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Maybe she was a music lover

The bad news is he's being replaced by Margarita Pracatan

Out: Sylvia (forever), Trengove (tell em his got General Soreness...but he needs a break), Jurrah (inj) Moloney (Royal) In: Martin, Couch, Nicholson, Lawrence, (Malthouse) Ive been saying for weeks that Trenners has got to have a break, if he's injured then lets get it right, why play him ??? Two weeks ago he couldn't make the distance to goal from 30m out.

In Couch, Jurrah, Martin Out SYLVIA,, Trengove (sorry called for it last week too, love the guy, but not being able to make the distance from 30m out disgraceful and he needs to find some form) Garland

I wouldn't be unhappy if Sylvia never pulls on a MFC jumper again, absolute disgraceful effort. How come Fitzpatrick gets subbed (at least he was having a go) and the dud Sylvia stayed on. Im really really over him !!!!

I think that's the best team we fielded all year. Dunn has dunn a job be its time to be proactive rather than reactive Tapscott was underdunn when he came in Sellar makes us Sellar Dwellers. Good on ya Fitzy for getting a chance, Bennell to play like I saw him train pre season ( I hope) Pettard, I always reckon we look more dangerous with him in. Good on the selectors for overlooking Watts. Lets make him real hungry to get back

Out: Trengove, Sellar, Tapscott In: Couch, Bennell, Martin Team balance dictated here, Bail and Bate had fairly ordinary games, but both have been alright in the past two weeks.

6.Clark 5.Magner (thought he tried all day) 4 Jones (disposal unfortunately back to some of his old habits) 3. Howe (he's a beauty, just goes for everything..Might need some goal kicking practice. the miss in the third was crucial) 2.McDonald (I was a huge xritic 2 weeks ago, top effort to turn that around) 1.Morton,(getting better every week)

Couldn't believe the stats half way through the third we had 20 more hits and 0 to advantage. I think other teams have worked Jamar out, he tends to constantly drop the ball at his feet, an old fashion thump down the ground was needed at times today

It maybe says something that they both started on the bench, it wouldn't surprise me to see Trengove at Casey next week. It might just take a bit of pressure off him, needs to happen with some sensible press release. I.e "We treat all our players equal, and its jacks' turn to go back and find some form"

After watching the first three quarters of Sundays game again. listening to the commentary and reading this weeks papers, I understand the most vital problem the Dees have. Clean Hands......The amount of times I watched players fumble the ball was horrendous. This resulted in at least 2 or 3 goals to Footscray, it even resulted in 3 or 4 contentious umpiring decisions, whereas if we had handled the ball cleanly in the first place we would have been away and running. Secondly due to the lack of CLEAN HANDS at the moment the ball is not being delivered on cue to the runners, therefore resulting in less possessions, how do you develop a game plan when we are not handling the ball properly, players can't time their "receives" to allow for a fumble. Get the ball handling right and the game plan can be developed, So how do we get over this, The more pressure to deliver under pressure the less sure the handling will be. My solution would be to take the pressure off them....allow them a bit of freedom, tell them to play on at all costs with little consequence. Practice practice practice. Once we get the ball handling right the rest will fall into place. We don't desire the ball any less than other clubs..contrary to some commentators and journos, we're just at the wrong place at the wrong time due to fumbles..

The loss of show day

Can anybody remember back to the 'Defining Game" against the Eagles in the mid 90's ???? We went over there after much soul searching and won the game and turned our whole season around.....Seems to have some parallels with this week. Thats what i want to see on sat arvo !!!!

MY 2009 Scarf now adorns the bar inThe George iii hotel in Nth London !

I don't know why some people get so hung up about the bank cup, they are just practice matches, if we didn't have them then clubs would lobby to play practice matches against other AFL clubs like in the past. However........................... that said, I remember (starting to sound like Grandpa Simpson here) when the Dees won the 87 Night final (preseason comp) and I was over the moon. Cam Mooney said on radio that in 04 the cats wanted to win the Pre season comp sooo bad. So winning is good, experimenting is good as long as you give a yelp, people smile and put their hand in their pocket when a team wins. Good culture, get used to it in the next few years. Win the damn cup, beat Collingwood and send those over achieving morons back into their hole See I've blown my own argument Think I'll go for a lie down and a Bex now

I'm not happy there's no FOB sponsorship

Strangely enough it was his dropped mark and then fight to regain the ball against 2 opponents that set up the winning goal against Brisbane, I think he gets a rough deal on here, I think his biggest issue is consistency. He has an upside though cause I think he hates to be beaten.

Now I' m confused, either someones got into theage footy website similar to the fantastic "Magpies sucks" comment on AFL.com as they have Melb are playing on both Saturday and Sunday http://www.theage.com.au/afl It gets better they also have us playing at 5.30 am

Maybe they're waiting for PHil Scully to be avalable?

$50 bucks with my mate Melbourne to finish higher than Essendon, tis the silly season, I wanted to bet him $50 that Girly Hurley would be at GWS next year but he wouldn't be in it.

Lets just wait till the season begins...then maybe we might see who stands up and who falls over

I agree with your comments re Slug Jordan, in 1984 0r 5 (its a bit hazy now) I had the pleasure to meet him and his wife, over numerous cups of tea, he told me story after story. One of the things that impressed me the most was Mrs Jordan said she had to go as she was off to watch Bailey, Lovett and co in the reserves, such was the feeling among that group, that she would go to see them play, I don't think she even followed Melbourne, but she told me they were "her boys" and something special.

Looking back to 87 I can't remember having the same feeling of expectation that I having this year, in fact for the majority of the season we were just treading water, then we got a run on and hit September, confident and full of running. I believe there was 2 parts to this rise from the ashes. 1. Northey had installed an Us against Them mentality, he went on to do a similar thing at Richmond and got them to the finals too, 2. A group of players came through and grew up together, a lot has been said about Robbie playing but really he was almost a permanent forward and as history tells us it was his last season (although he had a brilliant finals series, the jury is out whether he would have got up for the Grand Final if we had made it), but it was a group of young blokes, Bailey, Yeats, Lovett, Rugolo , Eishold,O'Dwyer, along with Stynes & Wight, none of these guys were household names....It feels very similar this year I just feel it in "me bones"

It's interesting that the 25th Anniversary of Season 1987 comes up in 2012. After finishing 2nd bottom in 1986 John Swooper Northey took the Dees to their best season in 23 years. All those that are old enough would remember the euphoria of the final round when we snuck into the final five, after beating Footscray, and Hawthorn beating Geelong by 3pts. I salvaged two posters from the front of a newsagency in Hawthorn after the first final when Melbourne destroyed North by 118pts (not sure but I think this is still a record). The news agent guy thought I was crazy, but I'm rapt to recently found them and have just finished framing them, they bring back great memories I thought it might be a good time to share, The poster displayed is from "The Sun", I also have The Age one from the same day. This is the only time I have ever collected this type memorabilia, I don't think they have them in the wire frames like they used to. Lets hope in 2012 we can go just that one better.

I was at training earlier this week and Neeld and Choco continually directed the ball to be delivered via JB, I think Neeld has big plans for him, could be that he will prosper with a clearly defined role, contrary to the past where he has floated forward and back. I think he will continue to improve as a lot of players do between 50 -100 games.