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I haven't finished watching it in about 3 years. For whatever reason, I always start watching it, but then stop at about 10:15-10:30. Not sure why I even start.

*facepalm*

Pie fans allegedly bash Demon's father lol OK Eddie.

Fixed.

And here I was thinking Michael Newton had disappeared off the face off the Earth. Thanks for getting my hopes up

He has a great football brain, but is a "give it to me" player with poor kicking skills. Once he's inside the forward 50 he is far too one dimensional, and hasn't been influential on a game in over 3 years. The game has passed him by.

If by top 4 you mean top 15, then yeah, we can finish top 4.

Newton was at his absolute worst that day. Missed two or three absolute sitters. I remember going on my own and laughing to myself that, even though at half-time we were goalless, we were still in with a chance. And with 5 minutes remaining, we still could have won. Joke of a game. Hopefully this Sundays game won't be as bad.

Outscore them. /thread

Brock Mclean is the most respected player in the AFL. He WILL captain us, He WILL lead us to a premiership, and he WILL play his entire career at the Melbourne Football Club. No but on a serious note, I have no respect for a player who simply wants out of a club. I could handle Scotty Thompson, and he handled it like a true gentleman. He wanted to go home, but made it quite clear that if we couldn't get a reasonable trade going, he'd be happy to stay. Farmer I could also handle, because he stuck with us for so long, despite so many issues off-field and back at home in WA. At first I thought there must have been something behind the scenes, but after hearing what Moloney said about him at a presentation during the pre-season, I think it was just a matter of him not getting what he wanted, having a sissy fit and walking out. Screw him.

I've always liked him, as a bloke and a player. But he's a player I hate to love because he's a Magpie.

Not bad. Bailey speaks well, but we all already knew that. Garry tried very hard to cover up the lack of goal posts farce, but Caro wrapped it up nicely. "It's been a year and a half of Jim Stynes and however many years...the Melbourne Football Club should be training on a ground with goal posts." Also, Watts will need to play 4-5 great games of footy at Casey before breaking through to the seniors. Says he is frustrated, but his determination and maturity is fantastic.

"Jack Green" A "Melbourne" name if I've ever seen one

I'm not putting anything down to loyalty or how we've treated him over the years. Players have left teams in the past even after being treated by royalty. As long as the $$$ are right, he will go. But I doubt the GC will offer him much more than we do. They'll be throwing their money at Ablett and saving for the likes of Riewoldt (however you spell it). We must sign him up!

There was a good ratio in round 1, but we had nothing to cheer for. Hawthorn is one of the teams I'm never worried about in regards to supporter numbers. They don't have THAT many fans. Don't be fooled by their 50,000 members: many are 1 game memberships, and they have 10,000+ that are in Tassie. I'd say they have a 25,000-35,000 strong membership of committed members in Melbourne that go to every game. Had we actually been given something to cheer for, you'd have noticed that the crowd wasn't as one sided as it looked. But, based on the TV showing, Melb v Collingwood sounded like 10-1. But we always seem to come out for interstate games, even when we get only 16k to the ground. As long as we create a cauldron (which we normally do. Those two games against Freo and Brisbane in 2008 are two of my most memorable as a supporter), we can make a lot of noise. See of red and blue people! Wear your team colours!

You'd expect Sylvia to come in.

They kept showing it several times on TV, but I was watching it on a TV with no sound at a pub so I couldn't hear if the commentators were saying it was a good tactic or illegal.

We are a chance, no doubt, but I expect Adelaide to bounce back this week. Hopefully we can get off to a good start. If we do, we'll do OK. We just can't recover from slow starts with this squad.

Thanks for adding worth to my post that he is overrated. You pretty much confirmed MY OPINION.

I think you're all getting a head of yourselves. In regards to Hawthorn, they had Mitchell and Hodge, and had several players that would snag them top 20 picks. We don't, and haven't over the past few years. Johnstone was probably the only player worth trading for a top 20 pick, and we got Grimes, which is great. But we don't have a champion in Crawford, or players like Mitchell and Hodge, to lead. We don't have players of that quality. Nor do we have a Franklin or Roughead. Nor do we have a Lonie or Thompson to trade for more top 20 picks. We're totally different to Hawthorn of 2006-2008. I still don't see us making the finals until 2012. I hope they do before then, but I don't see. I'm just being a realist based on our squad.

He defeated Jolly and Fraser on his own. If he keeps this play up from the first two games throughout the season, he would be pushing for an AA spot. But we all know we'll have to win at least 6 games for one our players to be considered for an AA spot.

Bennell was great yesterday I thought. Got his hands on the ball, made a few mistakes, but so did Jnr, MacDonald, Dunn, Bruce and Davey.

If the high tackle count insinuates that he is second to the ball, then it also would insinuate that his second efforts are amazing.

Bruce is the most overrated footballer to have been at the MFC in the 20 years I've been supporting them. He has a great football brain, but his skills have never been good, and he is a "gimmie" type player that is NEVER in and under.

Bit late now. We need to develop out forward line around the likes of Pettered, Jurrah, Watts etc. Green is great to go there every now and then, but not for an entire game. We are too reliant of him around the ground. Daniher should have realised he is a forward in the 8 years he coached him. I was saying that Green should be playing out of the goal square since 2002.