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Tough bloke. Well that explains his drop off later in the season (making room for Brayshaw to shine more). But obviously a stager.

Disappointed that you haven't converted her. If I managed it anyone can. Admittedly she wasn't too zealous so it wasn't that hard. She was just influenced by being a neighbour of Rose back in the dark ages.

Listening (why?) to the commentary I know I understand why they spend so much time talking about their past glories, who they know, what they know and boosting each other. When they comment on the game what they say bears little resemblance to what is actually happening.

True, but if we lose to WCE do you really want C'wood in a GF?

If the umps pay frees for pushing and shoving outside of play, then whether the player shoved falls over or not would be irrelevant, so it wouldn't matter if the pushed player was off balance or even faked falling over. It's the uneccessary contact that is paid.

probably whats been on the MFC site: http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2018-09-18/where-to-watch-this-weekends-prelim-final

If you want to know why the AFL gets rules changes wrong in so many ways, read this: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-15/afl-rules-changes-may-reduce-scoring-not-increase-it/10247576

Think how irritating it will be when he starts drooling over our emerging MFC stars in future. Cringeworthy.

The problem with the sliding rule is that is often paid when the offending player did not slide, but merely bent over to pick up the ball. That should not be a free. But sliding in as a tactic to knock over the oppo and then picking up the ball was dangerous and did need stopping. As usual there is a grey area between bending and sliding which needs a sensible umpire to adjudicate. Not much sign of that last night sadly.

One interesting moment was seeing Jetta's tall dad and wondering why Nev is so small. Then the camera turned to his mum and all was explained.

Maybe my memory is going, but isn't the big factor in R4 was that we had no idea how to play in the wet, but this seems to be ignored.

After the C'wood game at the end of 2017, they'll have learnt nothing if they do. I expect they learnt the lesson in the most painful way.

Umpires like everybody else are good or bad at their jobs in varying degree. If it is really true that every club's biased supporters single Nichols out as the worst, then he must be doing something wrong, missing obvious frees, awarding dubious ones, more often than the average umpire does.

That's why I grumbled about Weed not wasting 30 seconds when he marked 3 metres out.

Only one slight criticism of Weed's game. When he took that mark in the goal square with under 6 mins to go he shouldn't have played on. He had a chance to waste 30 seconds which just may have been needed if the cats got a run on from their 2 quick goals afterwards. Unlikely but not impossible.

Blame the coach. It's hard to tell the players to just carry on, stop appealing for frees and whinging when they know you are doing just that in the coaches box.

It was clear that he decided during the half time break to rough us up. Early in Q3 he was tackled by a Melb player (cant recall who) in a regulation no-damage tackle and Selwood went for him afterwards out of all proportion. Good to see he carried on with that...

Can only agree with what everyone has said. Thanks BV.

Were the 'issues' with the coaches or the players in your view? Coaches unapproachable or players very naughty boys? Whatever, the proof is in the pudding and the pudding at the moment looks very tasty. So even if it was an issue, it is a non-issue now as DA stated.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-27/collective-mind-open-up-about-adelaide-crows-pre-season-afl-camp/10167966

very droll.

Another option is NIIJSG = no idea it just sounds good. This applies to a large proportion of posts.

But surely that happens almost every week?

What was the pressure?

Agree with all that except the last para. You have to allow for a player being so clumsy that he does hit a player rather than the ball. Gotta leave some work for the MRP. Actually I'm amazed how infrequently players bash opponents when pretending to punch the ball when tackled.