Nothing irritates me more than, players who decide they are going to play well when they join another club.

Perfect example is Moloney whose eftort last year was a disgrace, and now all of a sudden looks a million dollars with Brisbane.

Anyone can look a million dollars in a NAB cup game...just as easily as they (eg, Hawthorn) can look like Monopoly money. Lets just wait until we see if guys like Moloney do it consistently when the real deal starts.

Nothing irritates me more than, players who decide they are going to play well when they join another club.

Perfect example is Moloney whose eftort last year was a disgrace, and now all of a sudden looks a million dollars with Brisbane.

Yeah, I hope that bloody Chris Dawes doesn't turn it on this year.......

Anyone can look a million dollars in a NAB cup game...just as easily as they (eg, Hawthorn) can look like Monopoly money. Lets just wait until we see if guys like Moloney do it consistently when the real deal starts.

Your right Hardtack we will wait and see.

Not that i nessasarily want him to fail, more guys like Scully and Mclean that i dont wish any particularly good vein of form upon.

Yeah, I hope that bloody Chris Dawes doesn't turn it on this year.......

I was talking about players that left the Dees

if cale morton plays well at west coast i am not going to be a happy camper.

I will put $$$ on Moloney giving the Members the "Bird" next time he plays the MFC at the 'G, as if it was our fault he was a walking "Witches Hat" last year.

Going on his form so far with the Fitzroy Bears he should refund all last years salary to the Demon Members...

We paid for his 2012 Tanty.

I'm still dark on Gerard Healey.

I have been umm'n and arr'n all week to start a post on the new improved Moloney and I just felt I am an infant on this forum to even attempt it.

But it had to be said and I agree with you DeeZee. NAB Cup or not, he looks far better in that Lion midfield than he has ever for us.

He will most certainly play his absolute guts out this year, just to give it to the MFC as he was one of our very few supporters as a kid. He truly loved the MFC. But he had to go. Whatever it was, it just was not working for us.

Oh well, not much can be done now and let's all hope what Moloney is doing for Brisbane, Dawes will do for us.

Bring on 2013.

I'd honestly like to see Maloney and Stef Martin do well at the Lions. I very much liked watching them when they were on-song with us. Admittedly that wasn't all that often across their time here. Cale Moreton, not so much.

You win some, you lose some.

From our past we have lost some decent names like Scott Thompson and Darren Jolly. In relation to Beamer, It doesn't matter how well he performs this year or the next at BL one reason why he was discarded was for the lazy party-going culture instilled in the young blokes, his sense of "authority" towards the younger guys needed to go. In regards to recently dropped players I think the only one I will potentially miss will be Ricky Petterd, he also left on a good note without blaming anyone else, I truly wish him all the best at the Tigers. As for the others I think Martin is the only one that may potentially come good, Bennell not bad but can never see him in the light of a Lewis Jetta or his younger cousin.

As for us, we won on the under-performing Brisbane Lion named Mitch Clark, I truly hope this year Dawes AND/OR Pedersen proves their worth (for the long run), and from what I read and hear it sounds like Byrnes and Rodan's experience and attitude as already paid dividends.

Like I said you win some, you lose some, and often a new club, culture and change is all a player needs to take it to the next level.

Nothing irritates me more than, players who decide they are going to play well when they join another club.

Perfect example is Moloney whose eftort last year was a disgrace, and now all of a sudden looks a million dollars with Brisbane.

Look at our Test Cricket Team atmo... they're having they're own 186 in India this series.

an unhappy team is a poor team.

Moloney spat the dummy. It doesn't matter how well he plays for Brisbane; he had to go.

Look at our Test Cricket Team atmo... they're having they're own 186 in India this series.

an unhappy team is a poor team.

They're 0/109 at Lunch at present.

They weren't doing it for us, and it was increasingly unlikely they were ever going to do it for us again.

That's all that really matters.

Godwin's Law essentially states that the probability of any Internet conversation mentioning Hitler approaches 1 the longer it goes.

186 is our Hitler.

Lets just hope Pederson out plays Gysberts

Moloney didn't want to be there from the moment Neeld walked in. You don't just forget how to play footy.

When players do well at other clubs i'm not angey at them, im angey at our FD of the time who couldnt get them motivated to the same level.

Its as much of a reflection on the club as it is the player

if cale morton plays well at west coast i am not going to be a happy camper.

I don't give a fig what Cale Morton does at West Coast.

I only care what he did at Melbourne, and might have continued doing, which was not much.

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For all those interested, I am having a wager that Stef Martin will touch his hair more than he touches the pill in tonight's GF.

Will report back after the game with how many touches but I'm going to say at least 15 will be visible from the cameras.

i think its more a statement of the depth of our list, we had/have a whole heap of average players that are able to slot into another team or warrant a spot on another teams list, does not mean they are a grade players, but rather they have the ability to play their roles in another side, just not what we needed at the time

I'm pretty sure I was told on here that Beamer was asked to slim down last off season to find more fitness and agility. He obviously didn't last year but suprise suprise he looks trim and fit up at Brisbane. I won't hold any grudge against the MFC for giving Beamer the boot even if he wins the brownlow with the Lions. He hasn't found form up North he has found the required attitude that he didn't have last year with us.

Was that Stef Martin hitting a pack like a freight train about a minute ago? Never saw him do that in close to six seasons at Melbourne.

I'd honestly like to see Maloney and Stef Martin do well at the Lions. I very much liked watching them when they were on-song with us. Admittedly that wasn't all that often across their time here. Cale Moreton, not so much.

That's why they were given the sars.