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STAN ALVES

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Congratulations to a great bloke and a great Demon - Stan Alves OAM.

GREAT NEWS.... CONGRATS TO STAN :rolleyes:

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    Stan Alves was a great Demons player.

    Saw him play many times and his attack at the ball, then run and deliver, and his general attititude to playing footy should be a role-model for some of our aspiring champs.

    Well done Stan....you deserve it.

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    Well Done Stan!

    As a player I admired your leadership and your spirit. As a commentator, I enjoy your passion and your enthusiasm for the game.

    I am not sure why you owe any favoured comments about MFC. Its a pity that the Club shafted you (and other top players) so many years ago

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    Saw him play many times and his attack at the ball, then run and deliver, and his general attititude to playing footy should be a role-model for some of our aspiring champs.

    Congratulations to Stan on the award.

    As a youngster I also saw Stan play many times. I recall my dad really bagging him though, seems Stan had a bad habit of running in circles. Left, right, around, a bounce and around again. When he finally kicked the ball the forwards had stopped leading or been picked up.

    I believe that this was picked up on at North and he became a bit more direct.

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    Congratulations Stan.

    I think Stan makes good points on the club.

    He obviously is a bit harder on us so he doesn't seem bias towards us, much like Mark McLure (sp?) and Carlton.

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    'Rhino Richards'

    I agree , Rhino, we want no favoured comments. I just want him to get that chip off the shoulder and stop belittling the club that made him famous.

    I am not sure where the chip is on the shoulder Jack but the issue of where Alves played his football is irrelevant to his view on the current state of the Club or they way they play when he watches them. The way the Club performed recently there has been much for a commentator to lament. We have a habit of playing poor football when 774 cover us!

    FWIW, I think Maclure has been extremely blunt about some of the core issues at the Club. He has been pretty much to the point.

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    Trouble is, Rhino, he was just as scathing in 2004, 2005 and 2006, when we did well.

    By the way, St Kilda shafted him too,more ruthlessly than we did, but he obviously still has a soft spot for them, and constantly talks them up.

    I don't want him to favour us, I just get sick of a guy who's so enthusiastic and positive about most things,continually writing us off as a basket case.

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    I don't want him to favour us, I just get sick of a guy who's so enthusiastic and positive about most things,continually writing us off as a basket case.

    Fair enough. He is a committed and passionate sort of guy and there would be times that when MFC have played less so over the past 3 years it does not look good.

    FWIW, in his book Alves felt that he was shafted by individual executives at St Kilda not the Club. At MFC, he with other loyal top players felt shafted over a long period of time. In the end of the bitterness of the split for Alves would have been the final straw.

    I have heard him on radio state that he was more Saints that Demons.

    Maybe MFC will give him reason to praise this year!!

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