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Not much to talk about at the moment......so let's delve back into our recent and long past history and ask the question:

WHO SAID THAT?

As each one is correctly identified, another will be posted.


 

 

OK no correct answers yet, but am impressed with a couple of options put forward...Remember these are only MFC icons......

So I'll give you a couple more to see if anyone can get the answers....

1    1.       “I would have 100 shots a week at training….”

A          A:  Brad Green, Demonland Podcast 20/6/18

 

2.    “I train day on, day off.  Day on.  Day off….Todays’s day off”

A:  Allen Jakovich   in Garry Lyons book “The Demon Within”

 

3.      “ If blokes got in my way, I knocked them over…and sometimes it was a little too high..”

A: Rod Grinter.....correctly identified by  Left Foot Snap

 

4.     "The old Melbourne’s gone….done and dusted.  Finished….and that will never reappear again"

A:  Paul Roos.  Demonland Podcast 13 June 2018  37.55  correctly identified by Roger Mellie

 

5.     “Healy off,  Ellingworth on….bloody weak as [censored]…”

A: R.D. Barassi:  correctly identified by  Roger Mellie

 

6.     “Any game against Collingwood, you had to get up…it’s a long week in football and every 2nd bastard you run into is a Collingwood    supporter..”

A:  Allen Jakovich     Demonland podcast 21 October 2017.       37.25

Another one:

7. 

The voice became more agitated.  “Open the door – it’s Norm Smith”

I said: “Hell is that you, Red Fox?”

Norm put his shoulder to the door and it nearly came off its hinges.  He burst in and wrestled all 3 of us, and it bloody hurt too; we were bruised.  ….” None of you will ever refer to me as The Red Fox ever again!”

Who said “ Hell is that you , Red Fox?” thereby giving Norm Smith his nickname ?

A:    Ian Thorogood.  From “The Red Fox” by Ben Collins

 

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    13 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Number 1:  

    1.       “I would have 100 shots a week at training….”

     

    Could be Matthew Lloyd.  Could be Cameron Mooney.  Could be any of a number of our esteemed and pickled Demonland posters, too, depending on the kind of shots.

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    Number 2

    'Tonight was unacceptable & probably a reflection of where we've been for the year'......'but we are going to work really hard at getting ourselves out of it'

    'We've got a lot of work to do, but I've got full confidence in the players & the club'.......'We are in a poor position right now'

    'We need to take responsibility as coaches, as players, as a whole club & how we build our program & make it better'.....'But what I am going to say is that we have the people here in terms of the players'

     

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    Number 2 I think is Goodwin.

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    Number 1.Mark Jacko Jackson.

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    " I promise i will be staying , Jimmy "

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    1 hour ago, Laughing Goat said:

    Number 2

    'Tonight was unacceptable & probably a reflection of where we've been for the year'......'but we are going to work really hard at getting ourselves out of it'

    'We've got a lot of work to do, but I've got full confidence in the players & the club'.......'We are in a poor position right now'

    'We need to take responsibility as coaches, as players, as a whole club & how we build our program & make it better'.....'But what I am going to say is that we have the people here in terms of the players'

     

    Neeld

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    3 hours ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Not much to talk about at the moment......so let's delve back into our recent and long past history and ask the question:

    WHO SAID THAT?

    As each one is correctly identified, another will be posted.

     

    Number 1:  

    1.       “I would have 100 shots a week at training….”

     

    An alcoholic

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    17 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

    Number 3:

    “Footy sucks sometimes” 

    Someone said it after a loss to North to start the season 0-9 in the mid-late 2000’s.

    Neale Daniher.

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    OK no correct answers yet, but am impressed with a couple of options put forward...Remember these are only MFC icons......

    So I'll give you a couple more to see if anyone can get the answers....

     

    1.    “I would have 100 shots a week at training….”

     

    2.    “I train day on, day off.  Day on.  Day off….Todays’s day off”

     

    3.      “ If blokes got in my way, I knocked them over…and sometimes it was a little too high..”

     

    4.     "The old Melbourne’s gone….done and dusted.  Finished….and that will never reappear again"

     

    5.     “Healy off,  Ellingworth on….bloody weak as [censored]…”

     

    6.     “Any game against Collingwood, you had to get up…it’s a long week in football and every 2nd bastard you run into is a Collingwood    supporter..”

     

     

     

     

     

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    3. Tony Lockett? (oops! MFC only... in which case, Byron Pickett?)

    Edited by hardtack

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    Is 3 Rod Grinter?

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    Woohoo!!

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    " Don't you EVER do that again "

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    2 hours ago, dee-eee said:

    " Don't you EVER do that again "

    That was my wife after the 2018 Hawthorn final. My first game at the the MCG. Some of the photos in the stands wern't overly complimentary.....

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    3 hours ago, dee-eee said:

    " Don't you EVER do that again "

    John Northey to Jimmy Stynes. 1987  ( we know after which match ) 

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