layzie

Got a bloody mountain to climb

This really is it

The most punishing and cruel way possible

Its dying

Come on Dees just do it. God damn

Come on dees bring it home!

My gut feel is similar. It has the makings of one of those games. The Port game, The North game last year, hell even the Freo game in 2002 where we led slightly at half time and Farmer daggered us on the siren. Man I hope I'm wrong

Spurning some good chances

Is that true? The Ticketmaster site sold out I just assumed that was it :s

12 won’t cut it. Must gun for 13. 1 or 2 scalps

What the actual? Gold Coast? At least now we aren’t the only team to fluff it against cellar dwellers. Take it MFC TAKE IT! They’re sitting there waiting to give you their money!

This. im sure many of those guys mentioned were seen as solid picks at the time with good attributes. Also to be fair not every player can be developed, problem with us was nearly none of them were successfully developed.

It goes without saying that we will need to make the most of our clearances and entries EARLY. If not, they will rubber band down the other end and walk through the hole Hibberd and Lever leave. What used to be a no fly zone is gonna be worse than Avalon airport. Don’t let it get in there! Jeffy needs a big game. His forward pressure will need to be relentless, same with Spargo. In the middle I’d be quite happy to keep it in the phone box honestly, don’t let guys like Duncan have their way. Can’t pick this one, but feel says we lose in a close one but there’s a case for it being like the West Coast game last year maybe. We hope!

Yeah he is right now. And while he’s playing well it works for us.

Oh yeah long gone are those days!

Have another beer at the Imperial since I won’t be going now due to general admission tix selling out

Tremendous news! What a story.

I'm personally happy with Oscar. He's had some great games where he's done all you could ask. Yeah he's he bit limited but I'd be in the camp of finding the right guy to play alongside him. I do feel there are many here and at games who feel he simply can't play, which is sad. Having said that I think its a worthwhile question SFebey asks and it gets you thinking. I'm sure there's many ideas on what we can do to improve our backline and at this stage I'm willing to listen to them.

I like it how after all we went through last year we are looking at a best case scenario of limping into the finals. Hardly seemed worth waiting for but it doesn't have to be glamorous this year I guess. Just gotta get in.

I don’t know if many other people are like this. I am at a point in life where football is pretty much all I care about. I’m single, in my early 30s, social but not quite as social as I used to be. But all I look forward to during a working week is the game that we are playing and hopefully that we’ll win so I can get that temporary happy boost that seems to be lacking so much in my life right now. Today was real hard to deal with, as I’m sure it was for many people here. I feel like most people here have other things to concentrate on but I feel like this is the only thing giving me some kind of buzz. Football is literally everything to me right now. Probably shouldn’t even be saying all this but I have thought about doing it for a while now.

Gonna claim ignorance on this. I thought he’d already played this year! All the best Jack!

Was under the impression the winner of his signature would need to offer a 5 year contract and had St Kilda in the box seat UNTIL this news about Hawthorn came about.

Like others this appointment left me feeling weird initially. The work that PJ had done to build his club back up really had me wanting a ‘mini-PJ’ understudy who knew the way. Pert, while a credible CEO in his own right I just feel will come in and stamp his authority. The ship needs to sail on to an extent and I did feel that Mahoney was the guy for this. Im warming to the Pert idea more but I really hope we have put our club in the right hands. Big shoes to fill

A fair and thought out answer there. I agree Bernie has his moments but surely he hits more passes than he misses? I think the clangers just stick out because when they happen they are completely woeful. I'll admit this supports your argument somewhat. I do agree that the high half back role is one of the easier positions, hence why so many guys retire there. I do see where you're coming from but I still feel Jordan is a required player.

Who are the replacements for Lewis and Vince though? Grape said it on the podcast a few weeks ago and he was right. We ideally would have other guys there but we don't have the guys who are ready to be those composed and steady BP/HBF types. Wanna throw Wagner into that role? Sure, its your funeral.