steve_f

On 8/31/2017 at 2:53 PM, Nasher said:

Steve has this view that if you're not attacking the club then you must be defending it. If you're not ranting and raving, you must be happy with how things are. I'm surprised anyone even bothers replying to him anymore tbh.

Please kill my account and block my internet address.  Thanks and go dees.

On 8/31/2017 at 2:53 PM, Nasher said:

Steve has this view that if you're not attacking the club then you must be defending it. If you're not ranting and raving, you must be happy with how things are. I'm surprised anyone even bothers replying to him anymore tbh.

I do not make that assumption but I am not accomplishing anything and obviously be annoying so I will stop.  Bye bye.

On 29/08/2017 at 8:39 AM, the rolling fog said:

Apologies if this has been posted, commented on elsewhere already. I had a look around and couldn't find on here yet.

Below article from Caro published on The Age this morning: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/melbournes-finals-miss-burns-in-the-players-guts-nathan-jones-20170828-gy5rno.html 

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Melbourne president Glen Bartlett has described the collective "shock and disappointment" still reverberating around the club after missing out on the finals "after a season that promised so much."

A shattered Bartlett said it was too soon to take a publicly analyse what had gone wrong for the Demons following Saturday's upset loss to Collingwood but that he hoped the disappointment would "galvanise us as a club."

"It's pretty raw at the moment," said Bartlett. "We're very disappointed. We're very disappointed for our members and for our fans after a season that promised so much. We played some first class footy and so much of it was fresh and it was exciting.

"It shouldn't be the end it should be the beginning. I hope that things like this would galvanise us as a club."

Melbourne was placed fifth after round 14 but the Collingwood loss was its fifth in nine games and the club ultimately missed finals by 0.5 per cent.

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Having required only a win at the MCG on Saturday to play a role in September the club expected this week to have provided a launching pad into their first finals appearance in more than a decade. Instead Melbourne players were conducting exit interviews with coach Simon Goodwin and planning a more sombre version of 'Mad Monday'.

Bartlett said the pivotal West Coast victory was witnessed by some groups of players, officials and coaches while others deliberately chose not to watch.

"Our players and supporters were pretty emotional for the season to end like it did and speaking personally it's just a feeling of shock and disappointment."

Melbourne co-captain Nathan Jones blamed their agonising miss on a season of inconsistency.

"It's obviously a pretty bitter pill to swallow," Jones said. "The players are hurting as much as our supporters would be livid when the opportunity was there and we let it slip.

"It's a culmination of results ... rather than just the first-quarter performance against Collingwood (that) has led us to this position.

"Hopefully it burns in the players' gut over the pre-season."

Sidelined by a leg injury, Jones was by himself on Sunday as he watched their finals spot snatched from them.

"I locked myself down and sat on the couch," he said.

"It's one of the more nerve-racking situations I've been in ... frustration and anger."

Despite the agonising near-miss, Jones is bullish about their future.

"We're well aware of where we sit in our journey, there are going to be ups and downs," he said.

"That can be quite frustrating at times, particularly to our supporters who have been through such a range of emotions and such a downward spiral over the past decade.

"To see us on the improve ... with hope and the opportunity that was there for this season, to see it slip like it has, is a bitter pill to swallow.

"But hopefully it leaves us in a better position as a footy club and as a playing group for the experience.".

A bit of a jackass for concentrating on the last match.  We missed out by 0.5% X 1934 points =  10 points.  We could have easily gone sleepy-bye-byes later in any of our wins to earn this.

Anything by a Chicago Bluesman about a faithless woman

15 hours ago, Hell Bent said:

Has anyone managed to find closure and moved on from the heartache?

I`m still filthy!

I am helped by expecting it from around Round 18.  Like a slow-motion wreck.

If we had won by extra goal in any of the games where we were momentarily 40 - 60 up and scrambled home, we would be in the finals.  This match should have been irrelevant.

On 27/08/2017 at 10:14 PM, Dappa Dan said:

I was highlighting the Lewis part only. Apologies for not being clearer.

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Trade him? Seriously? Do you know what we gave up to get him? Next to nothing. You think he'd be worth more now?

Thank you for your considered response.   It will be interesting to see Lewis in the B + F and how the club rates him.  Nah, I too wouldn't give much for Vince but it may be worth a shot.

11 minutes ago, Je Roos Salem said:

Improve the list, but far from an overhaul please. The players need to know each other and care, we can't just keep replacing them

Way back in Primary School, the teacher used to split you and you friend up to stop you mucking about.  So you are in effect implying that the coach has control of his class.  Not that I am seeing.

5 minutes ago, Dappa Dan said:

I stopped reading right there.

Stupidest post I've read on here in a while.

Fair dinkum. I know everyone is upset. But you don't go blind when you're upset.

Spencer and King have done nothing.

Vince's kicking is a menace to the order of the universe.  We are flush with dynamos in the midfield where he does less damage.

Lewis is knackered.

About a third in, we were looking pretty irresistible with clearances and handballing forward.  Then we choked as expected.

The first part is the easy part.

Trade Watts - he consumes too much of the club's attention and is difficult to keep out as a number 1 pick.  Kennedy, old man Trengrove, KH all perform better at VFL.  If contractually (or otherwise) entitled to be picked, he should tried at CHB where we could drool at kicks I50.

Trade Bugg.  Troublesome and still has currency.

Offer and then delist if required Vince, King, Spencer, Lewis, Kent, Hulett, Garland, Trengrove

Rookie a ruckman from Box Hill.  That is where we got our good ones from.

Only recruit KPP's over 195 cm.  Hullett, Smith, Smith, Kielty are unlikely.

The second part is harder being an apology from the Board that we did not reach our full potential.  An acknowledgement from the football department that they were gooses in picking players which they could not trust.  The players don't gate-crash. They are picked without immaculate disposal in the VFL and reasonable in the AFL.  They are picked while not running to contests in either.

Revelations --

Hannan - looked good when filling in in the midfield

TMac up forward

Hunt

Rubbed our noses in it - 

Kent

Don't give up yet - OMac, Frost, Wagner

Pretty much as expected.

Pederson - can rely on

Jones - can rely on

the rest - Nah, not really

and started with

Vince - traditional dud kickout

6 hours ago, rpfc said:

 

Why is getting dropped the extinction of a player? Form comes and goes, habits get worse and they get better. These are universal truths for footy. And they are truths in a vacuum, but there is no vacuum with Watts.

Everything he has done, or hasn't done, since the beginning has been overblown and treated completely separate to the reality every other player lives in.

I would say he has been poor in 7 games this year, played his role in 3 games and was in the best 5 times. And that isn't good enough, and that is why he is dropped, but if he can get back to the form he had for Rds 12 and 13 before his hammy he might help us win a final. In 2017. In, like three weeks...

That would be good, yeah?

That would be good but I do not think that he has it in him.  That is my prediction of the future as is that the Swans are going to crush the Crows.

Another opinion is that he represents better value as a trade to those he played well against.

I would be chuffed if he won the Norm Smith medal but that is going to Nathan S.

No point in dropping Watts for one game if he doesn't repent at Casey.  I can see him not playing again this year and being traded.   It's time to move on with our (football) lives.

Pass

Bring back Dan Nicholson

Thankfully the game wasn't on free to air and I saw no vision.  BUT how can Garlett have one kick and two handpasses?   Really!  How! Was he running away?  One of the three disposals was effective. How can he be up for selection?  

Each player is debriefed after each game or they were 10 years ago.  It would be interested to hear his.  Why didn't you run to help?  Can we have our money back please?

I still have an issue with the theory that only designated leaders should be expected to show leadership esp. when it gets tough. Hannan should have a deep and meaningful with Vince.

If he gets some games under his belt, I expect that Wagner will edge ahead of Tyson Bugg/Harmes ANB.

15 hours ago, Wrecker45 said:

How do you know if someone is vegan?

Don't worry they will tell you.

They want to call home and have a glowing finger.

16 minutes ago, Pates said:

Funny that we got in trouble all those years ago because we sent a defender forward. 

Ray Biffen?

Also Wagner and possibly Hannan.  Excusing them for this weekend in their first dozen games.

And easier to say who is not a lock - Frost, Garlett, Hogan, OMac, Petracca, Tyson, Vince, Salem

This is madness.  The crowd or a portion thereof will boo and Hird will be tempted to self-medicate again.  As surely as night follows day.

23 hours ago, QueensBirthday said:

I think it's an incredibly racist thread. Shut it down.

steve_f, I guess you think all white people look the same to you!!!

some of my best friends are white.

damn. you could be right.

Just Kennedy for Kent to maintain vitamin K levels. Just got my brotherinlaw back from the grave.

Watt and Tyson sound underdone for a trip away against a pushy team such as Adelaide.  Hogan and Gawn were already too sluggish.

Kent was generally unable to gather the ball when leading in the chase and misdirected quite a few handpasses.  He was hard at the ball nearby but didn't move around much.  Perhaps he needs to lose 3 or 4 kilograms.

Stretch was OK and did his job.

What I meant was that the profile for Corey Maynard on the MFC site actually refers to Lachlan Filipovic, Refer http://www.melbournefc.com.au/player-profile/corey-maynard.  

That of Lachlan Filipovic is blank.

After two emails to the club, this has not been corrected and is a blight on the history of Australian football.  I am consulting my books on etiquette to discover the appropriate truckload to back up and dump at the club.