beelzebub

had a bit of a day out though in the nab

no Journalism........ just WTF !!

To ?

strangely enough....some would offer that as a possible 3rd answer

exactly...logistical semantics of a fashion.. aka gobbledigook !! Its revisionist.....good fodder for any wanting an excuse...........

what is it they say....you can only play who fronts up. We dont control that ergo....wgaff

Its all about Eddie making excuses for his rabble poor darlings !!!

The Pies are crap...it just slews the graph somewhat. It is what it is

astute insurance, nothing more , nothing less

Earlier this year , before and during the NAB there was much conjecture , harrowing and MFCSS-ing , obsessing , no/yessing about what may or may never occur. e thought ( some of us) bring on the Footy season and something of substance to grasp a hold of. Something we can talk about that was real, as it was happening afore us. It IS the season proper and there's still just as much worrying about the peripheral or non existent as ever. Who was it .... The more things change the more they stay the same

thats just the answer to life.... the question i posed has a duality of solutions, both equally valid and can be applied successfully to the known situation. What happens/is happening with Hogan is known to Hogan and maybe the club. What I think/say, irrelevant. My thinking does go to the idea...it wont matter in the big picture for us. He stays/he goes...whatever . The machine that is NOW the MFC will find a new cog, change gears and put the pedal to the metal...irregardless He's only one player...they are ALL only one player. As Roos suggest hes never met a player that alone can beat 22.

Pondering all of this reminds me a little of this style of Math's problem √1= ?

Need I say more reminds me of Dial M for Murder.....lol

Its the nature of the new beast. There will be list turnovers as a matter of course. Still, we might get to the stage a-la Hawthorn etc that keep it to a minimum, trade our picks for a needed role player etc. The more competition for spots the higher the bar is raised. The quality of depth is vastly improving. All good foundations for a real crack

que sera

Good to see we all haven't lost touch with the MFCSS. The meltdown and theorists are rampant upon other threads And some suggest we talk nonsense in here For all you music lovers ..., but necessarily of Canadian Crooners..... I present As it happened they were here in OZ last Oct..... Bloody Brilliant night... can they sing.....wow ENJOY !!! ( or not...lol )

There should be a Royal Commission into the AFL. Never happen of course as those that would instigate such are already inside the beast

I wonder how many pages ?

Just as an aside really but it was my little contribution to educating the great unwashed up there I did play some school rep league. I had a particular quality , or trick up my sleeve being an ex-Vic who grew up playing footy in the 60's and whose idol was a Melb player wearing #8. Like any kid I loved to pretend I could drop kick a ball just like Taz. Of course I couldnt, but I could drop kick a ball and easily kick it around 35-40m even as a 12/13 year old Now what used to happen was around/after the 4th tackle if we were still on the wrong side of the 25 y line The 'rule' was to get it to me . Id always try to get myself near to being somewhat dead in front of the sticks. They were only drop goals...and one pointers but this was schoolboy footy and 3 or so of those was a handy thing. This of course worked well till the other schools twigged. I got carried off a few times..lol ( thought wasnt laughing at the time as I recall ) You try to bring some culture to the Neanderthals and "whack !! "

71/72 I went to Greystanes High in Western Sydney. It was known amongst the League Playing Fraternity as PoofterBall those of us that chose to play it would be relegated to some agricultural paddock or similar to fend for our selves...No posts ..no umps..lol Lepers had it better than anyone wanting to play Footy !!

came to OZ as a 10 quid tourist aged 5 Turned up to School and asked who I barracked for so said Melbourne as I figured there had to be a team called Melbourne. I didnt even know what footy was then til the weather got a bit cooler and then it was kick to kick at school , waxing on the footy ground with ya mates. Seemed I had a bit of flair and eventually represented my school at FF. We used to get visits from our zoned VFL club. This being Hawthorn. I was tutored and mentored as a kid forward by some hack called Hudson, could play bit Im told. some big kids called Knights and Mathews also ran clinincs. Not sure whatever became of these blokes Used to play a little with a local club also and they were under Richmonds zone...Different side of the creek I think. Somehow my good mate Al and I ended up playing for the Toiges... got to run out on the G and everything... ahhh Little League...dems the days So technically I might have been on a Richmond list. I'll claim that Moved to Sydney and footy was ....well , If you think its a novelty up there now...back in 71/72 it was poofter-ball !! Back to Vic in 72 out of sorts with footy though still loved it. School training was a bus ride away so stuff that for a joke. Mainly played Basketball representatively for many years til one of the school coaches sprung me in PE playing footy...a little better than he was led to believe. So for a little while in latter school days I got to play both sports...But mainly played 2nds and in the Ruck. Hated it Hate rucking. .Played a couple of 1sts games as a HF flanker ( thats FLANKER !! ) When we played inter-house footy though common sense prevailed ( not sure why ) and I returned to the fwd line..well CHF Had occasion here to play against Andy Moir. His shoulders are good for a lift up btw Played a little footy at uni and some local burb-ball as well. Thats about it

for some odd reason I cant actually vote on the poll..

Exactly my thinking.

This has been done to death surely We've learnt and moved on as a club Let's move on also......