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Love him.

Jamar's certainly increased the length on his kicks, but he used to only kick it about 35 to 40 metres. He's certainly not our longest, accurate kick. He has however become an accurate setshot from 30 to 40 out. There's no way he'll kick 80 to 100, but he could chip in with 20 to 30.

It's Green. No doubt about it.

Is it just me or does he move a bit like J Grimes?

Bloody amazing news.

It's clearly Green. He's in the middle on the header on MFC.com.au. Bruce hasn't signed yet and Green's the perfect age to allow one of the emerging leaders to take over in a couple of years time.

My only question on Hale comes with our own style of gameplay. We often win the ball across half back and having pushed up so high leave a paddock (similar to Pagan's old game style at the Kangas) for our forwards to run into, rather than leading up the ground. If Hale is perceivably slow, he's not the sort of player you'd want running back. Just a thought.

All the wars we've lost in the recent years have actually turned out for the best. This might be another one.

I disagree with the OP. I thought our offensive zone worked quite nicely 70 or 80% of the time. We seem to allow a short pass within our forward 50 and then look to close down all the space on the flanks and wings from there. It's a little bit St Kildaish in the making. We're getting there slowly. It's getting the ball out of our own defensive zone that we're not crash hot at. On Sunday Richmond's zone was weaker than previous teams, but Hawthorn's will be stronger. That will be a big test.

It looked awesome to me. Admittedly I sat in the MCC, but at one stage during the last quarter, seeing and hearing all those MFC supporters turn around and singing towards them was awesome. Personally, I think we need more of that. All this anti-social texting [censored] is encouraging a lack of atmosphere. You need idiots and personally antagonism (as long as it doesn't lead to physical violence) is fine. It adds to the spectacle. You want to win even more and shove it in their faces.

Bail's quickly becoming a favourite of mine. His gut running is fantastic to watch. He simply runs from flank to flank and wins possession. There was one moment during today's game where he burst through the pack, spun and hit Green (I think it was) on the chest. Great to watch. He certainly gets another game for mine.

I thought JB did well on Hicks today. Hicks who is a hack, somehow did well against us early. JB did little up forward in the first quarter, so they threw him back on Hicks and he shut him down and provided some great run. As for Moloney, I don't think I'd give him a game, until someone falters. That said, I think it'd always be like for like. It'd have to be Jones for Moloney. Moloney's clearance work is better, but Jones is quicker and is a better kick. They're both hard nuts, but Jones is far more flexible than Moloney.

Agreed.

Jordie's a ripper! Fast becoming one of my favourites.

Actually, I think (for whatever reason) our kick outs have improved in the last two to three weeks.

I think Morton will get the role on Goodes again. He shut him down so affectively last time. That was the best game I witnessed an MFC player play last year. It certainly made the drive back to Melbourne a little more bearable.

Agreed. Played a very good game. Deserves a recall next week. He just build on that now, in order to maintain his place on the list, come seasons end.

Got a lot of pricks, Freo. Solid second half, pitiful first half. And you can see the headlines again: Melbourne blame poor start. Watts has to kick those goals and Bate had a reasonably ordinary game. His kicking for goal really cost us. While positives for me were Scully, JB, McKenzie and Frawley.

Moloney's probably had five good games and never away from the MCG.

Pathetic.

We haven't got a clue around stoppages. THe amount of dumb, dumb, dumb free kicks we give away is unbelievable.

Oh and LJ doesn't look interested.

Please get rid of Bruce. How he can possibly be in our leadership group is a blight on the rest of our team.

The last two weeks, Garland has turned the ball over a couple of times in the first quarter. Most of the time, these turnovers have resulted in goals. He has to get better at this. I love him, but he's had a very ordinary start.

Every time we go interstate the coach and players talk about turning around a hoodoo and every bloody time, [censored] all happens. We have absolutely no leaders interstate.