Adam The God

The Bulldogs will not will a flag with their undersized team.

Perhaps, so, but taking Brendan Fevola off against the Pies, when he was smashing it up in the latter part of 2007 was certainly tanking.

Very good points, because teams like Adelaide had those champions still playing when the rebuild began (MacLeod, Goodwin, Edwards etc), as did Essendon (Lloyd, Lucas and Fletcher). We've had none of those, as we've lacked champions (besides perhaps Garry Lyon), certainly in my lifetime. I think people under estimate how important it is to have champion older players still on the list, with young players coming through. Lloyd would provide a blueprint for work rate and professionalism for any young Bomber forward coming through, just as Edwards would live up to similar standards for young Adelaide midfielders. What do we have? If it's not almost total youth (our backline), then it's a guy like Robbo, who spends more time on his hands and knees or taking dives, than he does standing on his feet and encouraging team mates. With this lack of champion leadership, we have no foundation and therefore must rely on having early draft picks. Even if they take a while to develop, hopefully the recruiters pick well and the young kids coming through bring their own professionalism to the table.

Yes, it is staggering to think he hasn't won the award. I'd like to see him put together 6 consistent weeks of football from here on, out and he might come back into contention for the captaincy, but he still goes missing too often for my liking. Yep, I agree with that. He's certainly playing the best footy of his MFC career. I hope he can begin to add a level consistency equalled to that of an AFL captain and then we'll have someone to build around. I've lost patience with McLean, whereas Bruce and Macca won't be part of our next finals bid, so Moloney would certainly be a choice that would reflect looking to the future.

I'll take on board everything, except the stats at the end. Where Aaron is being played is not necessarily his fault and does have a baring on the amount of possessions he gets. That said, if played dangerous positions, Aaron only needs 10 touches to have a major impact. Earlier in the season, when we needed a solid head, with good foot skills, we had to play Aaron down back. But now Grimes has added some poise off half back, it releases Davey into the midfield and possibly forward. Whilst, Aaron may never lay the big bump, he's the only guy I would put my life on, to be chasing week in, week out. Nobody else does it as consistently as he does and has done. That's leadership too. He does need to learn how to shrug a tag and cope with the niggle, without his constant chasing and offensive and defensive pressure we would be far worse off. The tackle comparison between he and Moloney is rather misleading, as Moloney is playing in a tight, in close position, whereas Aaron is having to do more chasing and arugably applying far more pressure than someone from our midfield. Particularly, one that gets regularly beaten in the clearances. I suppose I wouldn't mind Moloney being captain for a couple of years, but I'd replace him when a few of the younger guys mature (ie Grimes, Watts etc).

Yeah, my mum and sister went, so that makes six at least. They had members tickets from one of our family members (who is Geelong), because that bloody ground barely gives up any tickets for opposition supporters. The seating arrangements are a disgrace. Get another 5,000 seats in there or fix up opposition supporters tickets.

That, however I do agree on. Sadly, true.

Moloney is a little too inconsistent for my liking. Even though Flash had one of his quieter matches yesterday, he's still head a shoulders above the rest in tersm of leadership. His tackling and chasing every week is miles above anyone else. Moloney played well yesterday, but he doesn't do it reguarly enough and I'm not sure whether it was just a matter of coming up against his old team or a sign of consistent things to come. He's not talented enough to be captain though. Flash is. As for Brock, if he is captain next year it'll be more of a joke than Macca this year. I love Macca, but I'm not convinced he should have gone around again this year. McLean showed absolutely no leadership yesterday and I can kick a football better than him. It's disappointing, because he has the ability to win a lot of in and under ball. As for Greeny, I don't really feel like talking about him at the moment, considering I can't recall him playing a worse game than yesterday. Some of his decision making, under little pressure was very poor and quite un-Green-like.

She also noted that we apparently had 'three supporters' at yesterday's game. Her voice was the most annoying thing I've ever heard on television. I hope she gets the flick. A number of times she would make a comment that moments later would be denied by the play going on. I'd said she was pretty ordinary to be honest. As for Richo, I always enjoy his comments. As for Hudson, he was at his most annoying yesterday. Oh and those wankers being sexest, go and jump off a cliff or come and join the twenty first century.

As wild as that may seem, I wouldn't disagree. Once he starts putting together 4 quarters he could easily bag 10. He breased to three goals after one quarter the other day. I'm not saying he went out of the game entirely, because he still set up just about all our goals, but given four quarters from full forward or the forward pocket and he could very well grab quite a few bags. It was disappointing he missed that sitter from 15 out the other day, particularly when he'd been so accurate from directly in front. He'll be a gem this bloke though.

It totally depends on what the instructions are to the caretakers. If the instructions are get their club a high pick, then naturally the caretakers are going to tank. There are quite a few of our guys playing for their careers as well. I'm not necessarily one for going along with Herald Sun articles, but there was one today discussing the fact that there's no doubt 5 or 6 clubs will think about tanking over the last few rounds.

Agreed. There's no way we'll lose to either Freo or Richmond, then there's the Kangaroos, who we'll probably beat and we're a show against Sydney. It'll be interesting to see how we play against the Swannies, because we'll give it our all this week and it's highly unlikely we'll win, whereas if things stay the same as the last two weeks against Sydney, we'll probably beat them, because they're hopeless. That said, the Eagles have put themselves in an extremely difficult position (thanks to a 10 minute burst from Nik Nat against the Hawks) and one which I don't think they can get out of, considering the teams they have to play. If Cox plays (and add Kerr to that), the Eagles will definitely win at least one more. Freo will probably beat the Eagles in the derby though, but the Eagles will probably pick up another somewhere along the line. At this stage, it looks like there won't be a priority pick. Furthermore, I'd expect Freo, the Eagles and us to all win at least 5 games. We all play each other, there has to be losers.

I love our Jack, but the same could be said for him on Queen's Birthday.

There were at least two times yesterday where he went to ground, so he didn't have to chase. He did however put on a couple of good chases. But there was also a moment, where Jetta was in space to his right and should and could have easily given the handball off to him, who would have had an easy shot from 30-35 out directly in front, but instead Robbo tried a snap from 40 and it ended up going 20 metres and closer to the right forward pocket boundary line. That was one of the most damning moments of his game for me, yesterday.

I get the feeling, as long as he keeps kicking bags of 3 or 4, he'll stay on the list.

I didn't actually (clap that is). I realised today how much I dislike Robbo. I love my club, but we've put up with his attitude for long enough. He spoke well at the end of the game though.

Rivers was great. As was our entire back half. Frawley, Warnock. Great games. I can't say the same for Robbo though. A few more selfish efforts from him. The majority of the side was fantastic though. Some skills errors, but they're to be expected. The young kids in particular were just brilliantly exciting to watch. When Jurrah runs at a pack he's more exciting than anything I've seen for a long time. Jetta's tackling and defensive pressure was fantastic all day as well. Bennell played an extremely encouraging game as well. Not all of his disposals were 100% effective, but he seemed to cover a lot more ground than usual and it almost seemed as though he felt he belonged today. Then Jackie Grimes. Wow, what a game he played. Another draft of more young talent and in three or four years we'll definitely be contenders.

Yeah, he'll certainly get it this week. A great game. Hopefully, we'll see him more in the midfield, over the coming weeks. Although, he's doing rather nicely at the back. He certainly played the general's role today.

Naitanui was well beaten by Jamar and when he went forward, Warnock. That's that. It doesn't mean he'll be good or bad, but like Watts, he's only played 3 games. You surely cannot expect anything more than that, at this stage.

Football is a business. Jimmy and his board realise this. Promoting Watts is what any club in our position or in any position, would do. You have to promote yourself at every opportunity and this was just another of these occassions.

Well, that's [censored]...are you part of the media? Talk about sensationalism.

Probably between 18 and 20,000. That's providing the clouds don't look black before the start of the game. It's going to be cold and we've got a lot of [censored] weak supporters.

All the best for the operations, Jimmy!

We've already got these hard bodied pack bustling guys in McLean, Moloney and Jones. We don't need anymore.

Yeah. His first touch yesterday, straight off the opening bounch was absolutely superb. There's no other way of describing it. His hands were lightening and all of a sudden Metro had a clearance. Brock's thought processing is way too slow to be able to do that. He might be receiving it from Scully, then handballing to Trengove, who then kicks it to Watts.