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We complain about some of our guys' turnovers....the reigning premiers have coughed up too many tonight....and, like us, failed to convert I50s in Q2

He is still a grub

Goody just announced that JW has been dropped

Cant remember the draft order, but who would you not have drafted in his stead?

MODS - THERE ARE ONCE AGAIN TWO THREADS RUNNING IN PARALLEL. PLEASE MERGE. Preferably in the future, leave the speculative one running up until the official team list is announced, and lock the other one until the same time. Only then can we seperate the speculation from the facts.

SEN were all over the today - saying that they hope that Hird won't get booed when he gets up to present the meal, as it would deflate the day. They also said that he maybe should be welcomed back into the footy media FCS!! I guess Carey is there, and which is worse.....acceding to your whole team being drug guinea pigs in an uncontrolled, unregulated clinical trial, or glassing women? Well, I WILL boo him then cheer the winner of the award. He remains totally and unashamedly unrepentant.

WTF? Has he been playing basketball at home again?

So typical of Gil......reward the cheat.

With the emphasis on outside footy. He was the captain, leader of a club that attempted to cheat the system, and he either (i) knew exactly what was going on and failed to lead in his teammates' interest, or (ii) should have questioned, in the interests of his fellow players' health, why they all grew suddenly bigger, stronger and then later got soft tissue injuries like never before, whilst using 'unknown substances' injected in secret locations. Not a leader; not a victim (unless of his own delusion).

If they are fair dinkum about form JFK must be in contention too

I was immediately struck by the hypocrisy reading today that Tim Watson was all over protecting players' health in the debate over concussions: where was he in the debate about players' health throughout the EssenDrug saga?

I am not a biblical scholar by any means, but perhaps the biblical reference you were seeking was actually Lazarus??

The onus still must surely be on the tackler making a correct tackle, and the incorrect tackle such as riding the ball carrier in the back into the ground must take priority over holding the ball. But driving an opponent head first into the ground must be stamped out.

Wishful thinking on their part - rid themselves of Scott, and impose him on Collingwood.

You are implying that any serious finals contender would beat NM???? Sadly you are probably right.

...not to say the supporters too. Mutual loss of trust. Must correct urgently.

That does tell us a lot. We regularly lose to much poorer teams that we should beat, NB Norf, and until we learn to predictably win "the certainties" we will struggle. I feel that last week once again the team lost the trust of the supporter base, loyal and long suffering that we are. They must regain that trust - can they, will they start doing that next weekend?

Moloney got two weeks for missing Bartel so.............

Not so sure that toughness can be taught - we tried that with the 'elite skills' of the likes of Morton, Maric, Blease etc. Need to find players with both attributes - Oliver, Petracca, Salem all have the balance of skills and toughness.

Will that bring it up to an even number or do we still have to suffer byes? FMD in fact FMY The curse continues. Was Norm a non favored great uncle of does he have some other reason to punish Joel so?

The path to September will surely be Maroondah Hwy to Mansfield then C320 to Buller. Even for a non skier like myself would find this more enjoyable that the alternative of watching Essendon play finals.

So a missed hzbdoass if it goes out (at KP) is deliberate?

Will that punch be deemed 'insufficient '? Looked bigger than the Hogan one.

And another ?

Cheating ducker another free.