I'm happy to have Lumumba on the list. He offers qualities we are sorely lacking, specifically pace and power. We struggled to move the ball quickly last year, but he is a powerful and direct footballer and will help out a lot.

The disposal efficiency of our backmen this year was exceptional - simple reason is because we chipped the ball across the backline on every occasion and then when we opened up the opposite side but would hold and chip back across the backline again.

What we lacked is someone who would take on the game and run from half back - this is was HL does in spades. We lacked any sort of adventure out of the back half and thats exactly what HL brings to our club.

Surely we can get the trumpeter out for his announcment at round one.....

Any one.........

Hello..........

ok im done......

Very happy to have H and Jeffrey on board I reckon they'll be very similar in impact and contribution as Bernie and Crossy have been.

Welcome to our great club Heritier, and thanks for taking a punt on the Dees. You won't regret it, I promise! Just for starters, you will have a decent coach for the first time in eons, and you will be rid of those so called 'supporters', who can be so feral that they have been known to wage an unprovoked post-match attack on the parent of opposition player, just for the hell of it. A massive rise in standards, which I'm sure you'll appreciate.

Can't wait for him to stuff up ONE kick and the posters on here will call him a dud, no hoper, We should have got------

It will happen

I think he will be a very good player for us.

Heritier has a football brain and he's competitive. A welcome addition to the Dees and will slot straight into the backline. Welcome aboard H.

Welcome to the club, he fills a need and will hopefully be drive prove his doubters wrong.

So after all that it was just straight swap Lumumba for Clark!

So after all that it was just straight swap Lumumba for Clark!

That was a little frightening to consider a week ago but I'm over it already. As it stands right now Lumumba can make our footy club better and Clark couldn't.

Looks like HL is going to focus on just football. From the HS:

Melbourne coach Paul Roos yesterday told the Herald Sun that Lumumba wanted to finish his career in a blaze of glory, not as a polarising publicity machine.

At the Demons he won’t do media interviews, has already shut down his twitter site and will this week also close his facebook page.

Looks very promising. Roos works his player management magic again

I've given away Sherrins in both Addis and Nairobi

edit...

though truth be told they had EnergyWatch written on the side of them...

For real? Can't say I've seen any being kicked around over the last 15 months...

Can't wait for him to stuff up ONE kick and the posters on here will call him a dud, no hoper, We should have got------

It will happen

I think he will be a very good player for us.

Obviously Geelong win the trade if Mitch Clark is healthy in mind and body.

Lumumba is a solid and reliable AFL footballer averaging 23.5 games a year in the last 8 years. Strong body, good run and carry and kicks long if not precisely. Finished 4th in Collingwood BnF this year. Obviously slots into our best 22 allowing young players to have a more thorough apprenticeship.

Should be renewed by playing under a more experienced coach than the Collingwood neophyte!

And if anyone called me a campaigner I'd regard it as a complement!

Methinks Lamumba will come in with a bit of Bernie Vince/Daniel Cross about him. Pushed out of his old club for various reasons, and with an axe to grind.

Can't believe there isn't a photoshop of H in the mighty Red and Blue yet (If I could photoshop I would be all over that bad boy )

Interesting he has distanced himself from the press and social media and wants his footy to do the talking.

Seems very focused with a burning desire to succeed.

He's won me over.

i got it, i got it. It was this moment, June 9th, when he posted this from his Facebook that he realised; we were his spiritual home:

Heritier Lumumba

9 June

Great to have another hard fought win. Melbourne have improved a lot and are playing a disciplined brand of football.

H has elected to come to the dees. He's alright by me.

Between whelmed and underwhelmed.

Can play, can get the ball, but does a lot of run and kick it and hope stuff. A bit precious too.

But brings the Deli Lhama on board as our #1 supporter so I guess it is a win.

Between whelmed and underwhelmed.

Can play, can get the ball, but does a lot of run and kick it and hope stuff. A bit precious too.

But brings the Deli Lhama on board as our #1 supporter so I guess it is a win.

Maybe that's just what we need to finally break the Norm Smith Curse?!?!

Between whelmed and underwhelmed.

Can play, can get the ball, but does a lot of run and kick it and hope stuff. A bit precious too.

But brings the Deli Lhama on board as our #1 supporter so I guess it is a win.

Maybe the Dalai Lama can get rid of the frigging Norm Smith curse...

@Ascobar - it's either because the kids are running to fast with it Or I had to much St George and it's still in a nightclub somewhere, and for some reason can't remember the name ...blue something...

edit hadn't seen Ascobars post

Walk in best 22.

Better than Grimes, Terlich, Clisby and Strauss.

I don't care about his antics, just want to win games.

The disposal efficiency of our backmen this year was exceptional - simple reason is because we chipped the ball across the backline on every occasion and then when we opened up the opposite side but would hold and chip back across the backline again.

What we lacked is someone who would take on the game and run from half back - this is was HL does in spades. We lacked any sort of adventure out of the back half and thats exactly what HL brings to our club.

Agree entrirely, has been a massive problem for us for many years now. I think H is going to be of greater value than a lot realise.

According to the Herald Sun, the contract is 3 years (with a 4th year trigger) for approx 500k.

Yes, that is ludicrous money, but we have to pay the minimum cap somehow, so I'd assume it's heavily front-loaded.

i got it, i got it. It was this moment, June 9th, when he posted this from his Facebook that he realised; we were his spiritual home:

Heritier Lumumba

9 June

Great to have another hard fought win. Melbourne have improved a lot and are playing a disciplined brand of football.

Nice pick up...and I mean it. We as spectators often don't see what players do ( unfortunately sometimes we see what they dont.....another story ) but given harry is a bit of a thinker he probably meant this.... Interesting in a way. I wonder what some other prospects thought of us.

According to the Herald Sun, the contract is 3 years (with a 4th year trigger) for approx 500k.

Yes, that is ludicrous money, but we have to pay the minimum cap somehow, so I'd assume it's heavily front-loaded.

The cap has increased by $2m in 4/5 years. That sort of money is getting less and less ridiculous.