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Kelly O'Donnell

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Geez we'll be adding Peter Giles and Roger Ellingworth to the coaching panel next week at this rate! How many 80's Melbourne old boys can we fit into the offices?

Peter Tossol has been approached

 
Geez we'll be adding Peter Giles and Roger Ellingworth to the coaching panel next week at this rate! How many 80's Melbourne old boys can we fit into the offices?

I can give you the tip that for his 80 odd games he was more often than not in the best players with Chris Connelly, Robbie, Alan Johnson Peter Moore. He was core. But we really were shite during his time.

FWIW Jack Dyer would always mention him in dispatches on WOS.

 
Peter Tossol has been approached

I remember watching one of the Tossol boys play for Thornton seniors when my team was playing them in the under 17s. It was really interesting to see how much of a cut above the rest of both teams he was, faster, better positioning and ability to read the play and to create the play so much more than anyone else that day yet with all of that domination he showed its interesting how much of a leveler the VFL/AFL standard was/is

Time sure flies by

K O'D was one of my favourite players. Had pace and skill but was a bit undersized.

From what I remember we sometimes had the Irish cenrtreline of Kelly O'Donnell, Chris Connolly and Paul O'Brien. All average footballers but very honest triers.

Robbie would sometimes play half-forward, full forward etc. Once kicked a bag agaisnt the Saints at Moorabbin because he was ill and had to play FF. Vomited several times behind the goals between taking big marks and kicking goals. O'Donnell possibly played wing that day. Does anybody have a record from this game?


You heard it here first. Glenn Mclean to formally be announced as our Ruck Coach, Tossol the Forwards Coach, Graham Gaunt the backline coach, Michael Seddon our skills coach and Adrian Battiston our stoppages expert. Mark my words these blokes will be wheeled out with the new coach at the Junction Oval later this week, under a mysterious new strategy coach Bailey plans to unleash on our once proud club to restore it to glory. I can't reveal my sources, but apparently the codename for the masterstroke is 'The 5 Year Plan'.

Chris Connolly's hand all over this one.

So its:

Bailey - Coach

Whelman - Assistant Coach

Mahoney - Assistant Coach

Paul Williams - Assistant Coach (? is he staying??)

Connolly - FD

K O'Donnell - Development

Good to see us put some cash into the FD

I'm not! :)

You been touching up your hair ?

 
well...for probably the first time in....umm...in......... well, a very long while it does seem that we are developing a real plan. An to go with the plan assembling the personnel to enact it. Now nothing ever really results overnight from such things but it is very encouraging isnt it :)

Again...i think it will be avery different Melbourne taking to the pitch next year... ..different mainly above the shoulders !! :)

Well said Bub, as for a different Melbourne unit......hopefully!!!

Good to see us put some cash into the FD

Amen to that Hards :) !!!

K O'D was one of my favourite players. Had pace and skill but was a bit undersized.

From what I remember we sometimes had the Irish cenrtreline of Kelly O'Donnell, Chris Connolly and Paul O'Brien. All average footballers but very honest triers.

Robbie would sometimes play half-forward, full forward etc. Once kicked a bag agaisnt the Saints at Moorabbin because he was ill and had to play FF. Vomited several times behind the goals between taking big marks and kicking goals. O'Donnell possibly played wing that day. Does anybody have a record from this game?

You forgot Michael O'Sullivan.


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