Brent Moloney Retires

[DemonOX 8,530]

Then I suggest you don't know the full story.

Yeah that's it.

[joeboy 2,773]

Heard him being interviewed on SEN this evening and completely changed my opinion of him.

He spoke glowingly of his time at the club , even lovingly.

He bore no malice towards anyone, even Neeld, and was extremely gracious and modest about his achievements in the AFL .

He went out with class, in my opinion

Edited August 11, 2014 by joeboy

[spirit of norm smith 12,886]

Beamer had a huge heart and huge contributor over many many years in red and blue.

B&F winner.

Not a great end but a good career.

[Guest]

Heard him being interviewed on SEN this evening and completely changed my opinion of him.

He spoke glowingly of his time at the club , even lovingly.

He bore no malice towards anyone, even Neeld, and was extremely gracious and modest about his achievements in the AFL .

He went out with class, in my opinion

Hopefully that was a lesson learnt from how he left Melbourne. If so, that gets him some points back.

Edit: Listening to the interview now. I will agree that he handled the MFC departure questions very well. He didn't want to dwell on that and just put it down to 'sometimes personalities clash'.

Edited August 11, 2014 by Colin B. Flaubert

[Sir Why You Little 34,430]

Wasn't real happy with his sleeping through the second half of 186 with stats in the first half of 0K,0M,0H.0T.

Yep i lost all respect for Beamer that day. It was just such a selfish thing to do. The number one midfielder on the team was too sick to do his job. But demanded he play. Let all his team mates down & his coach who took the chop solo as nobody sat next to him...

Yeah great clubman.

I would prefer he stayed away and watched the climb on telly

Edited August 11, 2014 by why you little

[Bitter but optimistic 21,232]

Yep i lost all respect for Beamer that day. It was just such a selfish thing to do. The number one midfielder on the team was too sick to do his job. But demanded he play. Let all his team mates down & his coach who took the chop solo as nobody sat next to him...

Yeah great clubman.

I would prefer he stayed away and watched the climb on telly

You're in a sh itty mood for a bloke basking in the the tropics ... and .. who has escaped being kidnapped.

[Sir Why You Little 34,430]

You're in a sh itty mood for a bloke basking in the the tropics ... and .. who has escaped being kidnapped.

nah. Just calling as i see it. A very selfish player whose attitude in 2012 was deplorable. We all knew Neeld wasn't going to last. If he loved the place so much he could have put his head down and got through it like we all did.

[The Big Ticket 94]

I think his instagram post after Neeld got the arse says it all really.

[Sir Why You Little 34,430]

I think his instagram post after Neeld got the arse says it all really.

Exactly. Beamer had carved out his little niche which was not working. The coach had to pull it down. For the sake of the club Brent should have known this.

[Moonshadow 16,157]

Heard him being interviewed on SEN this evening and completely changed my opinion of him.

He spoke glowingly of his time at the club , even lovingly.

He bore no malice towards anyone, even Neeld, and was extremely gracious and modest about his achievements in the AFL .

He went out with class, in my opinion

He has far more to gain being gracious and modest in retirement than being bitter about the past. He should have been similarly humble when he departed the club or when Neeld was sacked. Doubt you'll see Neeld jump on twitter tonight.

[Bitter but optimistic 21,232]

He has far more to gain being gracious and modest in retirement than being bitter about the past. He should have been similarly humble when he departed the club or when Neeld was sacked. Doubt you'll see Neeld jump on twitter tonight.

An unnecessarily nasty post from you Moon, you nasty [censored]!

[Older demon 2,166]

Beamer was good at the interview but has ultimately succumbed to a chronic achilles injury which he has carried all year. Sounds like that when he left Melbourne he had only 1 year left in his body.

[Machsy 2,856]

Heard him being interviewed on SEN this evening and completely changed my opinion of him.

He spoke glowingly of his time at the club , even lovingly.

He bore no malice towards anyone, even Neeld, and was extremely gracious and modest about his achievements in the AFL .

He went out with class, in my opinion

Yeah, it was shockingly out of character for him, wasn't it?

Good luck to him.

He'll need it.

[titan_uranus 22,284]

I don't rate a lot of what he did off the field, but he always gave his all on the field, and did his best work at a time where playing well at Melbourne wasn't easy. Good on him for that.

[Jaded No More 57,771]

Congrats to Beamer.

I doubt any Melbourne supporter has any negative feelings towards him. He served our club well, and left on bad terms with a coach/administration that failed so many others.

[Pennant St Dee 11,256]

Didn't end as you would have liked at the Dees, Beamer but when your entire career as a Demon is weighed up overall you gave plenty of service and I heard your interview on SEN tonight and I thought you showed a lot of class.

Enjoy Retirement

[Arrow 1,257]

Wasn't real happy with his sleeping through the second half of 186 with stats in the first half of 0K,0M,0H.0T.

Oh please. Players every week go into games completely injured and or sick leaving them at 60% of normal function. It's the coaches responsibility to decide whether to pick him.

If he'd played sick and dominating you'd be labelling him someone who bleeds red and blue Whod do anything for the club.

He was one of 22 players and 10 coaches who had the worst day of their career that day, if you judge his career on that, you're following the wrong sport.

[binman 37,924]

Heard him being interviewed on SEN this evening and completely changed my opinion of him.

He spoke glowingly of his time at the club , even lovingly.

He bore no malice towards anyone, even Neeld, and was extremely gracious and modest about his achievements in the AFL .

He went out with class, in my opinion

I had much the same thought.

[rpfc 27,432]

If he wants to come back into the Demon family, he is more than welcome.

This club has seen it fair share of nonsense in the past 50 years and we are a shell of our former self because of it.

We hold grudges against our own too easily and for too long. We are not big enough or strong enough to be so damning and insolent.

This club will take back Moloney, and Ridley-ites, and Schwab, and Gardner, and McLardy, and Connolly, and anyone else spurned rightly or wrongly.

We will take them back because we can't afford not to.

Edited August 12, 2014 by rpfc

[jnrmac 18,944]

Heard him being interviewed on SEN this evening and completely changed my opinion of him.

He spoke glowingly of his time at the club , even lovingly.

He bore no malice towards anyone, even Neeld, and was extremely gracious and modest about his achievements in the AFL .

He went out with class, in my opinion

Good to hear. i was a critic of his last two years but I respect his efforts and bowing out with dignity.

[jnrmac 18,944]

Oh please. Players every week go into games completely injured and or sick leaving them at 60% of normal function. It's the coaches responsibility to decide whether to pick him.

If he'd played sick and dominating you'd be labelling him someone who bleeds red and blue Whod do anything for the club.

He was one of 22 players and 10 coaches who had the worst day of their career that day, if you judge his career on that, you're following the wrong sport.

My understanding is that he was asked if he was good to go and as a leader of the club probably had that right. The fact we were playing his old club was most likely a big influence on his decision to play.

He was not at 60% and his 0 repeat zero possessions indicate he was well below that. On any optic you care to view this it was an enirely incorrect, selfish decision. And given the background of what was going on at the club between the players and administrators it was an even worse decision.

I am not judging his career on one game and if you bothered to read my post I said 'I wasn't really happy etc' - far from skewering his career on one game. So please don't mis-quote me to make your point.

And FWIW I marked his card on his last 2yrs output and attitude.

[The Chazz 4,077]

Interesting to career, one of which I'm not sure how I feel about it coming to a close.

A fact - umpires used footage of Moloney as a training tool when cracking down on bumps. They would be shown more of Moloney than any other player, so it is quite fair to say that, for a period of time (especially in his early years at Melbourne), was umpired out of the game.

He then formed one of, if not the best ruck/rover combinations with Jamar in "that" year. From memory Jamar and Moloney led the league as the most dominant ruck/rover combinations, an excellent achievement.

At this point of his timeline, I'd say he was in line to become a Melbourne great through my eyes.

Then, it all turned to crud for me.

He had as much to blame for 186 as anyone. The darkest day for the club, driven by (senior) player (in)actions.

If reports are correct about his relationship with Neeld, and in particular about doing the opposite to what the coach wanted, then I hope he never returns to the club, other than to buy a membership each year. While Neeld had many, many flaws, one thing I have no issue with was trying to enforce a rule that the players did what the coach said, rather than what we have seen for the past 20+ years.

Moloney had two options (as a few posters have already suggested), you either put up with it and do what you're paid to do, or you leave. He left.

His passing shot at Neeld through social media probably confirmed to me that I was glad he had gone. Poor taste, regardless of the history between the two.

Now that I/we are reflecting on Moloney's career, the latter part of it has done not much else than confirm that Neeld got some things right.

Bye bye Brent, it's such a shame your mouth was bigger than your heart in the end, especially as most of your career it was the other way around.

[dazzledavey36 48,705]

Poor form

Your constant pot shotting of other posters because of opinion on players is borderline disgraceful and draining.
This is a football forum where we all come to discuss football matters, Players, coaches, staff etc.

We all have disagreement with other other and move on. But you? Your never wrong. Your always right and you make sure we hear about it. If someone make any type of little constructive comment you degrade them and pot shot them at any chance.

Im sorry to say but you add absolutely nothing on Demonland except the occasional training report which im greatful for especially as I live in the country. Il give you points for that. But other then that zip all.

You really need to take a good hard look at yourself and ask the question whether Demonland is right for you. You may say well if people dont like what you say then dont read, but when your constantly putting poster down then of course we are going to reply.

[Guest]

Poor form

Your constant pot shotting of other posters because of opinion on players is borderline disgraceful and draining.

This is a football forum where we all come to discuss football matters, Players, coaches, staff etc.

We all have disagreement with other other and move on. But you? Your never wrong. Your always right and you make sure we hear about it. If someone make any type of little constructive comment you degrade them and pot shot them at any chance.

Im sorry to say but you add absolutely nothing on Demonland except the occasional training report which im greatful for especially as I live in the country. Il give you points for that. But other then that zip all.

You really need to take a good hard look at yourself and ask the question whether Demonland is right for you. You may say well if people dont like what you say then dont read, but when your constantly putting poster down then of course we are going to reply.

Please don't try and make him leave DD! Where will I get my 30 minutes worth of non stop continuous belly laughs if I don't get to read his posts?

Besides the stuff on WYL. That was a bit much.

Edited August 12, 2014 by Colin B. Flaubert

[Bitter but optimistic 21,232]

Come on you blokes - leave Saty alone. After all he is apparently the heart , soul, admin, coaching, welfare, fitness expert, bootstuding etc center of the club.

And .. what's more .. he respects your opinions.

Provided they align with his of course.

His bombast is becoming tiresome.