Nasher

Exactly the word that crossed my mind too. Seems to have moved in to the "utter nonsense for a headline" territory. Shame. Oh well.

I was furious at the time with our penalties, but more because of the fact that the penalty is tied to the consequence and not the action. However, with time to reflect, footy's got a long tradition of covering up thug acts. Players saying they were fine, didn't hurt etc with hand on heart, club doctors understating the impact, resulting in light or no penalties. If club doctors start being honest about the impact of these actions, and it results in players getting harsher penalties (with the AFL's stupid system) it might - *gasp* - make the players think twice before punching each other in the head.

FMD.

Again: who cares if we'd been saying it was a stage if the roles were reversed. It is not our job to be consistent or measured - but it is our job to support our player when there is significant room for benefit of the doubt. That argument is totally irrelevant. I don't understand why Melbourne supporters would choose the worst position when other ones are credibly on offer. And +1 for the complaints that this whole conversation is around the actions of the victim and not those of the perpetrator.

What was his motivation for putting mayo on it?

Opposition supporters aren't going to understand the Prendergast effect and the fact that our 2008-2012 era drafting has been flushed down the toilet. They're not going to understand that this has not been one continuous, long rebuild. Roos-Goodwin-Taylor-Viney-Mahoney-PJ started again completely from scratch. Everything that happened before 2013 is irrelevant. Opposition supporters don't understand the anguish that we supporters, and long term players like Nathan Jones have endured to get to this point. And opposition fans don't care about any of that. All they want to do is rain on our parade now that we're climbing out of the quagmire. Try and educate them if you've got the energy. I don't, so my strategy is to just ignore it. They don't know, and don't want to know. We know, so let's just enjoy the ride together. Let everyone else cry their salty tears.

Watts a given JKH next in line midfielder Kennedy next in line flanker/midfielder Kent next in line forward Wagner next in line defender. Weid next in line key forward. No point trying to guess who will come out. Too many permutations with the number of players we had injured or sore.

He's forming a handy habit of creating goals in key moments of games. Obviously he was instrumental in the Watts goal on QB, then this week he caused a goal where no goal was to be had with his run down the wing and kick to ANB in space. It was just a great option that was well executed - there were a squillion ways that play could have gone wrong. He's a good mark for his size too. No doubt he's foot soldier class, but I think his game is developing nicely. If he ends up having to make way as our injury list reduces, he'll be very stiff in my opinion.

Oh well, was just a cherry on top anyway. Should have known we couldn't rely on these absolute plonkers.

Shitncorruption Fremantle. You useless, useless bastards. Get moving!

You could eat? I spent the whole last quarter feeling like I was going to vomit.

Doh, sorry. Brain fart.

No, nothing, just not a fan. It was a request more than a question :-)

I'll live with it then.

I know beggars can't be choosers, but can Freo win without any more goals from Ballantyne? Yuck.

A Freo upset over Geelong will really throw the cat among the pidgeons. They're ahead of us by a paltry .1%, so pretty much any margin will do it. Big ask, though. That'll put us 4th, behind Port and ahead of Geelong on percentage, a game and percentage behind Adelaide, and 2 games and percentage behind GWS - Port, Adelaide and GWS in the run home. Exciting stuff. Go the Dockers.

PLUGGER MCDONALD Err, I mean, CARN THE DOCKERS!

Burgs has been a bit slow getting the post match interviews up. Probably too hungover from a big night on the sauce with the boys in Perth.

Yes - we give our own player the benefit of the doubt, and don't give the opposition player the benefit of the doubt. So what? Bias in footy is hardly a new thing - it doesn't make the position of those defending Oliver wrong, though.

Thanks, I've been looking for a new avatar.

QFP.

When benefit of the doubt could be applied, then yes, I would like some reasoning/logic to explain why he might have done it.

What was his motivation for diving?

What was his motivation for diving?

Why would he even stage anyway? There was no free kick on offer. The way the footy public wanted to hang him over it was embarrassing, but that's to be expected. Let's be honest, when something looks dubious, it's fun to assume the worst interpretation when it comes to opposition players and bag them for it a bit. But I would have thought most MFC supporters would want to give him the benefit doubt. I think if you're a Melbourne supporter giving him stick over it, you should be ashamed of yourself.