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I'm don't have a diabolical obsession with convincing everyone he is crap, take it elsewhere mate

The way I see it, we have 6 genuine players right now, and 8 hopefuls. We need basically all of them to become a-grade or close to it at the same time, so probability suggests it's not going to happen. The good news is there are 6 genuine KPP in that lot which is obviously critical. We should be looking at a pretty good spine. There's a chance it will all come together for us but history suggests not. Whoever we have to beat on grand final day will have a dozen or more top-quality players. A few years ago I would have had Morton, Sylvia, Scully, Jurrah, Bennell and McLean in that list, that turned out well huh? Of course there is a chance some of the younger blokes who aren't high draft picks will kick on, but again, the probability of that is really low... can't see Strauss, Tapscott, Jetta, Bail, Garland etc taking their games to another level from this point. Hopefully we at least get a few years of finals footy, after 6 horrible years, at this stage i'll take it. Watts Clark Jones Frawley Grimes Howe Jamar? McKenzie? Blease? Trengove? T.McDonald? Toumpas? Viney? Hogan?

geez it was just one game of footy, get over it. It has absolutely no bearing on anything. Can we have one day here without someone mentioning it please.

he did come 2nd in the bnf

exactly right, i think we were 10 points or so up at qtr time, should have been more like 20. Upmires blah blah blah but its a simple fact frees were 15-5 at half time, it had nothing to do with the way were playing they just got the advantage of every contentious one. That was one factor, the other massive one was that we were missing clark and dawes, we had more i50s surprise suprise we couldn't kick as many. The other factor is that our infantile side let their gaurd down for 12 minutes against the wind, ultimately costing us the game. We were the better side everall despite missing about 7 of our best 22

if you ask me, if you live in the city of melbourne, anywhere near cranbourne you should get your arse down there. I had a huge night friday night and i really wasnt feeling enthusiastic but i effing did because i love and support this club. Last week renmark, next week southport, there is nothing you can do about that, but casey you have the opportunity to get down there. It's our lot in life to be the AFLs whipping boy, but you have no excuse not to get on the freeway like 5000 of us did yesterday in the searing heat

OK late summary here, hope somebody sees some value in it (Is there anything worse than the poster who couldn't be F'd going down there, but they look at a stats sheet and pontificate on it as if they were there?) -Anyway, Frawley played well, I saw ONE instance where Riewoldt (who is clearly one of the best in the game) beat him, and even that incident occured because NR had a nice little runup to be able to come over the top of a flat footed JF to mark it. That incident aside he guarded the goals as the all australian we know,. Same goes for Watts, he was clinical as usual, exc the full back kickout he did in the last few minutes that hit dal santo on the chest. Apart from that he delivered his usual game of precise, clever football. We were the better team for about 85 of the 100 minutes. Jones and Jamar are the real deal, as we all know.. couple more A graders in there and we have a midfield, cue viney blease trengove toumpas. Lyden dunn had a couple of moments that would be regarded as franklin-like.. i've never been a big fan but some of the things he has pulled out in the last few have been A grade. What I couldn't believe was the amount of handballs that missed the target, as others have touched on, we had just too many hacks playing, i'm thinking Gillies and Nicholson first and foremost. Others inc Matt Jones and Terlich were guilty of similar but these are guys who have just started their journey We need to be fielding a 22 that doesnt make thse basic mistakes... call me captain obvious..We could not connect 3 or 4 possession changes without some hack fluffing it up, for the season proper we will have trengove and mckenzie in there, kicking to clark and dawes instead of nobody, as was the case yesterday. Obviously, we lost a game because of a 15 minute period domination, this has been the pattern for the last few years, and is clearly our biggest challenge. Despite my general distrust of stats, we beat them for I50s and we didnt have our best 2 monster forwards down there. Davey played a disgusting game. Almost as bad as having 21 in the squad.. I have been a huge fan over his career but at this point i view him as a cancer that must be removed. You didnt see any of the power sides over the last few carrying a prissy, selfish, primadonna in the forward pocket. Apart from a 15 minute period we were quite good despite the fact our opponent was clearly at higher strength than us. Clark Dawes Blease Viney Trengove McDonald we are so much better than that, these guys take the place of the hacks we saw out there yesterday I am well known as a doom-and-gloomer but i left cranbourne yesterday with a slight spring in my step. Everbody was expecting the 5 goal lead at 3QT to become a 10 goal win, but they had more mettle than that.For this preseason in general I am very confident we will move from 4 wins to 8-9, possibly more if a certain view like sylvia and grimes can up the ante BTW I saw some knocks on Toumpas and I wonder if some people have the slightest idea about football. He spent a lot of time on the bench, but when involved he showed why (similar to Trengove) he was the captain of SA. He went back and nailed that goal from about 50 in high winds and it confrimed his class for mine. Bottom line: If we can address our propensity to get owned for 15 minutes a game, we will approach 8-10 wins this year

please don't say that cue huge injuries to key players tomorrow

pure evil

oh please can we get in a little bonus trip down there to kick off our season the AFL sends us down there for a complete demolition every single year, guess they figure we could use one to kick off the season this year also

UNLISTED Dawes Viney Kent 11 Clark, Mitchell 9 Trengove, Jack 25 McDonald, Tom 17 Blease, Sam Barry 44 Bail, Rohan 42 Spencer, Jake 19 Strauss, James 37 Gawn, Max 48 Fitzpatrick, Jack 46 Tynan, Josh 43 Taggert, Rory 41 Davis, Troy 47 Couch, Thomas ®

so.. can someone bring me up to speed on the ticket situation, do you really think we need to prepurchase???

Houli >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Clark, Jones, Howe obviously

6. BROCK McLEAN (Carlton) Kick-started a tanking inquiry single-handedly with his honesty. Pushing for more awareness of gay rights through the AFL. LOL any mention of the half-a-dozen indiscretions that have exposed him as nothing but a complete scumbag?

sorry that wasnt a real quote.. my interpretation of his comments.

McGuire was quoted as saying 'it's one thing to sit by and watch Melbourne get completely raped by the AFL but we're talking about Hawthorn here.. marching in the streets etc'

That thought occurred to me also, you would think an organisation with 30,000+ mebers and hundreds of employees might throw us a bone and send 2 guys with a camera and a microphone to ease the brunt of us continually getting shafted by the AFL.. bands, comedians etc can get this together and they don't have a pot to pizz in

36 inside 50s for 12 goals is fantastic with no Clark, Dawes, Byrnes or Howe

http://www.afl.com.au/ladder/nab-cup-ladder LOL, last year's grand finallists occupy the bottom 2

that game's about as mickey mouse as you can get, but I'm relieved we won't have another preseason with no wins.. at least full strength side at Casey next week please

seriously... dean terlich takes the kickout, 2 points up with minutes left.. surely a more experienced player should have the ball in that situation

OMG

'game set match' the dejected tone of these clowns is really making me grin.. youre getting served by the b-side of a team that finished 16th, and they had to travel here

tappy!