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Consider, .....maybe........if HE wants to. That may be why he ain't already. Has anyone asked him??

As well as the obvious ie marking, kicking both feet etc, I like his work rate when he hasn't got the ball especially his shepherding and leading. A quality all round forward in the making.

I would add Howe to that list as well. Coll plays his best up forward as a "surprise arrival" that is when he suddenly appears from a flank; I wouldn't set him as a KPP, assuming that in some way set positions exist in today's game.

If they had video and a MRP in Whitten's day, he would be lucky to play more than a handful of games each year!!! Yes, the game has changed.

The AFL clearly have a duty to make examples of (selected) players who behave inappropriately, inappropriately that is in the view of the MRP at one particular moment in time. Now remind me, what jumper was Sylvia wearing today - surely not the red & blue one - offer him a couple of weeks then. Do I sound paranoid??

774 just saying some bad things about Col Garland's ankle - anyone notice anything? Maybe just as well that Liam hasn't been subbed yet.

Hey Clanger King - he plays for Melbourne, FCS - will be offered two with one for a guilty plea - meanwhile Buddy will get off!

IF the poor bugger is injured, FCS rest him; IF he is just out of form, send him to Casey. Either way - IT IS COOK TIME!!!!

If his problem is, as suggested by Cat mates, lack of consistency and lack of commitment, we don't need him.

Clearly nobody knows.

INT: Gawn, Gysberts, Jones, Bennell SUB: -- Bennell or Jones Gys needs more game time, regardless of what was regarded as a downer last week, and Max needs to spend time in the ruck or up forward.

...so you are suggesting that Malthouse is not in consideration, then??

Roll back 12 months and I would say without a moment's hesitation an overwhelming YES. Interesting that he has rather suddenly fallen from grace after being one of their golden boys - maybe he had a run in with Bomber Thompson's Puppet Coach, aka JHird, as a player, or "offended" him in some way. Now, given TMR's time out, serendipitously big Stef has proven himself to be a more than adequate back up ruckman, and even Big Max has had a taste and has certainly not disgraced himself: at the moment he would be ahead of Spencer, and ahead of a guy listed as # 48 Fitzpatrick though I doubt if he actually exists - sort of like an ALP Branch member, I imagine. Campbell lurks in the background, so we don't need Hille.

Looks great, as you say actually like a footy jumper, and certainly no clash with anyone else's home jumper. I think though I would do the numbers in white.

I certainly would NOT rush him back unless there is NO doubt that he has really fully recovered. Probably Strauss, but possibly Evans.

Lynden had better pull his finger out, so that some other team will want him at a reasonable price. The porn star mo would make him a good fit for GWS!

They are two seperate true statements, especially the latter. The MRP IS flawed, and DOES NOT apply its so called justice even handedly. The classic was Judd vs Pavlich last year - no case to answer!!!! And maybe if you beleive in Santa and the Easter Bunny, you would also believe that nobody knows the Brownlow count progressively.

Maybe the DIVE BOMBER should just go and get stuffed - what a load of sour grapes from a [censored] of the highest order. I though of him a couple of times at the game when some of his beloved Bombers took dives and did not get a free.

I am just watching the early third Q - he is an absolute machine. His second efforts are just amazing - if everyone played like Jordie we would be world beaters. A genuine on field leader. GO JORDIE.

Brett Harvey - little schoolyard sneaky dobber; the retaliator always gets pinged Milne & Montagna - reasons well known to most Maxwell - always having a whinge if he doesn't get the free, or is penalised.

........and it doesn't matter, it seems, even if the deceased goes out and kicks a bag the following week!

Ch 7 have charged, judged and virtually sentenced Bartram for a "Trengove Tackle" on Winmar, and we all know that the AFL take note of "incidents" that are shown 3 times in raid sequence, especially when commentators all shout "GUILTY". But OUTS should be Newton, Davey, Bate, and of course Tapscott IN: Gawn, Cook, Blease and Tom McDonald or maybe even McNamara or Nicholson. Are we really desperate enough to give Strauss another go?? YES - debut 3 or 4 (won't happen to the soft conservative club, but it should. It is time to be BOLD - I know a very un-Melbournian thing to do, but a statement must be made.

Thanks to all posters who have updated us who couldn't get to the game, WJ and R&B in particular. It is much appreciated. It does sound as if Jordie is a certainty (for Bail), and Bate(for Dunn) pretty likely too, both of whom IMO will add some grunt and physicality, dare I use the word "intensity" (I wont use the ND "R" word that has been totally discredited and it appears discarded at MFC).. R&B makes good points about match ups etc playing a big role on who else will get a gig, NB to replace Garland if N/A as sounds likely. Also great to hear that big Max held his own, and that the likes of Blease, Howe, Tom McDonald and Cook in particular are progressing. Interesting comments re Fev's TEAM role - so you CAN teach old dogs new tricks after all!!!

These guys at the MRP are a bloody joke. So inconsistent. No way was it intentional other than the very act of tackling at all. They obviously want the Saints and Roos to have an easier run in the next fortnight. I didn't hear and Adelaide fans complaining at the time - oh, hang on, I didn't hear and Adelaide fans full stop!!

We have seen it now - so therefore absolutely NO EXCUSES ANY MORE. If you don't put in, you must be put out. Each and every player MUST put in like today to get over the Dogland and the Roos hoodoo next week. Great effort all concerned.