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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - DAVID RODAN

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I ain't in the industry but I must say let's not go too far in the other direction! The club was burnt by the myopic focus on 'playing kids'. Now, let's not go too far the other way and pick up players 24 and beyond.

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Deestroy All
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My first ever use of a smilie, that's how lost for words I was.

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I'm not jumping off the walls with excitement about his one, but he's a Demon now, let's support him. Welcome to the club, good luck in the Red and Blue.

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Will you delete your Demonland account too?

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I ain't in the industry but I must say let's not go too far in the other direction! The club was burnt by the myopic focus on 'playing kids'. Now, let's not go too far the other way and pick up players 24 and beyond.

It's a balancing act to be sure. But I agree with you ... Rodan goes a bit too far in the Bad News Bears direction.

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It's a balancing act to be sure. But I agree with you ... Rodan goes a bit too far in the Bad News Bears direction.

The Bad News Bears implies more than one...

And that movie is about a bunch of hapless kids...

That's our current predicament!

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You never know, Maybe Rodan can be our Stewart Dew!!!

or not.

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no, but nor were the Hawks in 2007.

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The Bad News Bears implies more than one...

And that movie is about a bunch of hapless kids...

That's our current predicament!

I was thinking more along the lines of this mob ...

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Wonder who thought that jumper was a good idea

Wonder what their clash strip would have looked like, had they been around back then.

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David Rodan = great pick up if fit

If not fit = bad decision

But the way I see it if we can get him for pretty much nothing and on a one year term then it might be worth a shot.

I must say everytime I saw him play for Port he was very evasive, got plenty of it and provided that polish that we have craved for for many years...

No doubt we would run him thru a medical and have the knees tested...no one can question his endeavour.

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Picking up Rodan wouldn't make sense as a midfielder or as a small forward.

We have Davey and now Byrnes who can play the small forward role and Rodan would only be taking away mid field time from Viney and perhaps Wines

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Picking up Rodan wouldn't make sense as a midfielder or as a small forward.

We have Davey and now Byrnes who can play the small forward role and Rodan would only be taking away mid field time from Viney and perhaps Wines

Based on what I have seen of Davey for the past 3 years I would have Rodan playing as a small forward

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Flash will be back and is a better player than Rodan

I hope your right!

Does anyone know how much Davey is being paid? I know we went pretty hard when reconstructing him the last time.

The obvious question is who would we get better value out of?

Rodan on a $200k package

Davey on maybe $500k

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So....will he come as a delisted FA?????

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