Return to Glory

I'm in if you can organize it

The trouble with our football scribes is that they never get it wrong. We could finish 10th and you wouldn't get a peep out of Denham. The good thing, however, is that he is largely irrelevant in the scheme of things. He's been doing his schtick for a long time but, for mine, still relatively unknown given time in the caper. That may say something. Stick it right up em Dees.

Josh, I'm not so sure Viney will have an immediate impact. So mark him down as having an immediate impact.

I'm really hoping Rory Taggert can show something this weekend. I've been spruiking him as one to watch and for once I'd like to get one right! ( see Cale Morton and Lucas Never Played a Game Cook)

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D0OnpkDWbeJs

And dare I say, I'd like Melbourne to be more like Collingwood in that the supporters are constantly defending their players rather than running them down. Hate Collingwood but they do stick fat.

What did we have last season? 4 wins? I'm going every week I can because we have recruited some great young talent and whilst we won't be top 8, we should win at least 6 games. And by the second half of the season we will be looking at Jimmy Toumpas and Jack Viney and feeling considerably better about midfield depth.

It's wrong to suggest that the issue is purely lack of big bodies in the midfield. Our issue last year was the speed of the spread when we got it. You only have to go back to the very first game against Brisbane last year. We won our fair share of ball ups around the ground ( Magner was in and under) but couldn't move it out of the area with speed. People get very carried away with this idea that big bodies alone around the stoppages is the panacea. I'd argue that Ablett, Rioli, Judd and Swan are significantly smaller than Moloney is for example.

Depends if they can invent a time machine

Not a huge NRL fan but you see it with Storm blokes Cam Smith and Cooper Kronk. Jimmy Bartel and Luke Hodge spring to mind also.

Toumpas will be a star. Forgive me for the massive generalization, but we have often previously recruited blokes who lack a winners arrogance. Ie Cale Morton. This bloke screams out 'winner'. Hogans the same. Sometimes it just goes beyond draft camps. It's for this reason, I'm also wrapped to have Viney.

Stuff hindsight. Waste of time and energy.

Akum, Im not having a go but I think you're plain wrong. Had a couple of good games followed by many, many unco games. That's not far better than Sellar for starters and the others would just need to take the field for the rest to be wrong.

It is what it is. Lets see if Dees can fight back.

Rested

I'm hoping he's playing today.

For $20 the address would want to be up there with 'I had a dream'.

Dean Terlich Jimmy?

If you haven't Jimmy, how'd Taggert go?

Jimmy may have passed out.

Why Deez Nutz? How'd be play?

Doom and gloomers can say what they want, I love a win. Very happy but would love a player report

Who cares what some nobody on a station no one knows says

What possie Taggert?

If we can avoid scandal, tragedy and the spoon I'm in.