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And winners over a pretty much full strength Hawks.

Jeeeesus...the original post was a simple question, asking what D'landers would consider an acceptable performance in season 2015. I wouldn't have thought it would be so hard to just give an answer/opinion (positive or negative) in just a few words.

It's an expression that has been picked up from American football, to the best of my knowledge. From the AFL Positions WIki page: "A player who is really good at setting up attacks from defence, due to their quality ball skills and decision-making abilities, may be referred to as a Quarterback (this slang term is a reference to American Football)." Call me a traditionalist, but I hate, no, despise the adopting of these terms which all seem to be taking away from the unique nature of our game.

So they've taken up American football?

Maybe he had a craving for some ice cream from Slips Ice Cream Parlour... although he may need a time machine.

You don't know anything, yet you make the definitive statement: "for so long we were going to take Ollie regardless of what else happened" Anyway, don't worry... I'm just nit-picking. Wines/Toumpas draft is history and I am not prepared to write off Toumpas just yet as this will be his first season that he enters with the benefit of being fully fit.

We very rarely see anything but you know for a fact that we were strongly linked to Wines for so long? Yes, there were endless rumours flying around on Demonland, but I saw no concrete evidence at all.

That's not true... for so long many on Demonland were convinced that the Dees were going to take Wines as he was Jack's mate... I don't ever recall seeing anything from the club in regards to Wines being the favoured option.

Yep, you really were upset WYL - absolutely devastated: "Now Mark Neeld has some tough cattle. Lets go..." Yes, you changed your tune in a later post in that same Welcome to the MFC - Jimmy Toumpas thread, but that was two years later.

Well OD, he was actually condemned by many for his poor decision making (trying to do too much on his own and turning into packs and getting pinged for holding the ball) as well as poor disposal by hand and foot... in fact, a lot of similarities to what Tommy Mac is being lambasted for. I thought yesterday that despite not having a lot of possession,Toumpas actually went in fearlessly when he was in a position to do so and we know his disposal by foot is very good... so I think that once he is completely up and running (remember was recovering from hip problems and appendicitis last year), he will start to show improvement.

Exactly right on both counts... so, as we obviously cannot go back in time and change when he was picked, why don't we lower our expectations and accept him as a reasonable player who could improve and may yet make it. He is not A grade talent, you are right, but neither were Nathan Jones and Mark Jamar when they arrived at the club and after their first 3 or 4 years everyone was calling for their heads on a plate... Jamar went on to reach AA status and Jones is now close to elite.

It was pretty apparent that Roos and his team were trying things out in the first half (experimenting with players in different positions to where they might be expected to be played), so it is very encouraging to see that we won the second half of the game which was when the team were probably set up in a more "conventional" manner. I thought that rather than appearing disinterested or lazy, Dunn was really feeling the effects of the conditions more than most (or was he possibly ill?)... he looked very uncomfortable, was perspiring profusely and was having trouble gripping the ball as a result. I think we'll see a different Lynden Dunn next week.

Yep... hopefully they'll try a little harder against West Coast on Sunday

Yep, Port were kept right out of the game last night

Fair enough I guess, but I don't think I would be throwing JKH and Gawn out just yet... and I wouldn't be writing of Matt Jones just yet either.

Seriously? After a single NAB Challenge game you are able to glean just exactly where we are at?

No injuries and just three goals in it... I'm happy

looking very good

I'm actually a little excited at the prospect of seeing Hogan and Garlett up forward... not only just to see what they are capable of, but also to see what kind of an impact that has on the games of Dawes and JKH. Also pretty excited to see what sort of run Lamumba gives us out of defence.

Funny you know... I had seen live footage of them and was really excited about seeing them... then I did see them at Bluesfest and they were atrocious... appallingly bad. The front man was off his face and up himself backwards, to the point where the other band members were looking a little pee'd off (and rightly so). I guess I caught them at a bad time, but I thought it was a pretty poor effort to treat their fans like that.

Love the Smithereens... and that particular song for some reason reminds me a little of another favourite band of mine, Husker Du's song Don't Want to Know if You Are Lonely.

Now THERE'S and idea!! I actually did go to a Picasso exhibition, Andy Warhol exhibition and Aardman Studios exhibition over the years, all in department stores in Tokyo.

Curse you!! I lived through the 60's... I'm allowed to be fried.

That's fine as long as you are not envisaging her in Leon - the Professional.

Yeah, but had a great set of mitts!