PaulRB

Great work for a Monday morning. Cudo's

The point surely is, have the board been held responsible for taking their eye off the ball and mismanaging rebuild V1.0 so badly? Coach was sacked. Players will be pruned at years end. But the board?

I hear you Hell, you should feel for us saps living in sunny f#&king Melbourne, we've got to go and watch this Sh#t more than every second week. And a game like Essendon comes along only every 22 games these days. We should petition the AFL fr a priority pick, because we are seriously cr*p.

Was with you Ben till the last parra. We have been a great club before, and we shall be a great club again. As always its just a matter of when.

I suspect that Beamer (and others) who may find themselves close to being traded or delisted at the end of this year will be highly motivated to have a rip snorting pre-season and be looking for redemption in 2013. Hopefully Neeld understands the power of this.

The flaws as I've heard bandied about on Beamer are lack of defensive skills (and application) lack of speed and endurance (a plodder) too old to remedy above Not interested in new gameplan [censored] off at FD re leadership demotion... Would another pre-season with his full and humble buy in get him through the above challenges? If Col Sylvia is another example, he does seem to have turned the corner (turned up) after injury and average form made him look gone...

Beamer was good in a crap team last year. Cudo's to him for last year. I guess the question is why has he is struggling so much this year? and can he pull himself out of it?

You are making me weep...

Cue + rack. 2013. "Sigh"

Surely we can counter offer?

Tapscott didn't play against Freo. Did he?

Beams will go GWS if he leaves Collingwood. $$$$$

Given our tall outs (Clark, Jamar, Sellar, Watts) we had few targets for the long bomb, which probably added to the indecision (poor decisions)...

Noticing that the speculation about GWS's next victim/target is very muted this year. Is Boak off to GWS? If not, then which lucky player(s) and unlucky club(s) is going to win the AFL's lotto and earn more than they're worth? It's not us so all good there.

Bummer for Flash. Hopefully this will clear the decks for Aaron to have a monster pre-season and hit 2013 fit, firing and full of confidence. His best is better than most on our list and he's not so old as to not be able to thrive under the current FD for a couple of years still.

Is Howe our prototype Daisy Thomas type player?

you named the unnamable.

Dreamtime.

I disagree, and have faith in Liam's ability to continue performing for the MFC once his troubles in Alice are sorted.

Liam is one of a couple at Melbourne who can change the direction of a game (in our favour) in a burst of play. That makes him a good player. Played 36 games over four injury interrupted years for a return of 81 goals, or over two goals a game. More than most at Melb. Adding an engine, preventing injury, and increasing his defensive efforts are development challenges.

IN: Jamar, Sellar (if fit), Green, Davey. OUT: Martin, Dunn, Moloney, Bennell,

time flys...

Brocky playing well tonight.

Why the headache DC? We've only lost one game so far in season 2012 (Part 2). And this year we get 2 seasons for the price of one. Lucky us.

We don't seem to be able to develop midfielders who can play that deep forward role as well. Our Rucks are meant to also be able to play forward yet none of our mids seems able to step into the small forward role...