Nasher

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.

He said "winning" a lot. Someone pointed out during Neeld's tenure that he never mentioned winning at all.

Is it unethical for a mod to call a poster a self-indulgent knob, close the thread and give him no right of reply? Oops.

Just gotta keep those columns filled, old dee, doesn't matter what's in 'em. You know that old (new) journalism adage: quantity over quality.

Umm, okay. No offence taken, I think my argument makes way more sense though. Soccer has some traction, but I don't imagine it's any worse than in Victoria. Mostly I think it's because it's a really easy game for kids to participate in and mums like it from a safety pespective. When I drop my kids off though, all the kids at the school are kicking oval balls, not round ones.

That's the downside risk of course, but it's only looking at one half of the picture. The downside risk between a GWS side and a Tasmanian side is the same: no growth. What if the GWS side does lead to growth in Sydney, though (which is the AFL's view)? The game will have grown and the AFL will have tapped in to a new demographic it didn't have access to before. There's nobody to tap in to Tasmania, we're already a captive market down here,

The issue here is that everyone here (in Tasmania) already barracks for a side. Starting an expansion side here would not have made any sense; the teams that play here now fill the stands, and memberships would simply come at the expense of other clubs. A relocation would be even worse; chances of me ever buying a membership of a rebadged Footscray? A Tassie side is a nice idea from a romantic perspective, but makes no business sense whatsoever, so it will never happen.

I hate Essendon as much as the next guy, but if they get pinged it will be an absolute disaster for the AFL. It will have an effect that will be felt across the whole sport.

I can't see the link between contesting a MRP ruling and our request for special funding. Taking the case to the tribunal is just a normal operational activity; of course we can still do that.

Wasn't Hayes also a member of the Gardner board? It will be amazing if she survives this round as well.

Exactly. I've said this before, but I often wonder if the people who write this garbage stop and wonder where it all went wrong, or if they're genuinely too stupid to realise that they have become a completely worthless bottom feeder on society.

Agree. Nothing is going to crystalise until October due to the contracted position of some of the candidates. Even if that weren't the case, Craig deserves to see the season out and the players could do with some stability. I feel like a kid contemplating Christmas in March; I want it now dammit!! In the mean time I'm looking forward to seeing what Craig is able to do with this team, if anything, in the short time he's got.

I shouldn't be amazed a your complete inability to comprehend what people say to you, and yet I constantly am.

...that said, I doubt he would have said anything unless it was carefully planned and they were certain it would not damage their position. This is all very weird to be honest.

Gutted. Was my favourite player outside the MFC.

Agreed, and that sounds like what is happening here.

I've always been doubtful that Harrington is responsible for decisions like that. I can't see how anyone other than the coach can be responsible for the "who" side of the list. I though Harrington would be more about the "how" side. To that end, I don't know what this actually means. From the quotes from Jackson ("reflective of costs") it sounds as if it will be replaced with a less senior role; List Analyst or somethingnlike that.

Would need to see Clark and Dawes on the park together a lot more than zero times before even thinking about this idea.