http://cgi.ebay.com.au/JIM-STYNES-WHATEVER-TAKES-NO-732-1000-LEATHER-/360333688416?pt=AU_Antiquarian_Collectable_Books&hash=item53e58fbe60

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ROBBIE-ROBERT-FLOWER-1987-/380258682516?pt=AU_Non_Fiction_Books_2&hash=item58892f0694

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

Edited January 5, 201115 yr by Supermercado

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.

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?

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.

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 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

Just because he has passed away, it does not make the premise of his book any less stupid or inane.

i dont agree with the notion that the book was either stupid or inane, or that its author was some idiot

Emotive moments and 5000 pages of tributes aside the fact that he was 'famous' explains why anybody would put out a book about Freo.

He was "famous"..?

You'd have to be to get a book about Phil Gilbert published.

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 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.

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.

UPDATE

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

Edited January 20, 201115 yr by Supermercado

Shame.

I didn't get a chance to read the other articles, either.