Curry & Beer

at least it is a Saturday night, so I won't even need a thinly-veiled excuse to get blind drunk and belligerent in the Smithy bar

The only reason it is annoying is that you just know that somehow if the situation was reversed Pederson would be facing a couple of weeks

hasn't done anything for weeks

How can we honestly be expected to front up to this, it is going to be torture

Terlich is very stiff to get the axe by 75% of you Was better than at least a dozen players yesterday, I had him 6th best in fact

so many blokes that played zero, or 1 or 2 games, mindblowing

surprised I'm the only one that gave Terlich a (single) vote.. he only made one trademark error as I recall and most of the time was pretty solid. Think he is one of those players whose reputation precedes him, in a bad way

God that was bad - it was a decent grab, then bam! quadruple error 1)took forever to get up and get on with it 2)chose a terrible option in Jack Viney and 3) an absolute lollipop skyball that gave him zero chance to mark it and 4)the context of this play was that it set up brissy to march straight down the middle and it bounced straight down the other end for a goal. Unbelievably poor football, that is why he is an adelaide reject on the fringe of our pitiful side.

Yes no doubt the hawks would have had significantly less than 68 imports and a far higher conversion rate than the 20% max. that we have

I suppose the thing we have to look at it the fact that the news Roos regime has only had one season at it.. because right at this moment we have about 12 genuine footballers on the list and some hopeful kids to come. Pretty dire stuff.

Exactly, as I said, 8 of the bolded players are newbies, there is no guarantee whatsoever any of them will become real players, especially when you consider that developing the real article is almost unprecedented at this club

At the end of 2007 when Daniher sunk and Bailey came in, we started the 'slash and burn' rejuvenation of the list and installed a rotating door at MFC headquarters. In the seven years since, we have retained just five players from the '07 list, and added at total of 68 players, 29 of whom are already been and gone. Of the other 39 additions, I count (shown in bold type) 15 good, solid 'asset' players with possibly a bright future ahead (NB in some cases this is based on very little eg. Toumpas who is there because he was a high draft pick and is still young, 8 of the 15 are just kids). So, I would have to say the other 24 are dud picks/failures of development or with limited time left (Cross) that are still on the list. So, 29 been and gone plus 24 duds remaining equates to: at least 53 of the 68 players we have brought in to the club in the last seven years have not worked out for various reasons. Essentially, we bring in 10 players every year and 8 of them don't work out. In this time we have had a complete turnover in coaching staff and administration also, but it all has the same result. What in the name of God is wrong with us as a club that we have such a dismal conversion rate of drafting/recruiting and developing?

Dunno if Tyson was 'horribly wasteful' but the rest pretty spot on

same with Riley, no pleasant surprises at the MFC

Howe McDonald Jones Tyson Jetta Terlich

Agree, McDonald was about our best I thought, under masive pressure all day

Worst performance of the year - indistinguishable from the Neeld rubbish Forget missing shots, we in no way deserved to even be in that contest. That is the 8th time in 18 games we have kicked 7 goals or less for the day, how disgraceful Another 34 i-50s is completely uncompetitive How pizzweak to concede 5 goals for the day then 6 in the last 20 minutes When it was there to be won Brissy stepped it up a notch and we went backwards Totally lay down like the bunch of peahearts they continue to prove themselves as If Paul Roos cannot get their heads right, what hope do we have? What kind of position does this garbage put us in for attracting talent and retaining members? How many pathetic skill errors and bad decisions can a side possibly make in one afternoon Hawthorn will KILL us next week by 100 mark my words, and we will finish bottom I give 6 players a pass mark and the other 16 were pathetic Dawes has had 30 disposals and 1 goal in his last 4 weeks FCS! Watts, Tapscott and Blease useless as usual What has happened to Garland? Vince absolutely torched us about 5 times with stupidity, lack of skill or selfishness Riley and McKenzie the two least polished players in the competition So angry and sad

I'll be very upset if we lose

It's about bloody time "I'd be really surprised if he was able to put out 20 games a season for six seasons in a row for that club," Larkins said. "I can't see 120 games over six years, based on the fact he played 10 out of 22 this year." Larkins said Scully's initial left knee injury, which required surgery before he was drafted at No.1 in 2008, would continue to dog him. "It's turned out the original injury, which has resulted in some bone being removed from his kneecap, has changed the shape of his knee," Larkins said. "He now has an issue ... as he gets stronger and bigger he can only put more stress on the knee. "As you get older, knee injuries only get worse ... they don't get better." http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/tom-scullys-the-6-million-man/story-e6frf9jf-1226136211308?nk=746f1b34d28ebe784812ce9cbe434cce all the best in your recovery you lying dog

Grimes out +2 goals Cross in +3 goals we got this now oh wait... terlich so it's +2-2 back to where we were unless there is some sort of game being played wtf name cross as an emergency?

oh ok, yeah, once you were called out you backpedaled

No you didn't

I bring nothing? You are having a whinge about nothing which is a pastime of many in this forum. Blease, Tapscott, Riley, JKH, Kent and McKenzie are ALL already in the extended side, who exactly of the remaining players on the list would you have preferred to see the coach name tonight so that you may be 'inspired'? I can pose that question knowing confidently there not is a name can you can offer that is likely to bring more to the table than any of the three INS named. Gawn I agree has shown very little but as well all know the big blokes take forever to do anything and you have to get them out to develop our ruck stocks for 3-4 years from now. 208cm blokes are just too rare that they pretty much get autoselected such is the nature of the game. Terl and MJones have at least put in some decent AFL matches which is more than can be said for the rest of the remaining list - so tell me, instead of pontlessly whinging, on what basis do you criticise the coach's selections tonight? Thanks.

I agree, they should have named Fyfe, Ablett and Franklin. What do those blokes have to do to get a call-up from Casey? do people even know wtf they are complaining about anymore?