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Quite right, HBG, sometimes medicine isn't the answer. However, a statement that prayer is a better way to treat mental illness than medical care is irresponsible and wrong. Always. This is not a situation where opinion comes into it. There are no "alternative facts". If someone wants to pray...

Seriously? Thoughts and prayers > medicine? Please stick to footy in here and take your harmful proselytising elsewhere.

For some on this thread, and the forum generally, this may resonate: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/crossexamined/2015/02/the-dunning-kruger-effect-are-the-stupid-too-stupid-to-realize-theyre-stupid/

The Caigieburn ground is the home of Calder Cannons (TAC Cup) and is in pretty good nick. Somebody else mentioned, but I'm not sure they are correct, that it is the same dimensions as the G - it did used to be Richmond's training base (for a nanosecond), so maybe it is G-like. There are...

It's gotta be Campbell. Yeah, Will rucked in the final - because Roughy couldn't play, and Roughy was only playing because BTC was injured/sick. Roughy's value is as a foil for BTC at best - he doesn't have the presence or the durability to be the main man. Those who think Will is our best...

Daniel Pearce is the ideal sub. He can play anywhere on the ground, and has done in the VFL with great success.

Herein lies the reason we will continue to see BTC as #1 ruckman over Will, Roughy and Ayce; he competes in the air and gives us another midfielder when it gets to the deck. In effect, we are two players up as he is already allowing another running player into the side by virtue of his one-out...

Seriously? Josh was playing what... his second game? Do we expect him to be Matthew Boyd straight out of the VFL? Josh wasn't perfect, but he played a good game, especially for a second gamer - he got involved, was hard at it, did some very nice things inside, and maintained composure under...

I didn't want to be junking Ayce's output, so I checked the stats for Hit Outs. Ayce had a total of 69 Hit Outs from Rds 2 - 8, with a high of 20 vs St Kilda and a low of 3 vs Freo. That's an average of 9.85 Hit outs over 7 games (28 quarters), compared with TC's 32 Hit Outs in three quarters...

Something Campbell did yesterday, which I haven't seen Ayce do, was to bullock the ball out of a stoppage and dish it to a nearby mid, and on one occasion boot it 60 metres into our forward line. He also killed the ball quite a few times to allow a reset. Ayce just doesn't have that presence...

Thanks, Dan. Interesting to note that so far this season, Will hasn't performed anywhere near TC's standard yesterday, statistically anyway. Neither has Ayce for that matter. If I was a Moneyballer, I'd be picking TC over Will next week regardless of fitness. And I'd be very interested in...

Not getting the anti-TC vibe on here. And was uber-perplexed by the vest yesterday. Stats tell an interesting story; even after being subbed off at 3/4 time, Tom's stats rate 6th in team. If he had have played a full game, his expected return would have been around Goldstein's statistical...

I got rid of my Opinion Einstein - too old and unreliable. I went for the new Opinion Russell Brand. You and Dogs Rule should consider updating, too. Yours especially, MD, seems to be generating truly unreliable opinions. But then, that's just my opinion... Back on topic - I will be surprised...

The more things change, huh? The point I was trying to make in my post in another thread, and I'll say it again here, is that our culture is one of being ok with losing. That's it. All the other stuff was to support that premise. I don't get on here anywhere as much as I would like and it...

BOOM! In 12 words, The King sums up the problem. It's all in those words, folks. Our club is battling a generationally ingrained culture of settling for less. We have been the VFL/AFL perennial losers and we are quite comfortable with it. King has only gone 50 odd years. Others have gone 60...

Either you haven't seen him play, MD, or you really are actually a troll because Blind Freddy would have given him 3 votes in the VFL Grand Final, and he gets better every time he plays. For a bloke who had never touched a footy until he was 15, the sky is the limit. Will be among first picked...

Truly, guys, this is just becoming absurd - if it wasn't already. The flat-earther, instant gratification mob may well get their wish if the uninformed, knee-jerk hysteria of the past few days continues. How many of the 'sack Macca' brigade have been calling for Jones, Tutt, Pearce and even...

Can't agree with this. The corridor is the last place we want to be against these guys. They are playing a much better outside game these days and can take it away too easily if teams give them a sniff. If we 'take them on', they will open us up. We would be better served to grind out a stoppage...

Wow! Just wow! Step away from the keyboard, dude. The punctuation police will be by to arrest you any moment. Until then, please write (longhand) 'His name is Jarrad Grant' 100 times. (And say 10 Hail Bontis. ;))

As much as I delight in your passionate and single-minded rantings, Mattdougie, this comment resonates with me more than anything of yours that I have read - but not for a reason that you are going to like. It's a comment that goes to the very core of why the dogs are going to be a good team...

Your arithmetic is dodgy on two fronts there, md! Firstly, I am not sure if this is correct: 'Snore = queenharold' (please show your working out for this answer) and this one is definitely incorrect: 2014 - 1984 = 30 not '32' (see below)

Obvisiously, M. chiennoir! Although, not diffently. As for ducks and drakes... I don't profess to know the difference. In fact, I canard-ly tell them apart!

Bloody grammar! Would be correct if it read 'they're on bullshit'. I was - for years - absolutely hooked on the stuff. Not only was I on it, I actually believed I was on it. Frightening and very addictive. If you are addicted, or believe you are, try a 12 step program. I did - once I was 12...

Mum didn't make my milk little boy shorts, she got mine at Forges. They weren't as comfortable as the home-made ones the other boys had but I could wear them while watching the cartoons - I didn't have to wait for her to make them - so I guess there was an upside.

My parents (mainly Dad) have been saving epitephs for years now. I don't recommend it. The garage is almost full, and Mum is so sick of them that she is threatening to call in the epiteph man. The worst part is we live in a non-epiteph area. So, if we get caught, well you know what will happen...

Such an agreeable type, Mr Butane - agreeing with things I didn't even say. ;) You may have missed my point, however. It is that Gia's role guiding the younger forwards, especially in the later stages of the game when they are tired and struggling to keep to the structures is more valuable, at...

Gia is an on-field coach. Invaluable at our stage of development, and outweighs other considerations [although the goals he generally kicks are pretty handy, too].

Although I agree with your overall intent and your view on the 'upside', dogsfan, if we are using wins as an indicator of improvement, then I humbly submit that we are barking up the wrong tree. Wins are actually quite a flawed way of assessing improvement; the brush stroke is too broad at this...

Watch my 'Sid' develop into a true swingman - talented enough to play just about anywhere. A truly natural talent. A few more kilos and he will worry just about any player in the comp - forward or back, and pinch-hit in the ruck. Wouldn't be surprised if he came on as a bit of a Jarryd Roughead...