Earl Hood

Interesting I have seen no comment from senior MFC people chastising Vince for his brainfade, token elbow to the head that cost him a game and the club. Or did I miss it? Fact is as a leader he should have been given a right old rollicking by Roos for that effort. Maybe he was behind closed doors. But I haven't noticed any club response.

Interesting I have seen no comment from senior MFC people chastising Vince for his brainfade, token elbow to the head that cost him a game and the club. Or did I miss it? Fact is as a leader he should have been given a right old rollicking by Roos for that effort. Maybe he was behind closed doors. But I haven't noticed any club response.

Report on Roos views of Sunday's game in today's Age online makes the same prediction about Hunt!

Big red, I got the right answer and I did it all in my head, not using any equations but when I look at your breakdown of the maths I am astounded how I did it!

AS for the knee droppers and those players who immediately they feel contact on their arm, raise their arms so the tackle slides up to their neck I believe it should be play on if the tackle is initially applied correctly. If momentum, knees dropping or arms raising causes the tackler's arms to move up or down it is still play on. We penalise high tackling because it is potentially dangerous so you don't want to reward people who try to make a tackle go high, the same logic the AFL used to stop rewarding those that lead with their head (which the AFL have now stopped doing apparently).

Yes RL I looked at that one a number of times and still cant work it out. Was is for blocking or something? There aren't that many rules in the game I can think of that penalize the man in front. Totally absurd decision.

And Oscar and Hunt maybe!

Hold on if C Schwab had used this forum as a recruiting almanac, we would have done a lot better in our picks from 2007 to 2012 than we did!

Now now Biff let us be quite clear when I mention a bag I mean 5 goals or more. The NML that I played for has never had veggie burgers or cider after the game that I remember. More like a fine wine selection at the end of the day with a cheese platter but the double espressos at three quarter time always helped our last quarter efforts, a la West Coast circa 2006. And the rules are the same, there is no in the bun rule by the way. The Northern Metrosexual League unforturtunately expanded in later years to bring in sides like the Flowerdale lumberjacks and the Whittlesea Bogans, that was too much for me, lining up on guys wearing gumboots and cotton fleece shirts was no challenge given my speed and agility in those days, to say nothing about my superior vocabulary and oratory skills in the sledging duals. There was simply no more challenges for me. I was an early example of the entertaining "Gun for Hire" full forward hired to bring in a local crowd for a local club long before Fev started doing it. Happy to to be a low profile trail blazer in this area, as Kevin Rudd might say.

Bad day of footy, we lose by a kick and the flicking Hawks win by a kick and Murphy goes down! If there was a god, this would not happen!

He is Gawn for at least 2 looking at the video!

Where is Ding? He adds so much to the debate.

Yes I note how many things are melting or bleaching during the so called hiatus! Funny how glaciers melt, forests that have never burned in Tasmania for thousands of years, burn, how reefs that have never bleached in the last 400 years are now bleaching, all this during a period of cooling apparently. It is truely baffling unless you thought that maybe it is getting warmer, but then you have to check the models and if they have some error then it is all rubbish!

Yes Emerald I have seen people playing footy in Ugg boots. I don't recommend it myself. I played a few invitation games for the Fitzroy Hipsters some years ago and had this fullback, from the Carlton Barrista's line up on me wearing Ugg boots, not a good look and not very practical, especially after I did the old foot stomp as we lined up. Got my usual bag as I remember it.

Does Greg Denham visit this forum? He said something similar to KB on SEN this morning, that there was some unrest amongst the players and they were not playing for the coach. When pressed he didn't have too any specifics, just general dislike of some training and pregame routines that Roosey insists on (mentioned the pregame meditation routine), then fell back to the "well just look at how they played last week, they couldn't be playing for the coach". Denham is an interesting commentator, he is very critical of MFC but most of what he has said over the past 3 or 4 years turned out to be accurate, and he knows quite a bit of detail of our players and administrators I sometimes wonder if he isn't a closet supporter.

To what?

I personally doubt this. They may not like him but surely they respect him. However if as you say they aren't playing for him then you and me and other willing DLander volunteers need to head down to AAMI with some baseball bats and sort this playing group out. Roos played 300 plus games of VFL, and is a football legend then coached the Swans to a premiership in two grand finals but you are saying this group of under performing, overpaid turkeys has switched off! How many times can a group do this? The personnel have changed but our playing group went on strike for186 and stitched up Bailey, then they basically vacated the field when Neeld took over. Now Roos!

No DL I heard Tony Turnbull just yesterday describing the construction unions as the biggest threat to our economy so nothing to be gained from all this Panama Papers stuff, so what if individuals and companies are avoiding tax on an industrial scale across the Western World, that is nothing compared to what those foul mouthed ruffians at the CFMEU are doing to the construction industry here. I mean we can all see the lack of construction happening in Melbourne and Sydney CBD's every day, NOT! What at is it about our federal politicians, they are always fighting the wrong fight?

Exactly, this is doing my head in. We have seen the Dogs, Port, now Carlton and dare we say The Bombers be able to get their sides playing to an obvious game plan within 3 months. Yes with various degrees of success but at least you can see what they are trying to do. what at are we doing? I have seen our system at training it looks like it could work but come game day I have no idea what we are trying to do. Win the centre clearance and bomb it high into the forward line, press forward and clutter our forward half, then get caught when the opposition get possession and kick over our press and run forward? Alternatively if we get a turn over in our back half let's switch play To the opposite side but then we have no one on that flank so we have to hold the ball looking for other options. I just don't see the plan in action. Are our guys just dumb or is it our coaches!

No Maple you are right. I just googled it and remembered I had seen the device displayed in the Inquisition Museum I visited in Cartegena in Columbia some years ago. Not pleasant at all but then if a woman could not prove she was not a witch well who am I to step in and stop the tickler bring applied? And Uncle unfortunately Conchita had to go home for family reasons last week. I always assumed she was Spanish but my man Hudson drove her to the airport and reported that she took an Aeroflot flight to Moscow! Yes I am confused.

This scenario of Hogan walking probably will not happen but the possibility just shows that the AFL must negotiate with the AFLPA to get agreement on player movements. If the ALFPA wants free agency after 6 years then clubs need full control over their players. Forget FA, players are now just walking when they feel like it but clubs like us need the power to put these kids up to the highest bidder. That would reduce the likelihood of your Hogan's walking at contract end and maximise our recompenense, as we can shop him around to the highest bidder. Gee we can invest upwards of $100k a year on these draftees and just watch them walk to to a top club, if they are good, of course. Stuff the more common journeyman player, and we are talking probably 600 or so players who the AFLPA couldn't give a flying fluck about it seems.

That's it you lot, stop the puns, my Ugg boots are off the market! Now move on before the Spanish Inquisition shows up!

Dunn, really? The rest are young, developing players that are VFL standard and hopefully will improve to come into the firsts and play a role, they may not be ready but they are not losers yet. Thanks for all your positivity by the way.

Uncle I have several pairs of Ugg Boots available for sale if you are interested. They are Size 13 though, you know what they say about men with big feet!

This is indeed a very detailed analysis of last weeks game. Well actually it's an analysis of one passage of play and two players, Bugg and Garland. I like analysis and detail but this is ridiculous! I would propose that Garlands efforts were typical of most of the side, our inability, reluctance or refusal to run, spread, provide options for tje ball carrier. It has been a problem for years. Why, I have no idea, but it frustrates the shytes out of me. I look at the Dorks and every player who gets possession has multiple options and decision making becomes automatic and delivery is not difficult because it is a handball or a 20 metre kick to someone who has made space. Contrast our guys who may win the ball in the back half and no one is providing an option, so it is the delayed kick up the line to a contest that is 50/50 at best. On Saturday we were kicking to one against 3 in the last quarter. I just don't understand what our game plan is. I see a system at training but come game day the system becomes a shambles.