Willmoy1947

If it wasn't him, they would be making it up about someone else. Media makes the axe sharper when they get bad publicity, just as well they are dumphkoffs.

Clarrie has no swagger. Cripps struts around as though he's got the weight of the whole Blues midfield on his shoulders and he has. Clarrie gets a belt in the mouth and just gets on with the job and doesn't winge........

that's a relief........

Coaches acknowledge Max then daylight, but somehow the Media just cannot get their collective heads out of the "traditional" repository of wisdom to do the same.................

I get things wrong too and i usually do apologise but the issue here is the Media with preconceived, long held opinions on (A) a player in this Club and a bloody good one at that, who has just got through a tragedy in his life, and (B) a Club that is trying its guts out to be relevant, and keeps on getting snide remarks about its personnel and it's ability............and has been for years, as if it should be passed down from one Media Generation to another. Eloquence will always overcome angst!!!!!

Good to hear that the match review officer is an expert on "perforated wind pipe" matters.

Yeh, you blokes, just stick to abusing the bloody maggots, you're right on there all the time

Whatever he's doing he'll be giving McGuire, and every other old Magpie fogie, the absolute SH##S

About time Christian should go the way of the lions, i'm afraid. What's worse, a bite/more dangerous on the neck area or a chop to the throat?

...and the older player by five or six years just said to himself, Clarry can take care of this...

You can't teach that, you're born with three eyes!!!???

Changes, i'd kick them all out for not winning by more than 100 points..............................................................................joshing.

Well Demon Dudes and Dudesses get used to a plethora of jealousy and hatred the more games we win and the better hopefully we get...?????

Conversation between Stevens and Umpire No 2 before start of 2nd half of D's vrs Saints went a little like this...... if i (Umpire 2) see them dropping the ball incorrectly i will pick it up. Two minutes into 2nd half, have a guess what, he picks up the first for the match and throws in a fifty for good measure.

So now we have the ludicrous situation where we have "eradicated" Head punching but we have had numerous and probably more dangerous throat punching...hello.... I could have sworn we and the public were kept in the dark with no view until Collingwood's christians thought they would give it the thumb up....

Conversation between Stevens and Umpire No 2 before start of 2nd half of D's vrs Saints went a little like this...... if i (Umpire 2) see them dropping the ball incorrectly i will pick it up. Two minutes into 2nd half, have a guess what, he picks up the first for the match and throws in a fifty for good measure.

So , hang on, Hogan got hit, Umpire pays free kick, therefore must have been high, no report against Carlisle? Hogan in trouble? Not having a shot at Wise...butWTF

So he wasn't touched? I couldn't see.........

If i was a saints supporter i would be thinking that is one of the most unkind comments that i have heard. Paddy is at this stage a trier who is carrying the weight of their forwardline on his shoulders and has been left to do that by someone who thought he had done enough and wanted a press job badly. Paddy i'm afraid did not seem to be 100% today after his knock. Brayshaw was in MFC"s top three today in my book.

"Last chance saloon" for the poor Saints today. If they couldn't be competitive, and by god they weren't, it's number two rebuild in the pipeline. So now, that's no longer the "whipping dog demons" who have silently, because we won"t hear about it, put away a couple of highly maggot favoured, bruise free clubs from yesteryear.

Does anyone on here read papers unless they (papers) are free and they have a spare minute. Not likely. Does anyone believe the "sage" advice from the Media. Not likely. We are now that well informed to just say its rubbish and a waste of time. Likely. The Media are ill informed, bias and paid to favour. Thanks Rupert.... now what's this thread about?

Bit harsh on us and a bit kind on them. They had quite a few injuries/outs, and the brothers put a lot of time into brown nosing umpires/ not speaking ill of/engaging with, as well as being media sycophants. Brown is the darling and sickening to see the constant dives... Sydney to me are not the yardstick any more and i think Roos' opinion might be wavering...

How do people get so uptight about umpires.............the psychiatrist said..............

Until after the game anyway, or else i'll have to put away my dolly umpire pins..........

I,m going a bit the other way P-man. I think we should get into them, from the get go, real hard. We have the personnel now to take it to most, if not all from the start. This year we have taken it to Tigers and Cats at the start. Our guys should be putting all their quarters together, particularly the last, no matter what the score line.