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I was one that wanted them dropped, Watts anyway. My reasoning was based on on history though. Since the Daniher days we have had obviously talented players turning up to games giving 90, not 100%, and his been tolerated. This tolerance (call it perseverance) did not yield a positive reslut as the players in question did not mend their wicked ways. It appears now, however, that when Roos tolerates/perseveres with a player he does something different off the track than what the last 3 coaches have been doing - whatever it is, it is working.

So do I, but it's been there since it was Chopper Lovell's number Grimes was awful yesterday

A genuine quality midfield God it has been a long time One seasoned veteran in his prime, two brilliant kids, two genius imports Roosy has just strolled in and in 9 weeks has fixed a huge problem we have had for about 7 years Hooray

You have to give Roosy the credit, seems to just have a gift for getting the best out of players

i dont think ive ever seen such tight consensus on who the best 6 were

That's correct.. we only juuuuuust lost last week for not being quite good enough.. today we were luckier than the dogs were last week

I didn't say we haven't improved (we obviously have) nor did I mention any other matches. I am discussing today's match. Keep it real.

snort, then bark

8 more scoring shots, 9 more inside50s.. we had 4 goals go bouncing through.. we got lucky

how's this - if you take out the WCE game our percentage is 90% which would put us 12th on the ladder right now can you believe we got done by 10 goals or more on 12 occasions last year

some peeps are getting a bit carried away we were very, very lucky to win today and our opponent wasn't much chop at all a lot of our blokes did not have a great day obviously I'm rapt we still got up and it's another 4 points but sheesh we didn't climb everest today, let's keep it in our pants shall we and never forget the false dawn of 2010/11 ok had to say it.. as you were

what do you reckon? Do you think there are 10 blokes at Melbourne beating jones for clearances and inside-50s?

wonder what that spanner thought about today's game

N.Jones Ranked 3rd in Total Disposals Ranked 5th in Total Supercoach Score Ranked 7th in Total Contested Possessions Ranked 11th in Clearances Per Game Ranked 11th in Total Inside 50s and has played 163 of the last 166 MFC games

N.Jones Howe Pederson Viney Watts Tyson apologies: Vince, Gawn

I think we might be officially 'back in town'

we just don't know though, the whole thing could be rubbish and he was acting in self-defence or whatever, if that were me in that position i'd be looking to make a statement about my good name by appealing also or he's a scumbag and refuses to take responsibility for it

few choice stats, averages from this season us v them 350.6 Disposals 359.4 8.5 Goals 11.9 43.4 Inside 50s 50.1 71% Effective Disposals % 71.3% 33.9 Clearances 43.3 interesting stat, our previous encounters 2013: loss 2012 r15: win 2012 r 3: loss 2011: win guess that means its our turn

boo

Whenever a new player debuts (PIGDOG!) you have this excitement that you might see something extraordinary .. unfortunately now with the sub rule, when a player debuts they are usually the sub, which I assume Riley will be today. Oh well, let's hope for an extraordinary 1.5 quarters. still paying 5.00 for a win, I just don't get that at all.. should be 2.50 or something like that

oops, didn't see that, sorry

I think it was Sam Newman (dolt that he is) said that these 'emotional occasions' have an impact for about the first minute of the game and then it is business as usual

yep. Jamar, debuted 2003 and did nothing until 2010.. played 73 games in those first seven seasons

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2014-05-16/the-inquirer-ball-movers-and-metres-gained amongst fine company I know its a bit of a nothing stat but I just relish it when our lads appear in these types of things as we have been starved of it for so long