Vince v Dangerfield

[Forest Demon 4,681]

Jack Watts did many terrible things yesterday, but not getting involved in a melee is not one of them.

[Cards13 9,117]

Patrick looked like he act "better" than Rodney Dangerfield.

[Vagg 2,439]

Loved Bernie's comments in the post-match interview. Said he was just having a bit of fun, that's what footy's all about. Said he didn't care about going from a crowd favourite in Adelaide to being constantly booed. Said he's 100% a Melbourne player now, and will do whatever it takes to get a win for the team.

But, at the end of it said the Adelaide players are still his mates, and he was getting together with them last night. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall at that get together.

Seems a great guy. Very glad we have him.

[jumbo returns 6,741]

Bernie's tag on Dangerfield was fantastic yesterday. His example in committing to his role would have rubbed off on Brayshaw (who looks a competitive beast already!) Salem, Vanders, Newton, etc.

Still one of Mrs JR's faves!

[dazzledavey36 54,893]

Thought id go for a sunday stroll onto the Crows bigfooty board.

Enjoy the show

''Paul Roos coaching style. It's worked for him. Once. But Melbourne were attacking in round 1 and got a massive win, kicking over 100 points for the first time under his tenure, then the first half last week, they were on track again. They get smashed in the 2nd half last week to lose by a ton and they come out playing the man and being all dour and defensive again. Note to Roos, you'll need to kick goals to win games!

''Paul Roos. I'm going to avoid having a dig at Vince as he was merely the symptom of the root cause, and that is Roos wanting Melbourne to play like a bunch of goons. Paul Roos caused that 3 quarter time melee with his disgusting style of play. If Melbourne want to play that way, that's up to them but they're not going to win many games playing the man and not the ball''.

''I dont expect Vince to be laughing or being jocular, but a the same time acting like a street thug on a footy field is a reflection of the coaching manner of Paul Roos. Disgraceful''.

''Lost a fair bit of respect for Bernie this afternoon, went out to be a thug and thats it. Paul Roos is destroying that side, they have loads of talent but are being sent out to stop the opposition nothing more''.

''Bernie Vince - a bloke I do know well totally lost his marbles today. Weak as they come''.

''I think on reflection Bernie Vince may list today as one of his regrets in football. I dont think he could be proud about the "fairness" in which he approached and played today's game. Its a pity because the Bernie I remember was a highly skilled weapon at his best for us''.
Melbourne have really molded him well''.

''McDonald (wont get near Tex on a dry day)''

Vince - I think Carl hit the nail on the head - his physicality was likely an over reaction against his old club. Whatever the reason, he was deplorable today. Shameful really.

''Bernie in his latter time was emersed in self absorbed pin up boy mindset. In my opinion he never truly committed. After today his tactics were really outside the ethics of AFL fair play. I would not like our players to resort to what he did. I hope he cops some grief on review to pushing players heads into the ground. That is how I seen it. Proud of our guys not to re arrange his pretty boy face.''

''Melbourne players constantly tackled us at the stoppages before we'd taken possession of the ball. Was infuriating. Because the umps let it go early they had to continue all game. Made it very scrappy''.

[Lucifers Hero 39,758]

Loved Bernie's comments in the post-match interview. Said he was just having a bit of fun, that's what footy's all about. Said he didn't care about going from a crowd favourite in Adelaide to being constantly booed. Said he's 100% a Melbourne player now, and will do whatever it takes to get a win for the team.

But, at the end of it said the Adelaide players are still his mates, and he was getting together with them last night. Would have loved to be a fly on the wall at that get together.

Seems a great guy. Very glad we have him.

This reminds me of last years grand final when a number of Hawks players lined up Buddy in the opening stages of the game and dropped him hard a few times. And at one stage Hodge went up and kissed on the cheek...a bit of fun! All still mates after the game.

Then the 3qtr time melee yesterday reminded me of that 'line-in-the-sand' game between Hawks and Ess (about 2006) where the Hawks players created havoc after half time. That was the turning point for their style of play and now have 3 flags.

A long time since we have had a gutsy, rough up the opp. team. Great step towards earning back on-field respect and no-one will call us 'bruise-free' again. Don't care that we lost. Respect is worth a lot more than one win.

We will win many more on the back of yesterday's performance in the years to come. Our tough guys noticeably stood up yesterday: Vince, Jones, Kent Jamar. Jamar getting old but the add Viney and there is a core group of 'come and get me' players.

Final observation: Dangers reputation went down a few notches yesterday...basically couldn't take the heat!

Edit: one more observation...I don't get why crows supporters and Walsh are all sooking...Tex sure looked like he lined up Tommy Mc leaving him crouched on all fours and looking like he may need to be subbed out.

Edited April 18, 2015 by Lucifer's Hero

[chook fowler 19,458]

I think Danger can expect more of the same. Once the other clubs know you can be physically intimidated they will bring it on.

[Melb16 493]

Heard some funny reactions to this. The Adelaide coach and fans looking pretty stupid in my opinion.

Playing the man? Not tough? Coming from the team that had less contested possession? Spare me.

Loved it from Bern and the other boys, ruffled their feathers and the Crow army didn't like it.

[jumbo returns 6,741]

Thought id go for a sunday stroll onto the Crows bigfooty board.

Enjoy the show

''Paul Roos coaching style. It's worked for him. Once. But Melbourne were attacking in round 1 and got a massive win, kicking over 100 points for the first time under his tenure, then the first half last week, they were on track again. They get smashed in the 2nd half last week to lose by a ton and they come out playing the man and being all dour and defensive again. Note to Roos, you'll need to kick goals to win games!

''Paul Roos. I'm going to avoid having a dig at Vince as he was merely the symptom of the root cause, and that is Roos wanting Melbourne to play like a bunch of goons. Paul Roos caused that 3 quarter time melee with his disgusting style of play. If Melbourne want to play that way, that's up to them but they're not going to win many games playing the man and not the ball''.

''I dont expect Vince to be laughing or being jocular, but a the same time acting like a street thug on a footy field is a reflection of the coaching manner of Paul Roos. Disgraceful''.

''Lost a fair bit of respect for Bernie this afternoon, went out to be a thug and thats it. Paul Roos is destroying that side, they have loads of talent but are being sent out to stop the opposition nothing more''.

''Bernie Vince - a bloke I do know well totally lost his marbles today. Weak as they come''.

''I think on reflection Bernie Vince may list today as one of his regrets in football. I dont think he could be proud about the "fairness" in which he approached and played today's game. Its a pity because the Bernie I remember was a highly skilled weapon at his best for us''.

Melbourne have really molded him well''.

''McDonald (wont get near Tex on a dry day)''

Vince - I think Carl hit the nail on the head - his physicality was likely an over reaction against his old club. Whatever the reason, he was deplorable today. Shameful really.

''Bernie in his latter time was emersed in self absorbed pin up boy mindset. In my opinion he never truly committed. After today his tactics were really outside the ethics of AFL fair play. I would not like our players to resort to what he did. I hope he cops some grief on review to pushing players heads into the ground. That is how I seen it. Proud of our guys not to re arrange his pretty boy face.''

''Melbourne players constantly tackled us at the stoppages before we'd taken possession of the ball. Was infuriating. Because the umps let it go early they had to continue all game. Made it very scrappy''.

Thanks for posting this....wow, Roos is copping it more than Bernie!!

[KingDingAling 3,757]

Thought id go for a sunday stroll onto the Crows bigfooty board.

Enjoy the show

''Paul Roos coaching style. It's worked for him. Once. But Melbourne were attacking in round 1 and got a massive win, kicking over 100 points for the first time under his tenure, then the first half last week, they were on track again. They get smashed in the 2nd half last week to lose by a ton and they come out playing the man and being all dour and defensive again. Note to Roos, you'll need to kick goals to win games!

''Paul Roos. I'm going to avoid having a dig at Vince as he was merely the symptom of the root cause, and that is Roos wanting Melbourne to play like a bunch of goons. Paul Roos caused that 3 quarter time melee with his disgusting style of play. If Melbourne want to play that way, that's up to them but they're not going to win many games playing the man and not the ball''.

''I dont expect Vince to be laughing or being jocular, but a the same time acting like a street thug on a footy field is a reflection of the coaching manner of Paul Roos. Disgraceful''.

''Lost a fair bit of respect for Bernie this afternoon, went out to be a thug and thats it. Paul Roos is destroying that side, they have loads of talent but are being sent out to stop the opposition nothing more''.

''Bernie Vince - a bloke I do know well totally lost his marbles today. Weak as they come''.

''I think on reflection Bernie Vince may list today as one of his regrets in football. I dont think he could be proud about the "fairness" in which he approached and played today's game. Its a pity because the Bernie I remember was a highly skilled weapon at his best for us''.

Melbourne have really molded him well''.

''McDonald (wont get near Tex on a dry day)''

Vince - I think Carl hit the nail on the head - his physicality was likely an over reaction against his old club. Whatever the reason, he was deplorable today. Shameful really.

''Bernie in his latter time was emersed in self absorbed pin up boy mindset. In my opinion he never truly committed. After today his tactics were really outside the ethics of AFL fair play. I would not like our players to resort to what he did. I hope he cops some grief on review to pushing players heads into the ground. That is how I seen it. Proud of our guys not to re arrange his pretty boy face.''

''Melbourne players constantly tackled us at the stoppages before we'd taken possession of the ball. Was infuriating. Because the umps let it go early they had to continue all game. Made it very scrappy''.

Big footy, LOL.

[dees189227 12,391]

I loved the fact that other demons players were in there supporting and defending vince at 3 quarter time. a much better spirit.

I also liked the fact that Brayshaw didnt join in because he was probably thinking Im not paying a fine, but he went in there and pulled his captain away to get him out of there im thinking maybe to protecte him.

But it was great to see at 3/4 time the players get in there sticking up for vince.

[Ted Lasso 19,514]

How about...

Adelaide football club a team that thinks they are a premiership contender were pushed and out muscled on their own turf by a team with 10 players of 40 games or less playing, if not for some Melbourne skill errors the crows might well have lost

[Moonshadow 17,676]

Curry and Beer is welcome to apologise to Vince, like he had to with Brayshaw, after he labelled Vince's pre-match interview 'pathetic' after he spoke about his time with Adelaide.

I think Bernie has made it pretty clear where his allegiances lie now. There can be no mistake that he is a Demon through and through.

Bernie is certainly 100% a Melbourne player, 100% behind the club. Anyone who thinks he is soft on Adelaide is a fool.

[dazzledavey36 54,893]

Bernie is certainly 100% a Melbourne player, 100% behind the club. Anyone who thinks he is soft on Adelaide is a fool.

Another long list of 'Curry's special'

And Brayshaw.. Not bad for a kid that should be left at Casey for majority of the year

Edited April 18, 2015 by dazzledavey36

[jane02 3,748]

I loved the hard tackling and that Bernie got in Dangerfield's face and really ruffled him. What a complete sooky la-la Dangerfield is. The Adelaide coach lacks quite a bit of finesse in the public speaking arena - needs a few lessons from the super composed Paul Roos. I was proud of our boys yesterday. They were tough conditions

with a feral crowd, pathetic crowd influenced umpiring and some missed opportunities. I am looking forward to Friday night.

Bernie is officially my favourite player.

[Roger Mellie 4,021]

This amused me no end:

Poster X expresses disappointment that Tex didn't dump Bernie on his arse for touching up Dangerfield.

Poster Y response "Bernie was hiding from him"

[Bring-Back-Powell 14,817]

I'm really worried Vince will be suspended for Friday night for that incident on Sloane.

Will be sadly missed for the Richmond game.

[Wormburner 674]

Walsh said something very closely along the lines of: "back in my day, a player doing what vince was doing would've left the field on a stretcher."

I quite like Walsh though. He's anything but boring. But today's comments regarding the vince tag was lame

I loved Vince's job on Dangerfield.

I don't see the issue with what Walsh said though. I prob agree with him to an extent - years ago a lot of players would have whacked Vince for his tagging actions. It's just a different game now and Walsh acknowledges that.

[Moonshadow 17,676]

Good little interview post match with Bernie in the rooms.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/video/2015-04-18/rd-3-bernie-vince-postmatch

Apologies if link posted previously.

[beelzebub 23,364]

Sing a song of persistence

Pockets full of wry

2 and 20 Blackbirds

Sook and have a cry.....

[jazza 1,323]

Vinces demolition of Dangerfield was the highlight of my day. Also thrilled with the response of Walsh - it's a long time since we needled the opposition like that.

More please.

Demons should reply to Walsh's press conference. Vince played hard footy. Dangerfield played for frees and didn't like the hard tag.

Dont let this one go ...

Dead right,everytime ive mentioned this type of footy on here,ive copped the "dirty country hick rules are no good here"from the dee faithful on this site.

But there is still room for tough hard footy,The major problem is after 3/4 time when the money was on the table,the same plebs came up short and didnt fire a shot as usual.

And the same plebs on here will still give JW time because he shows potential to offload the pill properly.

Well im afraid most afl players in space can generally offlaod the pill,but what counts is gettin it,usin it and puttn ya body on the line.3 things that must give the squad the absolute chits about JW.

Hard footy wins games.Ugly footy wins premierships.

[Redbeard 497]

They just discussed Bernie's role on Danger on Game Day, everyone agreed he did his role well

[Demon Jack 6,909]

Just watched the melee again. Loved the moment when Kent chucked an Adelaide player into the turf like he was a rag doll.

Edited April 19, 2015 by Demon Jack

[rjay 24,919]

What's wrong with the Adelaide fans. Don't they know that Danger is going at the end of the year and Bernie was getting in early giving it to him for the fans.

That crew are hard to please.

[Pates 9,660]

360 on Monday will be interesting, I suspect Roos will play a straight bat but it would be good to see him stick up for one of his chargers. Bernie did a job, and he did it well.