Chook in Perth

I hate Dean Bailey and Chris Connolly for leaving a legacy of supporters questioning whether our players retire of their own accord or not.

You can only delist so many players. Dunn won't be one of them and nor should he be. In a crap team he's a goose. In a good team, he's a quality 16-22 role player who does a job and stirs the pot.He offers a bit of the C word in a team completely bereft of it. J MacDonald hasn't been offered a contract yet, but he's getting picked every week and he's reasonably confident of getting a 1 year deal. He's not much chop, but he's a big body and is adequate depth. With 40 fit players he's at Cranbourne, but you can't just have kids. That line of thinking has got us nowhere.

Yeah, na.

Ian Robson? You mean the guy who replaced Peter Jackson who resigned of his own accord after 15 years? Swann went to Carlton because they were a basketcase and looking for a CEO. Two completely different circumstances to us. I'll say it again. If CS isn't performing, replace him. Otherwise let him get on with the job.

"Is this Brian Cook? Hi it's Don McLardy from the Melbourne Football Club. How's your contract situation at the moment? Plans for next year?" Spare me.

Posters suggesting the board go to market to see who's out there before CS is reappointed clearly have no idea. Doing that is essentially asking him to reapply for his job. Both humiliating and pointless. It's really quite simple, the board thinks he's earnt another contract or they don't. He's either performed well against his KPI's, or he hasn't. Personally I think Cameron has many admirable qualities, but a few flaws. Whilst I firmly believe he gets the narrative of our history better than anyone, I also think he spends too much time paying tribute to it. He's good at working a room when it suits him, and [censored] poor at other times. No point rehashing the footy department stuff, it's been done to death. If he hasn't learnt to stop meddling he'll make himself unemployable. He and Connolly turned Freo around, and for that he deserves a lot of credit, But anyone with footy and business acumen could have done that. There was a lot of heavy hitters wanting to get on board. I think he's a good (not great) CEO and we're probably lucky to have him.

Hope you're patient. at this rate he'll be 30.

How is being a triple premiership player not "directly associated"?

Wants to stay but didn't like the first offer. shouldn't be too many problems.

I don't think enough of our kicking skills to think we have any players that can deliberately sit the ball on top of the oppositions head for Howe to take hangers.

Nice to read something positive, but... How many annus horribilis' can you have in a 6 year period??

Just to add, right now I've got that Olympics "perspective" feeling that I get every 4 years. That feeling that I'm watching the best of the best on the world stage. These magnificent athletes who have worked their whole lives, often for little fiscal reward, for that moment where their performance will define them as people. Puts into perspective how unimportant the dickwads running around for the MFC really are. They can have their inflated salaries, German 4x4's and Chapel St slappers. Give me a kid like Seebohm who was genuinely heartbroken that second best in the world wasn't good enough for her. Thats real heart and pride in performance.

I watched my first game in 2 years in Melbourne on Saturday. I watched it with little to no emotion, other than those deliberate out of bounds decisions. In fact, at times I just laugh at the ineptness. Memberships will be back to 30,000 next year.

Not going to say mate. but its common knowledge.

So Adrian Anderson wants to interview Brock. He'd want to be careful. If this ends up with Melbourne getting sanctioned, there's a dirty secret about Brock that plenty would be happy to share with the mainstream media.

50 shades of crap.

Remember going to a footy clinic at Punt Rd in 1987 and Tomkins was there. As was Chris Connolly. 3 days later CC did his knee at Carrara and barely played again.

Poorest ball drop of any Melbourne player I can ever recall, including Bruce. Shanahan and Ingerson were probably better. Petterd is a victim of genetics like countless Melbourne players before. Not big enough to be a KPP. Not quick or agile enough to play a crumbing role, nor the tank to run through the middle. Combine that with an under resourced footy department with NFI where he should be played and you'll wind up with a tweener with obvious talents but unable to utilise them consistently. See M Bate and L Dunn for further examples.

Bailey gave blokes games that hadn't earnt them for 3 1/2 years. All in the inane belief that "getting game into them" was all that was required. Thats why Watts coasted for 3 years. Get the little bastards hungry.

As i quoted in my post above, the second one by Sam Cooke. Otis had a crack at it a few years later. For the only time in his short life, it was inferior to the original.

Eclectic mix. MOR shlock or metal the genre of choice here apparently. Glancing through my spotify playlist, heres a Demon flavoured mix: Jeff Farmer will have his revenge on Seattle (Nirvana) Step Into My Office Baby (Belle & Sebastian) - Mark Neeld come September 1. Repeatedly. Lets Stay Together (Al Green) - Tim Harrington Since I Left You (Avalanches) - Brock McLean No Distance Left To Run (Blur) - Brent Moloney One Armed Scissor (At The Drive In) - Liam Jurrah (yes tenuous at best)\ Too Drunk To F*&K (Dead Kennedys) Nathan Carroll F.E.A.R (Ian Brown) - Cale Morton Slow Hands (Interpol) - Jake Spencer Been Caught Stealing (Janes Addiction) - Allen Jakovich I'm Waiting for The Man (Nico & Velvet Underground) - Jack Viney These Arms of Mine (Otis Redding) - Colin Sylvia Time Is Running Out (Muse) - Ricky Petterd Bye Bye Bad Man (Stone Roses) Brian Royal (harsh) Sickfest (Grinspoon) - MFC Midfield I'm Stranded (The Saints) Mitch Clark Lips Like Sugar (Echo & The Bunnymen) - Jordan Gysberts according to my mum. Wake Up (Arcade Fire) - Take your pick A Change is Gonna Come (Sam Cooke) - SOMEONE. ANYONE. PLEASE

Haha. I'm sure I can find a chick to let me use her Carlton scarf as a bat rag, er I mean to keep me warm!

I'm in Melbourne for work next week. Was planning on flying in mid arvo and meeting some mates at Carlton v Richmond. About a month I decided to brave a 6:05am Saturday flight out of Perth so I'd be in Melbourne in time to get to Etihad. So I'm getting up at 4:15am, when it will be about 1 degree, to cab it to the airport for a 4 hour flight. all to see a game against a team we can't beat at the best of times at a stadium we can never win at. Clearly, I'm a [censored].

Pray tell, what is your criteria for a 'fine president'? Not wearing a mankini on On The Couch?

I don't even think you could call it "large" Mono. 6 stitches is a glorified scratch. If old Basil was as cactus, and the scene as chaotic, as reported the "injury" could have occurred in an all manner of forms.