Demonised

I love highlights packages, but I have to remind myself that Robbie did this sort of stuff just about every game, televised or not. I'd forgotten how flat out quick he was. The evasions, the side steps, they're embedded in my memory, but he was fast, too.

Best player I ever saw, and an inspiration to weedy players everywhere. No one warned me, when I was young, how hard it was going to be when my heroes died.

"Still Woewodin!'

Bumped into him once when he was visiting a school I was visiting. He crushed my hand when he shook it and while chatting for five minutes he told four jokes, including two mother-in-law jokes, he addressed me by name three times and was genuinely interested in what I was doing there. He was a cracker, a true original, will be much missed.

From the thread title, I thought this was about us playing in New Zealand.

A winless season is still possible - just not for us.

Oxymoron

Design-wise, I think the emblem is a bit of a hotch-potch, jamming a lot of disparate elements together. I prefer a cleaner, leaner symbol. That said, it could be worse.

Done. Lifetime subscription. Good value at twice the price.

It's guaranteed that Col will play at least one stellar game for the Dockers - Round 16. 3 Brownlow votes sewn up already.

It always depresses me how few of our underage champions fail to go on with it. Whatever happened to James Ahern and Morrish Medallist Phillip Friedman? Or Steve Hilton and Robert Santagada, trophy winners from the under 17s? We talk about poor player development over the last ten years, but it might be a harder task than it seems to us outsiders.

Here's another, slightly less sensational, view on the 'discovery': http://io9.com/no-science-has-not-discovered-a-new-body-part-1460080409 Still has some interesting possibilities, though.

Kenny Frencham later coached West Brunswick in the Amateurs, where I started senior footy.

Played lots of junior footy in the country, then came to Melbourne for uni. Too busy for footy for a few years, then got the itch and looked for a local team needing players. Ended up in an E grade amateur club - not an old boys' team - and played there for ten years or so, a premiership and a couple of B&Fs. Great days.

Play him at FB.

I'm always convinced by Craig's thoughtful approach and if we could reproduced this vision for four quarters, I'd be a happy man. The football? Good, honest, fast stuff. No stop and start. Plenty of looking for options before delivering. Lots of run from behind the ball.

Remember when Colin Garland manned up on Buddy Franklin and beat him? I do. Seems like it was in another universe, though.

I'm still dark on Gerard Healey.

Very early on, hosted the Nylex Football Show?

He wasn't perfect, though. I saw him on a mudheap at Kardinia Park once and someone (Adrian Battiston?) drilled a tumble punt at him with a ball that must have weighed twenty or thirty kilos. It hit RF in the chest and bounced straight off. Of course, he then scooped it up left handed, baulked and wove around three Geelong scrappers and then slammed home a left footer from forty metres ...

I want a club that wins when it's playing poorly. I want a club that crushes weaker opposition. I want a club that other clubs hate to play. I want a club that when other clubs look at the fixture at the start of the year say: '#@%! We have to play Melbourne twice!' I want a club that the League caves in to when we say: 'Clash strip? We don't need no stinking clash strip!' I want a club that holds the most number of premierships. I want a club that dominates the free to air TV schedule, the Friday night TV spots and any sundry TV ad that features footy. I want a club that has the greatest number of AusKick jumper wearers. I want a club that other clubs' supporters look at and say: 'Why can't we be like Melbourne?'

And I'm not crazy about Adelaide, either.

And West Coast.

I want a premiership, but I'd settle for beating Carlton, Essendon, Collingwood, North and any other team I hate. Geelong, for one.