old dee

wyl I was on the patient side for the last three months waiting for the big announcement. Now reading between the lines I doubt there was ever a real chance of a second major sponsor. I think it was largely wishful thinking, I doubt there was a real chance more likely a large hope.

Me too mate in fact i am being to wonder if I am past it

What did you expect him to say We are really poor and i think we can look forward to 2 - 3 seasons in the bottom 4. Of course he is going to appear up beat what choice does he have

Can never quite work out why everyone dislikes this bloke so much!!!!!

PSD I not being smart but I would like to know who you think " the core nucleues of our solid group of senior players" will be?

I would

Good point Jumbo

The difference PSD is that the Pies still had a good list of senior players at the time. The ones you mentioned were in Mick's eyes not going to win them a flag. But he did have a solid group without them. The MFC does not have a solid group of senior players

IMO this all for public consumpsion. If he followed through on this we would only have a team of about 15 to field after the last two weeks. As you can see you can get a completely new set of Coaching staff between seasons but it takes 5 years at least to turn over a team of players. You simply cannot say this 15 players go and replace them with better players over night. You can fling 5 or 6 back to Casey and replace them but what if the replacements are no better. This is hyperbole for MFC member consumption and a threat to 3 - 4 senior players. Remember it is difficult to pull up your socks if you do not have any on!

The numbers are on the board the rest is conjecture!

Medicore players do not break out, that is why they are medicore What if it is 0 and 11 at the half way mark? I have looked at the fixture a number of times and the only side I would say that we have a chance with is Brisbane and even that game worries me now.

I think you are channeling my mind DC. Yes I will troop off to the games again as I have for the last 52 years I am off overseas at the end of April so I will miss the Saints game and the slaughter at Simonds Stadium. But arrive home just in time for the hawks on May 11, now that is some thing to look forward to!

Agree with most of what you say, I have been complaining for 2 years about the quality of our senior players. We know they are not good enough in fact IMO they may mean that the young players may never develop correctly. We go into 2012 with a bunch of average senior players, with almost no one to show the kids the way. It looks very bleak

So Cook did not play yesterday KC. Any idea why? My gut tells me injured again!

I would not hold your breath RBB. Only one camera at the ground, could not see the incident clearly. Sound familiar? Net result Sylvia will miss a big chunk of 2012 and by the time he gets back will have no match conditioning. 2012 probably a write off. Butcher gets a slap with a wet tram ticket and life goes on.

Hell no DC that would make it 11.30 PM. Otherwise I agree we are so far behind we cannot see the band let alone hear it. I can honestly say I have never felt this bad ( well that I can remember ) before the first game of the year. 186 may not be the low water mark come 5th. May. It is 48 hours since the debarcle of SA and I think over that time I have concluded that if the cards fall the right way we may win 6 games. Which I guess is better than 2008 and 9 and about the level of last year. Please mr. football god can we please not have any 186's or close and keep the 10 goal losses to just a few. If that happens the winter will be endurable. Endurable I think is the best that can be expected

Spot on rpfc Ian Ridley did more for the MFC over his life time than almost anyone I can think of, ever ( perhaps One exception ). It may not have been the worse thing that happened to the MFC. Jury is still out on that subject.

Hells gate I read your summery and it makes me feel quite ill if you are correct the GF is 10 years off. Unfortunately I cannot find much to disagree with. If you are correct the MFC may not be around in 2022. Free agency will kill the bottom 6 - 8 teams over the next 10 years. I was hopeful we would be around 8th by now to escape the plundering of the bottom sides. But it now looks like we should prepare for the assult in 2013

gee DC You have got some confidence recently My estimate is about 1.10AM

nothing in Nab cup his first game is vs the WCE. Hell of a way to start your year. I still think he is trapper MK2 until he proves otherwise

Very good Macca, first smile for the night

sounds like a nice woman

Well said olisik On that note I am going to bed and dream about why my father took me to melbourne games. Dad why didn't you barrack for Hawthorn.............

Leopards

I have been standing for 47 years any chance I might be able to sit down one day