The Chazz

I'm pretty sure I hear Goody say that somewhere - maybe the interview on SEN the other day? I would expect our JLT 2 team to be a significantly stronger, albeit slightly underdone side from JLT1.

Saty, I apologise for my earlier post. I read it that you were expecting Goodwin to be playing games, and possibly picking a smoky for Round 1 based on what he saw in the JLT games. Reality is, he's got close to a full list, but match fitness is going to be against a fair few of them. He'll need to play as many players as possible over the next 2 weeks to see who will be cherry ripe to go Round 1. Not an ideal situation to be in, but we work with it, and hope we pick up a few wins in the first 4-5 weeks of the season, so that we are prepared for a season that extends deep in to September.

The 1st Round of the VFL fixture is 7th April. That's equivalent to Round 3 in the AFL. Presumably KK needs a couple of weeks in the 2s, we're potentially looking at a recall, form permitting, of around Round 5, and even then he's not a walk-up start. If Lever is back around Round 8-10, then what Andy said isn't beyond the realms of possibility.

Of course he's going to. He has to field a team in both JLT games, and given the amount coming off an interrupted preseason (call it what ever you want, but I'm telling you the facts when I say interrupted), he's not going to play players until they are ready. There will be umpteen players not ready to play this weekend, but he will be desperate to get a run in them the following week. Nothing strategic, other than making sure he has as many players to pick from as possible who have done the required amount of work.

You could argue that the same applies to our great sport...

I posted on here last year that the jury was out for Fritta (in my opinion). I see all the qualities that everyone has listed above. But, I'm going to ask the jury to wait until the end of 2019 before delivering their verdict. He will get extra attention this year, so I'll be interested to see how he handles that. In some ways I'd like to see him lock down a position this year, but in many ways, the fact that he hasn't is a strength too. FWI, I don't mind being on my own in the minority with this view! I haven't dismissed him - how could I? But I'm still unsure how long his career will be. Feast away.

The problem from that, Jaded, is that while racism, etc seems to be on the decline, the noise that they make through social media is on the increase, especially as they know that it will be broadcast through mainstream media (ie getting the message to a greater audience). We can't take away the (social media) platform that these trolls are using to get their voice out there, but we can really reduce the sound of their voice by not giving it the light of day. It will fast become a lonely little world that these people live in. Does that excuse them for making such comments? No. But this is the world we now live, and it will continue to get worse before it gets any better.

It was the first hit out of the season, a practice match. They are more focused on keeping to structures, introducing some of the new ideas that they have been working on. Scoreboard is irrelevant, and often, skill execution is the same. This game was a great example of two teams that are expecting to go deep in to September, blowing out some cobwebs, generally going at around 80%, and taking the first competitive step of a new, long season. The players and areas you have criticised are close to embarrassing.

Haters are gonna hate.

I wish people would stop whinging about the live stream. It's a praccy match FFS. Be grateful that we have any coverage at all.

It sums up where Geelong are at, and what the inclusion on Ablett has done to their team. There's two ways of looking at Ablett in that clip. The first being that he was really in the perfect position for the "cheap" one over the top, but Danger was too slow to acknowledge it, and tried to do too much. Had he (Danger) got the hands over to Ablett, he was in a world of space. But, it was Danger's immediate response to do the individual thing that saw him get crunched. That said, had Ablett put that shepherd on, Danger was also in a world of space (he would've blown Nibbler away). Ablett's selfishness cost them as well. While a lot of what happened on the night can be put down to us just dominating the Cats from the first second, that passage of play goes right to the core of what's wrong with Geelong in general. It's bloody marvellous. Back on topic, Sammy's just a nice boy who can play bloody good footy. My love for him grows by the minute.

"We may miss a few heading into round one, we're still working towards that but we'll have to wait and see." - Simon Goodwin, 14/02/2019. I'm sure I read somewhere that apart from Lever, all payers have pretty much had an uninterrupted preseason?

Did you expect something of reasonable quality? If so, more fool you. I gave up listening to SEN years ago. They rarely, if ever, offer anything insightful.

The last paragraph is laughable. Neepe would've "snapped him up"? Really? Neeld had many, many faults. But I challenge you to provide examples of soft players that he picked up at all, let alone paying a premium for them (via trade).

If I said to a high school kid to snort a Whizz Fizz, they would know that; A. You snort with your nose B. You do so by breathing in in a sniffing style Dont think you have to be an experienced coke head to know what to do.

We'll be managing players by then as we will be 3 games clear on top.

I think Chook was meaning Draught, as in the Carlton variety...

I won't be there, so will expect you to post photos and a report thanks DV8. Out of curiosity, what's your residing postcode?

I just Google mapped the directions from my place, and the current travel time is 1 hour 30 minutes. I finish work at 4:30pm, so that would see me getting to the ground, at best, at 6pm. If you think for one minute that I'm going to oblige and attend this event, just to get there in time to watch the opening credits of Jumanji 2, then you think wrong. I appreciate that this is to celebrate the 10 year partnership with Casey, so it makes sense to have it out that way. It does put great restrictions on the supporters that can attend though.

When I used to live in Queensland, the only way I would get any information about the Demons is either this website, or the club website. Burgs did a tremendous job at putting enough content up for me to get my weekly fix. Demonland is/was a great way to communicate with fellow Demons. Burgs was clearly passionate about the Demons - you could sense his excitement after a win, and his disappointment when we lost. You could tell he was, in some ways, living his dream of being involved in the Melbourne Football Club from an employment perspective. Even though I now live back in Victoria, I still don't have the luxury of attending training sessions, etc during the week, so I'm again relying on the Club website and Demonland. What I can say though is that my 4yo son, who is starting to become obsessed with all things Melbourne, especially one M Gawn, I love showing him footage and/or photos on the MFC app/website of the players. I much prefer him, at that age, to get his own little Gawny fix from the Club website than an internet chat room. Personally, I think the preseason communications from the club has deteriorated. I'm not going to slit my wrists over it, and the Club isn't going to lose my young bloke as a member, but it is definitely an area that I would love to see improved, as I enjoy the bit of quality time I get to spend with my son when we are watching videos or looking at photos of the players.

I'm with you DD. While a lot on here used to get stuck in to Burgo's efforts, I enjoyed his Maroochydore diary entries. Gave you a bit of a personal background in to some players/staff through music/movie tastes, etc. None of it would win a Walkley, but for light reading about the club I love it was fine. Definitely think it has dropped off this year.

The thing I find most distressing is that every article that I have read states how many games he has played in his career. 172? It's criminal to think that he's played that many.

Don't you think if we re-played that game with our list as it stands now that May would take one of those forwards?

DL, this is a thread from the star of the 2018 season. Interesting that some had their concerns about his pace back then. The other thing I found interesting was that there were a few "starting" midfields proposed. I think you would be hard pressed to find a starting midfield for 2019 that doesn't include Harmes.

Stay, can you please confirm if Spargo is standing on 2 phone books or a milk crate? Thanks in advance.