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WELCOME TO THE MELBOURNE FOOTBALL CLUB - HARLEY BENNELL

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I know Burgess has a PhD but he’s not a ‘Doctor Doctor’, I think some posters are getting confused. 

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    38 minutes ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

    I know Burgess has a PhD but he’s not a ‘Doctor Doctor’, I think some posters are getting confused. 

    But can he 'gimme the news'?

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    1 hour ago, FireInTheBelly said:

    But can he 'gimme the news'?

    No but Max might be able to, as he is a good palmer of the ball.

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    9 hours ago, Die Hard Demon said:

    We have absolutely nothing to lose and so much to gain by picking him up. 

    Imagine if Darren Burgess our fitness guru gets him right.. Not only will he be EXACTLY what we need. But we could be a team that talented players with niggling injuries turn to as an opportunity to get themselves right. At the moment, blokes like Jager Omeara, Scully, Paton are turning to Hawks for that reason. 

    Doesn't work out? Oh well, they are the expectations from the whole football world anyway. 

    You have a lot to lose when you bring in a player who causes off field issues and brings other players around him down.

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    3 hours ago, don't make me angry said:

    Dusty was always a better player then both scully and trengove, all Scilly has is his running power Trengove was alway a 1, dimensional player, the only reason he went at 3 is because of his family background

    Mr Hindsight is that you.

    Scully was the number 1 pick by a mile in his draft year and every team would have taken him at no.1.

    As for Dusty even Richmond put him on the trade table. 

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    26 minutes ago, Demons11 said:

    Mr Hindsight is that you.

    Scully was the number 1 pick by a mile in his draft year and every team would have taken him at no.1.

    As for Dusty even Richmond put him on the trade table. 

    That's not true Richmond never put Dusty on the trade table, Dusty's manager shopped Dusty around, he even invited himself to have a look around at GWS training Base, then  Caroline Wilson wrote a couple of bad articles about Dusty and all of a sudden nobody wanted him.

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    9 hours ago, Demons11 said:

    You have a lot to lose when you bring in a player who causes off field issues and brings other players around him down.

    Paul Roos theory - one dhead suppresses the performance of ten others. 

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    1 hour ago, Moonshadow said:

    Paul Roos theory - one dhead suppresses the performance of ten others. 

    ?

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    13 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

    I said it earlier in this thread but I'll say it again. The supplemental list period allows clubs to have guys train with them before officially being listed. That's the move for Bennell. If his body holds up all summer and he's ready to play by March that's when you give him a contract. 

    Spot on, or even make him go back to VFL/SANFL/WAFL level and earn it for 6 months then come through in the mid-season draft. 

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    22 minutes ago, chook fowler said:

    he could join the lost boys club with Vanders, KK, JSmith, Walker, T Smith etc

    Love it... where's Wendy when we need her.

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    25 minutes ago, Red and Blue realist said:

    Spot on, or even make him go back to VFL/SANFL/WAFL level and earn it for 6 months then come through in the mid-season draft. 

    Sorry to intrude, interesting to hear Tim Watson this morning say the CEOs have reportedly voted in the last couple of days for the mid-season draft to be scrapped. No reasons given as yet, possibly something to do with TPP.

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    26 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    Sorry to intrude, interesting to hear Tim Watson this morning say the CEOs have reportedly voted in the last couple of days for the mid-season draft to be scrapped. No reasons given as yet, possibly something to do with TPP.

    That's interesting.

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    TPP. hmmmmmm 

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    13 hours ago, Redleg said:

    No but Max might be able to, as he is a good palmer of the ball.

    Might as well face it you’re addicted to palm!

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    I was feed information 3 weeks ago that Melbourne officials had been in touch with Bennell and his management...

    Calf injury will be a problem of the past as they found something that’s been missed previously...

    Now all this is starting to come to light!.. I can confirm we are the club in question!..

     From everything I’m heard with the calf problem solved... it’s a risk worth taking..

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    18 minutes ago, K-dog said:

    I was feed information 3 weeks ago that Melbourne officials had been in touch with Bennell and his management...

    Calf injury will be a problem of the past as they found something that’s been missed previously...

    Now all this is starting to come to light!.. I can confirm we are the club in question!..

     From everything I’m heard with the calf problem solved... it’s a risk worth taking..

    Oh Mr K-Dog with one post of reputation, are you really Mrs Bennell or his manager?

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    3 minutes ago, ManDee said:

    Oh Mr K-Dog with one post of reputation, are you really Mrs Bennell or his manager?

    I have a source within the afl media circles... I’ve seen certain messages...

    Just remember my post when it comes out that we are the club in question...

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    1 minute ago, K-dog said:

    I have a source within the afl media circles... I’ve seen certain messages...

    Just remember my post when it comes out that we are the club in question...

    AFL media circles! It must be true, they never lie, speculate or embellish. I thought you had real info.

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    I wonder how many people who support us getting bennell supported us getting rid of Watts

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    On the surface I don't like this unless we give up peanuts for him and I don't mean a late draft pick I mean actual peanuts.

    Trading in injury prone players is our specialty so he'll fit right at home for a year before he is delisted or retires.

    Of course I'll be tickled pink if I'm wrong but I'm not particularly ticklish.

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    11 minutes ago, ManDee said:

    AFL media circles! It must be true, they never lie, speculate or embellish. I thought you had real info.

     

    Ive known this source for 15 years... I was told to keep it on the down low until information  surfaced...

    Time will prove this information correct... 

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    2 minutes ago, K-dog said:

     

    Ive known this source for 15 years... I was told to keep it on the down low until information  surfaced...

    Time will prove this information correct... 

    you did a good job on the "down low" then :)

    can't get much lower than demonland

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    2 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    you did a good job on the "down low" then :)

    can't get much lower than demonland

    Demonland is probably the only place anyone actually cares really...

    cant do it on Facebook, people know me and know who my source is... and that would bad for all involved..

    the one part I don’t like is how his manager has come out and said this... obviously they want more clubs than just Melbourne to be interested..

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    Just now, K-dog said:

    Demonland is probably the only place anyone actually cares really...

    cant do it on Facebook, people know me and know who my source is... and that would bad for all involved..

    the one part I don’t like is how his manager has come out and said this... obviously they want more clubs than just Melbourne to be interested..

    you didn't pick up on the sarcasm?

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