Stories of Roos contacting Dangerfield's parents are really interesting because it rings true. If he has sold the entire Dangerfield family the 'Melbourne dream' then it will be the greatest recruting coup since well forever. Barassi to Carlton, Judd to Carlton, Franklin to Sydney; all were considered power clubs even if Carlton were struggling a little ladder-wise. Maybe Lockett to Sydney was the last time a fully fledged star moved to a bottom team with little appeal. Dare to dream . . . .

Really as a demons fan i meet hope every off season. Last off season hope was banging on about one of the leagues strongest forward lines. I can tell you hope is not once failed to let me down.

i would have thought it would be Paul Roos to coach MFC?

i would have thought it would be Paul Roos to coach MFC?

Fair call, hope did deliver us Paul. But I still don't really believe he is our coach

Edited September 23, 201411 yr by binman

It is hard to believe.

My girlfriend is an Adelaide supporter. Has number 32 on her jumper. Relationship may not be able to survive Paddy coming to Melbourne...

I'm willing to risk it.

My girlfriend is an Adelaide supporter. Has number 32 on her jumper. Relationship may not be able to survive Paddy coming to Melbourne...

I'm willing to risk it.

Vince, Goodwin, talk of Lyons and Dangerfield and maybe even Tex. We can take your girlfriend too!

My girlfriend is an Adelaide supporter. Has number 32 on her jumper. Relationship may not be able to survive Paddy coming to Melbourne...

I'm willing to risk it.

Good to see you have your prioridees in place

Why not offer him the captaincy as well or co-captain with jonesy.

Grimesy thought he was pretty shite himself.

My girlfriend is an Adelaide supporter. Has number 32 on her jumper. Relationship may not be able to survive Paddy coming to Melbourne...

I'm willing to risk it.

There is only one Danger.... There are plenty more girlfriends...

Exactly the point I'm trying to make 'Machsy'.

I'm not sure how old you are but I've seen this all before at Melbourne and it's why I'm gun-shy with Patty. I know we've got some good people in charge but we did then when Barassi got Templeton & Moore.

I see what you're saying, but I don't think Roos' philosophy is to bring in a gun or 2, and that's it.

I think his recruiting is more targetted & that he is more intent on building a winning culture.

That's the difference as I see it.

Danger also offers us something our midfield doesn't currently have in any shape or form.

Explosiveness.

While I hope that these rumours are true, it feels a lot like the infamous Chris Judd and his grandmother episode.

I won't get my hopes up too high yet but jeez it would be great to have a bona fide star in the side.

Productivity=ZERO!

Damn you Demonland...damn you.

Productivity=ZERO!

Damn you Demonland...damn you.

Yep, would be great if Monday next week Danger comes out as states he wants to be traded to Melbourne. Once this happens the trade will be done, we have the picks that can satisfy Adelaide.

One thing you can take from Roos and Sydney, that once the player agrees to come the deal gets done quickly. Look at last year, the Tyson and Vince deal, as soon as they agreed to play for Melbourne the deals were done no stuffing around and the only club to lose out was Fremantle.

If he comes to Melbourne, 'Danger' will officially be my middle name.

I'll change it by Dee-pol

Just like your sources with James Frawley to the cats is a done deal hey?

muppet

Wrong again dazzles if you read my previous post which I now include for you I said.

picket fence, on 10 Sept 2014 - 2:21 PM, said:

Yeah well part of the info I already had was that

A) Best mate Rivers was already there

and now

B) Girlfriend is a Geelong girl with family affinity with Geelong and so another part of that puzzle was revealed today ( Although I already knew that from an informed sauce and it formed part of my reasoning) the main part however is still to be played out and when it does it will be as I have said. I will say though that unless a "Ship in the knight" takes the wind away I remain 99% convinced that Geelong will be his destination

So I iterated that the Geelong deal was his probable ( and still is ) his destination based on some knowledge I acquired. If you read my post carefully I also alluded to the outside possibility that a SHIP IN THE KNIGHT" Cryptically enabled meaning Freo were circling.

So on both counts I am "On the money"

So Dazzleman why don't we broker a deal??

If Frawley goes to Geelong or Freo you give yourself a I month ban from the land! on the basis that I am correct!

If I am wrong I will do likewise!

Edited September 24, 201411 yr by george_on_the_outer
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I reckon the amount of people that take you on the bet is the amount of months you ban yourself when you lose Picket.

Edited September 23, 201411 yr by AzzKikA

Yep but who will be in charge of "Quality Control" eh?

Pretty easy to just open another account under another avatar , which I am sure quite a few on here actually do!

Interesting but probably rubbish post on BF forums:

"The Demons have been approved for an AFL "Ambassador" payment to a big name like Dangerfield or Pendlebury etc. to eb paid outside the cap, similar to what buddy was going to get at GWS or Judd at Carlton. This is why they haven't been granted the priority pick, they are practically guaranteed to get an elite midfielder this year and can effectively double the offer of any other club."

Could this possibly be some kind of NT ambassadorship to support the expansion of the game with our push into NT? In a way it all makes sense, especially PJs supposed request for financial rather than draft assistance. Lots of speculation though so who knows.

Edited September 24, 201411 yr by Lamashtu

Much prefer to have Danger in receipt of our 'Ambassador' payment over, say, Tom Scully.

In fact, Sheedy has got off lightly on the Tom Scully piece. Very lightly.

Lucky GWS had dozens of other first round picks. Hard to stuff them all up.

As they say, if you fire enough arrows ...

Interesting but probably rubbish post on BF forums:

"The Demons have been approved for an AFL "Ambassador" payment to a big name like Dangerfield or Pendlebury etc. to eb paid outside the cap, similar to what buddy was going to get at GWS or Judd at Carlton. This is why they haven't been granted the priority pick, they are practically guaranteed to get an elite midfielder this year and can effectively double the offer of any other club."

Could this possibly be some kind of NT ambassadorship to support the expansion of the game with our push into NT? In a way it all makes sense, especially PJs supposed request for financial rather than draft assistance. Lots of speculation though so who knows.

I'd feel like a hypocrite for being so critical of the Sydney COLA to be honest. Surely Melbourne have enough room in the salary cap already?

On what grounds would the AFL grant us an ambassadorship? As I understood it (although we all know they make it up as they go) you only get them for signing marquee players to assist the expansion of the game into non-heartland markets.

Ergo, NT...

Interesting but probably rubbish post on BF forums:

"The Demons have been approved for an AFL "Ambassador" payment to a big name like Dangerfield or Pendlebury etc. to eb paid outside the cap, similar to what buddy was going to get at GWS or Judd at Carlton. This is why they haven't been granted the priority pick, they are practically guaranteed to get an elite midfielder this year and can effectively double the offer of any other club."

Could this possibly be some kind of NT ambassadorship to support the expansion of the game with our push into NT? In a way it all makes sense, especially PJs supposed request for financial rather than draft assistance. Lots of speculation though so who knows.

Pretty sure Judd was on a 3rd party deal with Visy not an AFL ambassador role. I fail to see how any Vic clubs would get support for this typeof salary cap assistance.

I'd feel like a hypocrite for being so critical of the Sydney COLA to be honest. Surely Melbourne have enough room in the salary cap already?

We have plenty of room in the salary cap but I doubt we actually have the ability to pay it.

Clubs did have a marketing fund outside the cap and I believe they still do but the AFL needs to sign off on this being given out.

Pretty sure Judd was on a 3rd party deal with Visy not an AFL ambassador role. I fail to see how any Vic clubs would get support for this typeof salary cap assistance.

Judd was enviroemental ambassador for Pratt