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The current Neeld / Prendergast thread again mentioned that Pendlebury followed the Dee's as a kid, and therefore wants to play with us. So in the interest of keeping some sanity until 31 March 2012, here is a little quiz.

1) What teams did the Melbourne players follow as kids?

02 Jones - St Kilda

03 Bartram - Essendon

04 Watts - Sydney, Essendon, St Kilda, Geelong

05 Gysberts - Collingwood

16 Grimes - Melbourne

22 Moloney - Melbourne

27 Rivers - Sydney

42 Spencer - Brisbane

48 Fitzpatrick - Hawthorn

49 Nicholson - Hawthorn

50 Evans - Melbourne

2) What opposition players followed Melbourne as kids?

Carlton - Chris Judd

Hawthorn - Buddy Franklin

Collingwood - Simon Buckley, Scott Pendlebury

West Coast - Andrew Gaff

Well we all know that Moloney was a Demon. Jones was St Kilda. I would assume Frawley was a Saint too. Bartram was Essendon. Grimes was Tigers I believe.

Judd, Buddy and Pendles were all Melbourne supporters as kids. Simon Buckley was too.

Who else have we got?

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I work at a gym and one of our members works with Jack Watts' dad... I'm pretty sure he told me that Watts Snr supports St. Kilda. Whether Jack supported St. Kilda or not though I am unsure.

I can 100% confirm Grimes supported Melbourne, as one of my best mates knows the family through Hurstbridge FC.

As for opposition players supporting Melbourne... I think that Andrew Gaff from West Coast is another one.

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I work at a gym and one of our members works with Jack Watts' dad... I'm pretty sure he told me that Watts Snr supports St. Kilda. Whether Jack supported St. Kilda or not though I am unsure.

I can 100% confirm Grimes supported Melbourne, as one of my best mates knows the family through Hurstbridge FC.

As for opposition players supporting Melbourne... I think that Andrew Gaff from West Coast is another one.

I remember reading an article written by Grant Thomas about Jack Watts and Nick Riewoldt spending some time together at a party, which sort of backs up the St Kilda theory.

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Yeah, I'm pretty sure I read a year or two back that Roo and Jack were catching up at one point too. Sort of a mentoring role... which is unique being they are opponents.

If Watts can become as good as Riewoldt was at his peak, then I'm sure we'll all be pretty stoked with that.

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