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ET was clearly joking.

Agree with the majority - Pedersen and Smith for Smith and Lever.

I loved his point of rehashing the past vs rehashing the lesson. Too often we drag up painful memories of errors in the past with the trite guise of learning lessons. It sounds as if the team has genuinely taken away from that lapse last year. Hopefully that means we can now stop talking about it. The event can go but the lesson remains.

Brayshaw doesn’t have a “condition”, He received a couple of concussions in a short period of time, so he wears a helmet for peace of mind. Any player could be knocked out at any time. Brayshaw isn’t a bigger risk. Nev Jetta went through almost exactly the same thing a few years ago and nobody ever talks about his “condition”.

Um, I read their BF forum and all I saw was how to work Hogan or Brayshaw in to a trade. Their views aren’t worth squat.

Lol is that a real rumour (as real as they can be), or some toss on BigFooty or facebook just making stuff up? I hope it’s true. Imagine that situation; you grow up supporting a team, and get drafted by the team you grew up barracking for on to the rookie list, at a time the club is in the toilet. During that time, you slog your guts out trying to make a name for yourself at a club barely able to support itself, let alone you. Half way in to your career, you finally establish yourself as an AFL quality midfielder, and the team you grew up loving and now play for is flying. Then some two bit pack of muppets from across town and about 14 spots lower on the ladder come knocking. They give you an offer to toss away your life long connection and newfound enjoyment of winning games of footy to lose at Etihad in front of about 5 people every week. I don’t think I’d be able to contain my laughter.

Anyone noticed that his teammates are now starting to do more of those backwards handballs to find players in space? He is revolutionising this team’s ball use out of packs.

I had literally never heard of Ed Langdon until the weekend when I saw a quarter of the Freo game. Just assumed he was from WA and a relative of that white haired muppet who used to play for West Coast and now makes a living stirring s*** in the WA footy media.

@Lucifer's Hero

Nice. He grew up as an MFC supporter - would love to know about what it was like getting drafted by the team he barracked for and if he still feels that holds extra meaning when he dons the jumper. One of the very lucky few IMO!

Bit of a running joke - I added Roos to the emoticon list (the smilies) at some point during his tenure because people kept posting that pick whenever he made a decision. We added PJ a bit later and at some point Mahoney snuck in there too. Just a bit of a laugh.

Yep - I’m not challenging that Collingwood agree to it. I’m challenging the view that has been peddled on here (see page one) regarding their motives: that kind, caring Collingwood and generous Ed give us this purely out of the goodness of their own hearts, therefore we should give back. They agreed in the past to forego the home game (and associated benefits with gate receipt and so on) in exchange for other fixturing perks (less travel). If we were to give up this particular perk, it should come with some other leveller, ie fewer interstate trips, or at least more interstate trips for Collingwood.

I’ve been meaning to permanently ban you for a while now. Thanks for the reminder.

What’s this crap about Ed/Collingwood’s “generousity”? I just vomited in my mouth. The AFL do the fixturing, not Collingwood. It is not, and never has been up to them. It’s been in their interests to agree because it guarantees them a “big stage” away game in Melbourne, on their home ground. I’d be quite happy to see the gate split, or the home allocation alternated, so long as it meant Collingwood had to travel to Perth or Brisbane once more a year as a result, since that is the other side of the equation.

I will say that I’d normally be inclined to a bias towards Weideman. Pedersen has had too many AFL games where he has been completely ineffective as a forward. If we had to choose between two tall forwards with a high chance of delivering nothing, I’d prefer it was the young one with a view to development. That said, this week I’d have said Pedersen if it wasn’t for the KO. There is a point where form will outweigh that bias, and by the sounds of it he was smashing it until the head knock. I originally said both because I was waiting for the Casey feedback. I wouldn’t pick either of them if Tim Smith comes up.

Meh. He’s paid a considerable amount of money to defend the interests of the club he is employed at. He might have considered shutting his trap when he was the Carlton CEO just in case he found himself in this situation later, but ultimately of course this would be his position when running a struggling clib.

Bastinac has been running around in the NEAFL. He is on the brink of extinction as an AFL player.

Please. Will Hoskin-Elliott’s name doesn’t belong in the same sentence as Jesse Hogan. If he wins this “competition” then it wasn’t worth winning anyway. (If Hogan wins it’s just further proof that he is a superstar, hehe.)

It’s strange you would ask me who to replace him with: I wouldn’t replace him at all, it was you who said he was awful! But I guess if we’re playing that game, I guess I’d be keen to replace him with anyone if he’s that bad. I’m only engaging you at all on this one because I enjoy your posts mate. Normally I just ignore posts that I think are excessively critical (or excessively gushing). Just saying, next week as an exercise, deliberately put yourself in the frame of mind that you’re actively trying to pick his contribution to the team. I just want to know what you see. If you still think he sucks, we’ll agree to disagree.

You may be right. The only thing I’ll note is that he’s still in the side - not a bad effort for someone mostly awful.

Same, but I reckon they’re the best side we’ve come up against since Richmond way back in round 5. Still confident of a win, but I reckon the thrashings will be shelved for the time being.

?! Your challenge next week is to watch him entirely with rose coloured glasses and report back. Not saying he’s been great, but I reckon you’ve let a predisposition creep in and poison your perspective.

No, injuries have interrupted two (Melk, Lever). You made it a third by moving Salem to the other end of the ground (to accomodate Stretch). I think most would agree though that this is all a non-issue if Melksham is good, which I expect him to be with the longer break.

Then you’ve interrupted the stability of two positions - three in total with Lever. I want us to keep winning games by lots of points. The more we fiddle with the structure of the team, the less likely that is to happen.

Not a close enough like match IMO. The forward structure is going well, I’m not interested in disrupting it by introducing a player who has never played there. Garlett or Balic are next in line for that role.