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Brock McLean has adequate disposal skills. ATM, Nathan doesn't. Therefore Brock is best.

With regard to the "stringent conditions", it may surprise you to know that I urinate at least three times a week. Indeed, .... well sufficient to say a weak bladder doth not a Brownlow medallist make. And today I had my sixth! haircut for the year. (Does lap of honour around the kitchen table). Turning up waxed and shaven to a hair test seems to have two explanations. 1 He hasn't been clean for 3 cm of growth. 2 He is sticking it up the AFL. Not the act of a penitent. Maybe he has been taking lessons from his mate Mundine. Neither put his mind in an acceptable pace. So Next!

I am reassured that I have never heard of them. Their CV's are good.

I am tipping Bruce with regrets. Brock has not been clean and sober for long enough. So I would prefer Green who IMO kept going when the going got tough.

Well Chris, close the door after you. Your dad didn't like getting caught between the ball and an opponent steaming in either. It is more metaphorical with you. Maybe, the Blues have a seventh Half Back Flank in their team structure to put you on. There seemed momentarily to be some point having you on the list when you went to the mid-field. But not a lot.

1) Overall win-loss record Slightly inadequate. We should have won one or two more if the factors below had been addressed propoerly. 2) Weekly selections Would have been adequate except that he picked players who had let him down in the previous week. 3) Pre game tactics OK. Possibly good but hard to tell with the poor execution. 4) Match day tactics - including the ability to react in game day conditions, and the opposition coach. OK, more flexible than Daniher, BUT He was unable to stop his players from stopping. I saw numbers 32, 34 and the regular crew strolling out of the right forward pocket as the Tigers cleared the ball along the outer wing in Round 22. SNAFU 5) Brand of football OK. We looked good for patches in matches e.g. against Carlton (confirmed independently by a Blues supporter). But we turned the ball over regularly. Wheatley is now an unreliable kick. The skills of the side are unreasonably bad after 12 months in his stewardship. I would have more confidence in SHeedy or Daniher with respect to this. We sank very low in 2007. With hindsight, we should have insisted that Daniher see out the year. 6) Mid week and after game press conferences He made the right noises but do not translate into reality at the selection table. Bemoaned a lack of spirit but rewarded the poor efforts with selection next week. Beware Bailey! This is what made Daniher a mixed blessing. This is what cost us a top 4 in 2006; yes, just two years ago. 7) Focus on youth - the omissions of White, Yze, Holland, Carroll Correct with White and Holland. Yze should have been given the opportunity to resurrect his career. Holland should have been played picked in front of crippled Neitz as for the past few years but then he ain't the club legend. OVERALL RATING: Inadequate. Lots of talk but no ..... well in racing parlance, not entire. However, he could just wake up one day and be fair dinkum. It is a pity that we are reliant on prayer rather than the board or administration.

If thought to be a problem worth fixing, the simple answer would seem to be bounce the ball at the edge of the goal-square if the ball goes back over the score-line if the attacking team does not touch it first. Maybe the league should pencil that in and see what happens next year.

Actually Neale's list of 2006 would have a gotten us a top four finish in 2006 if we hadn't lost twice to the wooden-spooners (or close) in Carlton. Which brings up the real flaw with Daniher. Which is why I am waiting to see what Bailey does before slashing my wrists. Bailey also had a chance last year to winnow our glut a third-tall defenders but did not. Contracts may have been a problem to some extent.

Has he been tried leading out from the goalsquare? The wing would translate to the 50 metre line. His kicking whilst still alarming is now OK as far as accuracy goes for set shots. I agree with the pointless of a chest-level mark on the wing.

Full forward. He leads and is big enpugh to make a contest flat-footed. Neitz is brave but not getting the ball. Better that he gets some touch and run in the VFL. It is unaccwptable that he is needed to provide leadership lacking by Bruce/Green/etc. It should not be accepted.

Robbie Flower wrote to us and told us too.

Pickett has a bigger upside and use (well bigger everything, I guess) than the 3 through 8 candidates for mid-sized running third tall defender. Having said that he was still too fat to run last Saturday. But that should not be insoluble problem if we decide that it is unacceptable (not in the pickwickean or demonic sense of the work however).

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Very true. We now seem to be picking the best without trying to guess 2 -3 years ahead. I disagree with his assertion that you need to recruit a flock of young ruckmen. Sydney got Jolly. Varous got Simmonds. We appear to have a find in PJ. Mounting the soapbox, I do not see the pont in retaining Ferguson and Warnock after we had a look at them. But they junk-picks.

I was saying this in 2003 when people were saying that 2003 was always meant to be a development year and misrembering the time on the notorious premiership clock. I said this after the 2002 Swans match. and all the other times. So it wasn't hindsight then but rather foresight. However, I think the lack of self-deluding stupidity hardly rates a "genius". But perhaps you have moments of genius to share with us. Obviously you remebered your password.

It is a bit late to fire up now, Mr Gardner!! Easy kicks in junk-time!! It was time in early 2003. It was time after the first loss to Carlton last year. It was time at the MCG against the Swans in 2002. As someone said about globsl warming, it like being run-down by a pack of ravenous snails. Let's all feign surprise.

Yep, the depleted mid-field should still chop up the Maggies like last year although I will be interested to see Dale Thomas. We need Holland or Miller back for Rocca though.

No problem with Ricciuto. But needs Holland or Miller when gorillas are about

Yes. The difficulty is making the players play attacking football when they are feeling fragile.

Neitz - Coup de grace P Johnson - may eat words

I do not have a problem with the performance in rounds 2, 3, 5 & 6. Can't recall round 4. We made honest endeavours. ND came up with some good match-ups before the game. But we were defeated by injuries. In round 1, ND came out and said that surprise! surprise! the team was running and carrying excessively. This is unacceptably evasive to me because posters who saw the pre-season had been had been ringing alarm bells over this new bizarre game-plan Round 7 and ND bemoans our slow start. Evasive; in the last quarter, the Eagles kick 6 goals to 2. It is up to ND to develop and pick each week, players that are switched on. But not in the last decade. His loyalty is not to us members but to the players that he has known for yonks. It would have been nice to see what he could have done with a full complement of fit players. One last shot at redemption for bith him and MFC but it is not to be. So he must go and we must hope for a messiah not just a competent coach and with a will of iron; God knows we don;t havr one.

The best of the 194 - 197 cm forwards and 182 -186 cm quick midfielders and hope they fill out. You trade for the ruckmen when they are 22 y.o. eg, Jolly, Longmuir, using some of your mid-fielders when they want to be paid market-rate. Backmen are not that important unless you want to lose by less.

Apparently in the Glory Days, the powers off the filed were Warne-Smith and Cardwell. We could do with some acceptance of responsibility at the head of the fish.

Top heavy is not a problem. Neitz is dropped on form. Miller takes the gorilla down back instaed of Holland who is declining slowly. Robbo if fit comes in with Newton. Without Neitz, Green, Bruce, and White need to show leadership; both in deed and voice. Or get dropped regardless of how many possessions thet they get And Moloney, Sylvia and McLEan on return get the titles of captain, deputy etc. Keeping Neitz just for leadership implies that we accept the absence in the rest. TJ and Yze? It is to laugh.

Does the answer contain the word "Rugolo"?