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not really woken up...just decided to put the detour sign up before anyone got ideas about retaliations towards protected species !!

Good luck Angus...where ever your path takes you from here, whether it's the G or otherwise.

Mitch might well prove Kent's undoing

He thinks...I like it... Some players find space..Trapper was a classic at that..Flash also... Hannan finds TIME. It's interesting.

Keep looking !! Am not impressed by Melbourne's silence at all.. In footy parlance...we're squibbing it !! ( again )

im not sure who the player will be...as it comes down to desirability mixed with availability but I do hope we are looking around with great endeavour . Its a BIG hole back there !!

who at melbourne is a better full back ?

lucky them !!

you know...a conspiracist type might think there was more to all of this

well done Mitch... keep going son.. A long way to go but you have the idea

Goody hasn't graduated yet. He will. At least he does react and make changes in a game. It is rather interesting to note often our first and last qtrs...or latter part of last qtrs...is often where we get done. Goody needs to get these right himself first before he can manouvre the troops.

This thread is ostensibly about Salem. Well when we play the return fixture at their island abode i fervently hope that we not only take a few larger types , I hope we take a no steps back attitude. im expecting we seek to exact revenge , to restore some honour. As we ARE Demon orientated I want that visit to not only record a win but to turn that venue into a very unhappy memory for Scott's tots. Turn it into Salem's Lot. Do a Crows job on them.. Destroy them. Quite frankly i want to do a number on them.

Akum gets it ✓

An aspect to what the club does/can do is exactly what the Kings of unsocial footy as well as othed no nonsense clubs do, they contest, they push back. What this does is broadcast a clear message...pick on us and well see you at the house. Over time it puts clowns like the mrp on notice that you better think twice. When was the last time the Dees ever wigged up and called anyone's bluff ?

You can't have read much of this thread then if you come up with that. I'm affraid you , and i dont say this personally per se , only you often vocalise the clubs action, or lack of, typify what is wrong with Melbourne. You assume the club does something. Where is any evidence to this effect ? The AFL is agenda driven. A bit like the umpiring it's all over the shop. No longer does it keep shop for the member clubs to whom it should be answering it now wags the dog. Beasts like Gils Dills are swayed by few things but media scutiny ( as you hint ) is one. When you're given lip service , if that, by official chanels then, just as in politics , you play the game of third parties. That is you throw out 'word bombs' triggering off discussion and pressure . The AFL wont blink if we get annoyed but it will act if it thinks its darling reputation as doyen of sport and all things wonderful is being tarnished. You see the AFL is all about them. Over time they have essentially gone rogue on the clubs. Its time to pull them back into line. The more astute clubs know how to play the game, in fact one tells us exactly that....and they do. Just like the school yard. Bullies only flourish if you give them the power. Take it back and they kowtow. Time for MELBOURNE to remind Gil and his useless mrp etc who's game this is. It's not Gil's. You want respect. Stand up for yourself.

Sorry Saty ..thats a bit too Neville Chamberlain for me

No.... that's just you ....on your second bottle

You know ..im not ever convinced they do. Do you know for a fact they do ? If so...it gets us absolutely nowhere. We're seen as weak as shlt by other clubs. We're seen as pushovers by ths AFL...or rather another boyz club with vested interests run by folk who favour certain clubs. North completely outfoxed us. Call Scott and Co all the names but they've got it far better figured than us No one takes us seriously. Ffs .. i don't !! We play a mans game and send boys out without the mental preparedness. Occasionally you get lucky and the cards fall well and you have an Adelaide game and feel all whoop'd de do... and then there's the rest of times. But back to your question Sigil I dont see the club doing sweet f all !! And im a bit over it

Make room a #44 will do might just 'clean' my 'stops' ... for ... effect

We got outplayed...outcoached A lot to learn yet

Fair dinkum how soft are many of you.. Salems nudge was tiggy touch. All in a days work. Cunningtons was blatant thuggery. You penalise one ...you do both.

Macca i think its all too easy to make our circumstances fit our results. I don't buy it. We were in fine position to win games despite all of theze 'reasons' . When players walk over the line there are no problems , only competition. We've been in it there abouts but some crap play has cost us. These are often decisions in play. There's no time or context to reference those outside concerns. So i ask myself why are we losing ? I know why we lost sunday. Neither actually is about players out, more picking and placing them wrongly. Maggots didnt help but the game WAS there to take still. I want to know why we cant play 4 qtrs. I want to know where we go for the first 30 mins ? Are we really trying to win or still hoping undeserved games bolsters underdeveloped noobs ? We ought to be doing a lot bettet.

God help us if we are 'needing' Oscar to do so. Fine if he does, but geebus what nutjob of a club doesn't look beyond.

Who isn't.. North isnt ?

Club needs a bit of mongrel....from top down. Not happy how we just roll over...all the bloody time.