Nasher

Apologies, missed it. Thanks for the summary.

Summary?

I reckon it's academic anyway. Can't see him pulling on an MFC jumper again personally.

Man, there's always friggin' one, isn't there?

Yep - the group I have lazily come to refer as the foot soldiers. Exactly those players in fact. I thought White in particular looked way in over his head. I hate to single out a rookie listed player in game 3(?) but he just couldn't compete on any level. It's a very tough way to find out that you're not at the standard. I don't begrudge him or blame him, just think it's the harsh reality.

Too many NQR players in this game. I overestimated the ability of the likes of White and Wagner to plug gaps. All the footsoldiers struggled. Bugg, the less said the better. Viney out really hurt, and will hurt. It's disappointing the be so comprehensively outplayed, but we weren't going to go the whole season without losing again. If we were going to have this game, it might as well be against the rampaging Swans, at the end of 4 games in 18 days, with a third of our best side out, including our two skippers and our three best forwards. We dust ourselves off and get on with it I think. And hopefully get a few footballers back soon.

It wouldn't be unreasonable. They keep showing it on TV and it makes me feel sick. On further reflection, @Deestroy All is probably right. 6 and career - how could the coach or his teammates ever trust him again?

Bring back Bohdan Babychuck!

3-4 I'd have thought. Oh well. Can't continue to pick a loose cannon and act all surprised when it fires off.

We will win this. Getting murdered at the contest - I can't see that being allowed to continue to happen. Goodwin knows how to reset the side at half time. Despite the fact that we've hardly had the ball, they haven't buried us.

I reckon our season has been defined. Competitive since the first game, and have gone up a gear in the last month. Notwithstanding our injuries, I'm confident for this game. That doesn't mean I think we're certainties, just that our best is good enough and I know they'll bring it. This is the two form sides of the competition, battling it out at the G in prime time. Can't wait.

Considering the injuries, Casey only lose White from last week (as Wagner went to Perth) and gain Smith which pretty much cancels it out. Still a strong looking VFL side I reckon. Really hope Weid, JKH, Kennedy and Kent can pick up where they left off and continue putting upward pressure on the seniors.

Fair enough. I guess I struggle with booing something that is pretty much outside their control, but each to their own. I'd probably have booed my head off at him if that incident occurred in a Melbourne game, but because of the act, and I wouldn't have carried it beyond the game it happened in. I agree that he has a more appropriate sentence now after that ridiculous tribunal outcome.

No, I genuinely don't understand why people would boo him because he got a lenient sentence. If you said you were going to boo the members of the tribunal then I'd probably be lining up with you. The outcome was ridiculous and he should have got the 4 weeks at least - not his fault that he didn't though. The fact that he got a lenient sentence doesn't add to his sins, that's why I don't get it. Do you boo all players who get rubbed out for stray limbs? Did you give Lewis or Hogan a big old booooooooooo when they returned from their suspensions?

Because he wasn't named as an emergency? Kent won't request a trade at the end of the year.

Houli was suspended.

Just one of those things footy oafs do I guess. Houli wasn't on the tribunal last time I checked. It makes absolutely no sense to boo him.

Why would anyone boo him?

I heard a few whispers late in his time here that some of the players weren't huge fans, but for the first time in hearing stuff like that, I honestly didn't care whether it was true or not. Some supporters said his gameplan was outdated and boring to watch - didn't care about that either. The only thing that mattered from his time here was setting us on the correct path. It wasn't a lone effort (see PJ), but between them they assembled a team that can get us moving forward. A recruiter who hasn't made an error yet, a modern, energetic coach who knows who knows how to motivate, support and develop his players, putting in support staff of appropriate experience around to assist said young coach, and backing and developing existing resources already at the club to deliver what was required (Mahoney et al). To say Roos saved us in my view is unfair to every other member of the club who busted a gut to get us going again, but to me he was worth every cent and we have a lot to thank him for. It was fantastic to hear him referring to the club as 'we'.

For those who saw it, that post and the replies that followed are gone and the offender permanently banned.

Fair enough. The other part that galls me a bit is the fact that you acknowledge that it's a "big if", but are carping on about it as if it's fact. But that's nothing I haven't already said in this thread a dozen times now, and I'm a fan of yours and appreciate the reasonable middle ground approach to your post, so I don't think I'll keep going over it.

It's not without possibility, but it still upsets me though that after all this, the focus is still on how the victim reacted to being punched. It's part of a much broader cultural issue and I thought you would get that. @rpfcdid a good post on this on the very early pages on this thread. I want to be clear. I give Clarry the benefit of the doubt on the dive, but ultimately it's irrelevant. I don't care if Oliver did a triple backflip with pike - Schofield threw an elbow and got away with it purely because everyone decided they weren't happy with the way the victim of the elbow reacted to it. I reckon it stinks to high heaven.

Heh, yeah. Hey, remember when our best ever junior player got punched - twice - and it was his reputation that got soiled? LOL yeah I remember, hilarious stuff!

Occam's Razor says they re-signed him because they think he can play. I think you're over-complicating something that is simple. They wouldn't risk getting stuck with a player they didn't want just so they can salvage something from a trade. Either he's good enough to keep around or he's not, and his trade value is zero regardless of his contract status.

It's especially galling when it's Melbourne "supporters" doing it.