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Spot on with the technique and it may also be a philosophy re the most stupid thinking error in football about pinning the arms so he can't get a handball away. Players will lift there arms in a tackle if allowed to but if you drive a tackle through the lower body I guarantee they won't keep doing it if they keep getting the wind knocked out of them and the ball drops free. The best tackler technique wise in the AFL at the moment is Nik Nat, a perfect example was the one he laid on Magner today, the guy is 200cm to Magna's 178cm and he got in nice and low and took him out, Magna had no chance to give off the ball. It did my head in the amount of missed and or poorly executed tackles today.

At least I got a laugh out of this one, and I needed it. Thanks..

Sorry Sloonie but as much as I love Howey he was very ordinary today, could not stick a tackle. Really needs some adjustment time at Casey but there are about another 15 or so in front of him there.

The tackling is just f....d. The only ones we stick are too high. More on this later.

These companies have had someone bearing cash, of course they will do biz with them. The power companies in particular do anything for a sale, door to door and phone BS so I wouldn't use them as paragons of virtue.

Clark needs a run in the ruck. Selwood loose cause we are already tagging Priddis and Kerr.

Bartram v Priddis?

Hope Clark has a run in the ruck, as someone said on SEN crunch time, Ottens went to Geelong as their answer as a key forward and look what he ended up. I can see the same with Clark, very mobile big man and would be damaging around the ground.

I think I used this quote on another thread about the same issue. I agree with you about the sponsor, and when it was announced on the footy show I had a bad vibe about it and talking to a mate the next day he felt the same way. However if something didn't add up to me then I find it difficult to believe it didn't for CS, like him or not he is a smart guy. So...he must have had a reason for taking this sponsorship on. Maybe it was a punt as no other sponsors were in the wings and something was better than nothing (then working to get that elusive FOJ sponsor to cover if something went a up), maybe it was a deflection, a good news story in an otherwise bad news year or to sure up his position in the club or maybe he is just not as smart as I give him credit for. Having said this I think Melbourne has handled the issue very professionally and I think Patrick Smith is way off the mark with his article which to me puts him in line for goose of the week, although I'm sure he will find a loop hole to rule himself out.

That private conversations or official conversations in Rendalls case have been leaked to the media is a big issue for me. The media chose not to print the BS about Neeld 3 to 4 weeks ago until Thomas took the bait last week, someone has been spreading this story about trying to get a bite and it points back to someone in the AFL. This was not a private conversation between Misssssfud and Thomas, it was between someone and Carro, Pat Smith .......and how many journos.

I find Patrick to be a top notch journo and usually find him to be thought provoking even when I don't agree with what he is saying but with this column we really need the moron button. Does he really think the CEO could make a unilateral decision to dump the major sponsor without board approval, it was always going to happen Patrick it's just that due process needed to take place. I would be more concerned that Victory put out a statement they were looking into the situation before they acted.

He was rambling on about Mitch Clark being the highest paid player at the club and then he made an off handed comment that he didn't know why suppporters would want to put money in trying to link the 2. Yep, I know it is a 2 + 2 = 8 argument that doesn't stack up. Then he mentioned Leigh Mathews name to justify what he was saying. I think Leigh might be back tracking a bit after Hudson was subbed off last night. I really think there is a big issue with Greg Denham and Cam Schwab so he sinks the boot whenever he can.

Seems Greg Denham is trying to torpedo this idea on SEN this morning. All the more reason for me to get behind it, what an arrogant [censored].

Not sure if you are being serious here or taking the "P", but a rookie is hardly a diversionary tactic unless your name is Majak Daw and your club looks like they are trying to hide something, red rag to the media. If you check the Casey reports you will see that one of the posters had seen Nicholson in a moon boot at the match, I don't think it is standard club apparel so you can take it that he was indeed carrying some kind of injury and in rehab.

Always worth a try but I'd be surprised if he lines up there. Also don't think we will see him back up so soon, they gave him a taste probably a bit early on the back of Strauss, Tapscott, Gysberts and Morton being either not ready or not up to scratch form wise. Lets hope this changes and also that he gets some good development time at Casey to be ready to push back into the team later in the year.

It doesn't add up to me either. I thought it really interesting that AD came in over the top of Mifsud when he was answering a question about being lied to, Mifsud was starting to say it wasn't a lie as such. As has been mentioned before, how did the jouno's get hold of the rumour 3 weeks ago? Was it Mifsud, someone else from the AFL or another mystery person. Was Mifsud Caro's source and is that the reason that she was so adamant in the first place that he wasn't the liar, he was repeating what he had been told. and another thing, why does AD keep calling him Misfud?

Nup, those guys are born not made. I wouldn't take to much notice of the team sheet anyway, some of the guys will be in Perth as emergencies and Bate is in the selected Melbourne side. Sheahan has been playing back and McDonald forward, it's just a list of names for the moment.

Wouldn't think so Thomo, all the issues have been dealt with in the appropriate manner. It happens at all clubs, Wellingham at Collingwood just last week. Some thought Blease getting time for missing a meeting to harsh, I think the club is on the right track, maybe not in the past but it is now.

Doesn't seem that their development has helped much either with these players. Most are still playing in the VFL or headed that way.

I was wondering about this one at the time (actually coudn't believe it), can't do anything about it now, so given our problems with mids just want Gys to get on the ground and show his stuff.

I can't believe this, well actually I can. If a deal looks to good to be true it usually is. Need to clear the decks and get on with it.

Don't even go there, we don't need to guess the source, this could do great damage to our club and Shwab needs to sort it out with the AFL. Will be interesting to hear him on SEN later today.

Mifsud needs to come clean on his source as with Matt Rendall. I don't think the media will let this go, and they shouldn't. He is now hedging about the whole thing.

It's ok for Malthouse and co. to come out and talk about the emotional impact of Jimmy's passing and funeral, also forgotten in this is the impact of Liam Jarrah on the players. The coach could not use these excuses, Melbourne has made too many excuses for way too long and even if Neeld felt there was a problem he could not use it. I don't think the club could have handled the last couple of weeks events any better, they were on a hiding to nothing. They had to roll the players out for interviews otherwise the media would have hunted them down (players that is), best to get it out of the way as a group with the leaders giving interviews in one hit at the G. Some commentators have said the blazers and the line up of players outside the church was over the top but I think it would have been a disgrace if we hadn't shown respect to Jimmy in this way. The game was a total let down, this is the only thing that the club got wrong. The other stuff is media commentators with too much time on their hands and too much space to fill drumming up headlines and letting us know how good they are, never made a mistake in their lives.

I think he is probably more a mobile ruckman and like Kreuzer at Carlton plays his best football on ball. Whether he can fill the role we need only time will tell.