Robot Devil

Let’s all be assured that whatever happens the media will cast it in a negative light. If we hire Nathan Buckley : “This was a boat race. Buckley was always going to be the one. The Melbourne board are a rabble.” If we hire anyone else : “They let Buckley slip through their fingers. [Insert assistant coach name] is on a hiding to nothing. The Melbourne board are a rabble.” Imagine Tom Morris, Sam McClure and Damian Barrett on a Hard Quiz style podium having their flip flopping insinuations and sly assertions being thrown back in their face to try and defend for an hour straight. That’s gotta be entertaining!

Eh… it’s stats I suppose. Make of them what you will. Melbourne Opposition Round Goals I50s Goal eff % Goals I50s Goal eff % Goal eff % differential 1 11 56 19.6 GWS 11 52 21.2 -1.5 2 9 56 16.1 NM 19 53 35.8 -19.8 3 8 40 20.0 GCS 18 65 27.7 -7.7 4 6 50 12.0 GEE 12 49 24.5 -12.5 5 8 51 15.7 ESS 15 43 34.9 -19.2 6 16 56 28.6 FREO 14 49 28.6 0.0 7 12 46 26.1 RICH 9 43 20.9 5.2 8 16 59 27.1 WCE 11 43 25.6 1.5 9 7 48 14.6 HAW 13 50 26.0 -11.4 10 14 58 24.1 BRIS 13 53 24.5 -0.4 11 19 64 29.7 SYD 12 44 27.3 2.4 12 7 57 12.3 STK 14 40 35.0 -22.7 13 10 54 18.5 COLL 11 45 24.4 -5.9 14 9 54 16.7 PORT 14 48 29.2 -12.5 Average 10.9 53.5 20.1 Average 13.3 48.4 27.5 Average in W 15.4 56.6 27.1 Average in W 11.8 46.4 25.4 Average in L 8.3 51.8 16.2 Average in L 14.1 49.4 28.7 Goals I50s Goal eff % Goals I50s Goal eff %

Surely we’ve done this dance often enough in past years that we can be a little more choosy in the washed up hacks that we pension into our club.

This may be some of the mystery

Brisbane Lions player Oscar McInerney gut punches Walsh (Carlton) after a contest. Luke Darcy : “Not much in that” James Brayshaw: “It’s a big mans prerogative” (WTF does that even mean) Channel 7 should be embarrassed that this is their commentators response to that punch.

Oh they’re paid it. Against us at least once this year. I vaguely recall a second one against us too.

Yeah, there were a few raffles last night where the winner of the free didn’t even have a ticket.

According to this article, Paul Roos states re: Viney that : “But there has been a really big change and he’s acknowledged it, and he's transformed his game and he became our most coachable player and our best listener.“ So what has happened to this Viney “coachability” in the intervening 5 years?

Because Melbourne.

Is it the inability of supporters to attend matches where you can yell and cheer (i.e provide instant feedback to the players and coaches) which results in the negative side of that pent up activity spilling out onto social media in a more visible and permanent way? Now I’ve never abused any player or other supporter at a game, however I do miss the rush of a good goal and clapping with the crowd so hard that my hands hurt.

I’ve spent many a match at the G telling my family and friends that ‘one day’ Pettacca will break games open and with consistency. Oh to have been there this year to see it in person.

We beat them in Round 4 last year and then they smashed us in Round 22 by 53 points.

We should name ANB on the team sheet for this weeks game and then when the AFL ask about it we can just say “Well, everyone else is playing this week so why can’t he?”

Dear Lynden, I know it’s your first game back in a while but if you could do us a small favour and if McHenry so much sneezes at Grundy please hip and shoulder him into oblivion as we missed our chance. It would be appreciated. Ta muchly. Robot Devil.