Roger Mellie

A question: Playing Howe week after week and knowing he's not going to have much of a crack - is that just taking the pi55? We may as well go in with one less player, with all this unaccountable, occasionally flashy bollocks. I'm just not sure what sort of message it sends to other players, knowing they've got to carry some one with chronic passengeritis.

It confounds me how, after a decade of pure crud, we can think, even for one second, that just turning up, would get us over the line. We just bombed it forward and blazed away at goals. Just when you think we're becoming a serious team, we pull our own pants down. Effing joke of a club

Tip of the week: Turn off television at 3/4 time.

I was particularly taken by how he falls over after he misses a mark and that chasing is optional

We should make multiple changes for no other reason than to make me feel a whole lot better and yeah, there's the Darwin energy sapping travel bit too. Out: Spencer (stiff but the two ruckman experiment is over for now), Bail, M Jones, Toumpas, Howe (Please!) In: Fitzpatrick (if we need for back up ruck work, otherwise Grimes), JKH, Lamumba, Harmes (upgrade), Newton I feel better already PS I'd even consider Riley in as the sub to smash up a few in the last (e.g.. Goddard)

I'm not sure how the Toump escapes notice. Had a shocker and happy for him to join Bail and Howe out the door this week. So slow

Good luck to Newton playing in the guts. I'm sure he'll feel more at home there. Hunt's back so quick after a broken jaw? Anything wrong with Tim Smith KC?

No, IIRC It was Hall, Dixon and one other but can't remember which one

Oh OK Buddy $1.3m Tipsy $900K Daylight

If we're talking captions (G Rated for the kiddies) then Viney is clearly saying 'Tool' as he trots away from his road kill.

This grief could be avoided by just giving players a mark out of 10 for the year. Eg Hogan = 10, Brayshaw = 10 Vince = 10 Then we don't have to knicker twist over salary caps or whatever tf this is.

I'd prefer he play at Full Back so he can take the kick-ins

LOL, what else is there to do? Ring up Roosy? Ring up Goodwin? Knock yourself out There's nothing we can do until Roosy calls it or he doesn't - If he doesn't you can pay out on Party Boy some more and gee, that'll show us. Or Party Boy will be right and that will be that.

His Goodwin form was pretty solid last year, so that tells me there's some kind of link with Goodwin but not so much with Shiel We can always see how it plays out eh

Hope it's not a million dollar mentoring role

Ok Treloar then

I think the lack of tall forward depth means Pedo will stay.

Huh? I wasn't talking about the DE stat and I happen to agree with you. I was commenting on how Vandemon's kicking seems to have gone to the shitter lately

IMO his kicking was fine during the NAB Cup and first couple of games. It then went pear-shaped. This tells me he can kick but have no idea why this skill has suddenly (and fingers crossed, temporarily) deserted him

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The week after Trengove's suspension, Jeremy Laidler laid a sling tackle on Allen Christensen, Christensen wasn't knocked out but was dazed and confused. There was't any particular attention drawn to it, although you could clearly see Christensen in trouble. He missed the next week with concussion, unlike Dangerfield and we'll wait and see with Gray. Going on the Trengove incident, Laidler should've got weeks, but it wasn't singled out by the commentators.

Did I miss something or did Nicnat suddenly get a tank? Isn't that why WCE always have two rucks? We have to have two rucks for this game, particularly in Darwin. So they are Gawn and Spencer, Gawn and Jamar or Gawn and Fitzy. Hogan is a big a given as you'll ever see and I would've thought Garland, a regular given - in good form before the hand injury. So for me: In: Hogan and Garland Spencer stays or one of Fitz/Jamar comes in (Roos unlikely to tinker too much on this one) Great team effort on Sunday but if you have to burrow to find the players that were slightly less that 'brilliant,' it would be Toump, MacDonald, Bail, Riley. Toump is on an upward trajectory and can do without the loss in confidence so he stays (with fingers and toes crossed). Macdonald is a key so he stays and is played back into form (theoretically) Bail had an OK game (played his role well) marred by the usual rubbish disposal Riley didn't do much as the sub, but last time in that role, he went into the middle and smashed bodies. Against Geelong he didn't get the chance. Against WCE, he probably won't either, thereby diminishing his value as a sub (although it wouldn't stop him smashing eagles outside the centre square). Therefore, by process of elimination: In Hogan, Garland Out Bail, Riley Or, In Hogan, Garland Fitz/Jamar Out: Bail, Riley, Spence

Straight to the 'Commentary Gems' thread with that one!

I consider it a plus that he didn't belt out his cringeworthy catch cry "Baby" Epic tool

I'm sorry, I didn't hear that: BRAYSHAW IS A GUN (for the hard of hearing)