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    20 hours ago, DeeZone said:

    Thanks wwsw I just listened to Perty on debrief podcast, he certainly addressed all the devils that we have been discussing post that Carlton nightmare game. He gets it. Thanks for highlighting the podcast as I wasn’t aware of it. It was very well conducted.

    I was at a function and sitting near both Roffey and Pert during both finals matches. I was amazed on how calm they remained during both matches. Me on the other hand….. 😡🤦🏻

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    15 hours ago, Pennant St Dee said:

    Need to be careful listening to parents of players in same team and without throwing a blanket over all of them. My boy is good mates with Aidan O’Driscoll and parents I speak with are wondering why he’s draftable, they think their kids are just as good. They couldn’t be further from the truth some kids are so clean at ground level, move so smoothly and just make things look so easy the void to Jo citizen is hard to pick up 

    I agree with this. My nephew is also hoping to be drafted. So, I know his family are probably watching Duursma’s performances with a glass half full lense. 
    However, I’d hate for us to pick him with our first rounder and it turns out that they’re right and he isn’t that good.

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    11 hours ago, Constant Mongrel said:

    i realise that its unfair and definitely illogical, but i can't help but compare duursma with his brother, who can be great, but is also super flakey..especially after his first season or two. it looks as though the new version is in a class above, but still, from the online games that i watched, not sure that he is what we need right now.. looks more like a pick from 10 on. i'd be happy to land duursma at our second pick, but not our first.

    Interesting you say this, I caught up with my family yesterday - my nephew plays with Duursma at Gippsland Power. I asked them what they think of him and where he should land. They said the same thing. They said he can take great marks and can do amazing passages of play, but he can butcher it and goes missing.
    They are a little shocked that he is in consideration for a top 5 pick.

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    2 hours ago, old55 said:

    Is Jeff Gleeson aligned with Collingwood? Can you please provide a link?

    I haven’t posted for a long time, and mostly read for news. Particularly, trade news.
    But this, I can categorically say he is. 
    In my view, the fact that he heard this matter makes me as sick as the actual incident.

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    6 hours ago, Jesse Christ said:

    What's classier though?  That hand pass or that Salem kick?  Jones must be pinching himself.  Stuck by all these years and we're finally coming up roses! 

     

    Did anyone else notice how chuffed Jones was after the short scuffle on the boundary in the third, when he was being pinned down and three or four team mates helped him out....that would not have happened in years past.

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    1 hour ago, Mach5 said:

    Shockingly most people open up a thread to read about the subject topic and don't check threads 18 times a day to monitor every slight movement away from the topic at hand.

    Agree. I'm still asking myself why did I have to scim over all that dribble and waste an hour of my life. I certainly don't feel any better for it.

    If the posters in question think it is a topic worth discussing or debating, then start a thread for it and DON'T derail another one.

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    Said in the other thread Salem hasn't shown much except kick a match winner against essendon. Other then that he has not shown why he was worthy of pick 9 especially the likes of Luke Dunstan Lewis Taylor were picked later and made huge contribution for their side.

    He looks so out of depth we have gifted him games when the likes of Jimmy Toumpas were dropped after 1 or 2 games. Yes he missed first half of Pre Season but taylor missed the whole chunk with a broken foot.

    Toumpas copped it last year. He showed alot more then Salem has done for his first year.

    I believe it's the club and its development program and not the players fault - how many times do we lay blame at these players and/or our recruiters.

    So many top ten draft picks that haven't developed, too coincidental IMO.

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    Watts is the artist of football. each game is a lesson. the masterpiece will come.

    have faith my dear demonlanders, we have a genius in our ranks. he is not an animal. he is grace, and he will arrive like the spring. like destiny.

    he is honing te craft in its essence, without the use of force.

    great wines take time.

    Please don't mention Wines, Tona.

    It might start the whole Toumpas vs Wines debate, again :)

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    You lost me at Blackberry sorry OD.

    Although the wifes work phone is a RIM Blackberry and she love it more then me LOL

    Would not bother with a Ford or Toyota. Ford cars a awful and there something wrong with Toyota Dealership or so I got the feeling when my work last purchased one.

    Do they have a Madza or Honda Dealerships?

    IMO can't go past a Diesel Toyota. Especially a Hilux, landcruiser or Prado - they are workhorses!

    Connors this morning on SEN stated he would think Watts would be staying at Melbourne.

    Yeah I heard that.

    He kept saying how "loyal he is to Melbourne" and he believes he'll be in our colours next year.

    WOW! Tough guy!

    And they didn't offer you the job...

    I appreciate that it's not the conservative way, however how would you propose they can either toughen him up and/or remove his fear of getting hurt?

    for the last timeyou cant shovel gutz into a cowardyou cannot make people tuffereither you got it or you aintim afraid watts has talent ,gutz zero

    I agree, but you can remove the fear of getting hurt.

    IMO to achieve this he has to get hit hard regularly so that he realizes it's not as bad as what he fears.

    It's the only way he'll develop any further.

    If I were the new coach and watts stayed my first job would to toughen him up.

    For one day every week I'd put him in the ring with Clarkey and tell him to punch the crap out of him.

    One, it'll teach him to box and he'll learn how to block pretty quick.

    And secondly, it'll make him realize that s%#t I'm taking a hammering but I've survived.

    I think that if David Swartz wants to help the club out - They should get him giving Watts, Frawley and Sylvia motivational speeches about how good this club is and to help the younger ones build this club back up to where it belongs.

    I would think that they'd respond to that more than Neeld's dry manerisms.

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    I would never normally do this, but I can't stand to see this train wreck in slow motion.

    The only way for the club to listen to its supporters is for a "Please remove Neeld and appoint a Senior coach with Finals credabilities" petition to be put forward. Going from what I see on this site I think there is enough support to get one kicked off.

    I would love to know feedback on if people think it is feasible or just a waste of time?