Grapeviney
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I don't mind Petterd's delisting, it was a reasonable call. What I find silly is that having been delisted many Demonlanders say that even fit he was no good and we are better without him.
Petterd, Moloney, Rivers and Bennell are now playing regular footy elsewhere, some with more certainty than others and some in better teams than others.
They'd sure as hell get a game with us.
Their weakness are less evident when they're spread disparately among better clubs; throw 'em all together in one side and you have a team of ordinary players who get thrashed week in week out.
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Hamstring soreness. It says so in the article.
Maybe you should have read the link before being so quick to try and be a smarta$$ and then you would have got the point. But hey, that's Demonland...
Clearly, I read the link, not quite sure about you.. although it could just be your comprehension skills if this exchange is anything to go by.
Perhaps you need not post at all; we could all just infer what your 'point' is telepathically.
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I know it's a few days late but this is Patrick Smith at his very best.
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Stanrge comment. 24 touches at 75%, 4 clearances, 9 inside 50s, and a flying punch through the goal at the end which helped seal the game in a tight finish - a change of fortunes for Ricky (*cough*queensbirthday*cough*)
Funny to see the numbers, I also didn't think he had a great game while watching, and i've thought the same virtually every time he's played for them. They keep picking him though ..
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Apart from the odd quarter here and there, Carlton under Malthouse haven't looked a patch on the Ratten era.
And the Tigers showed tonight they are still psychologically weak, collapsing again under pressure. Had Garlett (or Yarran?) kicked that easy walk-in goal to take the lead it would have been all over red rover.
So yeh, all in all it was a pretty good night
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Callum Collard
Happy to draft this kid on the basis of his name alone.
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No Gawn. WTF.
Yeah thanks buddy, I read it, hence why I posted the link where I read it...
The point was it's just another build up we've had just to be let down.
Actually you didn't make any point - all you said was WTF.
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No Gawn. WTF.
Hamstring soreness. It says so in the article.
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Whilst it's not unique to Melbourne, the problem as I see it is that the initial assessments of player injuries are routinely so far off the mark that the club has lost credibility with the supporters. In view of Peter Jackson's pronouncement that the club was trying to win back the faith and trust of supporters it has lost in recent years by poor performance on and off the field, this aspect is worrying because it flies in the face of that very proposition. As an existing supporter, I now treat our injury list as nothing more than a joke and you're not going to win back faith if even the faithful have no confidence in what they're being told.
I agree with what you're saying broadly, but think an exemption applies when it comes to things like injuries and the conditioning of the players, and most supporters would take all such info with a general helping of salt.
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This is something I am not going to lose one minutes sleep over.
unfortunately you've just wasted a minute posting about it, as have i responding to it
*shakes fist
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even tried a little empathy with Jurrah and Wona.
LOL
The club was more than empathetic with Jurrah, even long after it became apparent that he wasn't ever going to pull on a red + blue guernsey ever again.
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but malcolm doen't have to put up with a dame for a mother in law - lol
hehe indeed, it was a neat little move from our
kingPM.. not so much a wedge as a wedgieapparently malcolm damned it with some very faint praise today
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I think there are two factors at work here:
(1) With some of our injured players - and particularly the 3 big forwards - Misso et al genuinely don't know when they will return; and
(2) If they told the truth about this in blunt language - "clark, dawes and hogan might not return until the 2nd half of the season, if at all" - you could kiss goodbye to several thousand memberships.
Telling it like it is would have destroyed the momentum and lift we received over the summer, hurting attendances and memberships by stating to all and sundry that we're unlikely to win a game before June or July.
I find it hard to believe that your hopes are raised each week listening to Misso's report; surely you can read between the lines better than that.
This isn't some new phenomenon, and it's not unique to Melbourne.
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I dont know why we just cant use this training jumper from late 90's. Works with Blue or white shorts. Very similar in design to the current training jumper.
Love this jumper, still wear it to the footy each week.
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EFC soft cocked it.
all except for the bloke with the priapism
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You heard that through the Grapevine(y)?
I hope WJ doesnt see your comment H - he's been wanting to use that line for some time now.
You could be issued an infraction notice for stealing other people's material (just as I did with the hird line)..
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So Tania says that she's not cattle
Could have fooled me with the surname Hird...
*Boom tish
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Rumour has it that Roos and Co were not impressed with Dawes' attitude to his footballing life and he was told to pull his head in and earn his spot back. No actual injury...
so he's got to earn his spot back but he's not allowed to play in the magoos, or train properly, and can only do rehab?
sounds plausible.
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The irritating thing in all of this is that amid all the talk of ''we don't want to rush them" and "we're being overly conservative" came the admission that Dawes was rushed back too quickly.
I don't expect the docs / fitness guys to get it right 100 per cent of the time, and injuries / recovery can be unpredictable in a sport as intense as AFL, but they obviously got the Dawes call wrong, and may well have done the same with Hogan given that his back was sore prior to the Geelong game, yet still played, and is no closer to resuming despite a spell on the sidelines.
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Jordie McKenzie (foot) test
I thought he played in the Casey praccy match last weekend? Or is this a new injury..?
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its the demonland way.
harp on this topic after dunstan does anything noteworthy and harp again when salem is in the magoos.
and then you harp some more until there is more than 100 pages and 15 threads on the topic.
mix in a bit of jack watts,stir it with pederson/dunn and you have demonland.
and hopefully you get a sacked coach in there somewhere and youve got everything needed to hit the keyboard .
not bad jazza, but you forgot Cameron Schwab - everything tastes better (or should i say bitter) with a pinch of Schwab..
by the way, i heard dunstan and ollie wines are in love and they're gonna have lots of babies together and those babies of course will end up playing at st kilda and port when they could have been demons
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Just look at most of the crows supporters Grapeviney
They are only 50 in the dollar most weeks
If the Crows supporters are only paying 50 cents in the dollar OD, the exchange rate for Port supporters must be around 15 cents..
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AFL% your points / their points * 100
SANFL% your points / (your points + their points) * 100
So, 100% in AFL is 50% in SANFL
...thus confirming that they're a strange mob on that side of the border
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Perhaps it's because despite being persecuted in his homeland for over fifty years, he still preaches respect and compassion.
I've got nothing against the man but whatever aura there was about him kinda dissipated for me when he appeared on Masterchef..
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Training - Friday 28th March, 2014
in Melbourne Demons
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Is it really that funny when someone's talking about redundancies?
What a snide little remark.. and yet you have the temerity to have a great big sook b/c the the coach didn't whisper sweet nothings in your ear about what a struggle this week will be but how we're going to tough it out... as if that's not also SPIN !