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Last time I saw, Foxtel was TV.

Oh FCS, I've walked the Larapinta trail in July and the weather is very pleasant. Not much different to physical activity anywhere else.

When? We won the game in Alice Springs easily. We won the game in Darwin easily. We won the game after Darwin easily, running away with it in the second half. It's a long bow to suggest Darwin will still be a factor this weekend. Where's the massive fitness advantage to the opposition?

I don't see why that means we shouldn't be.

Gee, there's a lot of huffing and puffing on here about what should be a basic recovery for professional athletes. We won the week after Darwin and surged in the second half of the game, didn't we? Must have been really tired from the tropical exertion. Blame Hibberd's quad, done at training this morning, on a game two weeks ago? Or a toe injury to Stretch that is probably not even related to heat and humidity? Or Viney's foot condition that was pre-existing? Correlation does not equal causation, and in these instances there's probably not even a correlation. What about all the people in the NT who love going to the games? The TV exposure we get, not just during the game? The great financial benefits? Oh, that's right, just abandon the concept and leave it to "someone else".

Well, someone else will just have to step up.

If he went to Fremantle and kicked 3 goals a game, it would be half their score. ?

Every time?

We also need to accumulate reasons for him to come, accumulated enough salary cap, and accumulate our support.

Gawn would be up there if it wasn't for his injured 2017.

Gaff can accumulate 35 possessions in my side any time he likes.

You've got two choices ... look backwards with despair at the past, or look forward with optimism at where our group of players is going. I prefer the latter, and I'm with ProDee. While I think great things in 2018 might be premature (although you never discount anything) it's still a stepping stone. In 2019 and 2020 we'll see this team really arrive. Slashing your wrists in the meantime is, of course, your prerogative.

That's irrelevant to what you said. You said he "wilted under pressure" when in fact his output in the last two losing games has been the same as all the other games he's played this season i.e he averages 29 possessions a game. We could do with an outside player who accumulates that many, if that is the word you wish to use instead of "he gets it a lot". And no one on here has said he's a "messiah". More exaggeration from you. He would just add class, not change the side completely.

In the last two matches, Gaff had 24 possessions against the Swans and 32 against the Bombers (easily the Eagles highest possession winner). Hardly "wilting under pressure"

Wright is playing in the reserves for a side that is bottom four with a percentage of 62. They can't kick more than 5 goals a game, yet he can't get a game. I don't see how he'd help, let alone giving away JKH and swapping a worse pick.

You must be watching a different Jones to me.

One player shouldn't make a 7-goal difference. We were at full strength otherwise. I hope all those here who were ridiculing Champion Data's rating of the Collingwood midfield are thinking again. De Goey, Pendlebury, Sidebottom, Treloar et al are a very good combination and well above ours. BTW, I don't think Cox would be anywhere near as effective if it were wet. Collingwood had better hope for dry finals.

My father-in-law was an Essendon supporter in 1948, and he still goes on about how Melbourne brought back $%^&*# Jack Mueller to play full-forward and how he kicked 8, 6 and 6 goals in three finals to win the flag for Melbourne.

Intriguing notion, this idea of "Supporters as Team". Just because supporters are frothing at the mouth over achievements in the last month doesn't mean the actual team is thinking the same way.

Yes. Trachoma is a disease caused by the bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Largely preventable by clean hands and a clean environment, which is the message of the Melbourne program.

How much does he think TMac would sign for? Peanuts?

I blame the Masterchef distraction for not winning by 150.

I don't actually watch Masterchef and I don't like a lot of reality TV. But that's not the point. Nor is it the point that jackaub and Rocky thinks it's "crap". The point is that nearly a million people don't think it's "crap". The Masterchef episode was filmed off-season, and it's a comparatively small effort on the club's and the player's part to get massive exposure on prime time television. It shows there's more to the club than just playing football, and there's a lot of great footage of our magnificent home ground. I have presumed your view of the club from the massive number of critical posts you make. Maybe you could prove me wrong by being more positive more often as we rise up the ladder. I understand that might be hard.

The first promo shot with the AHG top was filmed last year, at the Masterchef lunch all the players had iSelect tops and it was filmed earlier this year.

I thought when I saw this thread that the one person who would object to it was you. You never have a single positive thing to say about the club. Do you have any idea what an hour's prime time exposure on one of Australia's most popular television shows is worth? My son's restaurant has Masterchef film there every second year. They did it again earlier in the year. They will literally get thousands of calls in the week after it is aired.