Talking Point: How the Demons are shaping up for 2015

[Whispering_Jack 30,208]

Brett Anderson of Inside Football analyses the list and takes at look at how the Demons are shaping up for 2015 ~ Inside the clubs: Melbourne

[Bitter but optimistic 22,241]

Are you missing a link here Whispering?

[Biffen 12,943]

Are you missing a link here Whispering?

I thought Enyaw was the missing link.

[Straight Sets Simon 23,113]

Further proof that Robert Shaw knows very little about football:

"A father-son, promoted rookies and arguably the two prized picks in the draft in Christian Petracca and Angus Brayshaw. But at with Melbourne we have seen that before. Melbourne has been deplorable in player development, yet blamed the recruiting staff pre Paul Roos and there is a lot of catching up to be done. Hopefully all is now in place to give Melbourne's kids an even chance of developing and the club of retaining its own early picks. It's not about talent identification for Melbourne any longer, just pure development."

[P-man 13,366]

A couple of sentences on each new recruit and a list of players is apparently "breaking down" the list.

Rounded off with a paragraph from Robert Shaw about poor development.

Insightful stuff.

[Elusive Tunbridge 795]

Might as well be writing for Outside Football.

[KingDingAling 3,758]

None of these players have gone on to improve under the development of other clubs.

Players that have had success - were also successful at MFC.. Moloney won a b&f here, Stef Martin was our best ruckman when he left.

Players that have left and had success were also good players for the MFC. Players that haven't - simply weren't very good.

I'm not buying the excuse of development, it is too convenient. Sounds like something a non-sports person would say as he fails in a sporting arena.

We hear many stories about the training some of these kids from other clubs do - before they get into the system. Some players have drive and motivation - others expect to be handed games, sadly MFC drafted a lot of players who expected to be handed games.

[Whispering_Jack 30,208]

A couple of sentences on each new recruit and a list of players is apparently "breaking down" the list.

Rounded off with a paragraph from Robert Shaw about poor development.

Insightful stuff.

We don't really need a detailed thesis on how we're travelling. Short and sweet is what you get from Peter Ryan on afl.com.au ~ Where's your club at? Pre-season training so far and what's coming up in 2015

MELBOURNE

Pre-season so far: Began training informally before other clubs and then stepped it up pre-Christmas with some serious running drills preceding skill sessions. Wise heads rated a late November running session as the club's hardest session ever. Jesse Hogan was working hard and Jimmy Toumpas is making every effort to justify his high draft selection, while Jack Trengove and Jack Watts were the biggest names on a tiny rehabilitation group. The players also undertook a form of the Paleo diet in an attempt to improve player energy levels. With very little dead wood on the list now, the Demons heads to the Sunshine Coast and Casey to continue training in January because soccer's Asian Cup is being played at AAMI Park.

Training return: January 5

Community Camp: Leongatha/Wonthaggi February 11/12

NAB Challenge games: Game one v Fremantle, Fremantle Oval, Thursday March 5, 4.10pm WST

Game two v Western Bulldogs, Eureka Stadium, Ballarat, Saturday March 14, 4.10pm EDT

Game three v Essendon, Etihad Stadium, Friday March 20, 5.50pm EDT.

Round one: v Gold Coast, MCG, Saturday April 4, 1.40pm

[Barney Rubble 1,576]

How would these journos know what is going on.

They may come down to one training session for pre season.

Unless of course they are in touch with "The Devil Inside"

They may as well get in touch with Saty he is unemployed and writes a far better report than these so called journos.

Or ring up the club to get some real info.

This garbage is just recycled from past years.