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Jumping Jack Clennett
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Have other Demonlanders noticed our new moniker? I like it. It has an international "feel" about it. I presume we own the title "Melbourne F.C." Melbourne Victory and Storm would like to have it, but they weren't around in 1858. I hope we've patented this name.

We Melburnians probably over-estimate our own importance when we call ourselves the" sports capital of the world", but with Grand Prix, World Swimming championships,Air shows etc all on at once, and well-attended, there's no doubt there's something special about Melbourne. And WE are Melbourne FC. We can be proud of that. We had a football club long before there was an FA cup, or a Bledisloe Cup, or even Test cricket. We just need a few premierships to get the world on board!

It's great to hear Melbourne players talking about winning the premiership(SEN today). I'm so used to disappointment that I can't help but think back to Schwab's last season at Hawthorn, when he talked Premierships, and they did terribly. But you've got to think it's possibvle. And it is! You don't need a team full of Abletts or Careys to win a premiership.

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    I was thinking that the other day. If Kangaroos, Hawks or Blues players talk about winning a premiership, they look like idiots, despite being entitled to have hope. All their captains can only come out and say "we hope to make the finals." Thank god we're spared that, at least for the time being.

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    champion team will beat a team of champions!

    thats what we are a champion team spread evenly across the board premiership winning stuff

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    You don't need a team full of Abletts to win a premiership.

    Ablett was in i think 5 grand finals and did not win 1 flag

    Few more flags and we should be right, but it is a well done to melbourne fc and the city of melbourne that we have many of big major events of the country

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    Have other Demonlanders noticed our new moniker? I like it. It has an international "feel" about it. I presume we own the title "Melbourne F.C." Melbourne Victory and Storm would like to have it, but they weren't around in 1858. I hope we've patented this name.

    I knew there was something different. Well spotted JJC.

    I heard Paul gardiner speaking this sort of language on SEN this week.

    It reminds me of Liverpool FC, and I notice SydneyFC in the A league use it.

    Heaven forbid we ever merge, but following a team with a major city in its name is fantastic from that point of view.

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    Well done JJC!

    Very Observant.

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