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beelzebub Legend

beelzebub   22,271

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Thats marvellous news.. a top player..with a thinking mind. Good news !! :)

is it just me or can you sense a different momentum at this club ?? :) :) :) :)

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is it just me or can you sense a different momentum at this club ?? :) :) :) :)

I really can BB, especially with his last comment.

I think there are people who have had enough of the "close but not quite" attitude

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its like when you know theres a storm coming.. ( well my left knee lets me know for starters..lol ) but... you can sense it without having anything material to base it on. Its all just little things in a sense ( Not that new coach is little...lol ) but a little thing here.. a different word there.. attitudes are changing and forging. And for a change its seems real..not just a lot of " f**k I hope we do alraight next year " sort of thing !! More of a deliberate and determined desire to get the ol tub turned around and up the knotts !!

Many are going to underestimate the Dees in 08... lol................... at their peril may it be !!! :lol: :D B)

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its like when you know theres a storm coming.. ( well my left knee lets me know for starters..lol ) but... you can sense it without having anything material to base it on. Its all just little things in a sense ( Not that new coach is little...lol ) but a little thing here.. a different word there.. attitudes are changing and forging.

Ridiculously emotive post - but I agree with every word.

he was a key component of the engine room in the '98 onwards renaissance.

Can offer a huge amount to the new regime.

Well done to the Board for making this call.

Anyone who marries a ballerina has to have something going for him too - more good off-season news. Thanks for the post.

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Ridiculously emotive post - but I agree with every word.

he was a key component of the engine room in the '98 onwards renaissance.

Can offer a huge amount to the new regime.

Well done to the Board for making this call.

Anyone who marries a ballerina has to have something going for him too - more good off-season news. Thanks for the post.

welcome back to the MFC...a real LOYAL geniune guy . Was sad when he left but real happy to have him back. :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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fantastic news. I loved watching this bloke play...however i only started watching melbourne and supporting them in 02 so never got to see much of him. thats a great recruit

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Was that when Schwarz palmed it down to him from a boundary throw-in?

thats the one, l turned the tv over cause l couldn't stand to watch it, then when l turned it back they were interviewing Neitz, and l thought 'hang on a minute WTF happened?, couldn't believe it, it was beautiful

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Gardner and Co kick another goal.

We turn over players, coaches and administrators at regular intervals in search of that elusive winning combination. It's a very harsh industry - just ask Simon Godfrey.

It's good that the Board doesn't think itself above this process and is prepared to make changes to the "list" to make themselves better at what they do.

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Its all just little things in a sense ( Not that new coach is little...lol ) but a little thing here.. a different word there.. attitudes are changing and forging.

You're right about the little things you notice - like in Petterd's article from China where he says "Brock, being Brock, began to run... so we all ended up running a kilometer along the great wall."

There's nothing like having an good impression of someone confirmed by another person you have a good impression of!

Leoncelli was probably the first Demon I learnt to really appreciate (My first serious Demon supporting year was 2000, from the start, mind you!). That timing also meant that I just had to love Bruce and Green.

500 possessions, 15 goals and 60 tackles (plus 9 Brownlow votes) is a good way to make an impression, especially when you get them doing the hard work.

Another claim to fame - the only player Bruce McAveny could name without annoying me - LeonCELLIIIII

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I'll never forget when I was a young girl and we went to the MFC Family Day at Luna Park and somehow, someway, my parents managed to get Leoncelli to sit with me on the Scenic Railway. :wub:

Great move by the club to appoint such a well-liked, respectable past player.

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I like the way the club is heading! Has anyone else noticed the amount of ex-melbourne players we've been hiring?

Connoly, Leoncilli and O'Donnel feel free to add anyone else

I think its part of the boards idea to creating a strong atomosphere or maybe its all just conidcedence (cant spell) :lol:

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