Cranky Franky

Load of krap. Anyone would think the MFC is here for the benefit of Dean Bailey. Wouldn't give him an inch until we have evidence that the team has improved in 2010. We will look really stupid if he's given an extension then the team goes backwards in 2010.

What a load of rubbish. Typical supporter who builds up huge expectations of players who have yet to play a senior game. For all you know Blease & Tapscott Could be completet duds.

Great clips but who put on that dreadful American soundtrack about Brooklyn ? Put on a decent soundtrack Paul Kelly maybe. Even Slim Dusty would be better.

Yeah I remember when Paul Gardner gave Daniher an extension 18 months before it was necesarry. The team went downhill quickly

Average lifespan for AFL players these days is 30 or 31 so Lake has 3 years left. The other problem is that the backline is the least of our worries as we have Warnock, Frawley, Rivers plus Garland & Martin. What would be handy would be a ruckman, goalkicking forward or on baller with leg speed.

Good player but compared to say Bruce & Green he has played about 70 fewer games due to injury. That's 3 full seasons he has missed and at 28 things are not going to get any better.

I can't think of any instances where Clubs have suffered by NOT giving serving coaches contract extensions in a timely fashion. I CAN think of lots of examples when Clubs have been burned by prematurely extending coaching contracts - Us with Bob Skilton in 1976 & Daniher in 2004. I'm sure Richmond regretted giving Wallace 5 years. 3 or 4 weeks is a long time in football.

Swap Boak for Bell & Newton plus pick 34. Done deal.

Why on earth would a 19/20 year old have a betting account !! For Chrissakes get a life. May as well just light up $100 notes and burn them up. Gambling is a mugs game - if Addam wants to make money go & buy sghares in Crown Casino or Tattersals

In that case you must have been drunk because I only recall seeing one bad kick from Shane otherwise his disposal was very good. For the record he had 18 disposals with a disposal efficiency rating of 72% compared to the teams average of 71.77%

Beautifully put by Jaded. There should be some sort IQ footy knowdge test to weed out some of the clowns who post here. Robbo reminds me a lot of Yze who could also have played a few more years but was not able to adapt to the demands of the modern game & the directions of the coach. Still its been a great career - a B&F & should have been AA the same year.

The Canberra supporters group is not really big enough to host a function. Plus in the past the team has gone stright from the ground to the airport to fly home. Melbourne supporters usually go to the Eastlake Club after the game as its only about 300m from the ground. See youse all there maybe

I have received 2 messages in the last few days from someone called MUZRINKL who purportedly has a Demonland message for me which then links to a Canadian website selling cheap pharmaceuticals. Can the Demonland administrators do somethibng about this garbage !!

Can someone explain the rationale of having Aaron Davey running around the backline racking up posessions with 15 metres chips that generally went around in circles ? This is the same sort of junk that Travis Johnstone used to do on occasions. Aaron needs to either play forward & kick goals or else be an on the ball where we were badly beaten after half time yesterday.

I love Jared Rivers & hope he does well this year but I am concerned that he seems to go out of his way to give a spray to opposition players time after time. He should concentrate on playing good football & winning games. When he's won a premiership & a B&F then he can go & give as many sprays as he likes. At the moment he just looks like a goose.

These guys have been around almost 10 years and yet they absolutely ALWAYS manage to get soft tissue leg injuries during pre season training. Heven't our medicos learn't ANYTHING about managing these 2. I am very frustrated.

Call me pedantic but its a serious matter. If Steph Martin can add another 4cm in 2010 he will be our No 1 Ruckman

A few years the height of our players changed overnight. Robbo who had been 184 for years went to 187 & Brad Miller went from 192 to 194. Now I get the 09 guide book & guess what? Col Garland has shrunk from 191 to 189 & Miller is back to 192. Newton has lost 3cm while Macnamara & Buckley have both lost 1cm from last year & but Jamar is up 1cm to 198. The big surprise packet is Stef Martin who over the break has grown 4cm to be at 200cm. Is it something in the Casey water ????

I really hope the club got it right with these 2. They are critical to the Club's improvement. Watts was an obvious choice and nobody is going to shoot Prendergast if Jetta, Bennell & Bail don't make it. Blease & Strauss are high picks in a Superdraft which means they might have been around top 10 in an average year. They were taken ahaed of very well credentialled players particularly some KPP's. Lets hope they turn out more like Scott Thompson & Adem Yze rather than Aaron Rogers & Luke Molan.

Baker was a much better player than people think. He became one of the best ruckmen in the competition. Played for Victoria & won a B&F. Was a terrific pack mark & dangerous up forward ie 127 games& 112 goals which is close to double the goal rate of Jeff White. Unfortunately at his peak he did his knee, never really recovered & that was it, career over.

Sadly the problem for is not form or ability its the fact that he is unable to adapt. Adem look at the tapes of your senior games this year. Every time you get the ball instead of doing the team thing you are trying to snap for goal from any angle or distance. Footy is like evolution adapt or become extinct.

Like the dinosaurs you adapt or become extinct. Talent wise Yze could play for another 3 years. Unfortunately he seems incapable of adapting his game so he can continue playing. Against Richmond he just got the ball & snapped for goal regardless of the situation instead of doing the team thing & kicking to advantage. I thought Bailey had treated him very harshly but unfortunately when he got another chance he kept doing the same dumb things. Bye bye Adem.

I see that Morton & Yze have been dropped & Jamar & Whelan have been brought in. I have no problem with Yze & Morton as they were poor last week however Jamar's elevation is a totally dumb decision given that the Swans only have Jolly as a ruckman backed up by part timer Roberts -Thompson. This means we will be top heavy & the Swans will run us ragged. Valenti is an emergency. With Moloney injured we badly needed another on baller who will tackle & be at the bottom of every pack so Valenti should of been a lay down misere. Bode is not worth his place in the side but I can understand the coach playing him & Chris Johnson for a few games to see if they are up to it. But Jamar in the side instead of Valenti ---dumb dumb dumb.

Your argument is full of holes YM - statistics mean very little in this era because players chip it backwards & forwards just like a training drill. Hoppy was a tagger which means if he only got 3 touches but kept Paul Kelly or Greg Williams to under 10 kicks he had done a great job. Look at the stats for taggers like Steven Baker, Josh Carr - they are often very low.