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... and shame on all of you for bagging Tom Scully.

I thought he did a great job yesterday for a kid straight out of Haileybury College and with the weight of an overbearing father hanging heavily upon him.

 

Harsh - those 3 metre handballs are golden ^_^

Perhaps he should handball left handed more often, that's his strongest as its the one he gets his wallet out of his pocket with.

Scully's problem is that you can leave Melbourne, but you cant get rid of the taint - just ask Cam Bruce, Armstrong, Cheney or Brock McClean....

 

Scully's problem is that you can leave Melbourne, but you cant get rid of the taint - just ask Cam Bruce, Armstrong, Cheney or Brock McClean....

Cheney was delisted.

Went on to play at hawthorn but not very well...


Scully is trying to buck a long trend in recent years of being picked up by another club from Melbourne and being decent, the list of the top of my head:

Bruce (Hawthorn) - rubbish, only on list because he was signed to a 2 year deal

P. Johnson (Hawthorn) - delisted

Cheney (Hawthorn) - on list and gets the odd game but does nothing

C. Johnson (Carlton) - delisted

McLean (Carlton) - rubbish, floundering in the VFL

Buckley (Collingwood) - suprised he is still on their list, but gets little to no game time regardless

Miller (Richmond) - giving them similar to what we got and will be gone at years end

Maric (Richmond) - 1 game and dropped straight away

Scully (GWS) - played 1 game and will be good, just not sure how good

McDonald (GWS) - will only get a year or maybe 2 at best at his age, but hopefully he goes alright

Their may even be more that I have missed, and probably just about deserves it's own thread.

Scully's problem is that you can leave Melbourne, but you cant get rid of the taint - just ask Cam Bruce, Armstrong, Cheney or Brock McClean....

And Armstrong went on to win a premiership medallion, muppet.

Bump...the Bummers are trailing Gold Toast......

 

And Armstrong went on to win a premiership medallion, muppet.

Given his moniker "Norm Smith's Curse" I think it's given!

FD not doing much better choosing to ignore Thompson and Jolly who have both gone on into obscurity.....not

The GC effort tonight makes me feel sick. If the MFC went up there we would get beaten.

Where is this club??


Just watched GC. No doubt now that GWS is the only team we could beat right now, and by the time we meet them they'll have enough games into them to think they're a real chance.

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Just watched GC. No doubt know that GWS is the only team we could beat right now, and by the time we meet them they'll have enough games into them to think they're a real chance.

Yeah, that might be setting themselves up mentall for a big game when they get the chance to play us. Just like they will when they play the Suns.

The GC effort tonight makes me feel sick. If the MFC went up there we would get beaten.

Where is this club??

Absolutely. Forget Ablett who is a freak and better than our entire list combined, here is a team of kids and old hacks who fought every second of the game despite a horrible start, and nearly pinched a contest.

And then to see Alwyn Davey and Hurley win Essendon the game just burns that little bit more.

Absolutely. Forget Ablett who is a freak and better than our entire list combined, here is a team of kids and old hacks who fought every second of the game despite a horrible start, and nearly pinched a contest.

And then to see Alwyn Davey and Hurley win Essendon the game just burns that little bit more.

Chill out guys! I thought it was a great game of footy. In fact, I managed to enjoy it withought thinking of the Dees once!

Absolutely. Forget Ablett who is a freak and better than our entire list combined, here is a team of kids and old hacks who fought every second of the game despite a horrible start, and nearly pinched a contest.

And then to see Alwyn Davey and Hurley win Essendon the game just burns that little bit more.

Ablett was a colossus, again. He makes those kids better by just being there........

What impressed me about the Gold Coast this week was that after their genuinely awful and insipid display last week, with people of all stripes questioning their position and future and direction, their coach being put under pressure, despite their age and inexperience, and the players being ridiculed by plenty, was that they showed so much fight.

They didn't cop it lying down, instead they fought and damn nearly won (which would have been great but not really the point).

They showed more heart than we seem to be able to muster, they showed a never say die attitude that we seem to be only able to dream of.

And that makes me desperately sad.

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Gold Coast made the MFC look like a complete and utter disgrace tonight.

5 years of rebuilding What???

If this club doesn't wake from the past glories of the 50's We are dead and GONE.

The supporters need to find voice and demand more.

No more Blazer Glory. Onfield is what we want. Nothing less.

Fook it.

Any one take note of Mat Warnocks game against Hurley last night. Played well and more or less negated Hurley for most of the game. This was the guy who was going to be our big key defender a couple of years ago but back slid into limbo the last couple of seasons and looked hopeless. Then wanted out. I'm starting to think there are too many more like him still at the club that don't want to play for us and perform accordingly.

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I am 62 years old. Started barracking for the DEES in 1971, chose to barrack for them, didnt inherit them from my family. Been a member since 1988, wear a number 13 jumper every week to the footy, wore it round Europe in 2010, proud of being an DEES supporter, correction was proud of being a supporter, now just embarrassed to be one.

Watch John Longmire kick 12 on us one day, saw Jimmy cross the mark, watched Alister Clarkson in his first game at North kick the winning goal with the last kick of the day. Was against the merger and tanking and still am both.

BUT I have never been EMBARRASSED by the DEES up until now. It was a spineless effort no read spineless jog by the majority of wearers of the jumper yesterday.

But me being a stupid old bugger will be there along with my jumper barracking for the DEES again, just goes to show what a glution for punishment I am.

That was the most spinless display I have seen from the DEES and I was at Geelong last year for the thrashing.

Eagles have slackened off this quarter. Someone from AFL House must have sent a message for them to slow down. Must be working out the margin to get us on the bottom of the ladder..


Eagles have slackened off this quarter. Someone from AFL House must have sent a message for them to slow down. Must be working out the margin to get us on the bottom of the ladder..

yeh annoying, i was hoping for the eagles to score 250!

Any one take note of Mat Warnocks game against Hurley last night. Played well and more or less negated Hurley for most of the game. This was the guy who was going to be our big key defender a couple of years ago but back slid into limbo the last couple of seasons and looked hopeless. Then wanted out. I'm starting to think there are too many more like him still at the club that don't want to play for us and perform accordingly.

Yes, I did notice. Correct me if I'm wrong but his first 2 games were very ordinary. Time will tell. He did play a few good games for us, though.

The fact we are even interested in GWS scores because of Scully or them passing our record is just embarrassing in itself.

I have decided I no longer begrudge Scully leaving. If I was a player with no emotional connection to the club who came the club and was the one setting standards in terms of workrate and preparation at the age of 18 while the so called leaders of the club float through games and seasons, I would of left aswell.

 

""When players instinctively work to the game structure they've been used to for some time and all of a sudden they have this slight change… [then that] creates uncertainty."

M Malthouse. re Collingwood.


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