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How is he not a fitness coach at the club??

With the injuries he had?

Whelan hurt the most for me, easily my favourite ever player, even worse than when Mcgrath retired (and that almost ruined cricket for me)

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With the injuries he had?

Whelan hurt the most for me, easily my favourite ever player, even worse than when Mcgrath retired (and that almost ruined cricket for me)

Are you serious? He is one of the fittest blokes you will ever meet. I bumed into him and Hoppy on the train one day. They were off to a bar in Prahran...... Hoppy is enjoying life outside of footy and Stinga looks like he should still be playing the game, looks as fit as Benny Cousins.

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To me Hassa Mann going to South Fremantle was hardest to cope with

Hardeman and Dillion to Sth Australia with Wells and Alves to rival VFL clubs hurt also

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1. D.Neitz, D Schwartz

2. T.Johnstone

3. P Wheatley

4. M.Whelan

5. R.Fergurson

6. J.Gutnik

Edit: Changed order

The only reason I can come up with for that departure hurting anyone is that we got nothing for it. I still wake up in a cold sweat knowing that we had the chance to trade Ferguson for Brad Sewell.

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Rumour only but I've heard that Scott Thompson's girlfriend who is a Victorian is getting homesick (and who wouldn't after 5 years of living in Adelaide?) and the pair might come back to Melbourne at the end of the year. Doubt whether the Dees would be interested in a trade though, given Scotty woud be in his late 20s by the time the move was made.

I trust that was a tongue in cheek comment mate; or that you've lived in SA for more than 5 years and can support your remark.

Coincidentally, Thommo leaving is the departure that hurt the most for me. Such an exciting talent, to now see so much footage of him wearing that guernsey and playing like a beast doesn't sit right. Even more reason to dislike the cows - yes that's how you spell it if you live in SA and dislike them.


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The only reason I can come up with for that departure hurting anyone is that we got nothing for it. I still wake up in a cold sweat knowing that we had the chance to trade Ferguson for Brad Sewell.

I hurt for him for 3 reasons. We got nothing, massively underated and and unjustly delisted.

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Seeing Brent Grgic in the blue and white hoops was tough to swallow.

And the irony was that Grgic played his only 2 good games for the Cats against Melbourne. I think he took about 14 marks in one of those games against us down at Skilled.

Powell was a bitter pill considering we got nothing in exchange for him.

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But falling through a plate glass window precludes him.... :huh:

Oh yes, because that's the only injury he had B)

Aside from his personal fitness, is there any reason to think he would be a valuable fitness coach at the MFC?

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I hurt for him for 3 reasons. We got nothing, massively underated and and unjustly delisted.

For him to play a game like he did in the T.Broadbridge dedication match v essendon opening round; 3 Brownlow votes; yet not kick on and leave AFL footy the way he did still puzzles me to this day.

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Oh yes, because that's the only injury he had B)

Aside from his personal fitness, is there any reason to think he would be a valuable fitness coach at the MFC?

Not really. It was just a flippant suggestion, not meant to be taken seriously.

Slow time of year...

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I hurt for him for 3 reasons. We got nothing, massively underated and and unjustly delisted.

Conflicting logic.

We could not trade him post the Sewell event (FWIW I wonder in all truth how close that deal was).

He could not crack a game in an ordinary defence at MFC. Now why?

He was delisted and not one of the other 15 clubs sort him through the PSD. Now why?

Answer: He was bog ordinary and not good enough. He eventually found his standard in the SANFL. Underrated...nah. Correctly assessed albeit that it took too long for MFC to work it out.

I hated it when Alves, Wells and Hardeman left.

Neitz, Ox and other senior players were finished. However the Ox's 2nd knee injury against the Swans meant we would never see the Ox of old again. Tingay was a shot duck phyiscally after 1998.

Powell was riddled with OP and played his best at MFC in 2000. There was no way I would have given him 3 years. He was pedestrian St K.

Farmer was a nasty difficult and inconsistent player at Freo. Whish we got something for him. Another who played his best footy at MFC.

Thompson's departure hurt given his impact in 2004

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As a young boy I can still remember the day my father told me Stuart Spencer was not playing any more, I was devastated, I agree with the rest of the posts but the one that really annoys me in this current era is Scott Thompson.


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The one that hurt me the most was Jeff Famer, He signed my jumper after his last game at Melbourne only to go to Freo next year. I did take solace in the way he played at Freo, It was nothing of the Jeff we knew.

Of our departures last year I was really disappointed we let Simon Buckley go, I really thought he had something.

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At the time the Wizard leaving was devastating for me. He came out during the contract negotiations and said he wanted to be a life member of Melbourne and that there was no chance of him going, then bam! He was gone!

And then the next year he beat us after the siren!

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At the time the Wizard leaving was devastating for me. He came out during the contract negotiations and said he wanted to be a life member of Melbourne and that there was no chance of him going, then bam! He was gone!

And then the next year he beat us after the siren!

Yes i remember him being interviewed on "Demon Radio" 927 and Catagorically saying he wanted to be a "10 year one club man"

Within weeks he was gone....i was Gutted.

The Demon Flag that always Hung from the Top floor of an old mansion on canturberry Road Middle Park was left at Half Mast for about a month after that....

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