Earl Hood

I think it was around 2005 or 2006 first round against St Kilda and I was sitting with 2 Saints mates and 20 minutes in Wrecker takes out Del Santo with the best hip and shoulder I have ever seen. The noise of the impact was extraordinary to hear and to see as well. Del Santo was stretchered off, as my Saints friends said 20 minutes into the season and he is stuffed!

But Wrecker had injured his neck and left the field some time later and missed a few weeks. So it evened out. 

Avengers Infinity Wars anyone? 

Ch 7’s Stevo said Mitch Hannan went off for scans today? For what I don’t know. 

1 hour ago, dieter said:

While I'm on my high horse, has the VFL done anything about the violence and behind the play thuggery of Williamstown on Sunday? According to Drunk'n Rawlings was livid after and during the game. I have understood that this violence has been outlawed from the game. Apparently not so. Apparently you can still get away with it.

Yes was anyone reported?  What were the Umps doing, there are 3 for every game?Do the VFL have a match review committee?

Probably not if they don’t have the camera coverage I suppose. 

8 minutes ago, Petraccattack said:

 

Can not imagine Weideman playing as a key backman.  Just doesn't look like it would suit him.

But Jetta was reinvented as a gun back, T Mac as a gun forward.  So I am open to anything and I will back the coaching staff in all the way on whatever they try.

I think he should be tried down back, suspect he has all the tools needed to be a mobile intercept back, depends if he can read the play back there. He doesn’t mind tackling people but we need to give him time there to prove he can play the role. 

26 minutes ago, BAMF said:

 

That is absolute gold. I was thinking at the time, George Reeves and Superman but this is so much better! 

20 hours ago, rjay said:

@Macca, this one features Drew Zingg on guitar...very underrated player. Probably the best of the Steely Dan live show players.

Donald Fagan did this New York Rock & Soul Revue show that started as kind of a cover band, then added a few 'Dan' songs before it morphed  back into a full on Steely Dan reunion after 12 years of separation.

 

Great stuff just downloaded the Fagan version but not picking up Zingg on iTunes music library. Anyway managed to download 3 or so related great songs from this lead. Micheal McDonald, ex Doobies and so on. Thanks for that.

Somehow lead me to Randy Crawford and Foreigner and on and on...

Happy to alternate but only if we get one or two extra home games against the other big Melbourne based clubs. The fact is we get absolutely screwed financially with the fixture every year. Except for QB and ANZAC eve alternatively we get stuff all big games at home. 

The run home looks fairly even for all the top clubs except the Dorks. They must have the easiest draw for the season, rarely travel to foreign territory, take the interstaters down to Tassie, play the rest at the Gee. So I am guessing we can expect them to finish around 4 to 6 and again be a good chance in a very even season. 

24 minutes ago, small but forward said:

And we get done for tanking...

We got done for NOT tanking!! If my memory serves me correctly. 

10 minutes ago, picket fence said:

Sorry but if Stretch gets a game in front of Hunt, Tyson, Ballic, Garlett then we really are in Sheeit

Sorry but he"s no good!

Many were saying that of ANB up till about 3 weeks ago but look how he has prospered. I see Stretch in a similar vein, has some good attributes and is a solid trainer and wants to be the best he can,  given time and a chance he may surprise. I would not write him off yet. 

8 minutes ago, Farmer said:

I suggest you see your doctor. Frost is a damned good player.would walk into many teams. Not many combine his height and speed.Yes, makes the odd mistake but he creates some great plays

Yes but he is not a natural footballer, he is a big strong athlete with acceleration for sure but I don’t think he is the answer. 

Here’s hoping that J Smith, Keilty, Hunt, Petty all put in blinders for Casey tomorrow. Then we can choose a replacement based on how the teams matchup. 

8 minutes ago, Luther said:

Did he play in 2 finals in his first year? Don't really understand either...

Yes played 2 finals in 2006 but can’t fathom what point he is trying to making. 

6. TMac

5. Jetta

4. Oliver

3. Gawn

2. Fritsch

1. Hogan

13 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I remember the year well.

1990 was a real lost opportunity. We finished with the best record I have witnessed as a Melbourne supporter (16-6) but if anything, this year would prepare me for what was to lie ahead.

We would beat Essendon twice that year, the Eagles twice (and comfortably in Perth) and sent the Hawks packing one year before another flag. Any other year we would have finished top 3 at the end of the H&A season.

However, it was also the year we got pantsed by 20 goals by a middle of the road North (with Horse Longmire kicking 14) and proceeded to shite the bed against West Coast to bomb out of the finals. I didn't realize it then but it showed me a lot of the flakiness I would come to expect down the road.

I remember 1990 well, I took the year off from work, in the days when you could take long service leave plus extended leave without pay and still have a job when you got back. Backpacking across Asia I could only check in on the footy by finding an Australian Embassy where they always had a reading area and a catalogue of daily papers. So I would catch up on 7 or 8 weeks of match results at a time. These were days before email, the web, WiFi and smart phones. Just letters and newspapers back then. 

Didn’t we win the first 6 or 7? Then had our usual losses in the middle before regaining form toward the end. I remember I made it to London in time to be able to watch Drew Morphett compering The ABC Winners on my hotel TV showing the first final where we beat the Hawks and  Dermot Brereton lamenting that he could not believe they could lose to us two weeks in a row! Great stuff but then I was travelling again and found out we lost to the Weagles at least a week after the fact. And yes I thought at the time we have stuffed up a great opportunity because this was a gap year in between great teams, so was 1991 by the way and guess who snatched that one? 

 One bonus was being out of the country and therefore missing the Collingwood celebrations. 

13 minutes ago, DV8 said:

... that Ol' Silent Treatment,   then all HELL breaks loose.

 

will the real Don please stand Up. 

He looks like he needs a Cone...

Were the Crows down by 86 at three quarter time? 

3 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

just keep winning. the commentators will adjust.

if we can keep relatively injury free this could be our opportunity

as always lady luck will play her part

If we can keep the engine room fit and in form, i.e. Gawn, Jones, Viney, Brayshaw, Oliver, Petracca, Salem we won’t lose too many. And we have the depth to cover a few injuries down back or up forward this year. 

Remember early on we had just Hoges as a forward target but he was playing part mid, part forward with a bevy of small forwards yet we were just bombing it long into the forward line with a too high press. Massive inside 50’s but small rate of conversion. Could not work out the game plan.  Basically very agricultural,  kick the ball forward at all costs with no idea how to convert. But the last 5 week’s, things have turned on their head, our conversion rate for inside 50’s has gone through the roof. Our forward press is rational with Lever making sure he is between the opposition and the goal. Work through those structural issues, plus add Mad dog mid, Viney and key forward in TMac and the whole equation changes. Please let it continue! 

Just now, hemingway said:

This is becoming very indulgent. 

And loving it!!

3 hours ago, Gorgoroth said:

Only place I’ve travelled to that was worse was Nice.

So over rated, other than The Louvre and the catacombs, Eiffel Tower was ok. But seriously has nothing on places like Kyoto, Edinburgh, Lisboa, Corio... ha ha

But you said it was nice? 

Don’t need rising star noms, we had heeps of those when we were Shyte from 2008 to 2012, they don’t mean a lot. Happy for our young guns to fly under the radar and perhaps the real talent doesn’t qualify, in Fritsch and Bull as they are a fraction too old. 

1 minute ago, ManDee said:

But the media can still say, Melbourne have still not beaten any side above them.

 Neither have the Eagles! 

6 Brayshaw

5 Hogan

4 Hibberd

3 Lever

2 Oliver

1 ANB

As I posted somewhere else, if we can keep the midfield healthy, hungry and inform we will be very hard to stop from here on in, as we will be more consistent game to game.  A midfield of Max, Jones, Oliver, Viney, Brayshaw, Tracc, Hogan means we are very competitive, every week!