kallangurdemon

the danger may be that if Tom leaves Oscar may leave as well and where would we be then!

There was a bit of half ground practice match for those who hadnt played on Monday .Bennell played and kicked a nice goal but never broke out of a trot .Tmac and Hannan were both lively up forward .

I drove up to Maroochydore Sports complex this afternoon to watch the boys train .Missed the start and Max, Brayshaw and others were not on the oval. Jacko trained with the main group trained brightly and appeared unaffected by his hamstring .He may be a chance Saturday night. Harmes and Chunk did 3/4 pace work along the boundary by themselves. They worked hard but wouldn't have thought that they would be part of the mix for the Giants. Sparrow and James Jordan did repeat run throughs on their own and dont look far off. Goody, Salem and Clarry walked the boundary togteher talking in earnest, hopefully about tactics.The assistants took routine drills and all in all the team seemed more up and about then expected. A word for Neeta .For someone who hasn't played for 2 years and may be delisted at years end he ran laps with the knee bandaged like he was preparing to play at the Gabba on Saturday.Furthermore he looked in terrific shape. I had to leave near to the end as my wife accused me of using a trip to the Sunshine Coast as a pretext for watching the Dees train. She got that right.

an unexpected and probably undeserved final chance .Baker Preuss and Bedford out .Harmes Tmac and Hannan in more out of hope than conviction ,

we just arent good enough . If our A or B graders ,few as they are , dont have a day out we are not capable of beating anyone .I have locked myself in for a long period of misery .

Delist .Has always been quick which got him into the Lions Academy but they removed him when they realized he had no other attribute than pace .An ordinary player at Aspley.Struggled last year when given a look and has"nt progressed .One of a number we need bid farewell to .

his difficulty isn"t his attitude but rather that he still cant properly stretch out his leg and accordingly he plays at about 3/4 pace .His future depends on the continuing improvement of the injury

I didn't post yesterday because commenting on Oscar would have been too stressful .His journey at this club beggars belief .He has been an absolute spud from day one and a laughing stock of the competition but has remained on our list for 6 years .He is not an Isaac Weetra whose ineptness was realized after 1 game and then sensibly delisted .He is not a Brad Miller who was played week after week constantly struggled but always gave it his best shot .He is an absolute liability who has shown nothing in 6 years .But yet posters defend him and rubbish Clayton Oliver and Jack viney who would run through a brick wall for the club .This is not Demonland .This is Bizarroland where the worse you are the more you are appreciated.

perhaps we could change our full back structure by swapping back Dunn for May .that would get some threads going .

is clearly the form full back of the moment .Should be made AA full back purely on Saturday nights master class.

we could probably make another half dozen changes on that performance .We would have lost by 5 goals if not for the herculean effort of May .A gobsmacking performance over the next big thing in football .Pickett and Spargo cant be played in the same side and there is no reason to retain either .Melksham has hardly played a decent game all year and on the rare occasions that Hannan gets a possession he just turns it over .Vanders is a great trier but too slow .omac is breathtakingly inept and would not be considered for any other AFl list .Harmes ,Fritsch ANB Smith and even Hunt must come under close selection scrutiny .

we have gone form $2.00 to $2.15 since the team was announced .Maybe add someone from Sportsbet to the selection committee.

Is there the slightest thread of evidence firstly that Jesse and Freo are to part ways and secondly that he wishes to return to The Dees ,Seems wishful thinking at best .Serendipitous events like this just dont happen for Melbourne j

i presume that the clubs will go back to their local leagues which will be revamped and only the reserves sides of the 4 interstate eastern seaboard teams will be invited .A bit hard on Qld clubs of Aspley Southport and Redlands who have worked hard to be a success in Neafl against afl clubs .Aspley in particular won a premiership and lost another by a point to Northern Thunder (who are definitely out )Southport were also premiers and played in this years grand final.,Seems a poor reward for their efforts in advancing the code and providing competition for the afl reserves sides .

Being a Melbourne supporter is absolutely soul destroying .

I know that I am not in sync with the dominant sentiment of this thread but I thought Tom was better yesterday ,He took a couple of strong contested marks whereas previously he has been dropping everything .H was adequate as a relief ruckman and never shirked a contest .Yes he is slow off the mark and that is a legacy of his toe problems .If his marking continues to improve Tom will be a valuable contributor and should be persisted with .

AVB got through the whole game without breaking a single bone so he will be primed for Saturday night .Both he and Bennell are slow but unlike Bennell AVB plays without any thought of self preservation and his grunt is much needed .

gee I suppose at a stretch you could describe Howe as a great defender although i dont see it that way .But Dunn ? His is biggest achievement with us was getting his contract extended.Always completely at sea against an opponent who was strong overhead .Be very surprised if he plays Saturday night.

With Oscar if they are small they are too quick for him,if they are big they are too strong for him .He is a long way short of AFL standard and richly deserved to be dropped .

I would probably add Luke Jackson to that list of puzzling draft selections ..What is the point of a forward who cant mark above his Head ? Hopefully he will come good in this area but I already have m y doubts .

there is universal criticism of our game plan .But can someone please explain our game plan .? Ports was easy enough to fathom but we were completely static and our forwards just stood around like Browns cows ,Can somebody just explain to me what the blueprint of our game plan is .

We were putrid tonight and I left the ground absolutely gutted . I am not going to make excuses but we had absolute no energy from the get go and I thought very early on that our goose was cooked .i dont know the effect of the 4 day break on the team because this is new territory but there was no spark at any time tonight .

surprisingly but thankfully my ticket came in a late afternoon email from the club Go Dees.

did anyone score a ticket in the ballot .I sure didnt .

He actually doesnt seem likely to take a contested mark.i cant recall him ever clunking one .Weed on the other hand is a good but inconsistent contested mark.