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mauriesy

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  1. Injury list June 2: Chris Dawes Calf 1 week Sam Frost Toe 6 weeks Jay Kennedy-Harris Groin 2 weeks Dean Kent Hamstring 4-5 weeks Christian Petracca* Knee Season Christian Salem Hamstring 2 weeks Jack Trengove Foot Season Dom Tyson Knee Test
  2. If Matt Jones is the 38th best player on our list, I doubt we'll be in a 'world of pain'.
  3. Funny, I've never thought of Fitzpatrick as having an 'awkward gait' and 'gangly appearance'. Not in the mould of Spencer anyway (now there's another who might be in transition to something else).
  4. It's in desert Alice Springs, not tropical Darwin.
  5. After round 6: Kennedy, Betts, Garlett and Waite: 66 Carlton: 66
  6. WADA has only appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport twice on Australian sports doping matters. It lost both cases. So I don't think anyone can feel vindicated, happy, sad, jubilant, disappointed or whatever until the case is completed later in the year. All it does at present is put Essendon in the frying pan for another seven months.
  7. Every thread for jackaub has to be a criticism of the club. One of the most negative 'supporters' I've ever encountered.
  8. Fremantle are a very mature side. On Sunday they had only one player in their team with less than 50 games experience (they also a better midfielder than Ablett, fed by a crane for a ruckman). Melbourne had 8 players under 50 games. Hogan, Salem, Michie, Newton and Brayshaw had less than 20. I'm not expecting these players to go anywhere near a team like Freo for a couple of years. Anything else is wishful thinking.
  9. If I were a policeman, I would ask two questions: 1. Was Clarkson assaulted or made to feel threatened? 2. If so, was the force he used proportional to the harm he wished to prevent? If the answer to both questions is yes, then I'd let him go. If not, I would charge him with assault.
  10. Richie, the freshly minted Demon
  11. Except for the Elimination final on Friday September 8 in the same year.
  12. It was a pity we didn't have Viney to niggle the crap out of Sloane.
  13. Seventy-five per cent is a good AFL efficiency, but it still means you make 1 'error' in 4. As for the first quarter of the year, it's like boxers circling each other in the first round. Not much happening, not many punches thrown. I wouldn't read too much into it. I guess some people are eternal pessimists. Years of abject disappointment will do that. Just be grateful for a win to make your week.
  14. One thing that really annoyed me was they ran out of Football Records before the game even started. I would have liked one as a souvenir of Hogan's debut game. Based on previous matches, obviously didn't anticipate 27,000.
  15. Cooper's 9. But Indiana's got more pluck.
  16. Correct. When Ablett fumbled it was 95-77 with about 8 minutes left. Melbourne took it down the length of the ground, Hogan marked and made it 101-77.
  17. mauriesy

    H200

    So in another 20 games we can call him 'Heavy Harry"? (That may be too obscure for Victorians aged under about 65.)
  18. All it shows is that if you obfuscate, deny, delay, hide evidence or don't keep records, you will get away with it on the basis that there is no "comfortable satisfaction" that you've done it.
  19. I think Garland and vandenBerg will play.
  20. Youth obsessed? On the Demonland banner, supposedly the cream of our team, 50% of the players depicted came recently from other clubs. Except for Dom Tyson, they are all over 26, three are over 28 and one is 32 next week. They do provide the age and experience our 'youth obsessed' team from a few years ago desperately needed.
  21. What's the nature of the debt? Melbourne's debt was reduced from $5 million to zero with the Jim Stynes push a few years back, but now it's $7 million again. But that's not mainly on club operations like the old debt was, it's on venue mortgages when they took the gaming club over. If that's part of the $100 million total, it's meaningless, because it provides income and profit as well. If it's West Coast making utterances, you can bet there's an ulterior motive they want in their favour.
  22. I think maybe you were too influenced by the second half and not the first, which was damn good. I'm sure we took our foot off the pedal a bit and started trying some different options. The wind in the last quarter also changed to the south and was blowing directly across the ground, so we lost the large advantage from the second quarter.
  23. Joeboy - way too pessimistic.
  24. Or 14 or 16.
  25. Is this the same KB that tipped last year's Grand Final to be between Richmond and the Kangaroos?
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