Dr. Gonzo

Bonafide AA key back you've gotta be having a laugh. Unaccountable, lazy and prone to turnovers. Refused to listen to instruction and play to team rules even under Roos and was sent packing.

Fixed for you

Wouldn't we already know if Viney was cited? I thought MRP results would be within 24 hours of each game this year

Good on ya mate, what are you doing today for an encore? Parting the Bass strait?

The umpiring was rubbish from quarter time on I thought. Head clash between Scully and Melksham and Scully gets the free?

Yep that and our structures seem better. Skills particularly going inside 50 are letting us down but I'm hoping it's just preseason rust. We need a genuine forward target to straighten us up, TMac didn't seem to provide that consistently

Hope everyone's on board now and starting to see why we targeted him. He'll be a great link man and will allow us to be less predictable coming out of defense (instead of kicking long to Gawn) Now if we could just fix our kicks inside 50. What a difference a guy like Hogan would've made in tonight's game....

4th question : why is this vague information bring relayed by a third rate muckraker instead of by the AFL in their media release?

Not just his own club. The club he was a key executive of at the time the salary cap discrepancies occurred!

Carlton and Essendon have been whacked just like we have been. Salary cap discrepancies usually have at least Draft Pick sanctions along with the fine it's unusual that Geelong got away with just a fine, especially such a minor one at that!

The Rolling Stone references on this site have been out of control recently

You'd be surprised ??

McGowan writes articles for AFL.com.au mainly centred around stats and data analysis from what I can gather. He also does a fantastic podcast called Trends that I can't recommend highly enough.

Exactly, it's not even about this year for me (although that's be great obviously). It's about returning to full fitness and setting himself up for another 5+ years as a Demon if he can get himself right. If that means only half a dozen games or so in 2020 so be it.

Extreme short-sightedness by the VFL / channel 7. The story goes that old film was either taped over and / or sent to the tip when channel 7 was trying to free up storage space in the late 80s. It's the reason why footage of the 63 and 64 Grand Finals is only available in a limited capacity. Look at the value organisations like the NFL and WWF placed on their video libraries even back then and what they've turned it into now and realise the opportunity lost and the history gone begging. I am one of those you refer to as hoarding games It began with my (or rather my dad's) VHS collection of Saturday night replays when I was a kid (late 80s-early 90s) and morphed into trading for any Melbourne (and some other) games I could get my hands on when I started out trying to find additional games I didn't have from the Northey era and anything with Jakovich in it. I've traded with Langers before and he has a ridiculous collection including many replays or parts of games going back to the early-mid 60s. Unfortunately I don't think I can help him with this query. I love chucking on some old games to have on in the background, eg the other night I chucked on an old replay of our round 22 win against Carlton in 1988 that secured our finals berth that year. I remember sitting on the second level behind the goals as a 6 year old with my dad uncle and cousin for that game because it was raining, we'd usually be in the old MFC members red seats otherwise. Anyway I digress.....

He runs in straight lines, no lateral movement which makes him predictable

You should of corrected them, I would of

The club had to split from the MCC they can't be faulted for that. There were a number of reasons most of them financial from my understanding.

It was in the 80s we were kicked off the G wasn't it? Probably coincided with our separation from the MCC and now things have evomved to the point where it's not feasible for us to return

Couldn't have Viney at the presser as it would have taken the focus off Maxy and offered an opportunity for the gutter dwelling journos to question Viney about how disappointed he might be etc I have no doubt Viney would be hurting about the decision but I also have no doubt his number one priority is the success of the MFC

If he's worth it he'll get the big $$ offer from us. He's with us for the next 3 seasons at least, that's good enough for me

To Hell and Back episode 3

North had a great decade in the 90s, 2 flags (4 since our last) Essendon were a behemoth of the competition until the drugs saga, you could argue they still are and won 2 flags in the 80s and 2 in the 90s/00 Gold Coast are a new franchise the AFL is funding in an expansion market Not really comparing apples with apples Even the Saints made grand finals in 97, 09 & 10 and were one of the top teams for about 3 years at the turn of last decade

Except when we lost by 31 goals ???