Love "North Melbourne, the kangaroos, whatever they're called." Correct level of respect given by Bomber.
"is he a forward or a back? He's both but we need him forward"
"that's not the most experienced bench you'll ever see, but you've got to play these boys if you're going to be a good side"
Bomba is awesome!
Love it!
i always manage to forget that Camporeale ever played for us, i create this little happy place in my mind where he is just another carlton flog, but once every couple of years someone here spoils my fantasy. thanks rolo, another 3 years of therapy wasted.
Honestly cannot remember a single piece of play he was ever involved in....
Murphy also brings up similar traumatic feelings, especially in combination with the infamous '1999 siren' photo....
murphy i can kind of cop as a journeyman and for the goal he kicked against WC in the hird/mcclaren game. also, milking the free from phil read just before half time in the 2004 elimination for being late and high sent the melbourne fans around me in the MCC totally mental and led to a healthy lead going into half time, gold (he was generally pretty good in his first year actually). ah the 2004 elimination final, fond memories, ■■■■■■ good game.
Big Dave standing up when it counted. Deserved more he did.
in many ways i remember that game more fondly than the 2000 GF from the point of view of a pure football going experience. The 2000 GF felt like a fait accompli going in, i really didn't think Melbourne were any chance of touching us and the only thing about it that really stands out in my mind is wallis punching an 18 year old kid in the throat on the members wing. I didn't mind when he ironed out mil hana (itself a pretty cheap shot) but i thought the green hit was pretty ugly and unnecessary. the result wasn't in any doubt from pretty early on.
don't get the people who get all put out of Wallis hittng Green. Everyone knows what Wallis' role in that side was. An 18 yr old tried to get up in Wallis' face so Wallis punched him (at the top of the chest towards the shoulder, not the throat) and Green crumbled. in that era, Wallis could just of easily smashed half his face or conccussed the kid but instead a punch to the chest and the ressult is a sign of why an 18 year old brad green should have tried to kick some goals instead of getting in the face of Dean Wallis to prove he was hard. he wasn't.
He punched him in the throat if you ask me
Pretty good side, taking into account who can't be selected. Myers might be a tad underdone, but not surprised to see Gleeson and Zach named.
All the best to the newbies.
Good luck to the debutants in particular.
The team says a lot about where Jetta, Kavanagh, O’Brien and Colyer are presently at career-wise.
Kicked 4 goals last time he played forward agaist norfHardingham? HARDINGHAM! WTF Bomber?
Hardingham has played forward at time since then. The kid is a horrible decision maker and when he kicks it is a 70% chance he misses the target.
That game where he played the Kangas was close to 5 years ago. Citing games from 5 years ago is a bad sign.
Good to see Bomber having the courage of his convictions when it comes to the young players.
That's the youngest Round 1 team we have put out in many a year - 3 debutants & JD who is a relative veteran of 6 games.
Almost like he's looked at the results of the first week of Round 1 where all the young, quick running teams won and their more fancied, experienced opponents got overrun and thought "I'll have some of that".
Congrats to the newbies.
(And congrats to Peeto87 for again accurately picking ins and outs in the Training thread around 2.25. That's some crystal ball.)
The team says a lot about where Jetta, Kavanagh, O'Brien and Colyer are presently at career-wise.
Ambrose, Gleeson, Merrett in.
Jetta & Colyer emergtencies.
Pears overlooked.
Happy with that. If we happen to lose we are blooding some depth and developing.
But I’m pumped. Kids add excitement.
Hibbo back is important.
I think we might win now.
Won’t win but don’t mind the side.
Hardy will play as a back unfortunately. Heppell won't be playing back pocket.
Kicked 4 goals last time he played forward agaist norfHardingham? HARDINGHAM! WTF Bomber?
3 marking forwards...Hardy's in the Winderlich role until the latter returns
Are we filling roles or picking the best players? Hardingham isn't as quick across the ground as Winderlich and doesn't use the ball nearly as well as Winderlich.
Would rather just feature the 3 new young inclusions in that role, Merrett and co have a brighter future than Hardingham who I feel is just a filler players with not much upside.
It is my only beef with the team, hope he makes me look like an idiot and plays well.
Get Hardingham out of the forward line FFS.
That forward line in it’s entirety has ZERO defensive pressure.
Combined weight of our bench must be under 50kg.
Hardy will play as a back unfortunately. Heppell won't be playing back pocket.
Gleeson will play back
Far out you are depressive. You probably thought we would lose each week in the '00 season and then when we lost in the final game of the normal season you probably said "I told you so."Won't win but don't mind the side.
Combined weight of our bench must be under 50kg.
We'll never get bigger at that rate.
Get Hardingham out of the forward line FFS.
That forward line in it's entirety has ZERO defensive pressure.
They better hope they score anytime they get the ■■■■■■■ thing inside fwd 50, or at worst get it out of bounds, cos that ball is gonna sling shot back down the entire length of the ground very ■■■■■■■ easily.