DEE fence

11 minutes ago, Earl Hood said:

But they will be playing JLT’s on Heard Island in summer by then. 

At least it will be above water.

White, Powell, Cross, Bennet Vince hibberd, btw where is Werridee, thought he'd be all over this

Jessie is a gorilla that can barely kick the skin off a pudding and is suspect @ distances 40m+ Until he fixes that he will always disappoint. That he has the football DNA and brain is without doubt. FWIW I still think he can find that distance if he works at it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.chicagotribune.com/sports/soccer/ct-spt-samantha-kerr-red-stars-haugh-20180601-story,amp.html

The AFL threw a ridiculous amount of money at K.Hunt. (and poisoned a whole team's culture) why can't we (i know why) do something cool like poach soccer's best female talent. She was a footy player first. I am sure she would kick a stack of goals. I firmly believe AFLW will help footy survive today's growingly (is that a work (-;) risk averse society. My seppo mates think NFL is dying because not enough kids are playing peewee/pop warner footy. We need to do everything to future proof Australian footy, including poaching everything from Soccer. And I reckon Sam would look great in a Dees jumper.

2 hours ago, dieter said:

When it's all distilled, I don't quite get what all the discussion about the lad Preuss is about. It's bleeding obvious Goodwin and co understood that Gawn cannot be expected to run the whole race on his own - like he was last year - without an inevitable collapse in output.Hence Preuss. It will turn out to be one of the wisest and smartest recruitment coups in our history. Agreed, Spencer was a handy backup, but - without any condescension to Spencer - Preuss is simply a more agile and better coordinated athlete. Even better, he's a German...I put it to you, the sooner our list gets filled by the Obsts, the Neitz's, the Schwartz's, the Muellers, the Manns, the Nietzsche's, Ditterich's - I could go on - of this world, the sooner we'll vin anozer flag.

Warne-Smith had German ancestry as well.

2 hours ago, ProDee said:

I would have thought Preuss and Gawn playing together might happen 5 or 6 times.  I just can't see the structure working weekly if all talls are available.

If I'm wrong I'm wrong.

I agree, unless Preuss is some sort of amazing goal kicker which seems unlikely, not even North would be that stupid to let someone like that go. I still don't reconcile why and how he is with us. They have alot of eggs in the Goldstein and Brown basket.

5 hours ago, Fat Tony said:

We were net +62 for behinds kicked last year (second to Richmond at +75) and first in inside 50s with +309 for the season in 2018. If anything I see the change in the kick-in rule as a negative for us.

I can see the pressure on goal kicking go up if the 'coast to coast' goal category goes up? Imagine if St Kilda had another year of shocking goal kicking. I also see the need for defensive forward pressure making Jeffy's spot tenuous.

5 hours ago, ProDee said:

Bit of a scrappy match.

Best thing: no injuries.

My other small takeaways - Brayshaw will take another step forward this year.  I thought he was great.  Harmes will continue his new found midfield role and do it well.  vandenBerg will have his best year.  And Sparrow has a very mature physique already.

Oh and I thought Oscar looked really good.  He's just going to keep getting better.

Both teams a bit rusty.  

Your thoughts on Preuss and Gawn in same team please? Am worried we will be found wanting defending kickins with such a large number of talls forward.

'My new best mate! Harvey Timothy'

What a lovely, heartfelt thing for a dad to say, so simple, but those words will make that little fella always remember his dad loved him.

Top bloke that Bernie!

14 minutes ago, Moonshadow said:

Used to be a contested marking beast in his first year or so. Remember the day he towelled up Rance? What happened to that aspect of his game? Was he found out or did he lose his mojo?

For some reason I haven't understood, he lost his timing, seemed to go to early, confused the hell out of me watching. He certainly did the work leading. 

All time (for a bloke born 1970):

87 Rd22 Defeating Footscray

94 QF Schwarz+others Beating Carlton

00 QF smashing Carlton

Special mention the come back against the Dockers.

When you could believe in a future:

Melbourne winning in Geelong in 2015

Melbourne winning against Hawks in 2016. 

When you knew we had arrived: 

Melbourne EF in 2018. Looked like the scariest side in the comp.

we are a finals winning side, built to smash teams, this year we will be devastating to others.

Jetta, absolute standard bearer, definitely a bloke I'd follow.

20 sec to go in video, Angus and Max jumping up and down on the bench, thumping their chests, pictures of the G pumping as well, huge huge love. 

Whose Fight

Our Fight 

Our House!

I love pre-season, they look amazing, optimism  at lid is orbital levels. They look like Avengers ready to smash Thanos.

3 hours ago, dworship said:

Rance may find his role a whole lot more difficult, wont that be lovely.

Yes, I really hope so. Team I want to beat this year, I to wouldn't mind additions to the 'when will this record be broken', such as losing margin. Preferably Geelong to take it over.

1 hour ago, Demonland said:

Hmm of that list, Collingwood is a top 4 side with the experience at 666, a bit of a worry.

I still remember the media interview, at the start of the league, I think it was AFL360, when she said I am only going to Melbourne in front of Gil. My love was huge right at that point, only grown since, absolute rock star that I think is very influential on raising our club's profile.

I am very content to pay both, club membership is such a better model over the owner based system the seppos have.

Super rapt, Daisy really is amazing, as are all mums who have just delivered a baby, in this case two. This news made my day, and the women flogged Brisbane on the weekend, perfect football timing. 

5 hours ago, A F said:

Lol. Is this the first time you and PD have ever agreed on something? You guys should stick to car talk.

Heh, I was amazed to find common interests beyond the Dees too. 

11 hours ago, Satyriconhome said:

 

There are new 2km PB's everywhere, Hunt, Jetta and Salem, 3 I know of

 

It's probably confidential, but have always wanted to know the PB times of player for running and some of their weight records, curiosity has killed me over the years. Even a couple of 2km times would be much appreciated please. Do they crack 5m30sec? Under 6? I am flat out busting 20m for 5km, currently blown out to 22m for the distance. Always interested in what I could do in my salad days versus the players. PM the times if you don't want them spread around.

31 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

So they were longer as well?

in the beginning Daimler was part of Mercedes

daimler Benz

I once thought that too, the name is a coincidence, they companies were not connected.

Correction a British engineer bought the rights to the name and motor design but afterwards was always a english company.

4 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Were the Daimler’s exactly the same apart from badges and options?

Yes it had the Jag 5.3lt 300hp engine, was released as the double six, Daimler was a UK company bought by Jag in 1960. Basically  aXJ stretch saloon.

Super happy about the sponsor. My dad had the W12 saloon with fabric roof (Daimler), I still remember going to Snowy Mountains for a summer holiday with a little 3 cyl Suzuki 4WD, a Honda moto bike on the trailer, and my 2 brothers plus camping gear blasting along at 140km/h listening to Neil Diamond and Willie Nelson on the cassette player, was epic. My uncle had the E type until the rear axle broke off. I have had a life long love of Jags ever since. Dad had the car until I was 18/19 and I got to drive it, including at speed, you really could see the fuel gauge move.

I was happy that the article went with 'Port Adelaide player' and not ex-Melbourne...

For me, playing with consenting breasts is one of life's great joys, for everyone one involved, and has very little to do with his ability as a footballer. 

And as has been said by others, obviously taking the urine. 

I sometimes feel we are headed for a world of sad, wannabe puritans who can't discern between consent, fun, and actually offensive behaviour, it is Oktoberfest, not a bloody kindergarten. By the way it isn't mutually exclusive to enjoy drinking champagne off a consenting nipple (for instance) and being an ardent feminist.  

Blowing off steam and getting drunk are risky behaviours (as are other drugs), things do go wrong, and the worst possible result is death, but the likelihood of that is still low enough (as proved by all os us on here surviving our teenage years) to be acceptable and tremendously sad for those that don't. But living in a world where all risk is redacted and sanitized, no thanks, we will just be killing ourselves more slowly as a spinless species of semi bright apes.