Nasher

Indefinite doesn't mean infinite, it just means it can't be defined. It fits with what Neeld said about Clark being reassessed by the specialist every 4 days.

Sounds like nonsense to me.

Calling Brock McLean slow is hardly vitriol.

Agree with all those comments, and I think for the most part, most people have been fairly understanding of Gawn's situation. He busted a gut for three quarters and ran out of steam - it happens. I too wondered why Fitzpatrick wasn't given more time in the ruck under the circumstances, particularly in the last quarter. The main reasons I thought of were 1) that they didn't think he was capable of beating Minson or 2) perhaps he was just as knackered as Maxy. I would not agree with putting Dawes in to the ruck. It was good experience for Gawn though. I heard in his post match comments that he was out on his feet and Minson just kept on running. Hopefully his fitness program gets enough continuity that he is able to survive conditions like that in the future. I was pretty stoked with how he played for the rest of the match.

I think every year, we should make the captain the best player from the previous year. Better yet, we could change it on a week-by-week basis based on the best player from last week. Good luck this week as skipper against Sydney Wattsy! Alternatively, we could go down the very radical route of accepting that our young captains were chosen for good reason, and stick with the decision we made instead of pissing about with it. Just a thought.

Indeed. PJ recently made a comment about players feeling as if they are wasting their careers being here and I'm sure Frawley is one of them. To that end I'm neither confident or unconfident that he will stay; it's a simple equation of if we get our act in to gear on and off field he'll stay, if we keep acting like a pack of incompetent mungbeans, he will go.

Agreed. I've gotten to the point where if I see him involved, I have complete confidence that he'll get it done, be it win a contest or make good use of the ball.

In: Grimes, out: Blease. The other skipper said he thought he was ready, so if so then Magner is no longer eligible to play.

Neeld was judged on 35 games, not 2. And I'm battling to understand your logic about decent showings against the Saints and the Dogs proving you right. That sounds upside down to me; surely if we'd been smashed, *that* would prove it wasn't all Neeld's fault?

Me too. I honestly wonder if I'm watching a different player sometimes; I can't reconcile what I see with what I read on here.

I like Fitzpatrick's form and he played well last night, but when Clark is fit, it won't be much of a dilemma.

Agree on the midfield, though I also agree that our ruckman being dead on his feet was a big contributor. TV survive this week Sleeve? :-)

How could you possibly forget Kent, vibes?

I agree, they experienced getting run over without actually losing. While we would all agree that we would prefer to have won by 10 goals, they will definitely remember this next time. Really liked Jack T's interview with Hall as well, as a side note.

Made, honestly, I'm down a pair of jocks now like most here will be, but we win and we deserved to. Don't know if you noticed, but we haven't done much of that lately. Loosen up and enjoy it a little.

Jesus Christ Melbourne. You just took 10 years off my life you bastards. I can't breathe.

No injury as far as I know. Just a like for like sub I thought.

Come on boys, bring it home!

It's Lynden. I'm used to it.

Geez I hate half time breaks. Thumbs are twiddling nervously here.

We should be a lot further in front. We've been fantastic and they are absolutely awful. The number of times we've just picked off their panic kicks in the middle of the ground... This must be what it's like playing against us.

There are player profiles on the MFC website. Her name is Chelsea Randall and it describes her as "a brutal competitor". Western Australian though, so go home factor may be a risk

Bush Demon, I've been an administrator of this site for 8 years and a member for 11. I like to think that for the most part during that time that I've been relatively civil and set a decent example. I am also a human being and sometimes I also just want to say what is on my mind. Boorish chest beating agitates me and all that thread was about was TPM giving himself a soapbox to stand on to tell us about how wrong we were and what a genius is. Threads like that have no place here and it deserved to be shut down. I also let slip how I felt about it in my response - probably not my best ever judgement, but again, I'm only human.

I wish all our players had poor kicking actions if this is the result.

Welcome to the 1950s.