Jaded No More

Love it love. It knows no boundaries or gender and who are we to judge who should or shouldn't be allowed to marry. 50% of heterosexual marriages end in divorce. Should we start preventing heterosexuals from getting married if we believe they are unfit to do so? It is not our place to pass judgement or indeed get involved in the personal lives of people. Just as I have no issues with divorce, abortion, IVF or adoption for single parents/gay parents, I have no issues with gay marriages. The notion that one way is the only way is just wrong. I am not religious or morally rightious enough to give a shite and I think that as long as you are happy and not harming others, you should be left alone.

If I celebrate with a glass of nails, is that OK? It's great news, especially since we are now certainly going to avoid a "Trengove to GWS" thread next season. Phew!

Had dinner at George Koulambaris' new restaurant- St. Katherines tonight. Would highly recommend. I may have sweet talked my way to some free desserts from him too B)

LOL. Great news. Absolutely brilliant! P.S.- how much do we love Jack Trengove?! Would marry sex

A miracle... a truly undeserved one.

If this latest Scully thread doesn't resolve itself in either a signing or resignation then I am going to poke both my eyes out with a fork. Thank god there is only 4 rounds left of this season, and therefore only 4 more weeks of this Scully rubbish.

I'll be there... again. I clearly hate myself Would say 14k is a generous figure sadly.

Absolutely, I think we need to have one more really big crack at a win against a decent side (and possibly a push for a top 8 spot ), and then spend the last three games blooding some more kids. If we are serious about winning at all costs next week then Morton, Sylvia and Jurrah will come in and I think so will Warnock (perfect match up for Lynch). If we have written off the season then I think Blease, McDonald and maybe even Fitzpatrick may come in. It's taken us a long time to find someone to perform Strauss' role, and we don't have a real natural replacement for him in the wings, but this is the perfect time to either give Blease that role (I don't think he's defensive enough), or give Davis the role. Whoever it is, I just hope it's not Morton, because as your match report says, he is a midfielder and he needs to play in the midfield. His confidence has been shot to sh*t with all the positional changes he's had in his time at Melbourne.

Brilliant, thanks for the report. Morton has heaps of talent and a lot to give, and I just hope that a new coach and possibly a more tightly defined role will bring out the best of him. With the season all but done, we should bring back Blease for a full match (good replacement for poor Strauss) and maybe blood Tom McDonland who has worked really hard and had a very consistent season with Casey.

I see your point, but I actually think that Stynes' comments probably came out the wrong way. He was obviously proud of the fact that we went in harder this week than last, and that the player remained focused on footy despite all the drama, but I doubt he was proud or happy with the result. We can't seriously be at a point again where we are accepting of a 70 point loss, unless we've gone back to tanking? It's just silly to ever call a 12 goal loss a good effort, and heaven help us if we are ever happy with that because it's better than losing by 31 goals! The players keep escaping the brunt of the media criticism, so it's about time someone came out and put it back onto them. Lyon is not my favourite person and I'm skeptical of the short lived role he's going to play at the club, but he is 100% correct with these comments. We should not be so forgiving and easy on our players, especially those who are meant to lead this club, because they have done a crap job of it this year. It's a sad state of affairs that for two weeks running the only players who could leave the field satisfied are those who have played only a handful of games.

Amen. A club of scum, and I can say that because just about every person in my life who I love barracks for them. They are a pack of cheating, arrogant [censored] and I hope they never ever experience success again. The day we beat them again will be one of the happiest.

It's because he is a bloody smart player. Sadly most players around him, aren't. Davey, although coming back from a long lay off, was woeful in that crumbing role yesterday. He should have been following Jack around to capitalise on his good work. He was super super impressive yesterday. My favourite was his mark at full back (WHY THE F' IS HE PLAYING SO FAR DOWN BACK?!?!?!?! ). Never in doubt though really. Kid will be a star!

Sam Blease is back playing, Barlow is back playing. This will put his career 2 years back, but he is so young, and it's definitely not the end for him. If he wants to come back, he will. It's an absolutely horrid injury to go through, and it will take a lot of emotional and physical strength to get through, but I'm confident he will with the help of the club. He showed so much promise this year, that he just has to back himself and get better. There is a place in the team for him if he fights for it. But what sh*t luck. So unjust

No offense to Jimmy, because he is a bloody amazing human being, but the effort yesterday was poor, verging on crap, not just from Green but from many players. Had we not lost by 186 points the week before and sacked Bailey, there would be calls for his head this week. To lose by 70 odd points is NEVER an effort that we should be proud of, or else we are setting the bar so friggin low it's not funny. I'm proud of the fact that some players went really hard and we tackled with more intent, but there is nothing to be proud of as a whole, and Green giving away a stupid free kick in the 3rd is just one example of poor leadership which starts at the top. Not a single player in our leadership group stood up yesterday, when they needed to the most. Rivers, Jones, Moloney and Davey were extremely poor and even though we single out Green, the rest of the group around him isn't much better. We will never be a successful club with this sort of leadership group.

Amen. Great guy, good player, terrible leader. Welcome to the Yze, Bruce, White camp. History always repeats itself at this club.

Just awful. He finally found his place in the team too. All the best to him. Hopefully he makes a full and quick recovery. [censored] incident to top off another miserable day.

I noticed that I have lost all patience and passion for this team.

I said last week I was done and yet here I am wasting my time. Supporting this team is like being married to an [censored], and I want a divorce. The players should be absolutely ashamed of themselves. In the past two weeks they cost a man his job, made their president even sicker and brought turmoil to the club. To turn this [censored] on today is just gut wrenching.

Davey. Green. Rivers. Sacked from leadership group at half time. Or should be.

Make no mistakes about it. Our problems are 100% on field. We have a pathetic, heartless, soft list. It makes me sick watching us play. It's disgusting.

Something always friggin has to go wrong for us. Shocking goal kicking has cost us this quarter and an early sickening injury to Straussy with a dumb choice of sub. I hate footy sometimes

Unlikely. We're going out with some rather apathetic Melbourne supporters tonight who I know will just take the [censored] out of the club as well. I'm thinking that the ridiculously bad headache I have right now has something to do with the dread I feel about watching us play. I'm scarred after last week. That f*%ker Judd will probably rip us a new one too

Going with my best friend of about 15 years who is a die hard Carlton supporter, and going to sit with the Carlton members. This is going to be a day to remember. Thankfully post match alcohol consumption should wipe most of the bad memories away

I don't want to sell home games period, let alone to Darwin, but can I just say that this latest round of rumours just adds to my thinking that we must have the biggest bunch of sooks playing for us. Has our playing group been doing anything this year except whinge and complain? Maybe if they spent less time carrying on like pork chops and getting involved in club management they might have more free time to work on not getting smashed by 31 goals

We are not even an OK club right now. Discuss.