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I found it quiet obvious what the game plan is but simply couldn't pull it off due to bad skills and lack of numbers. Hold onto the ball no matter what. go backwards, sideways, forwards as long as we hold onto the ball. Wait for something to open up then GO. In the Richmond game I think that showed best only because the Richmond players were going half arsed. One we get better at that movement we will be able to execute it in the season proper. We were getting the ball to about 75meters out easy enough and then would look up and think 'gee I haven't got anyone to go to. we didn't really have a player the boys could kick to and think atleast if he doesn't mark it he will bring it to the ground. This week we will bring in Gawn and play him close to goal. dump it long and hope for the odd clunck, if not hope of small forwards can swoop.

ok lets put some ill informed posts and rumours to bed. My sister happens to work for the media and has alittle (not all) knowledge of whats going on. ok. firstly mitch is in Melbourne. he and jones even posted the other day pics of a photo session they did together that day. Mitch daughter lives mostly with her mother in Brisbane. comes down every now and then and stays with Mitch and his now gf. Mitch has depression from a lot of different areas that he is dealing with. ie: not seeing his daughter everyday. not playing the sport he loves for 2 years. getting over a injury and then getting a new one over and over. Mitch is away from the club but still in contact with some players and the medical staff. he is doing his own training so we when mitch decides its time to come back (hopefully at the end of his 8 weeks off) he will be still fit and injury free. He will prob have to do acouple of weeks AFL training to get that fitness back and then a couple of games at casey to get match fitness. So in my understand and beliefs he will return to the club and he will play this year but not until the second half of the season.

are we assuming Viney has been suffering from post concussion syndrome?

we all need to calm down and take a deep breath. We all hoped Clarke and dawes would be good to go Rd1 but unfortunately that's not the case. Its not Dawes knee keeping him out like we feared its his calf. Its not clarkes foot keeping him out like we feared its his hammy. Long story short its damn bad luck. We will have Dawes back Rd2 if not Rd1 and we will have Clarke back Rd 3-4. So lets get this straight they could play up to 17 or 18 together this year. so lets temped that idea of them never playing together. Lets hope Jesse doesn't get thrown around too much by the big defenders and looses confidence (I think we all know that's not going to happen) and when Dawes and Clarke come in they can take the big defendeds. How exciting is it too think, all going well by Rd 3 or 4 (unfortunately not Rd1) that jesse and Howe will be taking defender 3 and 4.

while I like to see us having the ball a lot more it was the case in the tigers game also, We had 200+ touches yet we won by only 14 points. 200+ touches would suggest a 60 point win.

I think we should be pretty happy with that. lets be honest Geelong are a much better side. What I would take out of tonight without looking at it all to closely, Hogan 13 touches and 7 marks. great first hit out for the year. Watts looking pretty good for his first hit out also. Vince, cross and Tyson all great pick ups, top 3 in the touches count. Concerns. nearly 100 more touches yet 31 less inside 50s. We will be a much better side once we can start moving the ball forward

Jesse Hogan kicking 4 goals.

If Melbourne were to play like they did in the first half yesterday for a full game and we knew we would atleast get that every game where do you think we would finish on the ladder or how many games do you think we would win? I think yerterday our "leaders" and senior players actually pulled people along yesterday for a half. Trenners was good, Grimes, Clarke, Sylvia and jones.

Out: Jamar, Seller. In: Watts, Gawn

How exciting was it to see Sylvia play some great football in the first half. That was great. I think it showed yesterday if the ball is going forward we can score, and as strange as it sounds our backs hold up fairly well with the amount of ball going in there. Wasn't great but with the amount of ball going in there I don't blame them. Shows our midfield is just shocking in regards to getting the ball going our way

Sorry if this has been mentioned in this thread already. But last night on the TV they were talking bout watts not playing any football this week, Apparently he had to hang around the MCG because one of our forwards was under a cloud (mitch).

But was the umpiring in the 3rd quarter yesterday easily the worst quarter of umpiring you have ever seen? Im deff not saying that is why we had such a bad quarter or anything like that but by golly it was bad. the worst one for me was when Kennedy got the free 10m out against garland for holding, yet garland was one who got thrown around by kennedy.

personally I will go out on a limb today and say we will be a lot better. I think we will still loose but west coast is still in bad form. think e will get done by about 30 points

just tell all the boys forget about team rules for 2 days. Buy tones of slabs of beer and lock them in a room. Tell them to have a great time but talk and fight it out.

At the start of the presser it was obvious he had been crying. Then his twitch came in when the stress hit. Was hard to watch. Clearly has developed a love for the club and is hurting that what he thought would happen is not. Feel for him but at the same time how can we be worse than last year? even if he is still trying to sort the AFL players from the VFL reserve players. I just cant understand how we are worse.