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    Review Dees v Lions - the Good, the Bad & the fugly

    I found this game really hard to review. I wanted to say "we looked better than the first three rounds" but I don't want to give a side credit for moving from the standard of "totally non-competitive" to "more competitive". This should be the absolutely minimum that we give every week. We...
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    Review Dees v Sheedy's Merc - the Good, the Bad & the Fugly

    Bl***y Good - Hearing the boys belt out the song. Between a long time between drinks and far too many column inches written about negative things since the last time we heard it. Good - That feeling of being nervous, passionate and proud as we stormed home in the last quarter. I'd almost...
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    Mega Thread Senior Coach Discussion - Neeld v the alternatives

    Regardless of who coaches our team, I want two rules introduced at the MFC: 1) The words "competitive" and "competitor" are to be banned and never used again. I'm so sick of hearing about "competitive patches" and "competitors". No other club is so obsessed with these meaningless terms as our...
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    Mega Thread Senior Coach Discussion - Neeld v the alternatives

    Neeld says all the right things about playing "tough, uncompromising footy" but I have not seen one instance of this. We have beaten the expansion sides and fluked a win against Essendon. I would love Roos to coach our mob as much as any supporter but I doubt he would be interested in...
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    Review Dees v Poort: the Good, the Bad & the Fugly

    Good: Viney - I actually feel sorry for him having to share a field with the following "fuglies". Bad: Bad would actually be paying us a compliment in terms of how terrible we were Fugly: Wow, where do you start? Sellar who seemed to forget how to play football in the space of 2 weeks, Sylvia...
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    Flashback: Semi Final Win vs Carlton

    Thanks for sharing this. Brings back fantastic memories of being there at this game. God I loved that team of 2000. Led by Neitz and the Ox. The class and skill of Yze, Farmer and White. Woewodin was huge that year. Every club would love to draft a Steve Febey-type player. Green and Bruce as...
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    Opinion It's Dee Day!

    I can understand the reluctance to be confident about winning this game - injuries to some key players and, more generally, the fact that we have been let down too many times over the past 5 years - but I think this game we just have to win. Yes, we will miss Blease, Clark and Trengrove but if...
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    Mark Jamar - Farewell and thanks Russian!

    I understand the concern about our perceived lack of cover if Jamar went down injured. I think though it is damn hard to judge how big men will go though until they get a real crack. I remember North being called too reliant on Hamish McIntosh and Goldstein being called a spud by North fans...
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    Game Day NAB Cup Round 2 - Port Adelaide V Melbourne @ Renmark

    We won. Now let us never speak of Renmark again.
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    Game Day NAB Cup Round One - Melbourne V North Melbourne and Richmond

    I agree with these statements. In defence of our bigger blokes, especially Dawes and Pedersen, I would say that our disposal going forward was absolutely woeful at times - it was shades of 2012 all over again. We kicked to packs, kicked under pressure and never really gave Dawes and co. a chance...
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    On Melbourne's Depth

    Really interesting thread, thanks for posting this Striker. One of the biggest things which strikes me about our side is our reliance on several "potential" players when talking about making the finals and being a premiership contender. Sylvia, Watts, Strauss are three names which immediately...
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    Training, 13/1/13

    This is a cracking post. Thanks so much for writing this up, really interesting reading. This is what footy fans actually care about during the off season - who trained, who is injured, what drills/skills are the boys working on. I was about to write "you should get a gig with one of main media...
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    Whatever happened to the tanking investigation?

    I apologise for turning this into a legal argument on a footy discussion board but I just have to very quickly correct some statements made in that legal argument. The Briginshaw principe only applies in civil cases which involves allegations of criminal conduct, fraud or moral wrongdoing and...
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    Whatever happened to the tanking investigation?

    As a lawyer, I found McLardy's speech was important for two simple words that he uttered: "natural justice". These two words are why all in the legal profession shake their heads in bemusement at the AFL process and know it could not possibly stand up in a court of law - if and when challenged...
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    Mega Thread Official 2012 Free Agency discussion thread

    Would be delighted to get either Monfries and Pearce - even better if we could both. Even Byrnes would be a useful pick-up. All of them have decent foot skills and would replace list cloggers like MacDonald, Bate and Dunn who cannot deliver the ball 20m to a target. They also have been in the...
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