jnrmac

People overestimate well and truly what our players are worth to other clubs. Do you really think Davey or Green will be worth much to other clubs if they have another poor year at the Dees? I mean, cmon. They won't be worth a cracker. Particularly given this draft is being touted as the best of all time. As the say in the Castle, ' you're dreamin'....

Neeld is on record as saying he wants to instill 3 or 4 game plans as and when situations call for it. It takes time to teach them. The more 'structured' the plans are the harder they are to teach and instill. Already it has been said that the Dee players have been so keen to stick to the structures they have forgotten how to take the game on and run and carry when appropriate. It will simply take time for the players to get confident in the plan, each other and themselves. It's a process we are going through but with Neeld and Craig we have two very strong guys at teaching our players so I remain quietly confident we will gradually piece together our own style of play. personally I like the fact we will be able to play different styles for different situations. Just hope it doesn't take too long!

What a dumb decision but one we have come to expect. It's ostensibly the same as tunneling - where you take out a players lower half of the body whilst they are airborne going for the ball. Highly dangerous. In this case Butcher didn't take out the lower half of Col's body but caused the same effect by recklessly chopping the arms causing Col's body to rotate sharply and hit the ground totally unprotected. These morons make it up as they go along,

I am really glad you are not negotiating our sponsorship deal. Do you actually have any idea how difficult these things are to land? Do you think in the economic climate we have at the moment with retrenchments and lay-ffs everywhere not to mention the European sovereign debt saga and the fact that the USA is pretty much stuffed and we have Japan in a 20 year deflationary spiral, that there are sponsors tripping over themselves to throw money after footy clubs? If you do think that then you are in dreamland. As for taking "$600k for a one year deal and then negotiating a 3 yr deal" on vastly better terms you demonstrate a complete lack of understanding, logic and frankly intelligence. Do you really think $600k for 1 yr would be a good thing?? It would completely de-value our business proposition and place us in a terrible situation. The chances of negotiating a 3 yr deal at decent rates would be crippled. It's clearly not ideal to be at this point and not have a FOJ sponsor. But stop with the inane ranting when you don't really understand the sponsorship market. Leave it to the club and let them be judged over time on their performance.

Dangerfield came out and kicked six frigging goals the following week!!!!!!!!!!!

errr, cost?

And too slow. We would wait for other teams to get their zone in place, then kick in!

I don't get why they don't put him in the gym and say " don't come out til you have put on 8kgs" Has the footy talent. Needs the bod.

I thought I had read it somewhere. Apologies I might be premature in that selection!

I think Frawley should be higher. Possibly the only other candidate is Jamar. I think he should be higher than Kruezer and Leeuinberger. Kruezer doesn't rate for me, particularly on actual performance.

I think Frawley gets in at 48. That's about it for Dees. Pendlebury at 1.

What about the free on the Western boundary when the ball bounced off a Hawthorn player and the maggots stopped play for 30 secs to confer and then gave the the free to the Hawks. AFter our players had started running towards our goal as they knew the Hawks were the last to touch it, There were so many howlers last week it was a &*^%$^#%$ disgrace. Brad Sewell 5 free kicks - 4 for over the shoulder after he ducked his head. Luke Hodge for a high tackle that never went above his shoulder. The list goes on. One of the worst performances seen by the maggots.

OWAAT? Whodathunk.

Sorry, why hasn't the club told Jurrah in no uncertain terms who he can talk to and where. This is a sensitive legal issue. Either the club hasn't done it or Jurrah has gone against their demands. If the club hasn't done it, they deserve a bollocking. it is unbelievable LJ could come back to Melbourne without that legal advice. As for Eddie it is a disgraceful breech of protocol.

They are clearly better. Do you really think they're not?

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I didn't notice any of our past leaders leading. Beemer was unsighted. Rivers the same. Davey did nothing. FFS we had 3 players who had 10 kicks - we were nowhere, we were under pressure, our 'plan' fell apart. They had 12 players who got more dreamteam points than our best Jones. It was an appalling effort on our behalf.

Only three of our players had 10 kicks or more. If its a practice match we didn't get much practice. We learned nothing. We change nothing. We had our backsides handed to us on a plate. As for Brad Sewell and his 5 free kicks. Mostly for ducking his head. The maggots were disgraceful.

Wow just checked the stats. 38 marks to 108 Our highest dreamteam getter was Jones at 66 The Dorks had 12 players get more than that. Moloney had a shocker

Just got back from the game. Very disappointing, 1. Umpiring was a disgrace. 3 goals gifted to the Hawks for ducking heads. Frees given to Hawks when the ball went out of bounds off a Hawks player. Ruck infringements all day - Jamar and Fitz were monstered. 2. Hawks have a very impressive zone and they follow it to the letter. We could not get a string of possessions all day. We were harried out of the ball time and time again. 3. Our kick ins were OK - the first kick but then it was totally static. 4. Our midfield was atrocious. 5. The Hawks possessed the ball brilliantly. Hardly stuffed up short passes and when they did there was no pressure on them. Us couldn't be more opposite. Every kick was hurried or a long bomb to a contest. 6. Don't know what the i50's were but I am guessing 60 to 15. Appalling I am a big critic of Davey but he was far from our worst. Thought he chased and tried hard. Missed a couple of sitters which he should have got. Zero confidence. In fact all our players tried but just weren't good enough. Clark was terrific and gave a great contest every time. Stuffed up a few balls when we had position and/or extra men. Jones was gang tackled every time he got the pill. Howe is a smart footballer. Tynan tried hard but is small and was outbodied We didn't have a player in the top 10 on the ground IMO. Interested to see what the coaches thought of proceedings We will get smashed by West Coast in Rd 2. Put the house on it.

Jack Watts is playing to instructions. If he doesn't follow the instructions he will be dropped. simple. It's a team game and no-one should care what Jack's favourite position is. Its all about structures.

Hopefully no injuries??

Appreciate the summary guys. Thanks

Yeah but its on the internet and they have that in Alice Springs. I doubt you will hear a peep from Liam. This is not something to fight in the media. It will be evidence based. From what I have read, Liam has denied it was him. His 'cousin' said it was him but it was dark and there was a group of about 9. Will be hard to pin on just one. As well you might have someone who is keen to 'finger' a high profile person from the 'other side'. This situation is clearly alien to most of us and I guess the outcome of this will be very much up in the air.

It's more one of hope than confidence... has all the tricks and could be our Leon Davis, Chris Yarran. Just needs to be a little harder..