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Agree, Toump or Michie if they tear it up tomorrow.

Frost is a big out, as we'll need to find someone to Ruck with Jamar v Tigers.

honourable loss, garlett's misses, Hogans miss, and watts howlers cost a chance to draw close and put some real pressure on the Crows. Liked the nasty spiteful way we're starting to play, exemplified by the way Bernie "the Hitman"Vince went about deconstructing Dangerfield's game, Tommy Mac owned Tex, and we fought it out.

Would be a major boil-over if we did win. I thought the Suns would belt us in Round 1. Going in looking for small wins, glimmers to savour as i digest another defeat...

Felt he was a bit slow to change the direction of the conversation.

The boy had 11 tackles with a broken leg! Cudos young Jack, rest well.

Peter Greenaway, was great, but later "The cook..." was 1989. His "Drowning by numbers" a highpoint in British Art house. Was a big fan of the Spaghetti Westerns back then, Sergio Leone was another unrated artist...

Given Dawes has had just one game with our new offensively "improved" midfield (on a very bad day) his value in this structure is yet to be fully seen. Don't think he (we) has seen much quality delivery to him one-on-one in space to showcase his skill. Too often he's the go for long kick down line where he's on long lead into congestion with a defender on his hammer...

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2001 is amazing in the way it explores the shift from Animal consciousness to intellectual consciousness in the beginning (apes around the mysterious monolith being tamed by the music), then goes on to explore the next shift from intellectual consciousness to spiritual consciousness in the ship and posits ideas about the challenges of this if humans can take it or if AI is the way this next shift will occur. Way ahead of its time... great movie.

What?! Funniest song ever... https://youtu.be/UFatVn1hP3o

The Jerk is by Carl Reiner... wtf

Seriously!? Has directed some dead set classics - The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Dr Strangelove, 2001 A space odyssey, Lolita... Respect!

Watched this short doco recently on Kurosawa's skill https://vimeo.com/122702786 inspired me to revisit Seven Samurai and Rasamon. Amazing.

Viney to miss at least a monthsigh

I pledge to drink several pints of cider after each breakthrough.

Same result doesn't mean the same mental demons... Midfield fluency and effectiveness under pressure comes from building trust and understanding of your role and how that works in the bigger system being implemented. Until the team has that trust and understanding rock solid without doubt or hesitation (i.e. mental demons), we will be open to being pulled apart by better and/or more experienced midfields...

In an 18 man team there are very few players (and fewer currently at Melbourne) who are anymore than "3rd wheel and nothing more", most players value comes from the role they play in the larger machine. Dawes, Lumamba, Cross, Jamar, etc...

Last time we met - Adelaide Actually very enjoyable... Maybe we're a chance.

Can you also add the win over in SA last year, was big and be nice to feel we've knocked over more than just one record since Roo's arrival..?

It's interesting, both Roos and Bucks on 360, talked about how more tightly balanced games are this year, with the slightest drop on form catastrophic, and that the teams ability to hold ground when the tides against them as important as their ability to capitalise when they have the advantage. The MFC is not the only team suffering this challenge (look at North's first two games). I also think whats different from some of our past is that 1/3 of the team are new to club, and while most welcome this for the talent boost it's given, the short term effect is we need probably 10 games as a new unit to iron out style differences and gel as a team.

I know from tennis, I can be up 40-0 and if I think "I've got this..." I then find myself at 40-40 thinking "Arrgh" then lose, as all my mental demons (doubts, limitations, fears) run amuck... The MFC has some mental demons to work through and new beliefs to rebuild in the group (and fans).

I think the players (and fans) at half time had a big drink of their own bath water, thought that they were better than they are, and immediately got the reality check such indulgences deserve. Hopefully the lessons been learnt, success is fleeting for the untalented, and only hard work and 100% commitment to the next contest matter. Maybe its just the lesson a team, long deprived of victory, needed to learn after tasting a solid win (Round 1).

Those guys did well, in a one sided practice match for the VFL... Excuse me if i don't get excited, just yet. No changes for me.

The Topic header reminded me of this happy classic - https://youtu.be/AWtCittJyr0