Undeeterred

Great thread... Adelaide - Mindless supporters and try listening to Ricciuto call their games. Pack of one eyed gits. Good brand of footy though. Brisbane - Bit of a soft spot, didn't begrudge them those flags. Carlton - Total Sh!ts. Smarmy, self-important club who have their heads up their bums. Collingwood - Sadly, soft spot given family connections. Although hate the rat pack and those little gits like Beams and Elliott. Essendon - Wish the whole lot of them went under a bus. And their supporters are truly arrogant, ignorant pricks. Fremantle - Couldn't care less Geelong - Actually really love watching them play. And, since I despise Hawthorn, I have a soft spot for them for the sheer fact that they gave the Hawks a bollocking about 12 times in a row, no matter what. Hawthorn - Absolutely cannot stand them and so, so sick of getting smashed by them every time we go near them. North - I'd like them if they didn't have Brent Harvey, who should take a long walk off a short pier. Port Adelaide - Whatever. Richmond - Find them mildly comical - I have this picture of Jack Riewoldt having a kick to win a game and his pants falling down or something. Best theme song in world history and I sing along every time St Kilda - Pack of amoral clowns who get everything they deserve, including heartbreak like 'that bounce' against Collingwood (Milne) and 'that Scarlett toe-poke', both of which probably hurt more than our wooden spoons Sydney - Loved the way they snatched that flag from Hawthorn West Coast - If you live in the fast lane, eventually you get run over. Bullies - Really don't mind them and admire their late 2000's run of prelims. Good on them

I've wondered for ten years how come we are the only club that can never execute this tactic at all. I mean, at all, over a number of coaches, years and players. It defies logic.

Absolutely spot on. That three man tackle with Heath Shaw and others was, for me, the defining image of our descent into rabble.

Or at all, given the only training shots of him I see are him wearing boxing gloves. Be great if he could kick a footy first...

Really interesting, and probably more candid than I've seen him in print before. New coach Paul Roos shocked by Demons' scars

Still hearing 'I don't like change'.

Absolutely no downside.

No, your world view just has very little connection with reality, whether you have emotional ties or not!

Gosh that's a load of [censored].

Just quietly, that's a very eclectic range of interests you have in your profile...

Yep, see you're point on timing and made that change. Nevertheless, I think players and managers know how to handle the media, as do clubs. If he were keen on staying, he'd say he was working through discussions. The bluntness of the message is the key here.

Yeah, true, but doesn't fill me with excitement either way. Anyway, we'll see!

Which Gillard investigation are we talking about? But yes, on Thompson, they've clearly got that right...

Frawley puts off contract talks. Defender James Frawley puts contract talks with Melbourne Demons on hold We all know what that means! I just wish some of them would have the balls to come out and say 'I'm holding out for the money'.

Police don't put out press releases every five minutes on active investigations either, unless there is good reason to. It doesn't mean nothing is happening.

Well, you're right in that improvement is a relative and an absolute concept. I think that if we're winning more games, that's an improvement in the only category that matters. I don't care if, in absolute terms, they're hitting targets at a higher percentage, running faster etc. Improvement vis-a-vis the competition is what counts.

You'll know they've improved when they win their third game for the season.

Just leading you to water, Lord, not making you drink!

Would be a really interesting read to come up with 10 names who are more important than Garland - I think he's easily top 10, but would be an interesting exercise to try to find 10 others.

I laughed!

Agree - I would have thought that would be the one attribute of Jamar's that might keep Gawn and Spencer away from first ruck this year. Really good news.

No need for that kind of abuse. But, if you're going to get into that, I'll ask you - can you read?? I don't really have 'thoughts' per se on Mitch's foot and I certainly haven't claimed to be an authority on it. All I've said, fairly consistently, is that I'll believe he is right to go when I see it, which I hope is quite soon. I don't place much store in what he says about it, nor what you, I, hogans_heroes or the club medical staff say about it. I'm just looking for some physical evidence and, as I say, I'll be stoked when/if we get it!

Interesting - think someone pointed out on another thread that he'd been doing slightly heavier work than I'd realised, which is fantastic.

Really?? I didn't realise that, I'm overseas and missing training, so must have missed it in the reports. That changes the game somewhat - every time I've seen him, he's been standing on the sidelines!

Not at all. It was just a typically wild, black and white hogans_heroes comment, which was that 'Mitch knows his foot better than anyone else'. He does, but you make exactly the right point - his Twitter feed is no more valid than someone's reported email, or my thoughts on the matter at all. As I keep saying, I hope to god he gets right, but from all the evidence before me, he isn't. He doesn't even really look like he is progressing that much, beyond gentle running. As soon as he does, I'll be over the moon, but I'm not going to take his word for it that it will happen!