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No, there are many, but that's not one of them.

First sentence may be true, but the second? Of all the criticisms of Watts, that is silly. He dropped a chest mark the other week, but this week he took a contested one-handed one (and dropped an overhead one which probably shot his already fragile confidence). I saw Hawks players drop chest marks on the weekend while demolishing their opponents. That is not Watts' problem.

What's wrong with this Roos bloke? Doesn't he read Demonland?

The 'no reasonable opportunity' idea is a good one. I'm sick of players pretending to knock it out when being sat on by 5 other players. Usually they are banging the ball into their own chests but with enough squirming about they ump says they 'tried'. (Though I think we are unique in having a decision against us on Sat for knocking the ball into our chest - not sure who the player was.)

I don't get it when people say he is lazy. You don't go through all that training and mindless gym work if you are lazy. Doesn't he 'train the house down' more or less like everyone else? There must be more to it. I suspect lack of confidence is a big factor.

Sad, but understandable in a 12 year old. But there seems to be a lot of 12 year olds posting here who don't see any improvement.

You really think we are worse than other clubs in this? Why would you watch the 'media' if all they did was publish what you could read on each club's website? If we were in top form like Hawthorn or Geelong, or even a mid-ranking club, all these endless grizzles about how badly the club treats its members and how bad our medical department is etc etc would evaporate.

Pity. <irony> Obvious those secretive buffoons on the medical staff are spinning him a line to cover their incompetence. </irony>

I'd wait until he's been under Roos for a good part of a season before saying any of that.

http://thenewdaily.com.au/sport/2014/04/22/magpies-deserve-play-anzac-day/

Absolutely. I'm not interested if the player needs a shave. Why oh why do they do it?

I'm impressed with such expertise. Where did you do your medical degree? Hindsight is wonderful. Have a look at post #67 before you single out our team's staff - Freo's staff also hopeless? Why are so many of us so keen to blame the club for everything that goes wrong. Maybe your first thought is right instead - bad luck is bad luck.

I don't usually 'demand' that the club reveals all details around injuries, but rather than rely on guesswork from Demonland posters, I'd really appreciate it if the club could say 'this has contributed to his lack of speed over the last x months' or that it has nothing to do with it. Of course if would have to be diplomatically worded because I can't see the club bluntly calling Jack slow.

Not that much. He only got a game with us because of the hope he'd finally do something regularly to match his occasional burst. If he didn't have that potential he would have been dropped to make way for some lesser lights who consistently contributed more to the team or just needed some experience.

Just caught it on the news, not sure who the commentator was, but says about Ablett kicking a goal: "He only needs a little snifter". Do they encourage drinking during the game at GCS?

Totally agree. I've been moaning about this for a long time Pay frees against players tackling packs and things will open up and we won't be watching as much rugby-liek games.

Just read through this thread. Steady on boys. It was only Carlton. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

For once I reckon Carlton will cop more than we might. We are a knwn basket case. They 'should' be playing finals.

that also makes a lot of sense. Am I on Demonland?

that makes a lot of sense.

I'm amazed that the hairy-chested don't want as much help as we can get. Sure it would be better to win games, but if the AFL wants a more even competition then we need help. Obviously we must not carry on as if that alone will be our saviour. I don't recall GWS saying "No don't give us all those prime picks, we want to build a winning culture based on picks 60 and beyond."

Not disagreeing with that either. The difference is while most clubs would struggle as you say, they might still be vaguely competitive, not basket cases. I'm just hoping the WCE loss was an outlier. We weren't too bad in the other games, better than vaguely competitive and not a basket case. These are the teams we can be competitive against. Can't expect to beat WCE yet. (For those who say GWS would have killed us if they had kicked straight, I say we would have killed St Kilda if we had kicked striaght. Killed is probably a bit much, say instead, won.)

Look no further than this list from todays AFL home page: Eagles lose LeCras, Masten to injury Dockers facing early season injury crisis Bulldog Roughead faces two months out Season all but over for Lion after ACL tear Crow Walker cleared of hamstring damage Macmillan hit for six, Roos hopeful on Ziebell Gilbert faces six weeks out after foot flare As NB and OD say, our problem is lack of depth on top of lack of talent or whatever else is lacking.

Get a grip. Sunday jaw is sore. Still sore Monday morning. Scans arranged, perhaps late in the day for all we know. Announcement made on Tuesday. What more do you expect? X-rays on-line as soon as they are done perhaps.

It was clear - you could actually hear (sort of) the questions he was asked unlike the usual post-match media conferences.