Jaded No More

I'm sorry, but how are you still posting here? Gotta love my fellow moderators and their inability to properly suspend posters...

God hates us!

So that's what the funny shaped bottle was... But really I have met people who get paranoid when they are drunk, and start jumping at shadows, therefore the carnival atmosphere (lights, noise, clown faces) might freak them out. Plus I wouldn't recommend having a drink before you attend any kid-friendly function.

It seems that we have a genuine problem with the backline at the moment, except for once we aren't scrapping the bottom of a [censored] barrel to try and get a backline together, but rather we're contemplating who to leave out! It's a nice problem to have, but a problem none the less. The logical idea would be to play one of the backline talls as a forward. The other issue is that we need a good balance of talls and smalls, and if we play all of Rivers, Garland, Warnock, Martin, Frawley, Miller, Bate, PJ and Spencer we're likely to run out of legs. I wouldn't mind giving Martin a go up forward, simply because it seems unfair to leave him out and will do nothing for his future development. I'd leave Sylvia out and play Martin as a forward. I know they are both different type of players who bring different things to the table, but Sylvia should earn his spot, and Martin as far as I'm concerned, already has. It's not as if Sylvia makes our forwardline any less problematic. Who knows, Martin might.

Well aren't you just a ray of sunshine <_<

There is no chance in hell that Frawley is not getting a game in Round 1

You only need to look at some of the other nominees to understand why CJ made the cut... The 3 criteria are: dumb, spends more time getting ready than most females, devoid of any personality

You know it At least I'd have a valid excuse this time

I'll give you a hint. Next time you go there, have a few beers first. Luna Park is amazing when you're a little tipsy (unless you become paranoid when drunk, in which case the clown face will probably freak you out)... or so I've heard

I may be an overzealous drunk, but I'm not a dumb one!

I was always thinking of getting the old-school MFC intertwined logo on my ankle. Simple and not too over the top. However depending on the length and strength of the celebration, I may end up with 'Brock is my captain' tattooed across my chest, and that would be very bad!

I don't know exactly how I'd celebrate it, but no doubt I'll end up hungover in a gutter somewhere :D Edit: A pact made a long long time ago with a fellow Melbourne supporter also means that I'd end up with a tattoo.... hopefully I'll be sober while choosing the design, size and location of said tattoo.

Now is the time to strike and sign Colin Garland for 10 years on his current salary

I'll probably get done for this comment, but I want two first-round priority picks. This is our last chance in a long long time to take full advantage of the draft system, and therefore we should. Of course I don't want to get these draft picks by deliberately losing games, and I definitely don't want us to get smashed week in week out. In an ideal world, we'll be competitive in most games (yes, the word competitive is back), beat Collingwood twice and Carlton too, but still qualify for picks 1 & 2 (or 1 & 3). We are not going to win a flag this year, or even get close to making the finals. And if you're not first, you are better off coming last. One more year of pain could pay up big for the next 10 years. However above all else, what I want to see this year is Buckley finally learning how to use his tricks for good instead of evil, for McLean and Rivers to remain injury free, for Jones to improve his disposal, for Bell to establish himself as a midfielder, for us to establish a semi-useful forwardline and for our backline to establish itself as the best up-and-coming defence in the game. Oh and did I mention that I want to hear the roar of the crowd when one Jack Watts steps onto the field for the first time...

Does anyone know if you can play with a broken thumb? Because generally broken fingers seem to cause big problems for most players. Other than that you'd think that a cork and a bruise will be right in 2 weeks.

He probably has no confidence left in his body. Courage has always been one of his strengths, so in all likelihood it is just a matter of time before we see it return.

I shall copy, print, enlarge and frame this sentence in order to immortalize this historic event!

Thank you for the updates. Hopefully Petterd and Davey are not seriously injured and will be right to go in 2 weeks time. I'm sure all of us are looking forward to read your match report. By the way, can we get confirmation that one Jared Rivers played our the game and did NOT get injured?

Yeah, it's a shame that this quarter will be the last thing our players experience before the start of the season. After such a morale-boosting win against the Lions away from home, this seems like a really bad way to finish off a pre-season campaign. Hopefully this doesn't take away from any confidence we've built in the last 3 weeks.

Is Brock off for a rest or something? It's amazing how you don't even have to watch a game to know that when we're suddenly getting done, it's because our midfield has gone to sleep. There is no doubt that our biggest weakness is our midfield, and short of Grimes being thrown in there, I can't see how we can fix it in 2009.

Shame that we're letting them get on top in the last. What's changed? Are they getting the upper hand in the middle? (read: is Meesen rucking? )

Tell DeeGirl to put her umbrella down

Any idea why Grimesy isn't playing?

I would never expect a top 20 pick for him.

I wonder why the packaging gets done on shore, when clearly the crap that gets packaged is made off shore? That creates double freight costs I would have thought, but supply chain management is not my favourite subject so I'm sure it makes some sense.