Robot Devil

While Fairfax Media could not confirm the exact nature of the findings against Melbourne

Interesting how Caroline Wilson's name is at the top of the article but the qualifier of 'Fairfax Media could not confirm' is in the text.

Shows how much faith they have in her sources.

Just got an email from the club for a special deal on a Herald Sun subscription.

Didn't take long for the Age to be left eating dust.

Would love to be a fly on the wall during the ad break...

maybe, but i wouldn't put my house on it

What's the housing market like in Bangalla at the moment?

They can have the term 'anchor tenant'. Means nothing really.

All I ask in return is that the following occurs:

2013 Grand Final - Melbourne defeats Collingwood by 1 point

2014 Grand Final - Melbourne defeats Collingwood by 30 points

2015 Grand Final - Melbourne defeats Collingwood by 60 points

and so on and so forth....

An erroneuous view is just that, whether it's in the pages of the Age, or here.

I think the title of "Head Football Columnist" on your business card might behoove you to fact check more than an Internet forum alias does.

So that is equally as true for Demonlanders as it is for Caroline Wilson. She's just more noticeable because she writes for a major daily.

Yeah, but we are a bunch of supporters sitting around chatting. No one should be printing our conversations as fact nor are we paid to report fact or make comment.

CW is a public figure postulating in a 'popular' newspaper. Her conclusions need to be rock solid or there are consequences which would be humiliating.

So why isn't she being sued?

To use an Americanism: "That will be the cherry on top. "

A nicely reasoned response, I feel.

And still keeps them guessing as to our intentions.

Well done Don.

I think they pick players from the crowd.

It's my chance to impress the Essendon scouts and get picked up.

Interesting question. I would imagine no but that just raises the next question, what if it was 2 players or 3 or 4. Where do you draw the line?

It only took a few players to be paid over the salary cap at the Storm to lose their premierships I guess.

Lloyd is shocking replacement for Thomas, he'll I'd even take Acker over him, at least you'd get an honest answer.

Lloyd looks like he thinks he's being smart and evasive by trying to being even handed.

The sidelong glances he keeps giving the camera say otherwise.

He knows something... or he's worried the cameraman is going to grab the gear and run.

It's not 1956 anymore.

"You never know when an old calendar might come in handy! Sure it's not 1985 right now, but who knows what tomorrow will bring?”

—Homer Simpson ("Bart Gets an Elephant")

G Lyon v Wilson.

Stuff Lloyd.

Hope G Lyon puts her on her ass in the first (segment).

The part that annoyed me was that they listed the 'tenant clubs' in the article in the following order:

Collingwood, Melbourne, Hawthorn and Richmond.

It is our home ground only .... The rest are co-tenants horning in on our awesome MCG.

As far as I know we were there first. Everyone else is a freeloader who should be paying us for the privilege.

We can then sling the MCC a few dollars for their trouble.

Some dingbat over at Bomberblitz posted that the punishment should be:

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From: Nova Uniao

Joined: 28-April 05

Play Melbourne 22 times a year.

If I could be bothered registering over there I would point out we would be happy to beat them 22 times in a season.

You've got to feel bad for Goddard right now.

And he just got away from all the salubrious types at the Saints.

He was on 3AW earlier

And I bet you cannot predict his tack?

Yep carping defence of Hird etc.

Oh well some things in life are predictable.

Lloyd and Luke Darcy need to be put in a capsule and fired directly into space.

I'm sure Richard Branson would help out for a larf.

I would love to hear Matty Lloyd's monosyllabic response to all this.

Whats Brocks take on this?

He'll take a trade to the Bombers now so he can finger Carlton in retrospect too.

Bet they wish they hadn't cut the Bendigo VFL team loose for this season.

A few of those players could have stepped up for a few extra bucks.

Yes and the cheap beer psyche.

"And at genuine 1972 prices!"

And make sure you respect the Wheel of Cheese.

I would have thought "The Castle" would be compulsory viewing for our yank friend.

I think Mick Molloy's "Crackerjack" gives the best insight into the Australian sports psyche.

Here's a link to some photos I took today. Hope it works....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/92646374@N05/

Does Toumpas win much of his own ball? I've always assumed he's a classy outsider, but it seems he's pretty decent around the stoppages.

In the instance I mentioned, Toumpas swooped on a ball that was knocked down in a marking contest and slotted it from about 30 out. It was good to see him run on to the ball with momentum and then convert.

Didn't see him get in and under much but that's not really why we got him I guess. Jones, Rodan and Viney seemed to do a lot of the grunt work at the stoppages with Grimes, Toumpas and Blease breaking away. Rodan did make a lot of quick sprints out of congestion too.

Good to see Neil Craig emphasising the need to breakaway quickly when we go.