Thought I'd never read this story ... Martin Flanagan tells it so well.

AFL season 2016: Melbourne finally give fans something to cheer about

 

Spot on

I wish more journo's would be like him. A great wordsmith with a passion for good story telling. More power to him.

He's a good writer, but I'm not so sure about this piece. It just ends abruptly when it feels like it should be getting to the meat or a conclusion.

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by AdamFphlebeb

19 minutes ago, AdamFphlebeb said:

He's a good writer, but I'm not so sure about this piece. It just ends abruptly when it feels like it should be getting to the meat or a conclusion.

I felt the same - mind you, how true is the last paragraph?

Gotta win tonight...

To be honest, I feel like I have seen this article written about us by Martin at least 3 or 4 times since that initial 2009 season when he was embedded at the club.

I like the man but I think we have been done to death in his columns.

Can we rename the thread to "Flanagain"

I feel this was a real missed opportunity. 

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by Ethan Tremblay

I really enjoyed it and thought he eloquently captured our journey to the here and now. 

better to read something positive than be irrelevant. The significance will be the performance tonight. We must build that consistency that can underpin success.

You lot are hard to please.

It is a story written not necessarily for us, the rusted on Demon supporters but for the greater football following public.

Another chance to view Melbourne in a new light rather than think of the team as insignificant, as many unfortunately still do.

2 hours ago, AdamFphlebeb said:

He's a good writer, but I'm not so sure about this piece. It just ends abruptly when it feels like it should be getting to the meat or a conclusion.

I get the feeling that this is a brief outline of a much longer piece that has yet to be written. 

And it will only be written if we get the last chapter right. He wants that last chapter as much as we all do. So we can't let 2016 become another false dawn.

With that last paragraph, maybe the title of the article could be read, not as a statement, but as a personal request.

Edited July 9, 20169 yr by Akum

It's nice to see our players aren't the only ones people on this forum aren't ridiculously harsh on! 

Thought it was a great piece.

6 hours ago, AdamFphlebeb said:

He's a good writer, but I'm not so sure about this piece. It just ends abruptly when it feels like it should be getting to the meat or a conclusion.

 

I'm not sure if I'm giving him too much credit, but it feels like he did that on purpose; i.e. the club will go on and write the ending.

 

16 minutes ago, Mach5 said:

 

I'm not sure if I'm giving him too much credit, but it feels like he did that on purpose; i.e. the club will go on and write the ending.

 

Yeah, maybe, but I think an article that you're paying to read (if you buy the paper) should have an ending written by the author being paid to write it. Haha, maybe I'm being too harsh and I've got my editorial hat on.

Feels like an Age subby clipped it for space.

You haven't been paying attention - there are no subs any more.

Flanagan's challenge:  "In the past, if I had written something like this, the Dees would respond by notching up some ignominious defeat – like losing to lowly Freo in Darwin on Saturday. Right about now, that also has to change".

The team delivered!

Funny in a way ( to me perhaps) as I deliberately didnt read the article til after yesterdays game.  As though he read my mind he ended the article with my exact thoughts.