Curry & Beer

Viney would wreck him

I feel the same but I help myself sleep at night with this thought: If he goes, we should be extremely well compensated. We got 2 first rounders for Scully FFS. You never know, Hogan's back could plague his career and we could end up with another Petracca/Brayshaw combo as a result of a trade. That would not be the end of the world. Although Hogan is worth more and and off field than both those players combined. Throw in another Oliver to make it square! I do think he will stay though.

Not exactly Hollywood stuff is it

Spot on. Would be a great day for us, as it is hard to see Freo being able to service two huge contracts like that, and to put too many eggs in the key forward basket.

That's what tempers my excitement too - add to your group Jurrah, Watts, McKenzie and Frawley.. we certainly looked like we had the cattle about 5 years ago... we certainly didn't though

Ricciuto only got eight all-australian guernseys. Lightweight.

The fact you are arguing with me implies that your position is that Melbourne players get a proportionate amount of praise in the media as the 'big' clubs' players do. I doubt there is one person here that agrees with you.

can I say it's very odd how people can't seem to handle a conversation meandering slightly off course. When you are at the pub with your mates do you sometimes just go 'Everybody stop! We're not talking about the thing we started talking about! Go back!'

Hogan is a once-in-a-generation freak. That's why he is the only name you can come up. Kidding yourself

another factor is the propaganda factor. The media/commentators talk about the gun players of the bigger clubs like they are deities and never, ever do our players get shown the same type of worship. This happens because there are simply more supporters n the media of the bigger clubs and they know that the best thing for them to do in their job is to pander to the bigger supporter bases. Because we have been a pathetic wasteland for so long, nobody is bothering to pander to us. This influences public opinion because basically the public are stupid and can be easily influenced. Absolutely if Jones was at Hawthorn or Collingwood he would have a much better reputation from the public.

Tend to agree Jones is good, but the fact he has been our best player the last few years reflects our ladder position. If we ever want to get near a flag we need Oliver/Tyson/Viney/Petracca/Brayshaw/Salem to really get to that elite status in our midfield. It's a very good group to work with.

do you realise that you are currently reading a football discussion forum? Is there something else you were expecting to find other than people exchanging opinions?

excuse me, there is a discussion going on about whether there is such thing as guaranteed spots in the 22. We are allowed to add our opinion. Saty is wrong on this occasion and we are respectfully arguing why. That's kinda, you know, the whole point of this site, yeah? Telling other people to play by your own personal rules of posting is not my idea of a solid contribution mate.

When Parish starts playing well.

No. Wiseblood asked you a direct question and you answered it incorrectly.

Garbage. There is not even the slightest possibility that N.Jones and Hogan would not be selected for round 1. In fact they would have to go through an extraorfinarily awful and lengthy run of bad form to be dropped. There are 'locks' at every club.

fair call there will be plenty of fun to be had by the whingers if Parish looks better than Oliver early

they're the only two that can even be argued about and they weren't that high in the draft

correct correct correct same with every single other high draft pick that didn't pan out for us over the last decade all picked exactly where they were supposed to be

proof please

mr petty argument 1 is blatantly untrue. For every Scully there is a Sylvia 2 who said it did 3 so what, thats if you wash out, thats obviusly not plan A is it 4 that one aspect of it does i think i can guess what sort of 18 year old you were so you probably can't relate

doesn't mind a beer. it'd be a bit rough eh welcome to the AFL - I hope you're not into getting drunk with your mates cos that's over for the next 10-15 years

Wow.

certainly didn't work for us, but nothing works for us.