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we have all kicked the winning goal in a grand final playing for the team you support in the backyard. How good would it be to just play for them on a weekly basis for real!!!!!! :wub:

When I was about 8 years old, I developed quite a detailed fantasy where I led Melbourne to five consecutive premierships. Count 'em - FIVE. Yes, I was quite a lonely and deluded young kid. :D

I am pretty sure Brock was a big Essendon supporter as a kid, I know he attended Essesndon training a bit before he got drafted.

I am pretty sure he was an Essendon supporter too. I think I even read somewhere after he was drafted that he was at the 2000 Grand Final supporting the Dons.

You'd think so, but I have mates that have never looked like getting drafted, watch footy just as much as myself, yet claim no allegiances.

I don't get it either...

That's like going to church and not picking a religion. What's the point? "Oh I just go for the songs." :rolleyes:

On the subject of who Watts supported, I think it was on the post-draft wrap up show on Foxtel after he was drafted, he said he barracked for Sydney for a little while but for some reason stopped going for them after the age 10. Something like that. I think he might have said he lived in Sydney for a few years when he was younger. Have I got this right? Someone must know.

David Parkin just said he was a big Melbourne fan when he was a kid.

Good on the old bloke.

Yeah, I've heard him say this before. He and his dad were MCC members.

Maybe we should start a list of football identities past and present who supported the Dees.

Terry Wallace was in the Melbourne cheer squad. Can't think of any others right now.

How did BT react? His hatred for the MFC is sad and quite disgraceful really.

BT responded with something like "I always thought you had a bit of the silver tail about you Parko." Something like that.

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Jack Grimes attended the DEMONS SUMMIT earlier this year as a "Melbourne supporter."

Cale Morton also participated

So did the likes of Jared Rivers & James McDonald.......? Just because they attended, doesn't necessarily mean they supported them as kids.

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That's like going to church and not picking a religion. What's the point? "Oh I just go for the songs." :rolleyes:

On the subject of who Watts supported, I think it was on the post-draft wrap up show on Foxtel after he was drafted, he said he barracked for Sydney for a little while but for some reason stopped going for them after the age 10. Something like that. I think he might have said he lived in Sydney for a few years when he was younger. Have I got this right? Someone must know.

Both of these statements apply to Jack to some extent. He did support the Swans when his family lived in Sydney for a year or so when he was younger, but that really didn't last long when they came back to Melbourne.

What he's said in the past about which team he's barracked for is that he's watched plenty of footy, without really being one-eyed about a particular team. He said he's liked some teams better than others (one of which is Melbourne) but has always been more interested in performances, how players do certain things and so on. DB and others have described him as a student of the game on various occasions, so maybe that's why some people avoid barracking for one team at the exclusion of others - they see the game more as a spectacle than tribal warfare. Wish I could do that, it probably saves a lot of heartache! Don't think there's any doubt about him being a passionate Demon these days though.

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I know one former player who didn't, and he maintained his passion for his original team even while playing for the Dees. Believe he retained his Hawthorn membership even when playing for us.

Schwarz was passionate about the Hawks as a kid and I remember reading that he went to every game (except down to Geelong). Seem to remember he said once that barracking for Hawthorn was almost better than playing for Melbourne.

Anyone remember how the Ox went when we played the Hawks?

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Career average disposals: 13.8

Against Hawks: 13.8

Averaged one less mark against them, one extra tackle, 1.5 goal average - 1.3 agains the Hawks.

Pretty much the same

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Career average disposals: 13.8

Against Hawks: 13.8

Averaged one less mark against them, one extra tackle, 1.5 goal average - 1.3 agains the Hawks.

Pretty much the same

Thanks 45HG, interesting, guess it doesn't make that much difference when you're playing as part of a team.

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One of the ch.10 commentators, probably Kelli Underwood, was lamenting how Moloney must feel coming back to Skilled Stadium and playing AGAINST his former Cats, and how much misery he must go through thinking of what might have been, part of a premiership team etc etc.

Dunno, it may just be me, but if I had the chance of playing for the team I passionately supported from a kid (even if they were bottom sometimes) against being part of a premiership with another team, I'd take playing for the Dees any time.

But then I'm not a player :lol:

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One of the ch.10 commentators, probably Kelli Underwood, was lamenting how Moloney must feel coming back to Skilled Stadium and playing AGAINST his former Cats, and how much misery he must go through thinking of what might have been, part of a premiership team etc etc.

Dunno, it may just be me, but if I had the chance of playing for the team I passionately supported from a kid (even if they were bottom sometimes) against being part of a premiership with another team, I'd take playing for the Dees any time.

But then I'm not a player :lol:

Heard that myself and felt like phoning ch !0 to put her straight (mind you, I wanted to put her straight about a lot of things) and tell her that Brent was a Dee through and through and how he loved our club.

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Schwarz was passionate about the Hawks as a kid and I remember reading that he went to every game (except down to Geelong). Seem to remember he said once that barracking for Hawthorn was almost better than playing for Melbourne.

I know of a couple of cases like this.

Kane Johnson said he still took an interest in Richmond, his boyhood club, when he was playing for Adelaide.

The strangest case I have heard is that of Wayne Harmes. He came from a family of keen Richmond supporters. He said that he considered playing for the Carlton football club to be just a job, he saw himself as merely an employee of the club. Apparantly he still took a keen interest in Richmond while he played for Carlton. Strange considering the Blues and the Tiges played in some pretty big games in the early 80s. After his career finished at Carlton, he went back to barracking for the Tigers.

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