"To the players who are in the room, I put this challenge to them," Bailey said. "In 30 days' time, pre-season starts. The reality is that it actually starts tomorrow.

"It has been four to five weeks off now. The greatest challenge will be when you walk in that door on the 31st of October, will you be in the best condition that you've been for a pre-season?

"Because if you are, you will certainly show me and your teammates and everyone else who's involved in football, that you're seriously committed to next year."

"One of the first things I've been asked is about the Junction Oval. It smells like a footy club," he said. "There's sweat and anger in the rooms. That's what a football club is about."

sounds good:) go bailey

I love this man

Im inspired !!

you bloody ripper

Lol

We might be bumping "the hardest team to play against" in 2 years also

What do The Bermuda Trinagle, Crop Circles, The Loch Ness Monster, Stonehenge and Yze-Magic have in common?

That's Melbourne's biggest problem. They are all talk. We want to see actions & on field results!!

Benson who are you?

ok can we start life-banning people who bump threads

Benson who are you?

I'm Batman.

ok can we start life-banning people who bump threads

If you don't want a thread being bumped, maybe ask it to be closed? Otherwise I will post where I please, I found this thread amusing, so I posted lol.

Why? Point being...?

The fact that we were still at the junction oval into the 21st century tells us all so much.

I got slammed for bumping a post from 2007 earlier this week, Benson. Don't do it man, next Someone will accuse you of being an illuminati moon landing hoaxer.

The fact that we were still at the junction oval into the 21st century tells us all so much.

The Junction oval was renowned for having the best surface in the League to train on. Fair enough on the rest of it but a team will learn most of the fundamentals out on an oval.

As for gym work and other aspects of training up a team, you find a way and you become resourceful. We probably just sat on our hands.

We actually played finals on a semi regular basis when we were at the Junction oval. Now we have all these 'State of the art' facilities and we can't win a game.

I'm Batman.

Hahaha! Thanks Benson, got a great laugh here;)