John Dee

Unfortunately, I upgraded to Norton 360 just days before the Kaspersky announcement; I will ditch Norton in favour of Kaspersky next year.

It depends on whom you are playing. The 12/10 split applies to games against non-aligned sides and finals. Sandy used to play the 12/10 rule at all times to get ready for the finals; nothing wrong with that IMO.

As one who attended yesterday's Casey games, I would say that Robertson, Newton and Jurrah where the pick of the forwards in a good Casey win against good opposition. All three of them kicked waywardly at times, Robbo and Newton in particular. Cheney had a very good game.; Jurrah could be anything. In Cheney, Newton, Robertson Out Miller, Bate, Johnson

Workplace choice is a right in professional workplaces, but the analogy does not necessarily hold for professional sporting clubs. If you drive your competitor out of business or reduce them to a niche market at best, that is fine, even laudable, in a business environment ; in a sporting club, it is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Just because a sport is professional and clubs are businesses does not mean that all things that relate to other professions and businesses should be automatically applied to them.

The Tasmanian Devils are a thing of the past; how about the Tasmanian Tumours.

I think that we picked the right ones. Morton will have far more impact on games than Rioli in the long run; Grimes is a little beauty; Maric is a work in progress and the only one thus far that has not fully confirmed his status.

Possibly, but there is never any harm in research. There is a great book about this sort of thing called Money Ball, recommended reading even if you know nothing about baseball. It is the story of how the Oakland A's ceo, Billy Bean?, came up with a well researched new metric to evaluate baseball players and kept it to himself and his team This enabled his team to make out like bandits for many years by recruiting and trading in a manner that was counter-intuitive to others. Billy was smart enough to cash in with the book, but only after the system they were using started to become known.

In baseball the stat that is regarded as the most important when evaluating a hitter is OPS, which stands for on-base plus slugging. It is the percentage of plate appearances that result in him getting safely on-base plus the number of bases he gets per bat (I am doing this from memory and the slugging percentage may be a bit out). We need to come up with something similar for football; where's Teddy Hopkins when you need him. The idea of some amalgam of metres gained per disposal plus kicking efficiency would seem to have merit. BTW, in MLB OPS's of 1.6 are good, 1.8 very good and 1.9 elite.

I used to do that, but now I get off at Bourke Road and park at Gardiner Station. Train it to the G and don't have to worry about any parking issues. A Sunday Saver ticket costs about $3, way cheaper than the tolls and parking fees. Non Sunday ticket about $7. Don't get me wrong, I hate the Dump, but try taking the freeway all the way through the tunnel, getting off at Kingsway, turn right and park at Crown, first entrance. A bit of a walk to the Dump up Spencer Street, but no parking hassles. Crown can never make up their mind what they are charging; anywhere from $2 to $10. When you get back, there is an exit straight out of the carpark onto Kingsway and then straight onto the freeway.

Apparently, as of this year, rookies will be able to be selected without need of elevation after round 10. Jurrah did not get injured as such, so he never appeared on the injured list. From what I have been able to glean, he had an abscess which was surgically removed. These things can knock you about a bit, but he should be fine for this week-end.

Jack Grimes

Lighten up people. Terrance is a long time caller to SEN, and has been quite funny over the journey. That fact that he has branched out to making ads is a credit to him.

I come from the eastern suburbs and I despise Prices Park. The only reason that I would go is that my daughter will want to go.

No, I mean the option for an MCC member to become an MFC member. Last year it was $40, I think. The AFL never used to let us count these as members, but relented a few years ago. Whilst this makes our figures look good, other clubs, in particular Hawthorn, have also taken advantage of it and the AFL now regards the three game membership package in the same light as a full member. Many argue that this inflates the figures, and this may well be true. I am just saying that many club members go over and above the standard membership and wonder just how much this offsets the lower value members. BTW the reserved seat option is value for money in spades, and I have told the club this. $60 for a reserved seat, and a good one too, at 10 home games, priceless!

It would be nice to know the breakdown of all the different types of membership packages that each of the clubs have sold. This would reveal how many cut-price memberships have been sold, but also how many premium packages have been sold. I ante up for 3 packages at $210 a head (11 Home games with reserved seats), but they are counted as the same as a $40 gift from an MFC member.

Make that 1 and 17. like us last year. If they finish last and we attain less that 16.5 points, we still get pick 1, like Carlton did to Richmond? a couple of years ago.

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Depending on your audience; to me it would make perfect sense and be syntactally correct. I am a web programmer and HTML and XML are second nature to me, which is why I chose to use 'syntax' instead of the more general 'spelling'.

Shouldn't that be - <sarcasm>Am I the only under 20 melbourne supporter?</sarcasm>

Bloody hell, mate; thin skinned or what? Or are you just baiting us to help you with your thesis. I find some of the syntax and grammar on this forum to be atrocious; and that is the first time that I have ever been moved to say so.

Couldn't agree more, digga. Cale will be a beauty, Palmer will be a good serviceable footballer. Big blokes, particularly the tall rangy types, need a great deal of time and patience. I still think that Cotchin will ultimately be the best of the 2007 draft, but I am not at all disappointed in Cale thus far.

Just shows how simple some things are; tweaked his knee and looked to be ok afterward. Routine scans picked up a near full tear of his ACL; out for the year.

I was just perusing the stats, and as the great Mark Twain said - There are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Newton is not credited, or is that debited, with any clangers! I'm sorry, set shots for goal from 5 metres out on not overly oppressive angles from your full forwrd that do not score goals are clangers of the first order!!!

Wona kicks goals ffs; just what we are screaming out for!

6. Davey 5. Moloney 4. Petterd 3; Dunn 2. Frawley 1. Rivers