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Nice Australian understatement on Jan 26 Corowa. Tiger's record included 6 Grand finals, 5 winning ones plus another finals series in a career stretching only 7 senior seasons. MFC Team of the Century (emergency) and inaugural inductee to the MFC Hall of Fame. B & F runner up in a Premiership year and also leading goal kicker. A handy pick-up indeed

So apart from the fact that Col came a close second in the Bluey last year, also won the Ron Barassi Jnr leadership award, was voted into the leadership group last year by his peers and is likely to be so again this year, tell me who were our 10 more important players in 2013?

Really? Ok, Bluey results aren't everything but second after Jones last year is a fair indication of his importance to the team Make no mistake Col Garland is well within the top 10 at the MFC

That is a ripper draft for Freo - Hill, Ballantyne and Walters.

They all look a bit like Cam Pederson to me. Recently reported that he was looking at a fwd role due to injuries and now will probably be needed down back too Gone from being much maligned to much required. It is a weird world we live in

There aren't too many are there. Jeff White was a win, Peter Moore won a brownlow with us, Darren Bennett

Except for N. Jones. His slate has little gold stars on it

And to completely shut them up it would be nice if Jack could take mark of the year over Natanui.

It is typically Melbourne that that the area of the ground where we could most threaten other teams - the forward line - has been totally unable to train together over pre-season. Lets hope that they have a good knowledge of each others strengths and of the game plan as they are not going to have much time to practice together

That makes perfect sense Machsy. Watts would have been a cut above everyone else. As a school footy coach you would want the ball in his hands. His disposal would have been better than anyone else's, he would have been taller than other players and faster too. He would have been Superman and the others, mere mortals. His challenge now is to don the red cape at AFL level. I reckon he can do it.

And that is exactly what i did, thanks for clearing it up Six6Six Two things about Stretch Jnr 1) He is more solid than I would have thought and 2) Looks to have a decent kicking action. We are not exactly flush with blokes that can hit targets. Lets hope he keeps improving. On a completely unrelated matter father/son selections don"t require a DNA test do they?

Hi Six6Six, You have quite a few great shots of Maiai Westrup. Is he starting to look like an AFL footballer rather than a misplaced kiwi?

Both are/were 'oh crap this could go anywhere' type of players when they are/were about to kick. But for some reason I was a Godders fan. Not so much for Nicho

Matt Jones averaged amost 20 disposals a match, 4 marks and 2.7 tackles a game. He was top 5 in the bluey. It was his first year. There is no reason why he can't get better next year I ha ve no idea why people are so surprised he got a contract extension

Only till CC TV later reveals that he secretly hopped on a bus for the middle 2,800m

I remember being in the seated section of Victoria Park as a kid in the 70's. My father, as usual, had left me so he could attend some function. Phil Carmen was playing and was one of the first to wear boots that weren't basic black. His were white. At some stage "Fabulous Phil" got the ball and I yelled in my pre-pubescent voice "you're a poof Carmen" (it was a different era) and then my world shook dramatically as the little old Collingwood supporter seated behind hit me with her handbag. To this day I still reckon it had a brick in it.

I used to know a girl who worked a summer holiday at a fish finger factory. She never ate one again.

The only consolation after the Hawthorn match was that we were buggar all chance to knock off the Blues. They were a cut above that year Hawks ended up getting done by 33 and Robbie was pretty much no chance to play (although that point has been argued on here before) It was an amazing few weeks of footy for Melbourne supporters

You win. I'm stuck in Tokyo station waiting for bullet train to Hiroshima that has been cancelled because of a fire at a pachinko (pokies) parlour further up the track. Lots and lots of people here, no bananas

Hope the 26 years of marriage has been better than what your football team has dished up

It did suck and there were so many little things that could have gone right that would have changed the result. Having said that the previous few weeks were a blast

If they both can replicate those stats in round 1 we should be looking at a first up win.

I remember it too. On match day I spent a lot of time after the first quarter playing kick the can against other kids in the bowels of the G whilst my father spent a lot of time with his mates in the bar. Unfortunately it didn't get much better for another decade by which time I was in the bar with Dad.

If PJ does finish up sooner rather than later, given his record with us so far, do you think he will leave us in the lurch or will depart professionally with a suitable replacement ready to take over? Ditto for Roos. He has stated that if he doesn't achieve ultimate success with us he is quite happy to leave it for the next coach. Given that he hasn't rushed his replacement and put in an unsuitable candidate, this indicates that he is willing to will wait to have the right person in charge before he leaves. The succession plan was his idea and a factor in him taking the job To think either of these men would simply wander off with a moments notice seems far fetched

Jono Brown Half the recent Geelong side and most importantly to us Robbie Flower