Nasher

Whew. That was a lot less comfortable than we were expecting and took a lot longer, but we made it. Welcome to the new server!

Not sure. I’ve always just assumed the site was always offline when I am asleep.

Hi all, I’ll be making a change at around 10pm to point the site at the new server. Since the new server isn’t actually online until 2am, this means the site will go down once I make the change and won’t come back up until after 2am. I am doing it so early because I am not as good at staying up until 2am as I used to be.

Prestia choosing Melbourne also would have required Melbourne to choose Prestia, of course. The vast majority of the time the players are going to choose the club that pursues them the hardest.

Nice! Now do all the other numbers so we can see which one has the best team.

This just belies all evidence. He hasn’t missed a game; not a bad effort for someone supposedly no longer good enough for a spot on the list.

He’s had no trouble at all retaining his place in the side and he hasn’t had any injury woes. I’d say he’s playing better now than he did last year as well. At this stage I’d anticipate him still being on the list next year, but there’s still a lot of season to go yet. He’ll be the last player they offer a contract to and it will depend on what happens with everyone else, and he will understand that. I love Bernie still. He instantly made us better in the Roos era, and while he’s not the dynamic player he was then, he still plays a tough brand of footy and still adds to the side. Looking forward to seeing him clock up his 100th MFC game later in the year.

TMac will relief ruck instead of stints on the wing. Smith will play the forward/wing role TMac had been doing. Structurally we’ll be fine and Smith had been the clear standout at Casey by all reports. He comes in to the side flying. Great to see effort get reward. I’m very excited now.

I don’t think the rules allow him to play for Carlton this week

“Indefinite” almost literally means “not sure”.

To be fair, he’s only a deadeye Richard in front of goal. He is still capable of a woeful miskick in general play. We’re just more inclined to forgive it when he kicks 5 goals in a 10 goal win.

In: Smith Out: Weideman TMac to ruck. Not ideal but think you reward the Casey form. Edit: forgot Viney ? stupid flu brain. Too hard for me then.

If that’s all true, Worsfold *has* to go. Probably Neeld too, but it seems absurd to pick off the 2ic instead of the boss.

I’m building some serious bloodlust for this game. We should maul them. Can’t wait.

That’s got to be rubbish.

The only change will be the “forced” change of someone for Viney. There’s no way they will diddle around the edges like bringing Garlett in. Not after a 69 point win.

Oliver will become one of the all time, all club greats. No pressure though of course ?

Yes, thankyou, I am aware it’s a forum. Come on mate, you don’t need to tell me how it is. I have to come close to holding the all time record in minutes spent on this forum. I read dozens of views I don’t agree with on a daily basis. The majority I just ignore because I don’t feel strongly enough to argue, or that my case isn’t strong enough, or that I just don’t know enough about the topic to comment, or I just can’t be bothered. I can cope with disagreement. I take pretty strong exception to people trying to temper the enjoyment of others though. I just don’t see any motive to do that other than sheer nastiness.

Honestly, why post this? It’s obvious to anyone with eyes and probably those without that the Gold Coast aren’t very good. We know that. It would be fantastic to be basking over giving a quality side a flogging, but unfortunately we weren’t scheduled to play against a quality side. People are allowed to enjoy wins, even against poor sides, without the usual grinches chiming in and pissing on the parade. It’s almost like getting some actual enjoyment out of football physically pains some people.

It absolutely staggers me that TMac could not be in people’s top 6. Must have been the all time worst 5.1 game.

God the revisionism on here regarding Pedersen makes me laugh. He stood up last year as our first ruck and is to be thanked and commended for that. His efforts during that period were Herculean and he was fantastic. He also stood up a few times as key forward when Hogan was out. As a second ruck/forward, he is hopeless. He just hardly gets involved in the play at all. Honestly, the suggestion that he might replace Weid is laughable. Weid might not be quite at the level, but at least you know he’ll almost certainly improve. We know what we get with Pedersen. I don’t see the point. Anyway, whoever Viney replaces is going to be really stiff. Everybody in the side was at least decent, including Tyson. To me it has to be a like for like so it probably will be Tyson. I would be very reluctant to mess with our four tall strategy; it is working a treat at present and I think Weid is an important piece of the puzzle.

I said it last week, but how good is it that Essendon are so crap? This time there’s no cry of WADA conspiracy, no “oh well, we only have half a team”, just good old fashioned being terrible when they thought they were going to be good. I am enjoying every minute of it.

Without having seen the first three quarters, I see we had kicked more behinds than goals - is there a relationship between this and the high inside 50s? My logic being a behind keeps the ball in our half and gives the opposition the ball, meaning more players at our end of the ground, therefore more chances for it to travel in and out of our 50. Whereby a goal takes the ball away from our 50. It may be that the better scoring efficiency required to give a larger score margin may have actually resulted in a much lower i50 margin.

I only saw the last quarter, so I thought I’d check who scored all the goals and see that TMac kicked FIVE and has barely had a mention in this thread. Funny the things that stick out to people. So exciting to see us bury a side. I think it reinforces my point about a thrashing requiring one of the sides to surrender though. The ease in which we scored in the one quarter I was able to see was scary, we were playing against witches hats.

The bloke was probably trying to see through the red mist, having just been grabbed by the throat. It didn’t look to me to be a shot from someone relaxed and thinking through the shot. Any excuse to bag him though eh?