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One i never threw any insults around. I don't play the man. Two, you said: Don't get me wrong, if Hogan wants to stay, we keep him, but he has to prove this with a contract extension. Sounds lot like threat to me. At the least you are saying we should ask him to prove his loyalty and commit to an extension. Prove being the key word. As i said he does not have to PROVE anything. And to suggest he does is patent nonsense. Which is not an insult. it is an opinion.

I have no issue with us asking if he wants to sign a new contract. But you said he has to prove his loyalty by agreeing to a contract extension. The implication being we demand he sign or we will ship him. Which is total bulltish. And as i understand it (might be wrong) he will be a restricted free agent so we can match any offer. And if we do lose him to free agency we will be well compensated given the price on his head and age in the same way we were when we lost Frawley - who we got a number 3 draft pick for (which allowed us to pick up Oliver IIIRC). So we are under no pressure whatsoever to sign him again now and putting a bloke who has already committed to our club under pressure to sign is totally disrespectful and no way to build a cohesive, team first culture. Not much esprit de corps in that. You must of gone to the Mark Neeld school of culture building.

Honestly this is the biggest load of rubbish i have ever heard. Why does he has to prove anything? In good faith he has signed a contract till the end of 2019. Unbelievable what some people think players owe the club and their fans. Fair dinkum i have never read so much baloney on this site. And that is seriously saying something.

The rose in fitzroy is a good footy pub. But i still recommend going!

how did they get our bathwater?

To be honest there are very few good pubs to watch the dees i reckon. If you are going to the city area you're better off going to the game. No worries on atmosphere there. I just checked and you can still get standing room tix for $35 and single seat tix in the boondocks for $90 odd. If i didn't have a ticket already i'd buy a standing room ticket and go to the top of the ponsford and watch standing opposite that bar area (where the escalators come up). Perfect and by yourself you'll find a spot to see

Agree. Don't think Goody does though.

Would cost you about $600 to buy at the footy these days (i know you didn't buy your feast at the ground btw). And your wine would be in little dinky plastic 'glasses'!

Agree. Surprisingly good. ActualIy adds something to the understanding of the game - unfortunately rare for so called special comments people. I think Daisy is number 1 though.

I'm Brian. And so's my wife (the opposite to espirt de corps)

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To be honest if i was cats fan (shudder) i'd be more worried about the dees physical pressure. Cheap shots aside we are playing some of the most ferocious football i have seen. The tackling in the last 3 weeks has been cray cray - from every player. Then you have players like VDB, Viney and even Maxy who are wrecking balls. VDB reminds me a bit of Dipper in his hey day. Physicality is one of the reasons i think they will select Tyson and Hannan and perhaps even Smith. All are early to mid twenties, strong and have a bit of weight. Perfect for our game. Mini wrecking balls.

If Tyson plays then kent is the only injury. Viney comes in for kent. they won't need to drop anyone for Tyson. But as i've noted elsewhere my strong suspicion is that they will select Hannan, mots likely at the expense of JKH (who would be very unlucky). Smith would be a curve ball. They would have to drop someone else and the only person at risk of being dropped is Spartacus, i would have thought. But do they want to make 3 changes to aside that played so well?

Was funny day with a mixture of long odds winners and a few shorties. Ended up having a good day after an average start and some big hits on Vega Magic and Voodoo Lad who i thought would smash them. No idea what happened to Jameh - who i also took a big hit on! I backed Redzel who was brilliant. Drifted too so happy with the odds. First time i've backed it. I um and ahhed on who to back against Le Romain, swinging back and forth between Coming Through and Dixie Blossoms. Landed on Coming through, had a saver on Dixie and took them in the quin, which i thought i had snagged. Got Unforgotten and then pure elation and only just realised that was four Sydney winners in a row. Should have all upped! I backed Lite in Veins and thought it might win mid race. Win only unfortunately, though the Sportsbet (and Bet Easy) deal of 50 back for 2nd or 3rd is a great offer. Got three of those back for the day. Snagged a couple of winners at Caulfield so a profit on the day - though not as huge as all the winners might suggest. We bet in every Sydney and Melbourne race so plenty of losers too.

Very intersting selection dillemmas this week. Kent out but for the sake of argument lets say tyson is fit to play. If so i think they will select him. His ability to win contests were very important in the wc game and the first half of the gws. Both were played at near finals like intensity. I think they will want his physical strength and ball winning skills on friday. Viney is a certainty to be selected. But he is not a swap for kent and surely will mostly play as a mid. Which creates a bit of an issue in so far as tyson needs to be in the middle. Perhaps viney can play an outside, wing role. I suspect they will want hannan in the side for his forward smarts but also his physicality and strength. So who comes out? Unfortunately for spargo and jkh i rhink it will be one of them, with jkh maybe being the unlucky one. He was the in for hannan against gws and plays the outside wing role that viney could slot into. Would be tough on him as he was terrific against gws and by all accounts was one of the standouts at training on sat.

I liked your wattsy avatar better

Beautiful - like an Aussie haiku

Don't agree with this. I thought they were really good up until about half way through the second q when we started to get on top. It was very high quality game up until that point with some of their field kicking brilliant. What we did well was spread hard and not allow them as many uncontested marks as they would have liked. When they got one we worked hard to stop them playing on and moving the ball quickly. They struggled to get out the back of our press. After we got on top they did fall away but that was at least partly due to our incredible pressure and swarming intensity. We just didn't let them play well at all. Our last goal deep in the last was the perfect example. A series of crushing tackles as they looked to move the ball through the corridor led to a turnover and goal. Our all ground, all team pressure was awesome and clearly the team has responded to Goodie's criticism from the Sydney game that our defensive running was not up to standard (as close as he has come to giving the players a public bake). Keeping GWS to 47 points on beautiful day for footy was impressive, particularly with two rotations down for most of the match (one down for all of the match practically)

Indeed. Or he might have put talks on hold ro give himself a shot at playing well in finals and drive up his price.

Not a logical assumption

You might. Club won't

I have backed agaonst le romain today. Yet to win at 1400 after 6 goes is a worry for a 2.90 fav.

My best on what might be a good day for favorites is Jaahmeh. Race 1 no 3 Caulfield. In a small field with only one orher realustic chance, red alto, 2.20 is terrific value. Surprised it is not in the red. Though surely will tighten. Could have gone cega magi or redzel but like races with 8 or less runners. Less chance of trouble in running.

Of course he will be. Just as he was when we had all defenders fit for thw first 8 rounds of the season. Sure frosty has been good last couple but not a patch on omac. The coach obviously agrees given last year and this year omac was selected ahead of him. But happy to make an avatar bet. None of his critics took my bet that he would play every game up to round 11. Im happy to bet he wont be dropped next season. He wont be dropped until rhe end of his career.