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Just a kid? He's 22 years old...hardly "just a kid".

Err, that's quite an admission.

Yep, and for pick 70 or whatever it was!

This game makes me nervous. Yes we defeated an albeit depleted Suns team last weekend, but now we go up against a team that comprises a good balance of youth and experience...and let's not forget that much of their team are top ten draft picks (top five even), who are all starting to accumulate the number of games that see them moving to the next level courtesy of experience. I hope we win, but there's no way I'm going to consider this a fait accompli!

Dermie was just saying he rated West Coast well ahead of Carlton and he expects West Coast to finish between 12th and 15th.

The funny thing is that that piece of footage was used here in the past in praise of Clark's attitude.

Not a fan of the Weagles, but gee it's good to see Malthouse being edged towards the exit.

Make that 8 9 goals with 6 minutes to go to at three quarter time

7 important goals, and there's still 7 minutes until three quarter time!

He's far too highfalutin for me.

Nor do I

Watch it regularly.

I think we need Yossarian to explain this one.

Like I said, I don't recall it. Yet you went on to support him wholeheartedly while he was at the club, did you not? But after he left.... well anything goes with you doesn't it... to the point of condoning sledging him over his depression (take it or hang up the boots).

Funny, but I don't recall you complaining about him at that time.

Yes, Dr Who apparently.

But then there'd be nothing left.

This is the crux of the problem I have with the comments on these forums... when he came to the Dees we were all over the moon and Mitch was the greatest thing since sliced bread. None of us had any issues with him stiffing Brisbnane and Freemantle... we were just happy to get him. While he was with us and he was diagnosed with severe depression, we all sympathised with him and were happy to give him space and time to get himself right. When he was advised to leave the club and start afresh in a new environment (and who are we to say that is not a valid way of treating his depression), all of a sudden he becomes public enemy number one, we are experts on the subject and we say he never had depression, he was faking the whole thing in order to line his pockets, he deserves everything that is coming to him, and on it goes. So, in my capacity as an armchair expert in such matters of the mind, I suggest to my peers that we all move on before we get so overheated that we spontaneously combust where we are sitting.

WYL, your back yard must be an absolute mess... you're like a dog with a multitude of bones that you just keep digging up over and over again, labelled 186, Mitch, Scully, etc etc

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/cricket-great-richie-benaud-dead-20150409-1mhzdy.html.html

My posts were in response to: "Players get sledged for anything and everything,. if he doesnt like he he should hang up the boots" which in turn was in response to comments relating to possible sledging over his depression. I never raised the booing by the crowd and never responded directly to comments about the booing by the crowd. In fact, crowds booing any player never concerns me. And as for your last line, perhaps that's why I said: "the sledging just might (not definitely) have been related to his depression" (notice the "not definitely"in brackets?

Yes, god forbid I take exception to remarks that make light of a serious mental illness. Read the other link in post #110 above and you will see that the sledging just might (not definitely) have been related to his depression.

For all of you armchair experts who would obviously be able to soldier on no matter what depths you happened to reach, no matter how dark your darkest hour... take a read: http://www.beyondblue.org.au/the-facts/depression