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So you're the solution? Pray tell ...

Not while you keep posting.

Some interesting movements amongst all this ... a few players "out" who I would have expected to be "in" (Sellar, Troy Davis, Rivers ... Gysberts???), plus a couple who I would have seen as possibly "out", but seem to be in (Bail, Spencer, perhaps Evans who hasn't played this year but has just been promoted). The off-season is going to be a lot more exciting than the season that precedes it.

9 disposals?

MELBOURNE Backs Joel Macdonald James Sellar Tom McDonald Half backs Lynden Dunn James Frawley Colin Garland Centreline Jack Trengove Brent Moloney Sam Blease Half forwards Neville Jetta Jared Rivers Rohan Bail Forwards Jeremy Howe Brad Green Colin Sylvia Followers Jake Spencer Jack Grimes Nathan Jones Interchange Jordie McKenzie James Magner James Strauss Luke Tapscott Emergencies Matthew Bate Michael Evans Jordan Gysberts In Neville Jetta Jordie McKenzie Out Jordan Gysberts Cale Morton (shoulder) Still no Watts ... five weeks for a simple ankle?

We live in a world where a 1% drop in form is the difference between winning a gold medal or not, and anything - anything - that might have a negative impact on form is discouraged and/or banned.

And even longer when they have fairly serious injuries. Cook has missed most of both pre-seasons with injuries.

Unfortunately yes. So much self-importance. And irrelevance.

He has no evidence of anything. Yet another barrow-pushing poster. The fundamentalists are making this site unappealing, and I visit less and less. Tedious, just tedious.

Just quoting this in its (admittedly rather brief ...) entirety, as it's a perfect resumé of the situation. One that has occurred since time began, and sport began. Obviously no-one at the AFL sitting up late watching the Tour de France (for example), or revisiting old black and white videos of the Foreman-Ali fight. It is all about winning - but winning the BIG battles, not a couple of irrelevant skirmishes.

You're a few years out of date. If ever there was a "earn your place, no matter who you are", it's Neeld. Bailey never dropped Moloney, Green and Davey. Not even going to start on Daniher. Poor post.

Yes, if it hasn't been done already, someone should look at the stats as to how badly teams perform after playing in the sauna that is Darwin.

Perhaps there's a reason why the preceding 35 posts failed to bring it up ...

Gazing across the paddock yesterday afternoon, and seeing a team featuring the likes of Blease, Nicholson, Strauss, Spencer (the biggest player on the park, and the only one to not take a mark all day) and Tom McDonald, all of whom have played less than 20 games ... then visiting the "changes" threads where there are posts calling for the inclusion of Gysberts (18 games) and Tapscott (24 games) ... It's beyond me how anyone can consider mounting a critique of the coaching staff when around a quarter of the team is made up of inexperienced kids - not to mention the other quarter of our team who are only at or under the 50 game mark.

We are bad, because we don't have enough players who play good. ... slightly different. Same outcome though.

Yep, we should have got Kev Sheedy.

He will definitely be coach next year.

And it only took him 3 years to get there.

Missed plenty of pre-season and matches through injuries etc. They're not fit enough to be considered.

MELBOURNE Backs Daniel Nicholson James Sellar Tom McDonald Half backs Joel Macdonald James Frawley Colin Garland Centreline Rohan Bail Jack Grimes Jack Trengove Half forwards Colin Sylvia Stef Martin Lynden Dunn Forwards Neville Jetta Jared Rivers Brad Green Followers Jake Spencer Jordie McKenzie Nathan Jones Interchange Sam Blease Jeremy Howe Brent Moloney James Strauss Emergencies Matthew Bate Jordan Gysberts James Magner In Jordie McKenzie Brent Moloney James Sellar Out Tom Couch James Magner Ricky Petterd (oh dear ... ). No Watts. Again.

That you have no idea.

The two are not mutually exclusive. Throw into that lack of fitness (either for the kicker or the receivers), lack of confidence, lack of experience, and lack of stability (in the team) etc. etc., and you have all the recipes needed for poor skill execution. You're right about making bad decisions - but they should hardly need to be making decisions at all if everyone was doing what they're supposed to, and getting to where they should be (for which, see above re fitness, confidence, stability in the team, experience etc.) It's all interrelated, and it only needs a couple of those components to be a little out of kilter to see the kind of performance we saw last night.

4 Jack Trengove 10 11 21 4 1 5 2 1 0 0 84 5 Nathan Jones 10 10 20 1 0 6 1 4 0 0 66

Not really, especially when you look at what the so few posters are posting.

I'd go with that. On a side note, not sure we're going to have to worry about who's going to play on Travis Boak ...