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He won't play again in the AFL.

Roos did coach a bottom team though. Sydney were down and out when he got in there.

Played 200+ games in junior football. Before 18 I had played about 50 rep games, and a few under-16s Northern Knights. Made the under 18s squad of 40 back in late-2002. At the same time I was training to go to the US for 3 months on a basketball tour. While over there, I fractured my coccyx bone. Managed to get healthy quickly, but when I started training again in Jan 2003, I had a host of leg problems. First I had really painful knees and needed to get some draining. Then I developed a fracture on my left (kicking) leg's fibula. THEN I developed OP, which got so bad half-way through year 12 that I missed 2 weeks of school because I could hardly get out of bed. Before all that, anyway, I didn't make the final TAC Cup squad. Maybe injuries, maybe not good enough. A combination of both. Played 50 or so games in the Northern Football League -- under-19s and seniors -- before "retiring" in 2005. Haven't played since. Still train every day but my legs just aren't up to playing competitive sport. I'm only 27. The fact I was the height I am now -- 6'2 -- when I was 10. I went through a massive growth spurt very early. And at one stage I was playing basketball, tennis, football, karate and swimming. I think it was too much strain on my body.

Infuriating towards the league or the club? I imagine our Darwin games would have been at the MCG. It's not "MONEY" that talks. It's efficiency. Win games + build brand + build support base = prime time! It's not rocket science. Don't point the finger of blame at anyone but the club.

Every club drafts well: you go into a draft knowing what sort of player you need and how they can fit in a piece of the puzzle. If Melbourne hadn't taken the players they'd taken in the past years at the positions they did, other clubs would have thereabouts. It's clearly been the club's capacity to manage and develop the young men that come into the organisation. Rarely do players come into the league 100% equipped to play in AFL standard. The club has absolutely sucked at a managerial level. The recruiters really can only do so much.

Maybe someine at Melbourne gave him a good rap?

Morton wasn't an asset. He was taking up a spot on the list for someone like Terlich.

Well, they are, seeing as though we're stakeholders. *members at least

Yes.

My source says 17.8%. WHO'S RIGHT? Capitalism is not capitalism unless both sides benefit from the transaction. If you're taking advantage -- using someone as a means -- then it's not capitalism. That's closer to crony capitalism aka. communism. Racism is born of individual fallacy. Don't degrade the worth of the individual with your closest commie crap. "I" will always be great than the "we". "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Stop reading Green Left Weekly.

I just don't see how the additions will lead to such dramatic improvement when the core as it stands is only a 2-win a year side, and, really, 3-win side in 2 years (if you don't count the GWS and GC wins in 2012). I think 5-6 wins is a reasonably expectation. Anything more than that and I'll be very surprised and impressed. 2015 is probably a better placed year to expect 8+ wins. Still a ways off. Stynes was a revolutionary. As was those before him, those after him, and those there now. Jackson and Roos sell a great product but how it actually works...well, that remains to be seen. I refuse to allow myself to be excited by revolutionary change at the club anymore. Stability and consistency remains to be seen.

My argument is a flag 13 months ago with the same coach ya'all are criticising as having a bad approach.

Ha?

Amazing pickup. Might help the team get its hands on the ball a bit more.

Jetta will thrive under Roos. Bookmark it.

Agreed. Adding Roos + Vince isn't going to turn a 2-win side into a 13-win side. Has any team in the history of the game had such a turn around? IMO is underestimates the growth of teams like North, Port, Suns, Bulldogs, Tigers, Blues. Still way off the mark.

Is Norf paying him $1 mil a year?

He's a Demon. Traded for pick 2.

Well, he hasn't.

Urgh. What an ugly deal for Carlton.

It's a rumour now *calls SEN*

Frawley is a priority but the first true test of this new administration is signing Hogan to a long-term deal. If they can't get that done, then they're no better than the despots that preceded them. Problem is that the "myth" isn't a myth at all: losing experience is okay if you have the experience and/or potential to back it up. Melbourne dumped experienced players from a successful era without anyone to take the reigns. St. Kilda is doing the same thing now and they risk really bottoming out just as Melbourne did. So losing the experience in Melbourne's case was a bad thing. But that said had we not lost them, we may not have players like Hogan, Barry, Viney.

IMO Tapscott and Blease would have decent value. Bail probably not.

Your overreaction to the overreaction is hilarious.