Rd
17 vs Port Adelaide
Did Jeremy Howe grow up wanting to be a
pilot?
Honestly, the amount of time that guy spends up in the air is insane. I’m half considering creating a JH club where friends meet and just jump on each other for half an hour. I call it therapy. Thanks to him though it looks like Melbourne’s going to win at least one competition this year in the form of Mark of the Year. He's like an overexcited jackrabbit, you can see that for yourself here:
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/142203/default.aspx
Before I get too excited however, let’s not forget how the powers that be completely robbed Andrew Walker last year. And he plays for a club that has sponsorship and media presence!
Honestly, the amount of time that guy spends up in the air is insane. I’m half considering creating a JH club where friends meet and just jump on each other for half an hour. I call it therapy. Thanks to him though it looks like Melbourne’s going to win at least one competition this year in the form of Mark of the Year. He's like an overexcited jackrabbit, you can see that for yourself here:
http://www.afl.com.au/news/newsarticle/tabid/208/newsid/142203/default.aspx
Before I get too excited however, let’s not forget how the powers that be completely robbed Andrew Walker last year. And he plays for a club that has sponsorship and media presence!
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| Max Gawn |
I noticed the team met with a contingent of
US Marines on Thursday before the game. Whilst that’s great and all why not
make more of the opportunity? Why not, and I’m not suggesting violence here,
but why not squeeze a couple of beefcakes into Melbourne guernseys pre-game,
making space for them by giving a few players a bout of the old ‘general
soreness’ routine. Can you imagine coming up against a marine in a full contact
sport? Sure the Port players would go in for a tackle early but after bouncing
off 100 kilograms of trained to kill muscle once or twice I’d assume no-one’d
be putting their hand up for the next contest. I’m just not entirely convinced that the Dees have the intimidation factor quite right at the
moment. Take Max Gawn for example. Unfortunately he just
doesn’t cut the mustard. I’m happy to see more tattoos coming into the dressing
room, everyone knows tats make you scary. Maybe Max could go get a sleeve.
North Melbourne this week. At Etihad. I’ll
go and watch, to support of course, but also because the Roos are a complete
enigma to me. There’s a weird blend of a really, really good footy team and complete
rabble. You’re always in with a shot against North, especially if you’re not as
good as them!
My suggestions of how to beat them (even
though Mark never seems to listen), quadruple-tag Petrie. There is some loosely
strapped method to my exhaustive madness. Lindsay Thomas. I know we’re all on
the bandwagon now and his infatuation with missing the unmissable seems to be over BUT, put that pressure gauge up to absolute. Give him the easiest route to goal every time and he’ll reward our faith with his lack of
it. Let’s bring back some of that great to see 2011 self-doubt in front of
goal. This is where other teams have gone wrong, they haven’t given him a chance
to properly doubt his abilities. It’s about time we stood up and
helped the man rediscover his demons. (I’d like to note that that’s the first
pun I’ve used since starting this blog and while I’m not proud of it I’m gonna
let it stay).
Hopefully we haven’t all lost the faith in
the cause just yet. For those that haven’t I’ll see you on Saturday. For those
that have I’m planning a Howe party some time soon to rediscover the joys of
following a team that’s so up and down. Invites will be sent by pigeon.
Go Dees
Photo: http://au.sports.yahoo.com/afl/player/290528/90/max-gawn/
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