beelzebub

A little sojourn in other realms... perhaps

I implore you to keep looking. Have I missed much ?

I obviously have no pride ....

I paid for five people..meals and drinks..20% off...off an already good steak deal. Maybe I lucked out. I did

I don't get ignore....( though I suspect I am ignored lol ) Can't folk just let [censored] go through to the keeper. Btw ..the Keeper has his lot eh...lol

Deckchairs

The cast is irrelevant if the script is fu$#ed !!

Hmmm..an old Dland soul ???

Food for thought. The Football inner sanctum is a bit of an incestuous environment. CW , all dismissives aside does often have decent,if unfortunate , lines of information. The other side of coin becomes her agendas. These are often not of our suiting. She vehemently hates all things Schwab. Some occasional sources of goss suggest we aren't as warm and fuzzy atm as have been quite recently. Not everyone is swimming the same way. All think it's best for Melbourne. Same ol...

Mate... Silver ? Bronze ? We're lucky to offer up a tarnished Brass !! I'm not a fan...nor am I a brickbat lobber in this instance. The truth is Weed.. actually half the team.... aren't the problem. ..you just can't dance when the tempo, the rhythm, the tune.. all fight each other. You tend to look silly.....oh wait ?

or sideways.....i'm leaning that way.....sideways....

we're coming along in leaps and bounds....golly it's exciting, these times.......

For what it's worth I wouldnt mind seeing him have a crack in defence. Not like we're playing for sheep stations any longer eh !!

might be just me..( I know...often is..... ) but I dont think Weed is the culprit here. Hes a bit down on form but he has shown he can take a mark...he can get to a leading position. Both of these situations require one very important thing to happen...decent ball delivery. The defence rests

I agree...just needs a gameplan that actually suits scoring.. Its not them...it's it !!! lol

ahhhh....gotta love this place

You'd think Demons wiser than to invoke God for help !!!

Appraisal : We're last with little to no hope for the rest of this season. I typed that very calmly btw

Am I to assume correctly you may be among the few who actually understand co-incidence ?

one step further surely...Mahoney would be under review also surely

Jackson and Pert are very different fish. Their histories suggest very different approaches.. At Melbourne Jackson left the football completely alone. It's not his thing. He had Roos to completely oversee the football, both onfield and off field. PJ just righted the ship and made it seaworthy. Pert is notorious for leaving his fingerprints all over the football. I will be very surprised if he doesn't make his presence known and thoughts manifest should we continue to spiral.

I'll say it again...we lose by design. Everybody quick to rubbish the players. They in the main are quite capable. We have gone back to lusting over magic fixes at drafts. Our plan ..gamestyle...is just inadequate in the current climate. You can have the best ingredients, but if your methodology and/or recipe is bogus you'll end up with crud. We are currently...crud. It's not the players fault in the main. They're being instructed to play in a manner you simply can't ( and expect to keep it up up 4/4 all season ). We are seeing the results of poor design and poor management.

I worry when the notion of doing things fashionably is invoked as a reason to do...well... anything. On-trend..itself fashionably cute, only really means it's called current vogue. It is indeed the fashion, but fashion is invariably only a nod to a fad. Fads seldom are more than VA transient design by one imposed on another. Can we not as an individual, or individual club make our way according to what suits US ? By being naively on-trend we've dug ourselves into a mire. Those that often experience the greatest success...are not followers, but leaders. Leaders don't do on-trend. Leaders just do.

This always gives me a little chuckle these days ? Yes...reasons. ..well not so much reason...as a chain of events. The man Roos actually wanted , we didn't get. The man others wanted...we did. Any which way we're stuck with this lame duck and his bunch of gooses for years now.

What you describe is all we can see, most definitely. However, if one looks and sees there are shadows where none were expected it has to raise an eyebrow. Jackson thought he was part of his succession plan as was Roos. He wasn't. I'm sure that wasn't expected. Something shifted at the MFC and I'm not convinced it's for the better.