Robot Devil

My guess is they'll be basing it off injury figures, if prodded. Something along the lines of repeated interchanges = fresher players = more high-speed collision injuries.

I know that the AFLPA doesn't agree with this, though.

Can you also elaborate on your objection to the cap?

I didnt know Keith Richards lived in Australia.

Learn something new every day!

I'm not sure Keith Richards is actually "alive" anywhere.

He's running on muscle memory.

That article isn't very informative. It tells you what is happening but not why it is happening.

Is it to stop the conga line of players running to the bench at every break in play or is it a injury related change?

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Ill-directed, simplistic, missing the bigger picture, something like that.

Don't worry if you're not following.

We're not all here to solve the entire problem for the club mate. Just want to raise the issues that concern us.

If you're not interested don't read them.

Unlike you I don't feel the need to belittle people. It reflects poorly on you, not me.

Discussing areas in which we need to improve after a game's done and dusted is not mutually exclusive from considering our future.

In fact, they're the same thing.

You're focused on the fact that we don't have enough goal-kickers in our side. I believe that focus is ill-directed and is by and large a byproduct of our poor midfield failing to generate enough meaningful inside 50s.

We are, in essence, looking to the same thing - we need a better midfield to help create more opportunities, the end result of which will be more players scoring.

Asking for midfielders and forwards to kick goals is "ill directed"?

Take a break mate...

I don't think you're really focusing on a big issue. The number of goal-kickers we have right now is being hampered by our inability to get the ball close enough to the goal, which in turns stifles our attempts to have shots on goal.

As I said, next year we will have Clark, Dawes and Hogan, each of whom is capable of being the forward who can bag 4 goals a week. We can then add Howe and potentially Watts to our half-forward line, as well as Kent as a smaller forward (though we need to look at a true forward pocket). As for midfielders who kick goals, clearly we lack those, but that takes us back to the real issue, which is our midfield.

A better midfield turns our forwards into players who kick the number of goals you think they should.

This is "post match discussion" not "crystal balling for next year". If we focus on yesterday and had eleven goal kickers like Adelaide we would not have lost by 60 points.

I'm not sure what you think the 'problem' is here. Number of goal-kickers? Or generally number of goals kicked? The latter is an issue, the former is not.

Either way, we all know the problem. Our midfield is a disgrace, leaving us with far too few inside 50s, and of the ones we get, too high a proportion of them are wasted (turnovers, targets missed, deep into pockets, etc.). But with a forward line including Clark, Dawes and Hogan, if we can improve on the midfield, the goal-kickers will present themselves.

It's pretty obvious that when good teams use their forwards and their midfielders to kick goals they have a much larger number of individual goal kickers. We will not win games with 4 players kicking two goals each. We need a forward who can bag at least 4-6 goals as well as a supporting cast of around 6 players from our forwards and midfield that contribute 2-3 goals each. That is the "problem".

How does Carlton satisfy both us and the Pies?

Snickers is owned by Mars aren't they?

That would be a good trade but no way would they take pick 20. Watts has very little currency due to his years of indifferent form.

That would be great but Gold Coast would want pick 2 for any deal involving Swallow. Watts really isn't going to net us much on the trade table.

Massive potenial even bigger then Watts who i think is very overated and soft.

But Juddy said on the pre-game tonight that Dale Thomas and Watts are both "good players".

Adelaide had 11 individual goalkickers.

We had 4.

This is been a problem for far too long.

We need some quality delivery into our forward 50 as well as some goal kicking mid-fielders or we will be stuck scoring 6 to 7 goals a game for the foreseeable future.

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How long do we have to burn in hell like this for?

I'm sorry that information will only be divulged when the ride comes to a complete stop.

Melbourne FC - will drop pants for midfield.

Dont miss the delusion train!

How could you miss it?

Tickets are free and there are always plenty of spare seats. (Just mind who you sit next to)

An extremely good question hh.

I wonder about the same thing!

I think we are what the young kids call "in the Friendzone" with Paul Roos.

Sure we make him feel good and the interest is definitely there, but why see us exclusively when he can play the field.

I dont believe in the whole Rodney Eade job is already a done deal. Rocket mention he only had a 10 minute meeting and wasnt sure if the MFC were gonna call him back again. Seemed that even he doesnt know if he will get the gig.

10 minute meeting and no call back? Sounds more rigorous than our previous appointments.

Office Space Great film

I'm going to have to get you to go ahead and give me some points

You can have a 'Jump to Conclusions mat' with which you can select our next coach or the club we will trade Watts to.

To use a slightly altered quote:

"So I was sitting at the football today, and I realized, ever since I started going, every single game has been worse than the one before it. So that means that every single game that you see me at, that's on the worst day of my life."

Points if you can guess the movie.

Lets hope the team shows up to play in less than two hours as well.

LOL

But I think you missed a few.

Whats you stand on political parties, boat people. French Canadians, Religious Groups, Nuclear Weapons, the Media, the Queen, Aussie Rules Football as a non contact game, Toll Roads, Ages Care Facilities, Middle East, North Korea, Fuel Prices, Food Prices, the English, Over Paid Sportsman etc.

And telemarketers.

Well McVeigh just showed how bright he is. Declared C.Brown innocent. Twerp.

Sexist. What if she's a brain surgeon?

I don't think being a weather girl is demeaning because she has a qualification.

He has a GF already in Perth.. Prob will lose him if we don't get our [censored] together!

Channel 10 in Melbourne need a weather girl.

For Gods sake get this girl a network television contract.... stat!!!