Undeeterred

Nasher - I didn't realise that - I thought he was on the list as coming out of contract this year. My bad. He certainly won't be delisted if he's on contract. By the way, what's with the quote buttons not working?

Ugly. What a numpty - he probably was only going to squeeze out one more year, but it was with a premiership contender. He'll be chopped for sure and they'll go after Chippa in a massive way.

Mike Nolan - Jack Steven isn't a free agent. Within bounds, he can't just up and off to Hawthorn.

Yep, poor old Pickles is done I'd say.

Yeah because Toumpas and Evans are key to keeping us within 186 points of Geelong, old dee.

Worst thread in ages.

I'd be spewing if I were Blease, Tapscott, Michie, Clisby, Toumpas or JKH and Barry was getting two weeks in a row in the seniors in front of me. Terrible selection policy.

I think that at some point not 'gifting' games becomes silly when clearly some blokes need a rest. We've hit a major wall and there's absolutely nothing wrong with giving Salem, Viney and others a rest if they need one. That's not dropping people, it's resting them. That gives you the opportunity to bring in Blease, Tapscott etc without obviously 'gifting' them games. In my view, the last few weeks has really shown up the Roos strategy. We're way too tall, and we're leaving guys like JKH and Toumpas to rot at Casey, which is giving them absolutely nothing. Why not recognise their efforts and get them back in as rotation for blokes who are knackered? And as for going in with all of Jamar, Gawn, Garland, Dawes, Frawley, Pedersen, McDonald and Dunn in slippery conditions against a hard running team - puh-leese.

Uh oh.

Goes back to what jnrmac said. I love my employer, but if our biggest competitor offered me an extra $30-$40k for example, I'd be out the door before they'd hung up the phone.

Completely agree re Salem v Toumpas, JKH etc. Seems really odd that some stay in and some don't. I'm sure there are reasons. No wonder we are where we are, when our leading goalkickers to date are Dawes (15), Frawley (12), Pederson (11) and Watts (11). By this stage of the season, we could really, really have used something like Clark (32) and Hogan (26), for example.

I don't know, I think a fan having an opinion on an internet forum is different to a coach publicly detailing a player's faults and humiliating them. Do you think they give a rats what HH thinks? How about what Allison thinks?

Ahem. Any exciting updates, as opposed to Spencer-bashing/defending??

Ouch.

Best post here in a gooood long while, Ron Burgundy.

Equally, this week's report notes he had a mare and, instead of tagging, spent a fair bit of time watching the ball. Edit: Hmmm, not sure where my quote of Saty's post re Evans above went.

Realistically, what are we losing if he goes? A makeshift forward who can't mark and will in any event be surpassed by Hogan soon, all things going well. If he stays, he'll slot back into a defence that is working solidly together and has been for most of the season and completely stuff their chemistry. Makes no sense - if he wasn't an FA I'd be seriously advocating we ship him for a decent mid of the same age.

Anybody else notice how frequently we let in a goal or two or three in the last couple of minutes of a quarter? Not that it would make a difference today, but really need to play them all out to the siren.

Haha of course. Fail.

I was even thinking in a French accent.

Another one before half time would be magic...

And another side kicks poorly against us - becoming quite the trend, no?

To be 7 points down at this point is really quite astounding.

That's one way to get around the censors!

Vince is going to have about 50 touches at this rate...