Jack Grimes ''Time For Team To Rise Up''

[dazzledavey36 49,786]

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/tabid/7415/default.aspx?newsid=146963

Real Positive read! if its one man that can change the culture through real hard leadership its jack grimes!

[monoccular 16,632]

From your thread title I was wondering if he were staging a coup?

Having read the link I am very happy and drooling with the usual pre preseason expectations of a huge Demon year.

[old dee 23,256]

From your thread title I was wondering if he were staging a coup?

Having read the link I am very happy and drooling with the usual pre preseason expectations of a huge Demon year.

My God it is 6 th.September we finished our last game of 2012 six days ago.

I sure admire the positivity monoccular.

Lets wait till we see the 2013 squad before we get too excited

And remember talk is cheap as we all know from the last 6 years

[Chook 14,701]

Surely this is the earliest ever "the boys are raring to go for the new season" fluff article ever written. I'll believe it when I see it, Grimesy.

[monoccular 16,632]

My God it is 6 th.September we finished our last game of 2012 six days ago.

I sure admire the positivity monoccular.

Lets wait till we see the 2013 squad before we get too excited

And remember talk is cheap as we all know from the last 6 years

Six days.....thank goodness it is over.

But It is never too early to be positive...after all, the squad and the draft / trade picks will be dissected out relentlessly especially by the regular naysayers, and my (baseless and totally unfounded) sense of excitement and optimism could quickly fade.

You must be very young to only mention the last 6 years....how about the last 48 years!!

[biggestred 4,420]

the problem is that we have heard it all before - and yet the results stay the same.

ill believe it when i see wins

[rpfc 27,683]

More Jack Grimes' in this draft please.

[Freak 100]

Surely this is the earliest ever "the boys are raring to go for the new season" fluff article ever written. I'll believe it when I see it, Grimesy.

Yeah, i agree, give us some respect Grimesy. We're melbourne supporters, we've been promised the World, but given Moe, year in, year out

[beelzebub 22,717]

Actually interesting what he had to say about.....dare i utter his name ...Sylvia. I await further improving . I'll continue breathing however .

Yep heard it all before aswe all have but who knows...lol.. Oneday !!

[Range Rover 1,935]

Give me possessions and give me goals.

Don't give me words.

[P-man 13,350]

Give me possessions and give me goals.

Don't give me words.

+1

Heard it all before and this sort of talk has got me fired up in years gone by but not this time.

[FC Melbourne 108]

Blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda............

[Sir Why You Little 35,321]

More BullShite Fluff....Yeah Yeah....Just Do it, stop telling me what you want to happen.

In 2012 Round 1 was atrocious....so was Round 23....Nothing Changed Frank.

[jumbo returns 6,619]

These are exciting times.

This club is purging its disposition that was bordering on pathos, the signals are out early and under performing, lazy, undisciplined players will be gone.

Somehow, Grimes and Trengove don't strike me as big talkers - they'll do all their talking on the track.

[Nasher 33,246]

What do you guys expect him to say, given that he's the captain and saying something is compulsory?

[rhaz 342]

i swear some of you blokes enjoy seeing us fail, one of our captains tries to drum up some positivity and you all just shoot it down

[Grapeviney 9,062]

Surely this is the earliest ever "the boys are raring to go for the new season" fluff article ever written. I'll believe it when I see it, Grimesy.

I hear what you're saying Chook and has been discussed elsewhere (the trengove reality check comments), the club has its media obligations including the provision of fluff to supporters.

But I detect - in Grimes' comments and those of others - a deep-seated belief in the path the club / team is on.

JG is evidently a good communicator but I'm inclined to think there is core group of players and staff who have genuinely bought in to the vision and are convinced they are on the path to success.

I find it intriguing that a player with just 13 wins from 53 games feels like his timing at the club is perfect.

If that makes me a sucker, then so be it ... it's not like I haven't been seduced by (false) hope before!

[jumbo returns 6,619]

More BullShite Fluff....Yeah Yeah....Just Do it, stop telling me what you want to happen.

In 2012 Round 1 was atrocious....so was Round 23....Nothing Changed Frank.

Welcome back, WYL.

[Dee_Flower 53]

He could have said this a year ago. Maybe he did. More cheap off-season talk. How about less talk, more wins?

[Sir Why You Little 35,321]

What do you guys expect him to say, given that he's the captain and saying something is compulsory?

Tell us where he is going on Holiday... Edited September 6, 2012 by why you little

[Chook 14,701]

I hear what you're saying Chook and has been discussed elsewhere (the trengove reality check comments), the club has its media obligations including the provision of fluff to supporters.

But I detect - in Grimes' comments and those of others - a deep-seated belief in the path the club / team is on.

JG is evidently a good communicator but I'm inclined to think there is core group of players and staff who have genuinely bought in to the vision and are convinced they are on the path to success.

I find it intriguing that a player with just 13 wins from 53 games feels like his timing at the club is perfect.

If that makes me a sucker, then so be it ... it's not like I haven't been seduced by (false) hope before!

Something along the lines of "We've said it before, but this time we really mean it. We'll be good this time, I promise." Rule number one of passing a fiction off as truth: If you point out the flaws in your story (in this case that we've head it all before), then nobody can call you out on them. Edited September 6, 2012 by Chook

[Outside fifty 967]

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Yeah, i agree, give us some respect Grimesy. We're melbourne supporters, we've been promised the World, but given Moe, year in, year out

Grimes should be so lucky to live in MOE. I am sick and tied of the constant MOE bashing on Demonland. Paris it might not be, and yes the combined I.Q of the town struggles to hit double figures but it has many wonderful attributes. Did you know that MOE is the gateway to Morwell and has an olympic size swimming pool. Some of the AFL's finest have come from MOE including Peter Somerville and Barry Rowlings. On second thoughts your right, it's a [censored] hole. Back on topic. The only Latin my old man taught me was "FACTOR NON VERBA" It means deeds not words or something along those lines. Jack we are Melbourne supporters and we have endured decades of meaningless platitudes. As well intended as you no doubt are we need to mourn for season 2012. It's been a crap year.

[Dee_Flower 53]

Grimes could have said "I'm not going to insult your intelligence with yet more empty promises. What I can say is that we've let the supporters down this year and we're going to make amends by training as hard as we can over the summer and as captain I'm going to make it my business to make sure that every player in the club buys into the coaches' plans for 2013 and beyond".

If he'd said that he's have won some respect instead of looking like the Cameron Bruce of his generation.

[Mazer Rackham 14,970]

+1

Heard it all before and this sort of talk has got me fired up in years gone by but not this time.

So things ARE changing!

[Guest bluey]

Grimes could have said "I'm not going to insult your intelligence with yet more empty promises. What I can say is that we've let the supporters down this year and we're going to make amends by training as hard as we can over the summer and as captain I'm going to make it my business to make sure that every player in the club buys into the coaches' plans for 2013 and beyond".

If he'd said that he's have won some respect instead of looking like the Cameron Bruce of his generation.

Yeh, I thought he would have said we will be in for another long year,..training the house down...you beauty.