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It's not Rod Grinter we want, PF. Its the whole team adopting aggression as a badge of Honour... instead of being proud, to be passive. One aggressive player makes no difference. its a team attitude that is required. Did Ditterich make us win ? Brad Miller ? Recruiting one type of player as a stop gap, does not work, its a band aid application. Aggression is a team strategy, and philosophy.

Never mind the look of them... they did exactly what you'd expect a team with aggression to do. The poor look was ours... not being aggressive enough generally, & standing up for Max. If we are to ever become a powerful club, we have to stop wining about what other clubs, do, do... and start cracking IT about what our team and players Do Not Do. When we raise tour own aggressive standards, then we will start to win matches, and start beat stronger, higher up clubs. Until that time, we have to work on getting harder, tougher and better in all ways.

We behave too well... too gentlemanly. Lets teach our player s to be animals during games. More like Dermie's attitude... not the mental stuff... but the Vigorous aggressive attitude, he exuded. When the chips are down we sit on our hands, and wait to see what unfolds. I do not believe all our players come to the club in this state.. It is a learned behaviour. SO we can UN-Learn it as well... but it is inherent in our clubs outer overall Culture. Even Max himself is too nice... not enough of a mongrel. He has to start to show more aggro as well...

Yep, your right, 'dnimd'... All they did was the softest of fend offs, a couple of them... to say get off him you thugs. I would like to see one or two, scrag them by the collar, front on, pushing them make THEM backpedal. This is another sign of having a dee-fault position of over passiveness... its an automatic response from our colours... and this same attitude even when not seen, is a reflection of our inner conservative state. We have to get this passive our of our club. We are too comfortable with being passive, holistically as a club... from the supporters right thru every part of the club... Inc: song. We would be healthier as a footy club, If we were more comfortable being aggressive as a dee-fault position, and less comfortable in a passive type mood. Certainly on the weekends and game-days.

Growing in belief. He suits the forward role he's playing.

Showers coming for game-time, by the looks of it, 'FITB'... http://www.bom.gov.au/products/national_radar_sat.loop.shtml

Gooorne ~ sacked from Rugby Union.

ON MAY 17, 1859 – 160 years ago – four influential sporting identities gathered in a hotel near the Melbourne Cricket Ground and wrote the first official rules of Australian Football. One of the chief footy law-makers, champion sportsman Tom Wills, had been determined to create "a game of our own", and had helped get the then-oblong ball rolling the previous July by writing a letter that was published in Bell's Life magazine, in which he called for the establishment of a "foot-ball club" to keep cricketers fit in winter. From left, William Hammersley, publican James ‘Jerry’ Bryant (standing), James Thompson, Thomas Smith and Tom Wills (standing). Cartoon by Mark Knight A month later, in August 1858, Wills umpired the first organised match of this distinctly new game between Melbourne Grammar and Scotch College, each fielding 40 players and playing with a round ball over an 800-metre stretch of the Richmond Paddock (now Yarra Park). https://www.afl.com.au/news/2019-05-17/the-very-first-football-club-when-the-australian-game-was-born-160-years-ago

Kinda like RSI

Yes... but the people who control these things won't allow it there, because Gosch's is predominantly Green-space. But if its the Oval on the corner, that should suit the primary use of the land better. If we build down the back corner and also along the west end of the oval I think we could achieve enough space. The building might also need to creep around past the Back-Pocket along to the Southern Wing. Essentially we would have one wing of the building, from Olympic Boulevarde, along the Oval's western boundary, joining to the Main building in the Back-Pocket area, and a further wing of the building, wrapping around the Oval to the Wing position. Where the building meets Olympic Boulevarde, could be the place for the Demon shop and cafe ?... and it's just across the road from the Richmond Station. .

I think its broken. Frost ?

Do you think the building has to be on the corner ?

Elsternwick Park was my very first suggestion, way back Mono... prior to us getting into the AAMI Park complex. It could make a very very good training complex. Including the bowls club into some sort of social facility, incorporating the bowling greens. We have members at the bowling club. PS" I would still maintain connection with Gosch's Paddock training Oval as well. A Gosch's Paddock Complex is better for Pre-games and Post-games. IMO.

That was an old suggestion rumored to come out of the club, wasn't it.? That could work, but is a little far from the Station, in my book. If they shifted the Oval from Ding's placement in his First Image... 25 Mtrs toward Punt Rd... Then there would be space to build above the AAMI Park carpark, and the Tringle of land, bounded by AAMI Park's car-park, the Back-Pocket boundary fence-line, and the exit loop of the Freeway. And a stretch of space Western End of the new Oval position, up to the Olympic Boulevarde. That area of Gosch's, near Punt Rd and just Nth of the exit loop, is where I imagine the Rectangular Pitch would be located. Which would give more exposure to the Melbourne Storm when they're training.

I don't think we would take him on a long plane flight for note. As someone has said, maybe Oscar is out... or maybe Gawn flays forward. Maybe de Tracta is out ?

Bugga hopping up there... but I would be a volunteer to hold the pole for her. ?

Gill will have a problem of how the little fella comes back down to earth, deepleted of Oxygen.

Preuss is in Perth, isn't he ?

There is room on Gosch's Paddock, for our Mcg sized Oval... and a Rectangular Pitch (which i would position where Ding had the building in his first image)... the only difference to how things are positioned right now... is where does Our buiding fit onto the plot. That's what I was trying to get Ding's help with, but he hasn't responded to my description.

ahh, now that wood be telling... 'DG'. ? He was practising clearing half-back, all yesterday. ?

I heard, he towed a Pantech over the Nullarbor last night... arrived early this afternoon. ?

To me, the latter half of 2018, was similar to our latter half of 1987. That was our beginning run, at finals campaigns. This year has so far been cruel'd, by lacking fitness, injuries, and recovery from injury/surgeries. >> fitness. In a way the back half of 2018 season was a shopfront display of our potential. We've got plenty to look forward to... but we still need to continue building and refining our list, desperately. aberration... I think the way we've played early this year is the aberration. According to our direction.

Cameron Smith, & his kicking, would be handy around the centreline & half-forward this week. kicking away from the Eagles marking targets. I wonder If Frost could play forward this week as a defender, spoiling Eagles tall backs and bringing the ball down into a contest. For us to win or halve. Cutting back their rebounds ?

Lets stop all this image bigotry people... let people be themselves, and they might just show some creativity for us all... instead of becoming another bland dees sheep.

LoL... 'ere 'ET', try this one. ... cleans up, as a small forward.