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I tend to disagree on this point... I would have thought that once he has bulked up to the point where he will no longer be easily pushed aside, his confidence will increase exponentially and so too, his willingness to get involved.

No different to what transpired with Hogan...Heeney won't leave the Swans.

It depends. I loved the original Japanese Ringu and Dark Water (American versions were terrible), loved the first Nightmare on Elm Street, The Others was clever, and I thought Descent was a very good film. Not into the franchises like Saw etc.

Well Saty, I don't consider directors like Lynch and Jarmusch to be typical of the American formulaic film and television production line or the Hollyweird factory - they are international directors/writers/producers who work outside of that framework. Regardless of where it was made, Twin Peaks (series 1) was a masterpiece (and if you want to see a superb piece of film making, take a look at The Straight Story) - I would be more disappointed in myself if I were writing off films and TV series based purely on where they were created.

I would agree to an extent that Twin Peaks was the greatest TV series ever made...that is certainly true of the first series, but I thought the second series was a little disappointing as he handed directorial (and writing?) control over to a number of different people, including (if I recall correctly) Dianne Keaton. To me this resulted in a lot of inconsistency in the quality of the episodes and didn't flow as well as the first series. I'm a huge Lynch fan, but strangely one of my favourites of his is The Straight Story...based on a true story about a guy who rides a ride-on mower across state to visit his dying estranged brother in the next state. A very slow paced, gentle film that is completely out of character with his usual fare, but which is mesmerizing to the point where it could only be a Lynch product.

He'll probably want to stick around then as we are going for the three-peat.

Don't worry, that's already covered...

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Nowhere near as long as the Bulldogs supporters (they even had 55 yrs between GF appearances). Our time is coming and it will be the likes of Hogan that will get us there.

The doggies have been waiting much longer than us for this...I'm really happy for them regardless of how much of a ride the umpires gave them.

I'm just listening on AFL live radio (on the AFL live app)...couldn't get a video stream working (7Plus).

And if they said it about the trade rumors, would you be equally upbeat about his chances of staying?

One of my favorites at the MFC back in the day...and he remained an MFC lad at heart. I took this shot at the Shanghai demo game against Brisbane Lions a few years back...

You will correcting, or you will be correcting?

The club sent Pedersen for surgery not so long ago, so I get the feeling they are invested in him as a good depth player.

I'm reviving this thread as Lin Jong is almost single handedly destroying Casey at the moment in the VFL GF. He is far more than just a VFL standard player. To come back from a broken collarbone inside two weeks of the injury occurring and to play the game he is playing, setting up most of the Dogs' attack ( and will likely play in next week's GF) is a seriously good effort in anyone's book...the Dees should be taking a serious look at him.

Jong is far more than just a VFL standard player. To come back from a broken collarbone and to play the game he is playing, setting up most of the Dogs' attack ( and will likely play in next week's GF)...the Dees should be taking a serious look at him.

Jules, if you have the TunedIn Radio app on your mobile/tablet, you can listen on Casey Radio

I'm OS and listening on TuneIn Radio...the 7Plus app keeps telling me there's a problem with the connection (I'm in Spain)

I thought Matt was from South Australia.

It's really difficultt to gauge just how good these players really are...so many of the shots of them taking marks, winning ruck contests, extracting the ball etc, are so obviously set up as opposed to being real action. But of the three finalists, I would think Matt is the most useful...however Daniel does look to have a decent skill set.

Fair enough, I obviously missed those posts...but were they fact or fiction? You would have to think that if there was any real substance to them, that the press would have been making mention of this when discussing Hogan's future.

This seems to be news that no-one here has any knowledge of, so how do you think people would be taking that into account? I have done some googling and the only reference I could find in relation to Jesse's father being ill, was from May this year and just happened to be from the poster Third Man Up on page 105 of the "The Incredible Hulk - Jesse Hogan" thread here on Demonland. Perhaps you might care to point us to where we could verify that bit of info... it would certainly go a long way towards assuaging the fears of numerous posters in this thread.

Ok, I relented and tracked down my post: Nonsense... as has already been mentioned in this "discussion", the news that Hogan would like to remain a Demon is NOT new information at all... it was in the press on July 21 and the only difference is that GNF is claiming that he got the info from the inner sanctum:http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/melbournes-jesse-hogan-shuts-down-dockers-advances-20160720-gqaa8f.html

The six month timeframe actually first appeared in a newspaper article (I referenced it in an earlier post in this discussion, but can't be arsed looking for it now).