Robbie57

7 umpires

6 gawn

5 vince

4 oliver

3 watts

2 lumumba

1 hogan 

Just now, Sir Why You Little said:

Without Chopsticks 9thmond would be 5 goals down...

12thmond. 

6 viney

5 watts

4 kennedy

3 tmac

2 jetta

1 Gawn 

AFL drugs policy was always designed to hide the problem.

Always should be one strike/one week. That would stamp it out quick smart.

There is no doubt (like the rest of the community) drugs are a major problem. If the AFL wanted to show some leadership on a healthy lifestyle the policy would have changed long ago. In my opinion it a small microcosym of the control and command style at the AFL which worked so well for them with Essendon. Probably largely a problem of being the biggest fish in town. You sometimes see the same dynamic with other large organisations that dominate their space. When you have pretty much absolute power you lose perspective. 

The AFL is not helping the players solve any problem they have they are just helping them hide it. It seems to me totally misguided. Time for a moratorium (to give players time to sort themselves out) and then introduce a no tolerance policy. 

As much as I dislike Collingwood they are not on their pat here and its unfair to single them out when its known other clubs have the problem.

One week 

We never looked like losing it how good a feeling is that?!?

Good even contribution. Watts was terrific and McDonald got back on track. Oliver plays round one. 

1 hour ago, binman said:

blimey i have never seen so many smiles. Who is that guy who look like Hogan, the one that's smiling like a Cheshire cat in every shot?

This is a different team to ones we have seen. Smiles all around. It feels very different to me and I hope that we carry it through the year.

This is difficult as i think there will be a bunch in the middle (and I haven't compared draws whichmay be decisive).

Swans to slide (but they noe will paly all games at the SCG whihc is a big advantage for them). No idea about North or Ninthmond. 

West Coast

Fremantle

Hawthorn

GWS

Collingwood

Bulldogs

North Melbourne

Richmond

Swans

Port

Crows

Melbourne

Gold Coast

St Kilda

Brisbane

Essendon

Carlton

What is pleasing is that we will get some confidence from it going into the season but perhaps better than the wins is that we have come from behind and then held onto our lead at the end. Just from watching I feel there is something different about the team this year in their attitude. A barometer for me has been the Garland head droop it seems to have almost entirely disappeared. (Jack watts also would adopt it in games but we dont see it much from him).

Thanks for the photos. Did anyone else notice Jeffies foot? It was at an angle before the kick perhaps if they can straighten that out he will kick 60.

Merry Christmas!

"This is certainly a bit of a hiccup, something that he’s not happy about and neither are we,” said Tigers football manager Daniel Richardson."

Hiccup? Not happy about?

Good grief, that sort of response is bewildering and in my view unacceptable from a club official.  

The reported incident would terrify anyone.  Leaving it to the end of the week and a leadership group is inexcusable. If it were one of our players I would expect our President, Ceo, coach and leadership to deal with it immediately with a suspension, a futher public apology to the woman involved and a statement about the unacceptability of threatened voilence in particular voilence towards women.

That would be the bare minimum.

Just looking at the video:

McDonald

Grimes

Bugg

A tall slim figure that could be Oscar Mc

Stretch

Melksham

3 defenders - Garland, Dunn, Jetta coming in together.

Harmes

Wouldn't have been fun in this wind.

Unless someone happened to be there I don't think we'll ever know detailed results from this one.

Interesting nice to see Bugg up there early and Grimes (something to prove this year?)

Funny how the circle turns I grew up with a particualr view of his name but now it seems a virtue, a hard at it player.

Can he play forward?

From an article about Oscar:

"He said this year would be focused on development.

“I do a lot of work with the backline group and at the moment I’m training a bit with the forward line group as well. They’re trying to develop me in both areas of the game and we’ll go from there.”

Who are the Roos type players in the mix?

Given we have not done well with the lighter frame types and Roos preferences I would not be surprised if we picked Curnow before Parish and my smokey for our second pick would be Kieren Collins who looks to be a bit like Roos did as a player.

I of course have no idea and this is based on watching a couple of videos. I reserve the right to proclaim our picks as inspired and or lament our failure to pick Ollie.

We have to own the city of Melbourne and ........

....transfer it to Hogan for a 12 year deal.

Keep in mind it is the first session on 9th November for the kids

Well I wouldn't want either of the Petracca or Viney kids running at me.

We will need some older players in the team and I agree with rfpc that its a Dawes/Pedersen compettion at the moment.

I like the idea of Dunn going forward as he is a competitor like Hogan and we need to take the pressure off him a bit. He can also swing in and out of the ruck.

With the interchange gone we will need players who are ready to play all day long. I have to admit Trengove is in as a sentimental pick at this stage I realy hope he makes it back.

FB: Jetta McDonald Garland

HB: Salem Frost Melksham

C: Stretch Jones Brayshaw

HF: Petracca Hogan Watts

FF: Garlett Dawes Kent

Foll: Gawn Vince Viney

Int: Tyson Lumumba Dunn Trengove

Good Luck Fitzy.

Melbourne will now take picks 3, 10 and 43 into the national draft, while they also secured Jake Melksham (Essendon) and Ben Kennedy (Collingwood) in this year's NAB AFL Trade Period.

The Dees have lost Howe to the Pies and Jimmy Toumpas to Port Adelaide.

I believe we started with 6, 25, 43

so it's

OUT: Howe, Toumpas, 6, 25

IN: Kennedy, Melksham, 3, 10

yeah?

Add Out: first round 2016

What I like about the deal is that we are confident about where we will end up next year and that we think we can get 2 good players this year, it sends a positive message.

However the trade debt situation is one that concerns me a little, mainly out of my ignorance of next years crop and how it may affect our ability to attract an A grade player (or Prestia).

That said the club through Mahony articulated its plan and has got it done (other than Prestia). We are clearly going for youth and backing our ability to pick the right types (which we clearly did last year).

Treloar video released by Collingwood a tad prematurely, dont suppose he says: "if you are viewing this I have been kidnapped and had surgery on my groin".

And still the AFL sits back trying its Jedi mind tricks, nothing to see here.

Is this thread about what is happening on trade radio?

I work with his housemate.

Going nowhere.