"I think I've asked the club for a record number of tickets for friends and family, so they've looked after me," he laughed.

Might be a bigger crowd there this week, need to recruit more guys with big family and lots of friends. Hope the guy has a blinder

"He takes the game on, runs with the ball and also looks for good options through the middle of the ground."

That quote stuck out for me as well. I'd read that Craig was focusing more on using the corridor at training.

Will be good for you guys to be able to watch players try and cut through the play, rather than try and chip their way around it.

Michael Evans

He should have held onto it and set a new #50 Guernsey Record by playing 18 games.

Doesn't take much to become a significant Demon these days.

Edited June 20, 201312 yr by CHAMP

Thanks for the article "NOTA". Well done Mitch and lets hope this is the first of many games in the red and the blue.

Apparently his dad played a lot of footy with Neil Craig. Coincidence?

Looking forward to seeing him play. We really need some good ball users off half-back.

Apparently his dad played a lot of footy with Neil Craig. Coincidence?

Looking forward to seeing him play. We really need some good ball users off half-back.

Trevor Clisby played with the Roosters but my memory of him is very vague as anyone watching North Adelaide watched Barrie Robran or The Jarman brothers

Wasnt sure if Trevor and Mitch were related

We have a few North Adelaide connections at Melbourne besides Clisby in Mark Jamar, Luke Tapscott and the departed Jared Rivers

Didn't Kevin Dyson start off in the mid-50's ?

Didn't Kevin Dyson start off in the mid-50's ?

Correct, in 1991.

Mitch Clisby follows in the footsteps of another West Broken Hill footballer George Lakes who had a much different pathway to the Demons.

He was a schoolboy champion sought by a number of clubs in Victoria and South Australia and was declared "the best footballer of his age in the country" by Jim Cardwell who signed him as a 17 year old centre man in 1967.

His clearance was held up for some time but he made his debut in mid 1968. However, he couldn't cement his place in the Melbourne senior team due to a combination of injury and form and was restricted to 49 games before he was cleared to South Melbourne. It was said that he simply didn't have the hunger to succeed at the elite level of the game. Perhaps he had too easy a road to the top.

As notademon's article states, Clisby, on the other hand has had to work hard to get where he will be at the weekend.

Good luck Mitch.

Trevor Clisby played with the Roosters but my memory of him is very vague as anyone watching North Adelaide watched Barrie Robran or The Jarman brothers

Wasnt sure if Trevor and Mitch were related

We have a few North Adelaide connections at Melbourne besides Clisby in Mark Jamar, Luke Tapscott and the departed Jared Rivers

He could make it a 50% success rate that ain't bad

George Lakes is my physio in Moorabbin.

Welcome to the big time!

Rewarding good form rather than reputation is a good start for Neil.

Great catch Yarra. You had this one well before any of the news outlets got onto it.

Also congratulations to Mitch for a well earned promotion and best of luck in the game.

Will be my first glimpse of him. Best of luck to the lad.

Just saw his Press Conference. Said "Tex" Walker (his good mate) was one of the first to call him with congratulations, and that he is flying over for the game.

Sure hope he succeeds. Apparently another of the guys who has had a long wait, having been overlooked in several drafts.