Scray http://www.sonsofthescray.com/ However, I got the same result when I tried to log on to both sites: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: You are not connected to the Internet. The website is encountering problems. There might be a typing error in the address. So that's it. The Bulldogs' sites are cactus, much like their footy team will be tonight. PS: Looking forward to the scores Diablo!

Boy, we must have blown a fuse last night with our collective concern over Juice's injury and the team's defeat. Hope Juice is well and that the club will give us some good news about his condition soon. A big vote of thanks to faultydet and the other Demon and Tiger sites that were on the job supplying us with dribbles of news from the game.