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I think the Eagles are tanking big time. They're a lot better then they have played so far this year and last year. Still, I don't expect us to win.

Bruce has been in the best in a side with no real experience. His kicking skills are just shocking and I don't think he will be a regular in 3-4 years time, which is when we'll be pushing for finals. He was a good player, but seems to have taken a step backwards. He is the best because of his decent tagging ability and agility and he does plenty of good things, but sometimes the effectiveness just isn't good enough, especially for the highest paid player at the club. He is a mid-range player at best imo.

This forum just makes me shake my head in disarray sometimes. It really does. GTFO it. I was more interested in how our 4th/5th/6th year players like Sylvia, Bate, Brock, Miller were going to perform, because these are blokes leading us who are nearing the typical peaking age of a footballer. I will wait until 20-30 games to make an assumption on Maric.

Who the hell cares? Players go out and get smashed every weekend on the [censored]. I don't see any threads on that. A pie and chips for lunch is nowhere near as bad as say 10 beers and some shots. Especially considering they'll have a training session tomorrow, whereas if they were drinking, they wouldn't have training the next day (unless they're Colin Sylvia)

6 - Cale Morton 5 - Aaron Davey 4 - Russell Robertson 3 - Petterd 2 - Bartram 1 - Sylvia

Melbourne members voted for because they had experienced no success in 30 years, we were in far more of a rubble than the Hawks were and because there was no white knight in the ranks pushing for a no-merger vote. The Hawks had a very strong backing against it, so the members were influenced. Melbourne members sought the logical (at the time) choice, whereas Hawks members sought the passionate and surviving choice. Remember, Melbourne didn't have a President or a board that was being positive and saying we'll survive like Stynes is now. They had a board that was pushing for the merger.

Good to see Maric finally in the squad.

With that perfect kicking style of him, I'm surprised he doesn't already have 1200 goals.

Whether we want to win 4 games or not is irrelevant, because we won't win that many anyway.

My bet is that Collingwood are willing to pay the fine for not wearing a clash jumper, and they're calling North's blush. North can't pay it, so they wear the alternate strip. I don't think it's North giving into the Pies, but rather North being pushed into a corner with no other logical solution.

Gotta give it to them... ...it's pretty funny.

We don't beat Geelong. So therefore, any strategies to neat Geelong, won't actually be strategies because we wouldn't have won.

In the Sam Blease thread. Just want to warn you before someone comes in and starts abusing you for starting another thread.

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I absolutely LOATH the AFL. They take the approach that a club should be awarded for on-field and off-field performance with a better draw. The draw should be EVEN across the board. Each team has 11 home games, 11 away games, an even number of Sunday games, an even number of Friday games and an even number of Saturday arvo games, almost like how it was in the early-late 90s. In the US, the schedule is even so there is an even playing field. In the AFL, the poor pulling clubs get Sunday games, which are notourisly low drawing, a twighlight game, which are the same, against Interstate clubs, which is even worse. It's not one of those three factors for a game, but all three. A Sunday twilight match against an interstate club. How did we even think we would pull more than 15k is beyond me. The AFL is a ritch man business, not a sport business. The game has prospered, but the downside of that is that the AFL is being overly influenced by the all might dollar. I don't care what he says or what the AFL does to help Melbourne, I will never, EVER believe that Andrew and the AFL want 10 teams in Melbourne. They are bullying us out of Melbourne imo. I don't think any other club has a twilight game on a Sunday against an interstate club.

Out - Bruce, Newton In - Watts, Maric That is all.

Onya Jeff!

Yes, it's true. This man has no ****.

We've seen St. Kilda burst out of the blocks like this before. Weren't they 10-0 in 2004? And they were super good then.

- Losing Margin -30. We will win by 5 goals. - Gary Ablett Jnr Possessions 16 possessions, 7 clangers, 0 goals, 5 behinds, 2 tackles - Number of goals that nuff nuff Hawkins will kick against us 1.3 - Number of GOOD minutes of footy played by the MFC, and in which quarter 90

We say that, but do we believe it? Let's not be so naive to think that society, not individuals, really believe in the whole "innocent until proven guilty". If that was the case, jurors wouldn't be blocked from the media during a trial. It's just a technical term, something used so the defence can have a fair trial. How often do you see a person up for murder and say, "well, he is innocent and will be until he is proven guilty."? I doubt ever. I always think, "What a [censored]! I can't believe he did that!" Innocent until proven guilty is just a technical term and fact. But it's not necessarily what the public automatically believe/think.

He belted a woman. He deserves to be boo'd, just like how Kobe Bryant was boo'd when he was charged for rape. The boos' went when the case was thrown out (or whatever happened.) We can say "innocent until proven guilty", but everyone knows that it's really "guilty until proven innocent". The accusation is on him, not the supposed victim. So atm, I assume he did wrong, because I will take the victims word over his. He is in the public eye and deserves to be boo'd. IMO. We boo players who change teams, hit players hard or whatever, then we can boo players who do something like that. Whether it's his private life or not, we know, and we will boo.

This. We'll see how much we've improved after we've played the Saints, Cats and Hawks.

My mum gave up trying to pronounce his name and just calls him "Mother mary" (kind of sounds like wonamaeri - however you spell his name)

Thanks Brock_Machine What I really don't get about yesterdays game was Adelaide's willingness to slow the game down and constantly have two players back. In a way, I guess we can take it as somewhat of a compliment - I don't think Craig was confident they could beat us on the MCG allowing us to play our normal style of football. I might be getting ahead of myself, but I think we had more instances of skill and good decision making than Adelaide today. They were terrible. However, our inability to counter their extra men back hurt us. The way to counter a flood is to slowly but surely make your way in. We just kept bombing it in. You can't play like that anymore. Thankfully, they did the same thing, and what the game ended up being was a game between two sides that just didn't know how to break each others defensive tactics.