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I just nabbed the Flower book thanks to the Buy It Now feature. $13 with postage maybe slightly OTT but screw it, it's easier than trawling op shops.

How's the guy trying to sell an ex-Library copy of Grand Old Flag for $65? http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GRAND-OLD-FLAG-History-Melbourne-Football-Club-hcdj-/370418070302?pt=AU_Non_Fiction_Books_2&hash=item563ea3331e

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Went past Melbourne Sports Books today and picked up Dumb Like A Fox and the Urge To Merge. They've also got copies of the Flower book there.

Strikes me that there has never been a book about the club that wasn't either produced by the club itself or from an ex-player/coach/identity.

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Went past Melbourne Sports Books today and picked up Dumb Like A Fox and the Urge To Merge. They've also got copies of the Flower book there.

Strikes me that there has never been a book about the club that wasn't either produced by the club itself or from an ex-player/coach/identity.

Most AFL clubs would be in that position, would they not?

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Supermercado Redleg

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Most AFL clubs would be in that position, would they not?

Maybe, but the day I saw that somebody had actually put out a book by some idiot writing about his life following the Fremantle Dockers I started to wonder wtf was going on with the publishing industry in this country.

I've got the feeling that there's a truckload of books from various angles - journos etc.. - about your "big four" but maybe it's the norm for the rest of us. I think there are South Melbourne/Sydney and St Kilda histories out there that are written by sympathetic journos but they might have been doing it for the club for all I know.

Either way, get writing kids.

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Maybe, but the day I saw that somebody had actually put out a book by some idiot writing about his life following the Fremantle Dockers I started to wonder wtf was going on with the publishing industry in this country.

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i presume you're talking about "Way to Go", by the late and great matt price, one of the better journalists this country has / had

thousands of readers of his work at The Australian would beg to differ that he was ''some idiot'' - indeed, 31 pages of pretty heatfelt tributes at the bottom of his obit, here

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com.au/mattprice/index.php/theaustralian/comments/journalist_matt_price_dies_aged_46/

/end rant

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I have a book, "100 Years of Football: The Story of the The Melbourne Football Club 1858-1958" written and edited by E.C.H Taylor.

It's an absolute gem and I derived great pleasure from reading it when I first got it many years ago. I've read it twice since and it makes a great reference book on the club's early days.

There's also a little known book about Melbourne called "Highway of Demons" which hasn't been published yet :lol: but is being serialised on Demonland. It's also part biographical, part science fiction and partly a paean to a genre of music that was beginning to blossom the last time Melbourne won a premiership flag.

My favourite non MFC book is Kill for Collingwood (the best club history by a mile) and Playing God (the best football biography - about G Ablett Snr).

One thing that surprises me a little is that whenever we publish an historical article or report on Demonland it receives very few hits compared to some other more trivial subjects. I think it's important for all followers of clubs to be aware of their history and heritage.

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Gutted this thread died because I need the link to the last Crosswell column that I posted where he admitted to honking onto a bucket of KFC and some amphetamines before the 1970 Grand Final.

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You'd never believe it but I just guessed a date and there it was

http://news.google.com.au/newspapers?id=IkoQAAAAIBAJ&sjid=y5IDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3646%2C4769575

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