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I don't see that they tried too hard to make it work once Max came back.

MFC should get a pick in the lower 20's because we trained him back into form without further injury.

They treated him like [censored] why would he stay for more of the same? I am waiting to hear his story when he wins a flag with the Swans or maybe what May says about him next year

Which is what?

That's why they didn't win not why they should have.

That nicely translates what players mean when they say " hate"...respect them so much I really want to beat them!

Yep and just as relevant imo is the disdain relentlessly expressed on here for the Cats record right up until their complete team premiership performance last year including introducing a changed game plan and then when they were challenged in the finals by the Pies, steadied at half time and shut them out...led by the senior players " we" love to criticise. As Maysie said; " if they were the best,I'd congratulate them"

MFC defenders...Masyie in particular have earned the right to say such things. Mids and forwards..perhaps not so much Supporters are free to try that on with the Collingwood army Mind you a Pie fan told me today she'd watched the replay 4 times and thought that was enough. I pointed out that I watched the last half of 2021 more than half a dozen times and that was still not enough . #justsayin'

Gee I've always been a bit of a Melksham fan myself, but the turn around from teachers pet/ list clogger to MFC hero in about 3 games is remarkable. Even Petty had banked a couple of seasons of defence credits before he became a FF mega star after his 3 games at the pointy end

Timing is everything.. After the season was over?

I thought Kiss was the best thing the AFL has done on years. High camp and just good fun. Hilarious actually I laughed from beginning to end. Unfortunately it was clearly a set piece so they can say " Imagine how that would have looked at night?" when the night G/F question comes up again AND they could have it facing the Shane Warne Stand if there was an issue with the sun and the cameras

Did they count the bat people on top of the scoreboard?

That's a goody!

Yeah fair call. I thought I had actually deleted it. Cheers

The posters arnt relevant to the Clubs decision. Is that " nuanced " enough for you?

Maybe look at the coach because if you think it's a contest between fans then you're reasonably pathetic It's between teams and their coaching staff. Collingwood actually has a coach with a personality ,that surely helps

Sidebottom said it straight up last week. We try to keep the ball in to the pack / contest until we see an exit that we can use to go forward . Rather than a wild handball to a nearby Demon so he can hack it further on I wonder which is a calculation and which is hopeful?

Or find a way to draft The Munster and Johnathon Cleary. Getting Bobby Hill to work with Kozzis on marking might help as well

Yes they failed...again

You have the tapes from the pre match I assume,because that's libel

" hate " used thus rather contributes to hating becoming acceptable. Try to find more mature denigrating terminology. Just as we are made dumber for buying into to press and AFL banality and divisive marketing of sport we are all a little happier if we remember that it's just sporting entertainment and not the meaning of things. Probability pity is a better word for what passes for the emotions that linger after a game is completed. The sun comes up tomorrow and we don't have hangovers . "I'm so happy I spent the night vomiting in the dunny, the old lady made me sleep in the spare room and refused to make me my breakfast"

You don't think fantasy innacurate and pointless criticism is belligerent? I suppose not ;stupid and juvenile seems appropriate to me. I was pleased sections of the crowd voiced displeasure at Maynard myself

It's the standard trope on here. You did say " maybe lucky" You haven't noticed? I apologise for assuming you were as a stupid as the people who sprout it

That's really embarrassing nonsense You've done a survey? People " say " they hate the Pies because it's a meaningless cheap cliche. What they actually hate is the manufactured noise the AFL and press generate. And fair enough too..we are all dumber for buying in

It's amazing how the close ones they won are always luck. Try and think that stupidity through why don't you. The G had nothing at all to do with the Lions losing. It might have been an undisciplined 60 metre penalty.