Jaded No More

Beautifully summed up. Bugg deserves the same penalty as Houli, although will probably cop it worse because his timing is terrible and the AFL wants to stamp this out, and rightly so. I don't think Bugg is an awful person, nor do I think he intended to go out and concuss Mills, but he loses his cool too often, and his reaction to the so called "provocation" from Mills, which is something we see 100 times a game, was wrong in every way possible. You firstly don't solve violence with violence, but secondly you don't punch someone in the face because he shoved you in the chest. Anyone trying to justify his reaction, is wrong. No two ways about it. That he is an average player, and has a track record of being an arrogant pest who has actually done very little on the field, does not help his cause when it comes to his future at the MFC. Firstly we don't want average players on our list, and secondly we don't want average players on our list who lose their cool, and misrepresent the club by physically harming opponents in a completely illegal way. Btw I feel very similar about the idiotic trio of JHK, Kent, and BenKen who went out on the [censored] and got suspended from playing last week. Borderline players, doing dumb things and breaking club rules/ protocols, is not OK. We are better than this as a club! Already today I've seen negative media about the club being poorly disciplined. Yes, the media loves jumping on and off bandwagons, but after so much good work done by the team to gain some respect, the behaviours of some of our players of late, has really let the rest of the club down.

Lewis and Vince have to step up if we're any chance of winning games at the moment with all our injuries. This is why they are on the list. Time to stand up. We can't expect Oliver and Trac to lead the midfield, and without Viney and Jones, all the other leaders have to really step it up.

What Houli did was just as bad and he deserved his 4 weeks. Don't care what a good bloke he is or who his god his. I didn't defend him and I won't defend Bugg. As I said, if say Mills did this to Oliver, we'd call him a dog and want him given 6 to life. So let's not pretend it's less of a [censored] thing to do if you're wearing a Melbourne jumper.

Give me a break! We have 8 days off, and all the players at that function are senior players, who have runs of the board and who I trust completely to do the right thing. I doubt any of them are getting wasted at a function during the day with their wives/partners. We are finally a professional club setting standards. Thank god for that!

Done and dusted maybe, but that was a costly mistake! Kent and JHK would have been a lot better to have in the team on Friday than White and Wagner. Considering these 4 players are struggling to get a game at senior level, it is a pretty dumb life choice to break clear club rules and set yourself back further. They are lucky we have so many injuries, or they would struggle to break into the senior team. Idiots all 4 of them, and glad we took a strong stance. Hope they get their sh*t together.

Source? Injuries have ruined our season. I reckon we'd be on 2 losses max, had we not lost Gawn and Hogan for most of the season, and now Jones, Viney, Salem, Tyson, Jeffy and Watts. That is a disastrous injury list, and one no club would recover from. We'd be lucky to win 1 out of the next 4 matches without basically our entire midfield. Oliver and Trac look exhausted, and Gawn will take a while to get back to full flight. It might be time for Lewis and Vince to step up in the middle.

Wow, Mills started it and Bugg finished it by punching him in the face. With that sort of logic you should represent all the good blokes out there who were just "finishing it" when they hit that random in the bar, or their girlfriend, or their kid.

I don't support players hitting other players in the face off the ball and knocking them out. I don't care what jumper they wear. If the situation was reversed and a Sydney player did this to say Viney, we would want him burnt at the stake. Lets not pretend what he did is any less pathetic because he's in a Melbourne jumper. It's worse, because this isn't the sort of [censored] I want someone in a Melbourne jumper doing.

I don't feel any less optimistic or excited about the trajectory of the team after last night. We are missing 6 of our best 10 players and we are physically stuffed. The AFL [censored] us good with the draw. Fuming!

I hope we hear today about Viney. Genuinely I don't care about much else at the moment.... assuming Tyson is ok

Wagner's disposal has been appalling all year. His turnovers kill us!

Gawn looked to have aged 30 years tonight. Clearly stuffed. Needs the break and the match fitness. Contradictory I know, but he looked slow and flat and also not very sharp with the footy or mobile. He will be better for the run.

The turnaround in form of OMac is absolutely phenomenal! Played his best game tonight on some seriously good opponents. Absolute credit to him! 6- Jetta 5- Omac 4- Tmac 3- Hibberd 2- Frost 1- Tyson Kudos to the defensive team. They did a good job under serious duress. Also Buddy is a c$$khead

I'm so worried about Viney and Tyson. We need some luck and that Viney injury is not often associated with good luck.

Seemed distracted. Or tired. Or both. Not his day today.

I don't know what's worse, Bugg or supporters taking his actions lightly. It's a shameful unnecessary thing to do. It's flat out assault. It's not ok, and it's embarrassing to see someone wearing our jumper behaving like this. Our jumper is sacred. You wear it and you represent my club with this sort of crap? Not on your life buddy.

[censored] the loss, the Viney injury has just completely ruined my night. What a disaster

Hopefully it's just a rolled ankle not a serious injury.

Any news on Viney?

He's a moron and I hate him in a Melbourne jumper. Spend less time being a [censored] jocky and more time being a good player. Will get 4 and it's well deserved.

Wagner to the tip

I personally love Hunt up forward, but having lost Salem, that's a lot of pressure on Hibbo to be doing the attack from the backline. Means Vince needs to really take it up a notch off half back. I definitely do NOT want Frost doing the majority of backline attacking. If he's on Buddy, I rather he concentrates purely on ensuring he doesn't win them the game!

Looking forward to the next time we meet Sook Coast. Imagine if it's in a final this year at the G....

It gives me shivers just thinking about it. Nobody, truly nobody in the AFL currently, is more deserving of holding up a premiership cup than Jonesy. There wouldn't be a single supporter or player who wouldn't be happy to see that happen. I was talking to some friends on the weekend, and they were saying imagine a GWS - Melbourne grand final. The history, the emotion, the passion, there is no way any neutral fan wouldn't be supporting Melbourne. Now more than ever I'm confident that Jonesy will be a premiership captain before his time is up, and when that moment happens, it will make all the suffering worth while.

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