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Greg Wells could be President

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1 red eye 1 blue eye Mighty Demon

1 red eye 1 blue eye   754

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Greg Wells was TOLD by the MFC that he was being traded to Carltank he had no choice, he was sold off for a bag of silver.

His choices were pretty restricted as it was June. He was what Carltank needed to win the flag.

So he didn't just "nick off for a flag" it wasn't his decision, he was our captain!!

Shows how long we've been treating senior players (Captains fmd) poorly. Seriously disappointing decisions, the old reaping what you sow comes to mind.

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Along with Flower he was a childhood idol. After Greg Parke's 26 I had 11 on my back.

Met him for the first time in 2008 at the 150 year celebrations at Crown.

What about Ross Dillon No. 24 ???

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Greg Wells is a demon, and a good bloke, the guy played 200 games for us.

Pretty irrelevant, we need people with business acumen, influence, drive etc

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Greg Wells was an absolute gun - a little bit in the Michael Voss mode. I wore his number as a kid. But he left. He knicked off to the Blues for a Premiership so calling him "Red and Blue" or whatever is rubbish. Do you reckon he will celebrate 200 games with a poor, lowly MFC, or the premiership with the Blues in 1981?

Stan Alves, Gerard Healey are in the same boat. Great players but their heart is NOT red and blue.

If we reject Kennet for being Brown and Gold, should we have any more tolerance for people who jumped ship for a flag?

Total nonsense. Stan Alves and Greg Wells both left the MFC on good terms and with best wishes from all of us for hope they might snag a premiership after many years of loyal and top performance for the MFC. Greg is definitely Red & Blue!!

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Total nonsense. Stan Alves and Greg Wells both left the MFC on good terms and with best wishes from all of us for hope they might snag a premiership after many years of loyal and top performance for the MFC. Greg is definitely Red & Blue!!

So is crackers keenan who played 101 games for the dees, let's get him on the board too. What a great idea.

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Pretty irrelevant, we need people with business acumen, influence, drive etc

Greg ticks all those boxes, do your home work.
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Glad to be corrected if he was pushed, rather than jumped.

But it was not "complete rot". Alves chose to go - he said so in his interview on SEN, and that he "will always hold a soft spot for Melbourne". Just because they were champs doesn't mean we have to believe they are red and blue through to the bone.

And Barrassi is intersting. Probably the best Dees player ever. He was red and blue, but he is multi-coloured these days. He is more dedicated to footy in general than to the MFC.

I might be biased, but have no doubt Wells is red and blue.

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I went to school with Greg ( Bentleigh High). He was a star footballer, a great guy and ran a successful small business. I don't beleive he is pesidential material.

However, I could be proven wrong!

Did you attend eastmoor primary rainbow?

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Total nonsense. Stan Alves and Greg Wells both left the MFC on good terms and with best wishes from all of us for hope they might snag a premiership after many years of loyal and top performance for the MFC. Greg is definitely Red & Blue!!

Both are red and blue but the treatment of Alves Wells Hardeman and Flower as players at MFC was appalling. They deserved better at the time.

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Sure has the right attitude. If he were to bring this attitude and ruthlessness to the Presidency, along with a decent (and more compact) team onto the Board i would be pleased. Some excerpts from a SuperFooty article after the opening loss to Port this year (6 April 2013) ......

"Wells, a successful businessman, was approached by a couple of his former teammates in an effort to get him to return to Melbourne in some capacity. But the 62-year-old dual best-and-fairest said it was "highly unlikely", saying it was time for the next generation of players after him to serve the club.

"You would never say never, but I would say it is more unlikely than likely," Wells said. Wells said the Demons needed to start thinking with a winner's philosophy again.

"To coin a phrase, you have to have a bit of mongrel in you - a bit of s--- in you," he said.

"That has to start with the president and the CEO and then it comes down through the line......

And in reference to the sooky sooky la la from Watts after this match, which IMO should have been hit on the head straight away (publicly) by both McLardy and Neeld at the time and seen Watts banished to Casey for weeks to set an example.........

"I don't want to set panic in motion, as it is only one loss, even though it was fairly pathetic," he said (referring to the opening disasterous loss to Port).

"What they have to do is stop these players coming out and saying 'if we had a Joel Selwood' or 'if we had a Stevie Johnson'..... "

The full article below for those interested......

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/former-melbourne-great-greg-wells-urges-melbourne-players-to-play-with-mongrel/story-fndv8pdq-1226613794072

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Greg Wells was an absolute gun - a little bit in the Michael Voss mode. I wore his number as a kid. But he left. He knicked off to the Blues for a Premiership so calling him "Red and Blue" or whatever is rubbish. Do you reckon he will celebrate 200 games with a poor, lowly MFC, or the premiership with the Blues in 1981?

Stan Alves, Gerard Healey are in the same boat. Great players but their heart is NOT red and blue.

If we reject Kennet for being Brown and Gold, should we have any more tolerance for people who jumped ship for a flag?

I think you will find Stan Alves' heart, is very red and blue.

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I think you will find Stan Alves' heart, is very red and blue.

I think you will find any player who wins a premiership with a team, has as their first allegiance, the premiership team.

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I think you will find any player who wins a premiership with a team, has as their first allegiance, the premiership team.

Say what. Greg Wells was a demon supporter as a kid. Spent umpteen number of years at our club as a player. Has been a chairman of selectors, assistant coach etc etc for the Dees and you are trying to argue his first allegiance is to the Blues, because he won a flag in one of his couple of seasons there? It just isn't true mate.
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What I really liked about Greg Wells as a player was the fact that from his first senior game late in 1969 he played top notch football. He was b & f in 1971 (after 50 games) and Brownlow Medal runner up in 1972 (after 72 games in four seasons). Times might have changed but that's an enormous effort considering Watts, Blease, Strauss and Jetta are all in their fifth seasons.

None of that makes him president material but he would surely make a good football director.

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