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We've had substitutes in the AFL for over a decade now, and it just struck me that I can't remember a single memorable performance a player has put on as sub. You'd think by now that someone would have come on and kicked a few goals to turn a match, for example, but I don't ever remember that...

Thought it might be worth making a thread to talk about the guys who didn't play in the premiership last year, and what we think we can expect from them this year. As the boys have been saying all off-season, these guys are probably going to be important in driving the team to maintain its...

Ye shall never forget these numbers, for as long as ye shall live.

Well I'm as perplexed as anyone with how we manage to keep losing these games, so I've been going through some statistics to see where the answers might be. Here are some interesting things I've found that might shed a bit of light. In Losses to Top-8 teams: One thing the stats will show is...

Noticed this in the Port vs Richmond game last night, where two Port players in a row feigned that they would be going for a shot at goal (thus eating up the full 30 seconds each) before passing it off at the last moment. This was with about 3 minutes left to go, so these actions essentially...

Name: Scott Pendlebury Breakout Role: Guy who doesn't understand quantum mechanics. Plot point: When professor-cum-astronaut Gil Britton (played by Ryan Seacrest) solves some equations on the back of a napkin relating to quantum entanglement that may save the Earth, Pendlebury (portraying a...

Just wanted to start a thread about the luck we've had as a club over the past decade or so. I know that everything Jesse Hogan is going through right now puts our travails as supporters into perspective, but I also think it's worth taking the time just to show how shafted we've been by luck. I...

Two brave teams from a beautiful, not-at-all sterile city, universally loved by all here in Melbourne... Bear us on your back, o brave ones! Spread those mighty wings and soar, soar, soar! Send us upwards to the heavens, our arms outstretched, the stars reflected in our eyes! Break free from...

You Remember AFL... he's back! In GIF form! http://frinkiac.com/

In light of Collingwood's "fantastic" performance against Carlton today (umm... NOT! lol) I decided to make some cheeky little changes to the Collingwood theme song, "Good Old Collingwood Forever"! I made this just for a bit of fun, so I hope no-one is offended. But I think as football fans we...

It has to happen every year. Teams from the bottom half improve dramatically, and at least one team from the top will slide dramatically to make way. This year especially, I think most of the teams from the bottom 10 have realistic expectations to improve significantly on their 2015 performance...

Okay, let's get this out of the way from the beginning. Firstly, yes Hawthorn are obviously a very good team who can deservedly be placed among the very best of all time. I'm not calling their talent or their achievements into question. Secondly, this is not about petty jealousy. Of course, as a...

Apologies if this has already been discussed, but in the current case is it necessary for ASADA to prove that the Essendon players were actually injected with TB-4 or is enough to show merely that this was their intent? A lot of people seem to be hanging their hat on the fact that it will be...

Understandably, most of the media and public attention is focussed on the EFC and ASADA now, but I'm really interested to see how the AFL will react in the coming weeks. Throughout most of this process - from the Andy D tip-off to the permission to exclude legal fees from the salary cap - the...

Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has ever established what correlation (if any) exists between the form a team shows in the NAB Cup and the form a team shows in during the actual season? I know many people are dismissive of the NAB Cup as a guide to team performance, but I would imagine there...

The consensus seems to be that the Hawks are lacking hunger at the moment, and there's surely no better indication of that than the performance of Roughead tonight. It's not only that he didn't play well, it's that he didn't even seem to be trying, especially in the last quarter. He didn't...

Geelong to win by 1-19 is looking pretty juicy at 4.25. Also have a feeling about the Geelong / St.Kilda / Geelong / Geelong quarter by quarter at 26.00 but not sure I'm game enough to stake anything meaningful on it. What are the rest of you on?

Throwaway line in today's Australian: Would Essendon let him go? What would they ask for him?

At least Ben Cousins was able to go out on a high... (Sorry.)

Injuries are never an excuse for inept performance, but I honestly can't remember a team suffering as many serious injuries to so many key players in one season as Melbourne have this year. To summarise: We used 39 of our 42 listed players this season. With the exception of injured and...

Distinguished representatives, I want to thank you for inviting me to appear before you today. I feel a profound responsibility addressing you in this hour of peril. What is at stake today is nothing less than the survival of our league. There may be some who would have thought a week ago...

I was at the MCG today and I have never seen a worse display of football in my life. I am a Melbourne supporter, and even though we were winning by 20 points at half time I was seriously close to leaving the ground at that stage. You can talk all you want about Sydney being defensive and...

Looking back on the drafts from 1999-2001, I've the rated players drafted as being either Stars / Great Players, Useful / Good Players and Mediocre Players / Duds. I've only included these three years because any draft before around 1999 didn't really have the same sort of science behind it that...

Okay, finally found my way home from the game and I largely expected the responses that I've found here. I'm a bit hammered (gotta love the Long Room and whatever several establishments we found ourselves in afterwards :cool: ), but a few things need to be said to keep things in perspective. I'm...

.... oh, except the people in Uzbekistan. http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1072313,00.html They're funding the anti-democratic warlords in Afghanistan as well, as the nation verges on the brink of civil war: http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1073827,00.html...