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when we're 1-11 or 0-12 at the mid-season break daniher will resign, and serve out the rest of the year while the club work on recruiting a new coach.

i think we saw the real effects of 2 close losses. no one was prepared to chase. at all. the defensive pressure that we thought may be there after getting oh so close for 2 weeks in a row evaporated into the vapour waves of chris judd streaming forward. oh, for a superstar like that at the mfc.

bell was horrific. again. his use of the ball makes ward and brown look like superstars; he tries hard, but he's very, very trying. miller just didn't give a whimper, did he? awful. i dunno. the losses aren't bothering me anymore. i'm just expecting that they're going to continue to mount up.

ha! hadn't even noticed i typed that - error of the fingers rather than the tongue

pressure on miller is huge now. with robbo coming back, he really should be dropped anyway, and newtown MUST be close to debuting. great to see hughes sounding impressive, and i'd prefer wheatley to ward or brown. i'm positive he could play on their players at least as defensively as they can, and be better skilled when he has the ball into the bargain. he's always played as a medium tall player on tall players. it'd be great to see him play as a medium tall on slightly smaller players. i think he might have the agility to do fairly well.

commentators say that very even performance. commentators opinions: sautner prevented, "but it was telling that he and robbo spoiled each other." impressed by robbo, had a hand in 6 or 7 wheatley miserly in defence, link man across hb bizzell terrific in the middle or down back poyas cutting across hb like the look of gallagher summers in and out of the game hughes - only played for 2 quarters, livewire when he came on the ground holland down back an old head. no mention of newtown. sounded to me via their very bias call that he was very, very good

16.16.112 13.12.90 goals: robertson (and robinson) - 4 sautner - 3 newtown - 2.6! pickett - 2 hughes - 2 summers, gallagher, garland all singles best / most frequently called in last quarter and a half: pickett, gallagher, lidell, newtown, robertson, valenti, neaves.

sandy wins. robbo to be interviewed? nope, walked away.

gallagher nails one for sandy, 26 mins gone. looks like sandy has it wrapped up now.

some bloke called robinson misses. apparently he's done well enough to be straight back in for the dees next week. not sure about robertson though. johnson kicks another for the seagulls. the commentators go 'nanas as a result.

another goal for sandy, but i have absolutely no idea who kicked it as the commentators immediately started talking about williamstown again.

newtown missed a sitter.

seagulls get one back. they're pumping up williamstown tyres. the bias is 5aa-esque.

he misses. 25 pts the diff i think it is.

newtown from outside 50...hits danny hughes within kicking distance. commentator has been impressed by hughes today.

where's jamar? neaves has been called half a dozen times doing things around the ground but no mark. worrying signs for the russian.

valenti hits sautner on the lead after lots of oohs and aahs from the williamstown-supporting commentators. he misses the goal.

byron takes a 'courageous mark' at chf and will line up for goal... ...nails it.

goalkickers: robertson - 4 sautner - 3 newtown - 2 summers, hughes, garland, and pickett have singles.

13.9.87 10.10.70 at 3 quarter time to sandy. i only found out about this when i logged in about 5 mins. ago. much props to 1611, even though the commentators are going for williamstown!

wasn't it the smallest at the g for all time, or some such stat?

eh? demolished farmer in the finals? you've gotta be joking. farmer kicked 2.2, had a hand in about 4 more, and picked up a dozen or so possessions. you're right in that he does work hard defensively. but that's not my gripe with him; my gripe is his disposal, and his incredibly poor decision-making. bell did blaze away last night - he butchered the ball time and time again. that's what he's like when he's 'taking the first option' - he's no good at it. if he stays on the hbf for melbourne in 5 years time he'll be thought of just as brown is now - a good, honest trier who gives his all but is just not good enough when it comes to disposing of the ball.

yep, like the idea of bell as a tagger and sylvia off the hbf. bell's biggest problem, other than dithering, is that he too often simply blazes away, and not merely because he's under pressure because he hasn't taken the first option. in packs, that's (almost) allowed. he's fast, he's hard, he can tackle. i think he could succeed as an on-ball tagger - it's definitely worth a try. the only part of the game where sylvia looked ANY good last night was opposed to davis. he is worth a try on the hbf on a more permanent basis, essentially replacing bell i guess.

nope, i loved his attack on the ball last night, but his disposal and dithering had me tearing at my hair in frustration. he's a good, honest trier. but that's all. and it's not like he's the only one i ripped into; he's just a demonland favourite. i thought my sylvia critique and byron blasting were far more negative.

daniel bell turns it over time and time again. his attack on the ball is exemplary; his use of it is less than ordinary.