This is compelling viewing imo:  On The Mark: Neville Jetta 

Neville is an outstanding young man!  We all know him as 'rock' in our defence,  but this is more than matched by the snippets we learn about his 'journey', his family and the work he does away from the limelight of the AFL.    Extremely well spoken, with a sense of humor that I hadn't seen before.  Brilliant!

Beautiful stuff. Love the guy, love the way he plays, love his attitude to life.

Legend 

Wow. It turns out it is possible to respect Neville Jetta even more than I did before.

For anyone hesitating to follow the link, go for it, you wont regret it.

Nev is a great human and a brilliant footballer.

Someone that we can be proud of

Good viewing.  Lots of space for him to share his story.  Good luck to him.

I loved the bit about his 3 yr old son.  Was in Auskick, and kicked about five goals.  Nev asked him to handball to him.  The young lad replied "It's AusKICK, Dad, not Aus-handball...!!".

And, as others have said, Nev's clearly a truly quality human being.  All credit to the young man!  Very proud he's a Dee...!

2 hours ago, Deeoldfart said:

This is compelling viewing imo:  On The Mark: Neville Jetta 

Neville is an outstanding young man!  We all know him as 'rock' in our defence,  but this is more than matched by the snippets we learn about his 'journey', his family and the work he does away from the limelight of the AFL.    Extremely well spoken, with a sense of humor that I hadn't seen before.  Brilliant!

Still haven’t watched it yet, I recorded it so I could listen to the DL podcast! 

This man is legend status. Should be recognised by the club as such.

Heart and soul of the team

Great interview.  Nev does come across much better in this interview than he did in the Demonland podcast earlier this year, in which he came across as a bit flustered and distracted (trying to get the kids to bed in the background from what I recall).

Very refreshing in that someone of his realitive celebrity status as an AFL footballer is so grounded in family, comunity values and very self-less in his actions (just like his onfeild performances).

Found it interesting  (but not surprising) the love that Nev's son has for Bernie Vince, to the point of naming their family dog after him (a bit naughty like Bernie, lol).  I really do get the feeling that with guys like Nev, Bernie, Max, Jack Viney, Jones, Stretch, Freitch and others around the club that their would be a great off feild culture at the MFC these days.

Thanks DOF I didn't know about it until I read this post. I liked the introduction, 'Melbourne Star', he really is, and spoke beautifully, talked about being accessible, amazing stuff. Can't wait to see his first finals game, will be breathing fire and eating forwards of all descriptions. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/El_coloso.jpg/543px-El_coloso.jpg  

Still haven't watched it. Will try to later, sounds like its worthwhile viewing.