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We wont win a flag til Bruce, Green, White, Davey, Johnstone etc.. are 2nd tier players

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It is true

Guys like that dont win you flags. They are the icing on the cake, but they are not players that can carry you

When Jones, McLean, Sylvia, Bate, Bartam, Dunn and Frawley become the best players at the club we will be a serious contender!!

Until then, it will be same old...

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It is true

Guys like that dont win you flags. They are the icing on the cake, but they are not players that can carry you

When Jones, McLean, Sylvia, Bate, Bartam, Dunn and Frawley become the best players at the club we will be a serious contender!!

Until then, it will be same old...

wat a pipe dream.....

as i said in the other post ... tell me wat bruce did wrong

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wat a pipe dream.....

as i said in the other post ... tell me wat bruce did wrong

He kicked crap floaters, missed goals. He's supposed to be a very senior player & lead by example, not hard enough is his example.

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yer hird is less versatile

bruce isnt in the same league as Hird, never will be

Not even close

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yer hird is less versatile

I admire you defending your favourite player. Bruce is pretty good, but he's no superstar yet. Unfortunately his kicking is irratic and he's surrounded by baffoons. I see his confidence being sapped by the rest of his team mates lack oif performance, where I'd really like to see him provide some real leadership. Grab the game by the scruff of the neck, like Hird has done on many occasion.

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Agreed. I was actually going to make a thread along these lines of how we won't win a premiership with Bruce, Green, Robbo etc. leading this team.

Bruce needs to fix his kick up; it's terrible for a player of his status, although I've always believed he is overrated.

Green is too inconsistent and he never has that "outstanding game" we all thought we'd see often when he first came to the club. I've been saying for years that he is probably our most tradeable asset.

Davey is a flash of light but plays in the wrong position. Until Daniher realises he needs to be in the centre for EVERY BOUNCE, he will be underused and wasted.

White is a warrior and is loved by the Demon faithful and still has probably 3 or 4 years left. However, I believe from here on in, he will play less in the ruck and more up foward; in saying that, he should be played out of the goal square.

Johnstone is quite possibly the biggest underachiever in the history of the game. His kick is outstanding when good, but disappointing when off the mark. His personality matches his game; never seems interested.

Brock McLean should be our next captain. There should not be any question there. I cringe at the thought of a player who often backs out of contests and sounds like a 12 year old when he opens his mouth being MFC captain. I'm talking about Bruce. Also, he has NO leadership quality; he might look good on the ground but he barely carries the team when he has the oppurtunity too.

To go from Neitz as captain and then to Bruce would be an injustice to whole leadership concept. McLean in my eyes is the only candidate with a few possible troops as vices. Jones has been in and under more in 9 AFL games than Bruce has in his entire AFL career.

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The only deluded person is the one that thinks Bruce is a good kick

i never said he was a good kick..... dont quote me on that ... but im saying hes far from bad....

ur a sore loser yze magic..... cant place the blame on yze today ... why not bruce?

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yer hird is less versatile

Hell will turn Methodist and take up line-dancing before Bruce is mentioned in the same breath as Hird.

I hope to be proven wrong, but it is unlikely to happen for all of Bruce's many merits.

Biffinator.

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Melbourne will not be a contender in the finals. Even if we make it, we will scrape in and lose our first game or next one. I would like to see some trades this year set for premiership in 2013. Trade players like Bruce, TJ, Green, Bell (if anyone wants him)

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are u alll melbourne supporters or AFL CRITICS?

I've come to learn that part of being a Melbourne fan, means the weekly ritual of building your hopes, dissapointment, quickly followed by a feral rant at the same players I'll be hailing as heroes when they occasionally snatch a victory. I think I'd be lost if they suddenly became consistently good.

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Melbourne will not be a contender in the finals. Even if we make it, we will scrape in and lose our first game or next one. I would like to see some trades this year set for premiership in 2013. Trade players like Bruce, TJ, Green, Bell (if anyone wants him)

Yeah, I agree. The status quo. Though this year looks like a struggle to even accomplish that.

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Melbourne will not be a contender in the finals. Even if we make it, we will scrape in and lose our first game or next one. I would like to see some trades this year set for premiership in 2013. Trade players like Bruce, TJ, Green, Bell (if anyone wants him)

Oh yeah. What a f**king great idea, trade our talented players. Why don't we drop everyone and bring in our rookies? That should do the trick. Today was an ordinary effort from all of the team bar maybe 5 players. Yes, Bruce & TJ & Green & Bell were disappointing. But so were the rest of the team. It's a good thing some people on this forum aren't coaches, because they'd drop 22 players week in week out.

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are u alll melbourne supporters or AFL CRITICS?

neither, we are realist's

hird has won a brownlow, lead his team to a premiership has courage of a hundred lions and is a class above bruce, i love bruce but he aint a super star of the afl, that he is a star at MFC is where we go wrong, it means our talent isnt up to scratch, we have no voss, hird, carey etc who when the game in the balance stand the tallest and do something special that wins their club the game, like hird did against west coast at the dome after the mc claren saga

davey should stay in the F50 and be the player he was 2 years ago when he swooped on every dropped mark and chased them all down and the pressure he created by just being in the same vicinity as the defender, now he is all over the shop, doesnt kick goals and looks knackered half the time

a great forward pocket he is, a midfielder he aint

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Oh yeah. What a f**king great idea, trade our talented players. Why don't we drop everyone and bring in our rookies? That should do the trick. Today was an ordinary effort from all of the team bar maybe 5 players. Yes, Bruce & TJ & Green & Bell were disappointing. But so were the rest of the team. It's a good thing some people on this forum aren't coaches, because they'd drop 22 players week in week out.

And if u were coach u would never want fresh new talent. whats the point in squeezing a lime for juice when its unripe. There are players for melb who must be traded for the future of melb. Clubs unfortunatly wont take P.Johnson, S.Godfrey, N.Brown, P.Wheatley so we must trade for draft picks. Its now about the future as melb are going backwards and y try and string 2 years where we will be ordinary when we can go for bottom 4 now and be a chance 2 years earlier than we would if we try and make a premiership of what we have atm

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I've come to learn that part of being a Melbourne fan, means the weekly ritual of building your hopes, dissapointment, quickly followed by a feral rant at the same players I'll be hailing as heroes when they occasionally snatch a victory. I think I'd be lost if they suddenly became consistently good.

We need a coach who knows the difference between pretenders & real footballers. Did anyone watch Brisbane last thursday, they've just lost :- lepitch, voss, michael, pike, akermanis, & were missing lappin I believe. He had the kids playing like MEN.

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