Ricky P

No I think that's fair enough. As much as I'm confident we've done everything we can to pick the right bloke and give him the best possible preparation, it's still a relatively big 'if'.

Not sure what your point is.

We've beaten every team below us except Essendon and Carlton (who we haven't played yet). We've only beaten one team above us.

Yeah, I hate it that we bring our best for the big games.

Say it again mate.

Last week everyone said the good performance didn't matter, only the result. Now everyone is complaining about the performance. You guys need to get your story straight.

I assume everyone who said only the result mattered last week and that the performance was irrelevant will take the same attitude this week?

Haha you're such a drama queen. A loss tomorrow would be nothing worse than a bitterly disappointing loss for a middle of the road team. A win against Hawthorn would be nothing better than a bloody good win for a middle of the road team. Not everything that happens is epoch-defining.

I don't think Kennedy will win a brownlow but I think he can be a good little player for us.

Haha really not sure what ur problem is here 64.

What occurred? Just the disappointment of being delisted or something more?

Doubt he'd give it away Saty - pretty good coin on offer in the bush/suburbs. Not bad for a part time job.

Cheers for the link.

Haha this will turn into such a shitfight. As if it really matters which old battle axe third forward we let hang on for another year while the kids come through.

Fair enough Ernie I always enjoy your posts.

Not really.

When has dermie ever said that?

I think you're giving him a bit too much credit here Ernie. This is a guy who injured teammates at training because they had his spot in the team and got moved on from every club he played at. He belted Robbie, abused RDB and mocked Melbourne supporters. He said he hoped Mike Sheahan got cancer. He's not a precious, unique snowflake who couldn't fit in because he's an individual. He's just a [censored].

You mentioned Jason Taylor might leave. What's the story there? I reckon he's been great and want him to stay!

Bit of the old in-out is crucial.

According to Jacko, Jacko wanted to belt Healy after the game for winning the goalkicking. I'm not sure about the rest of what you're talking about though.

Yeah good point, those goals from the boundary are more common. My favourite goal is the running sealer. Stinga was a specialist. Bernie is pretty good at it these days.

Agreed. Ripping word.

Goalkicking is worse these days because we ask all players to do more stuff: tackling, chasing, running up and down the field, playing different positions. Back in the day the full forward just had to mark it, whack people and kick straight. Therefore goalkicking was a specialist skill and goalkicking players could spend more time working on it.

I more or less agree with this in the sense that the game had to change, but let's not get too carried away with praising the AFL. How hard do u reckon it is to sell footy to aussies?