WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - PATRICK MCKENNA

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1 minute ago, Vogon Poetry said:

I find these sort of comments totally tasteless and unnecessary.  Perhaps it's just me.

Meh....I deleted it anyway....ManDee got in first.

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23 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

At my age, just have to make sure I don't cough too violently     the Club is rock solid now

Rock solid is a good description. A successful organisation is one where employees are aligned in their thinking and behaviour, allowing people to get on with the job without fanfare. Leaking and rumours come from clubs where there is disharmony and distrust. 

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Just now, Beetle said:

Meh....I deleted it anyway....ManDee got in first.

Good call.  Man Dee should delete his post.

Why shyte on someone on the way out.

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It's actually quite funny, I asked Kelly O'Donnell at last training session wheher we had another piece of NEAFL fruit hidden away ready to pick and he just smiled

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3 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

Good call.  Man Dee should delete his post.

Why shyte on someone on the way out.

The same applies to Clint's post, we have 40 odd players on the list, not all can be stars, but they are on the list coz the FD put them there not 'good judge'supporters, they are soon off the list if they can't cut it.

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Just now, Satyriconhome said:

It's actually quite funny, I asked Kelly O'Donnell at last training session wheher we had another piece of NEAFL fruit hidden away ready to pick and he just smiled

 

I was chattin with Mick (Jagger) and Bono and we was chewin the fat about the old days with Elvis and JFK.

 

Crazy days.

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44 minutes ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

Great time to join MFC, Patty.  Welcome aboard!!

Whilst I welcome him aboard and wish him well he's got one mighty challenge in front of him.  He left the most talent laden club in the competition to join another talent laden club where he is well down the pecking order.  He'd have a much better chance of senior experience at some other clubs.

But he will benefit from a fantastic teaching environment and if he succeeds we'll have a beauty because he is going to have to force out some serious talent.

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18 minutes ago, DemonOX said:

Is it a concern that SOS rates him??

Or a bigger concern that not even SOS rates him enough for an invite to the reunion?

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7 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

Good call.  Man Dee should delete his post.

Why shyte on someone on the way out.

Grow a sense of humour VP.

I am on record as saying I like Dawes and his effort is always first class, but his hands are made of wood and he struggles to take an overhead mark. So I made a joke about him dropping his head, get over it, many worse things have been said about him.

PS:- Thanks Chris for all your efforts at the MFC, you will always be welcome back in my opinion, I hope MFC have a role for your after you finish playing. 

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I've been waiting for us to target a sneaky late Giant pick up knowing they had Deledio and academy kids coming in and condensed list spots.

Really like this kid. Can play forward or back. Great size. Good ball user.

He kicked 45 goals in 18 senior games for Gisborne as an 18 year old including a bag of 9. And the only time he played under 19's he kick 16!

I think we'll start him off forward and hope he's the medium forward that our list could do with. 

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Just now, ManDee said:

Grow a sense of humour VP.

I am on record as saying I like Dawes and his effort is always first class, but his hands are made of wood and he struggles to take an overhead mark. So I made a joke about him dropping his head, get over it, many worse things have been said about him.

PS:- Thanks Chris for all your efforts at the MFC, you will always be welcome back in my opinion, I hope MFC have a role for your after you finish playing. 

Your sense of humour is to make fun of someone who has just lost his AFL career?  Funny indeed.

Yes indeed, many worse things have been said but not as he's going out the door and relying on the fact that you're not as low as some is a poor defence IMO.

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2 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

Whilst I welcome him aboard and wish him well he's got one mighty challenge in front of him.  He left the most talent laden club in the competition to join another talent laden club where he is well down the pecking order.  He'd have a much better chance of senior experience at some other clubs.

But he will benefit from a fantastic teaching environment and if he succeeds we'll have a beauty because he is going to have to force out some serious talent.

I would be very surprised if he is being looked at as a starting 22.  Nor should we on Demonland. 

I think he is coming in on the same basis as Newton, Kennedy, Bugg etc:. "Son, here is a 2 year contract and a second chance for an AFL career, show us what you can do".

He is a no risk prospect.

And, maybe GWS would have done the pick upgrade anyway.  But because they need to reduce their list size they thru McKenna in as well.

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1 minute ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

I would be very surprised if he is being looked at as a starting 22.  Nor should we on Demonland. 

I think he is coming in on the same basis as Newton, Kennedy, Bugg etc:. "Son, here is a 2 year contract and a second chance for an AFL career, show us what you can do".

He is a no risk prospect.

And, maybe GWS would have done the pick upgrade anyway.  But because they need to reduce their list size they thru McKenna in as well.

Why are you quoting me?

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2 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

Your sense of humour is to make fun of someone who has just lost his AFL career?  Funny indeed.

Yes indeed, many worse things have been said but not as he's going out the door and relying on the fact that you're not as low as some is a poor defence IMO.

Sorry missed the story saying his career was over.

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7 minutes ago, Skuit said:

Or a bigger concern that not even SOS rates him enough for an invite to the reunion?

Marchbank and Plowman down back. His own son playing that medium tall role forward and he probably doesn't want to make it harder for him to get a game. I don't think it means Carlton don't rate him. They can't have every GWS reject!

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15 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

It's actually quite funny, I asked Kelly O'Donnell at last training session wheher we had another piece of NEAFL fruit hidden away ready to pick and he just smiled

Wow.

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1 hour ago, DavidNeitz9 said:

2014 Trade

 

 

Sam Frost, NDS 40 (Alex Neal-Bullen) & NDS 53 (Oscar McDonald), traded by GWS for NDS 23 (Patrick McKenna)

Did we get Sam Frost, pick 40 and 53 for our pick 23 back in 2014?

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11 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

The same applies to Clint's post, we have 40 odd players on the list, not all can be stars, but they are on the list coz the FD put them there not 'good judge'supporters, they are soon off the list if they can't cut it.

Yeah...but the majority of these players that aren't going to be "stars" weren't getting paid $600k a season.

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1 minute ago, bandicoot said:

Did we get Sam Frost, pick 40 and 53 for our pick 23 back in 2014?

Yeah mate

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7 minutes ago, DeeSpencer said:

I've been waiting for us to target a sneaky late Giant pick up knowing they had Deledio and academy kids coming in and condensed list spots.

Really like this kid. Can play forward or back. Great size. Good ball user.

He kicked 45 goals in 18 senior games for Gisborne as an 18 year old including a bag of 9. And the only time he played under 19's he kick 16!

I think we'll start him off forward and hope he's the medium forward that our list could do with. 

And if that doesn't work then he can open the batting at the members end ?

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1 minute ago, bandicoot said:

Did we get Sam Frost, pick 40 and 53 for our pick 23 back in 2014?

Yep. So in effect we gave up McKenna for 3 guys and now have McKenna.

The problem with that line of thinking is GWS drafted McKenna very early looking for speculative talent instead of taking safer picks in positions they already had covered. So even if we liked McKenna we probably didn't like him as much as pick 23. 

Still we've turned pick 23 in to 4 players I'm happy we have on the list. 2 valuable young key defenders, a midfielder and a utility. I'm not sure any will be stars but quantity is important as well to keep pressure for games and list spots.

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52 minutes ago, DemonDave said:

How many spots do we need to free up? Who's on the chopping block? 

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1 hour ago, Stretch Johnson said:

Point?

I was just asking the question, I know nothing about him.

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1 minute ago, Hellfish said:

And if that doesn't work then he can open the batting at the members end ?

How hard will Bernie be going to get him to join his cricket team?

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10 minutes ago, Vogon Poetry said:

Your sense of humour is to make fun of someone who has just lost his AFL career?  Funny indeed.

Yes indeed, many worse things have been said but not as he's going out the door and relying on the fact that you're not as low as some is a poor defence IMO.

VP, still can't find any evidence that Dawes career is over. So it makes my poor defence pretty good I would have thought. Or are you rumour mongering?