Summer Blease

Malthouse loves Dick so I think it's a straight in for mine. Whilst Dick is good, even at his hardest I feel about 3/4 of the CollingWood team could eat Dick for breakfast. The prospect of a fully fit Dick on Queen's Birthday gets me excited. The question does remain though. In all seriousness, which "lucky" Melbourne defender takes Dick? Do we stick Batram on Dick and hope he can absorb Dick's explosiveness, or do we make someone else take Dick or perhaps just leave it up to the lose man in defense? FWIW I rate Dick and if we're not careful he could [censored] us. We must stay tight in the back half.

Nice!! Old enough to have a record made of vinyl yet tech savy enough to be able to use the Internets! Love it. Of course the album and track list need to be updated to be relevant for today. Here's my take: Side 1: 1. Liam Jurrah - Given to Fly - Pearl Jam 2. Colin Sylvia - Your so Vain - Carly Simon 3. Tom Scully - Please don't go - KWS 4. Brent Moloney - Party all night - Sean Kingston 5. Jamie Bennell - Part time lover - Stevie Wonder 6. Jack Watts - Question Existing - Rihanna Side 2: 1. Mathew Warnock - How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead 2. James Frawley - Solid as a Rock - Sizzla 3. Rohan Bail - Run - Snow Patrol 4. Luke Tapscott - I feel the Earth Move - Martika 5. Jordie McKenzie - Closer - Nine Inch Nails 6. Michael Newton - Nothingman - Pearl Jam **Bonus track- Jim Stynes - MFC - Pearl Jam**

When McKenzie comes back into the midfield I would like to see Bail in Tapscott's position and Tapscott up forward. Bennell and Dunn to rotate sub for a couple of weeks.

Give him a chance to give you those results. I will admit I haven't been overly thrilled with all aspects of our game as of late, but everyone can see the work that has been put in to get us to base camp, now give our sherpa a chance to lead us up the mountain damn it.

Religious discussions. Brilliant. Let's leave the Science Vs fairy tales debate to another forum shall we.

You know what it is? It's the curvature of the "p" and the "g" on the other side of the small "l" which makes it appear an "i" I have good eyesight but it is like some kind of eye trickery. Surely you can see it. I call for a poll on this. I know a great deal of folk here would have made that mistake..

So he is ruthless in getting us to where we are and it took balls and you are impressed with that, but he makes Watts a sub for a week and he has lost you? I don't understand how you can question his coaching abilities over one decision which hasn't even been proven to be a bad one. I was initially dumbfounded as to why Watts was named sub, but then I thought about it a bit. What if naming Watts a sub instead of starting him was a msg that full games/starting on the field isn't always a walk up proposition, perhaps it could ignight some kind of competition in the lad. What if they thought he could gain just as much from the lesson that not being an automatic selection brings- ie "You want a spot on an AFL field, well it's a competitive game, and position for that matter, so bring your "A" game. Maybe smashing the AFL newbies wouldn't have been as confidence boosting as everyone thinks. Everyone (at that stage) thought they stinked anyway. What if they thought as much confidence could be gained out of one quarter of play as apose to 4. Who knows, there are many different aspects to footy. Give Bailey a chance to prove what he can do with this list instead of looking for any excuse to jump ship so soon.

Standard light hearted Before the Game interview. So it was generally a nothing much interview. I like the guy. I genuinely hope he succeeds

Only if he got higher than a 91 % mark in English Level 3 haha

Those figures were fudged. I hear 145 is genius levels..

I must say in wyl's defense that up until recently I thought your name was pig too. Easy mistake as any monkey can see it's very easy to confuse. I thought someone with an IQ of 145 would have been able to use their brilliant mind to figure that one out. Are you punking Demonland? You have me in tears with your need for attention.

Haha good point. Paraphrasing here because was cooking at the time- Asked about why Watts was sub instead of whole game- Watts was seen as the most out of form forward/it was a form thing- didn't elaborate too much on it, think he was seen as the 22nd best at the time, which contradicts the theory that a sub should be a horses for courses scenario- not your 22nd player. Some footage was shown of Chippa with Prince William and was asked if he'd take William over Watts, some banter ensued and it was revealed William was unwilling to put on one of our jumpers (the pompous [censored]) also that Watts was stronger and a better kick than William, Watts has put on a fair bit of weight since being at the MFC etc Asked about Carro's article and if he took anything from the lack of praise on the coaching department. Didn't see anything wrong with it and spoke to Schwabby about it.. didn't hear too much about this as was pre-occupied- sorry. Shown footage of a rather enamoured Davey with his arm around Bails in a quarter time huddle. Funny stuff. Standard Before the Game fare.

Compairing today's game with ours last week is a pointless exercise. Results are largely based on a team's endeavour and motivation on the day. All this puts into perspective is how dire Port's situation is right now. They are where we were a few years ago. Rudderless.

Burden of proof is on those who are speculating

Was it via private facebook message? Pretty concerning!