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and that is the difference between him having a solid game and a great game .He has good hands and gets in good position so I am perplexed as to why he drops so many marks ,I have concluded it is just a confidence thing and soon he will just take them .

i enjoyed the initial episode and am looking forward to next instalment.I Well done to the media boys. Its brave to make the doco in the present and hope the season develops in line with the theme of redemption and things don't turn sour .Not sure how it will all pay out in the end.Sort of a MFC version of "The Staircase "

it brings back wonderful memories .We had to win the last 6 on the trot which we did including that epic last game at Footscray Then the 2 finals cakewalks and finally the tragic end .1987 was an incredible ride .I doubt I will ever see the building of momentum like that again .

Stan Alves.Would dominate his wing but also bring half the side into the game at the same time .We didn't have many victories during his time but he was so responsible so often in setting up those wins .

Well if the clubs list managers knew that Jess was going to have a season ending mid year injury then I do have a lot more faith in them .He not the club instituted the move back to WA and we accepted a lop sided trade in return.I am dismayed by the patent schadenfreude being displayed in this thread .He has done nothing to merit this.There is absolutely no evidence that's been produced to suggest his problem is career ending as much as some wish this to be the case..We have nothing remotely as talented as Jesse in the forwards and I would have him back in a heartbeat.

Hannan to me still didn't seem completely free in his walking action .He spent a good deal of time practicing 15 metre kicks to Preuss who has a minor lower leg complaint .I suspect he (unlike Vanders ) may still be a little while away .I also perhaps should have mentioned that the veterans Chunk and Jetta were as sharp as anyone and looked totally injury free.

Watched the first year players more closely. Surprisingly Rivers looked the most advanced and ready to play at this stage. Jackson may need a little time. Kozzie was sharp and skillful and will push for round 1 simply because of a need for a small forward. Of the rest Swallow and Omac both looked like they had put in hard work in the gym and were impressive . The biggest surprise was Vanders. He looks in ripping condition and may be in for a great year. ? DEMON SPOFFORTH'S TRAINING REPORT ? DOCS DEMONS' TRAINING REPORT

and on top of that had to fight a cancer scare .Has had an indescribably bad run.

The time line of the prospect of Harley joining us ran pretty much parallel with the prospect of drafting Jack Martin. We didn't appear to make much of an effort to convince Martin that we had the draft pick and he wold play with us or no one.A bit like North and Carlton over Keith Greig .Instead the club dismissed the drafting of Martin rolled out Harley as a substitute and people got excited .Now the overwhelming consensus seems to be that it was unlikely that Harley would ever play anyway .That consensus is well justified and I concur with it .But we cannot say that all we lost was a potential rookie list player .What we lost was an absolutely fortuitous opportunity to snag not some rookie listed player but a genuinely good fit footballer .Harley was just the soft option .

What has puzzled me is whether there is any medical evidence available to the Club to suggest that he can get there in the end .Freo of course tried everything including surgery in Germany to fix Harley's calf problems.Probably all that remained was trip to Lourdes . All to no avail.In the end of all this the Dockers had decided by mid 2019 that despite their very best efforts sadly Harley wasn't going to make it and they not unreasonably let him go.Has anything changed which would give us something other than a mere hope that Harley would be right for 2020?

no he was a terrible kick for goal-completly unreliable .But his marking judgement was unrivalled .Tragically struck down in his first season but had already shown he was something special . Although he was not the same player when he returned he was still one of our mainstays in typically difficult times .

As a consistently long and reliable kick I would go for Bryan Kenneally .Surprising no one mentioned Magnificent Ron whose kicking was as good as the rest of his game ..

if we can perhaps ignore Carlton for a moment and concentrate on ourselves i just wonder whether we did enough in this instance to take advantage of that serendipitous opportunity to gain a very good player .As we all know Martin want one in the same draft that Jesse went two so obviously he was rated .it is difficult to assess his Suns form as he the type of player who would be at his best with talented players around him and those players were in short supply at the Suns .Martin made his preference for Carlton clear but he was just as clear the previous year for his preference for Essendon so I never saw him as welded to the Blues .I accept that his asking price for his first 2 years was high but that was a particularly unsophisticated ruse on Carltons part to fix the mess made by them in the Trade Period Did we try enough to juggle the financial and personal issues that accompanied his potential drafting?.I of course have no way of knowing that but I my feeling just on reading published material was that we let a great opportunity slip too easily

Except Bradke cost us nothing and we have nothing to lose .Jackson cost a draft pick for which we had to lose all year to gain .Naturally I fervently hope he turns out as a number 3 draft pick should but I sense that this is make or break for JT.

I found this years trip to Darwin particularly pleasant and i was looking forward to a trip in 2020 .The weather is beautiful that time of year and the people hospitable .We play the stadium better than we play most grounds and despite the heartbreaking loss to Adelaide this year we ,in my view anyway ,had developed a genuine home ground advantage .I doubt the final decision was ours and was a result of the demise of the Northern Thunder .The AFL are concerned with the drop in draftees from the NT and saw a need to align NTFL with a geographically closer club .I understand the members support of moving back to the G and the reasoning of the AFL is generally sound but I am still a little saddened by the news

Well we unlike other clubs at least ended up with our prime targets which were settled on well before the trade period began .We weren't running around like headless chooks on the last hours of the final day .

good to get another top 10 pick this year but again unless there is some not yet revealed further strategy we have been too generous in what we have given back

a second round pick next is a surprisingly good outcome .Frosty always reminded me of Gary Cowton so his deficiencies were apparent and generally surfaced at the worst possible time .He was a trier who never wanted to leave so I wish him all the best . h

He may look ok statistically but it was pleasing that Jeremy Howe had no real influence .Also saw Lyndon Dunne mooching around in the rooms afterwards. Collingwood are now 2 flags in the last 60 years so all in all a wonderful day .

wow what an effort to come up with 10 positives .Well done.I came up with zero.I didnt even think Max was quite as good this year as last .Next challenge will be positives for Nathan Lyons fielding-Fielded Gary .

what does 4.1 to 1 goal do to Lyons premature assessment that Freo is the best last quarter team in the competition .Go dees !

I feel like I have absolutely nothing to look forward to and at the moment feel this club as robbed me of he ability to lead something of a normal life.

i thought we were good at times today and you cant seriously question the players commitment .We just cant gel as a group and that's been the case all year .The midfield has no faith in the forward line and there is good reason for that .The effect of losing Jesse was not fully appreciated and is at least part of the reason the forward line is so shambolic.There has been no plan B for the forward line and the weekly selections are a victory of optimism over experience . We are a team without confidence and the break will do us no harm .

the only good thing about Dennis was that he only had the one season.Sadly he has now passed on .

Did you check for him in the Casey reserves side ?