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that would be his great great great great great ...................great grandson Frank ?

actually you could be...but it wouldnt affect the latter !!

Your whole tenet of argument is flawedNeeld has a contract for 3 yerars. Its totally independent of anything else . There is no tighing of any players fortunes to his. Rivers and Greens fortunes are dependent upon an entirely different set of constraints. Greens time is up. Whilst he may well get a run somewhere as a forward its not up to him to call the tune at Melbourne . Thats the preserve of the FD. Moloney has showed littel ability to buy into the 'new' Melbourne. Again its not up to anyone to accomodate him its up to the players to perform. if they dont its the door The players dont make the rules, they agree to terms.

im guessing post #1

I think theres always a danger in reading too much into some things. I suspect our membership of last year and the year before was a little inflated. You know..dogs, cats, kids, distant neices and nepthews all get signed up in the euphoria of the times. And then reality sets it. i.e Annus Horribilus I suspect our fortunes , or peoples forecast of them will be reflected in next years memberships numbers and they will very much for some be directed by how they see the club shaping up. This in turn will be coloured by what the club does at seasons end. Some of us just let the membership bill come ( or direct debits continue ) and we al lcarry on regardsless but there;s a sizable sector who decide on forking out their money on the basis of expectations. A good clear out and some inspired drafting and trading will see the numbers stay strong, even possibly increase again. Get it wrong...and ...well..

GNF you greatly overstate our ability !!

that'll do !! says it all

interesting isnt it as to whom stepped up

nothing like having a barrow to push is there

Mitch Clark is our best player. Sylvia is lost in his shadow . Edit: Jones is also easily right up there. They dont have a lot of company really

Theres been more than a hadful of "aww shucks i've made it" types to come on board where as we actually want the "ok, now lets get started " kids. I think we'll be recruiting differently from here on in.

a somewhat damning perspective there. But true.

Billy i think youre on the coin here. RP reminds me of some of our olympians. Hard work to get there then stopped having forgot the race was still to be run.

The meat market is going to be busy. I sense the inclusion of the noobie teams might serve to lower the bar as to who can still get a game. Ricky Bobby has probably given a bit over the journey to interest a club or two. Cant see him at AAMI next year though. Those turnstiles are sure going to be busy !!

That your highness is simply a mirage.

2003 gives it a nudge

That as a motherhood statement is meaningless id suggest. The only criteria for "our best interests" is improving our team by gaining performers, not pretenders. The first bit is correct, the second might be but who would know unequivocably as we've never seen it. He has been injury plagued. Maybe hes getting better but that in no way precludes him from being traded The nature of a trade is more likely to invlove a player. The club has Stated time and time again its hunting players see above, erroneous argument Neither gaurantees anything, in fact we have a better Idea that Sylvia guarantees nothign as opposed an unknown !! Some might argue we have...and thats the whole point.

Some might suggest hisisnt the Crime of the Century but he is sure to need to take the Long Way home if he is to make any further impact, thats just Logical

Is it just that weve drafted poorly or that we had an imperfect blueprint to fulfill ? If you plan to get the wrong ( in hindsight ) types and suceed then the drafting was according to plan, just the plan was stuffed !! either way though...we got duped

thats all well and good ....if....IF...youre actuallyu doing your own job first. He ISNT !! grow some eyes mate

oh thats why he stands around pointing and barkling orders....right... thanks for that

Mongrels go hunting...they arent hunted...or dont aloow themselves to be hunted. Tapscott has this, he's being tempered though, shame really.Mitch wont take sh!t. Mongrel isnt just hard..or tough, or no nonsense. Mongrel is quite frankly."dont f#ck with me!!"

who are you and what have you done with TPM ? thats actually an interesting question. Im not sure though that the AFL will allow that type of "mongrel' these days. More the pity

now his bark is worse than his bite !!

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