old dee

Keep them coming BbO

Great TotalDeelight. But remember this is only a football club. Buy it if you can afford it

Well PSD I was trying to convey the theory that Busisness will quickly forget about the Big Jim and the MFC. If they were not going to be a sponsor of the MFC last Monday they will not be next Monday The fact the Jim Stynes has died will have no bearing on their decision. As I said in my comment Business is Business.

Excellent DD That is a quantum leap into the positive

A great start billy would be to have them all fit in the one week let alone year.

You know that old saying Macca Only the good die young Seems to apply this week. When you consider all the pricks in the world who live to ripe old age it makes you wonder. e.g. Robert Mugabe

DD can you please get rid of that bloody Avatar. I take one look at it and imediately think negative about your comments before I read one word.

Cannot find much to disagree with Dee-luded. The error we all tend to make is not keeping track of friends etc Unfortunately we all die at some point. Hang in there, lots of good things are happening around you, they just might be a little hard to see this week.

Do we all look that silly nutbean!

Some years ago my Daughter bought our dog a membership at the Bombers ( Junior membership ) they sent us info asking her to re join for 3 years. We all used get a hell of laugh out of it.

I like it BbO A little humour never goes astray Particularly this week

My hindsight view of Scully is this. He and his family knew quite someways out from draft day that he was going to be picked by Melbourne. He also knew via his family / manager that the GWS were coming into calculations and if he took a two year deal he would be in a position to score a high contract either from the MFC or GWS in a bidding process. IMO it was always his / families view that he had no say into which club he would be drafted so he would use the system to his advantage He did know it would be one of the bottom 2 or 3. He had no intention of staying with a bottom 3 club on ordinary wages, without GWS he would be still be with the Dees on a quarter of his current salary simply because it would have been very difficult to leave. IMO the current situation was hatched before he was drafted. His family knew well the lay of the land between 2009 and 2012 and they exploited it perfectly. That is my take!

You are correct but jones will never be Judd no matter how hard he tries. And we need a couple of Judds

Yes DD

In the end nutbean it is only a discussion about degrees. If you don't have the ability it probably matters little if you are nice or not.

Have you changed your diet in the last two weeks wyl? You seem to making some strange comments lately. Perhaps you need a holiday. Take off the next 6 weeks, Europe is beautiful in spring.

You may well be right Nutbean my contention is that all things being equal we will shy away from anyone who was not a nice boy. The two examples you picked Picket and Jones were from The ND era Since then we have IMO been on this trip that the recruits need to be from good backgrounds and be exceptional citizens. While i do not want the MFC choosing bums I am constantly reminded of that saying "Nice guys don't win premierships"

You are more generous than me wyl companies spending $1+ million would want no deluotion of their image/ meesage. I think you are mistaken if you think JS dying will make any difference to wether a company comes on board as the FOJS. business is business Now you may reply that they will want to take advantage of the current sympathy. Big Jim will be buried next Tuesday the first real games start on thursday by the following monday all will be forgotten to all except die hard dees fans. IMO It will be business as usual.

I hope you are right ht

No chance dt1 has not palyed a game yet anywhere. I think he is a month away. But people will have other thoughts.

100% correct

Yes stiza_007 and it is not as though we have a choice to make.

Drafting is far from an exact science Nutbean as you are probably well aware. It is always a gamble because no one can guarantee how one player will develop campared to another. There are lots of examples of players selected way outside the top 10 who turn out to be great players and lots inside who end up only average. I doubt the MFC would have ever have picked Martin or Darling no matter what other people thought. They simply were outside our image of nice boys. And look what happened they got well and truely done over by the nice boy from Berwick or wherever he came from.

Big proviso GTG. Has anyone noticed there is no "injury notes" on the MFC web site this year. Is this part of the AFL takeover of all club news?

Hindsight is a wonderful thing Roost it But unfortunately you are correct. And rumour has it we did not even interview him.