Lets build a new history instead of endless wallowing in the past with highlights videos Ox, Neita, Robbie, Tingay & Lyon.

6 hours ago, Cranky Franky said:

Lets build a new history instead of endless wallowing in the past with highlights videos Ox, Neita, Robbie, Tingay & Lyon.

10 hours ago, John Crow Batty said:

We were ridiculously easy to score against in the Balme days. The defending was hopeless.

Ummm, what are you basing that on? I can't remember watching games back then and regular seeing every opposition forward thrust turn into a score. But from 1993-95 (despite only that 7th seeing us play finals) each year only three teams conceded fewer points (while our FOR tallies were worse in the rankings).Then the wheels fell off as they reached the cellar and they ranked low at both ends. What have I missed?

Thought David was a fantastic player, it was a tragedy in three parts when he did his knee.. still a player when he came back . Incredible result.

If he made an error, he was upset as much as anyone in the stands . Heart on his sleeve stuff.

His book is an excellent read.

He was the gazelle before he was the ox.

9 goals vs Sydney at the SCG in 1994 one of the single best performances I've ever seen from a Melbourne player.

He was good in 1999 but the team had a shocking year. 1994 was easily his best year. If not for injuries to pretty much every single one of our best 22 at some point during the year we could well have gone all the way. We had the pieces everywhere.

Was it 1998 against Carlton at the MCG when he kicked 5 in the 3rd quarter?

Also think it was that game where he threw off the knee brace at one of the breaks????

Help me fellow Demonlanders with my memories of such a great player

On 28/11/2025 at 17:14, Go Ds said:

He's had an amazing life. When he was something like 10 he witnessed his father being murdered. Obviously that would affect someone and ended up with a crippling gambling addiction that almost destroyed everything including friendships and relationships. Thankfully he conquered that and turned his life around.

I also remember one night that he was on the Footy Show. Melbourne were that week/month were the laughing stock of the league and Schwarz sat there taking all the barbs. Then that f****** Sam Newman congratulated Ox about his 150th game and walked over to him with a gift in a box. Schwarz could so easily have retired after all the slings and arrows way earlier so his milestone was a big deal. Then this happened .....

https://youtu.be/HBw2XjG5eKA?si=96jXI6nesYsJ1DN4

Newman deserved every bit of that. Such a scumbag, I've never liked him.

One of if not my all time favourite.

The #5 at this club means a lot to me, he was the first player I saw who wore the club on his sleeve, through the good and the bad times.

On 29/11/2025 at 21:55, monoccular said:

I a not quite old enough to have seen Norm Smith or Fred Fanning play, but Ox pre knee was absolutely the most exciting tall forward I have ever seen at Melbourne.

So sad for all concerned that he had multiple knee injuries.

I'd have to say very closely followed by Allan Jackovic.

201 goals in 47 games would be unheard-of these days and certainly not by a MFC player.

Came as close as any MFC player in the modern era to matching Fred's record of most goals in a game.

To think that in this same period in the 90s, we also had Garry Lyon and Darren Bennett, Martin Pike as key forwards and later David Neitz and Shaun Smith, Jeff Farmer and Russell Robertson as talls smalls and mid sized forwards. Was such an exciting era. If only we could boast that sort of forward line over the past few years.

7 minutes ago, Rodney (Balls) Grinter said:

I'd have to say very closely followed by Allan Jackovic.

201 goals in 47 games would be unheard-of these days and certainly not by a MFC player.

Came as close as any MFC player in the modern era to matching Fred's record of most goals in a game.

To think that in this same period in the 90s, we also had Garry Lyon and Darren Bennett, Martin Pike as key forwards and later David Neitz and Shaun Smith, Jeff Farmer and Russell Robertson as talls smalls and mid sized forwards. Was such an exciting era. If only we could boast that sort of forward line over the past few years.

Well, we complain about our mids these days bombing in - back then we had some fairly decent kicks into the forward line as well. Darren Kowal*, Guy Rigoni* and Kevin Dyson*, that man with the biggest thighs ever...

*insert more appropriate mids at your whim...