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This deal is significantly more than Webjet and Opel. With the NT deal, we are above mid table in sponsorship revenue. A remarkable achievement coming off 2 (7?) years of disaster.

Calm down. They are just saying that any test will be done once by AFL approved medicos and will be released to all clubs. Kids should not have to go through 18 different scans and nor should clubs waste money. The alternative would be Collingwood testing 25 players that we wouldn't afford and hoarding the information. There is little to complain about here.

from melbournefc.com.au its good news Monday...... go on...give each other A.HuG

Sixes wasn't in attendance I post pics on twitter, will be doing it later, Demonpk, not everybody looks there Everybody on the track except Chris Dawes, who was out bike riding Kent and Riley left early, Kent has a troublesome Patella and Riley on the way back from broken leg. Not training with main group, Strauss, Tapscott, Jamar, Byrnes, Hogan, Viney, Spencer, McDonald, Garland, Tyson, think that's about it Delegation from new sponsor in attendance, Peter Jackson, Todd Viney, Mahoney, Bartlett, Howcroft and recruiting staff, asked Jason Taylor who we are taking at 9, he wouldn't tell me Everybody in new tops with new sponsor It is easier to answer questions so fire away

it's not about rpfc and wyl it's all about me, and my outrage, my money, my frustration, my depression right? my needs are greater so you two just shuddup, ok

I was actually going for Gandalf, keeps me warm in winter, and protects from sun in summer I am not one for gushing about training, it's a bit pointless, suffice to say, there is now genuine competition all over the park, so post Xmas I reckon training will be willing. Cross is genuinely pleased to get a second go with us, Michie is lovin' it (his words), Bernie Vince (see the smile in the photo). For all the Hogan lovers though, apart from seeing Mitch Clark in full training, best sight today was Jesse thundering around the repeat 2 and 300's, just saw the photo posted, that's it Watts is fine, seen him without the shirt, perfect size for his body shape edit for gush Have to disappear now, will answer any other questions over next day or two if there is any Forgot one thing, from Chris Dawes to all the doubters, he will be back before Xmas, ready to go

With the passing of our Jim, there was a major hole left in the very fabric of our footy club. Throughout his sickness, perhaps the greatest failure was to not address what was an obviously needed succession plan. I would contend, no-one on here can give a categoric summation of Don McLardy's skills or lack of them. He was incredibly loyal to Jimmy, took the reins at Jimmy's request and was faced with a monumental task, few in this land could countenance. HIs was interviewed on SEN - in the main - to promote the Reach Foundation function, which his business sponsors and support, not to mention Don is currently Chairman of Reach. Whatever Don's failings may have been, in terms of his Presidency, I cannot say for certain. The one think I do know however is that he is as passionate about his footy club as any on Demonland, he has poured money into the footy club that he did not need to and worked his proverbial off to keep the club afloat. We may throw as many stones as we like, but that does not diminish the worth and the character of the man. Thanks Don and go Dees.

I agree, Robbie. McLardy met Stynes because he got involved in Reach. Stynes didn't even know he barracked for Melbourne. A busy business man he decided he wanted to volunteer one day a week at Reach and from there a relationship was borne. McLardy never wanted to be President, or even go on the Board. He got involved because he was asked and thought he could help. Here's an article by Flanagan from a while back. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/two-optimistic-men-on-a-mission-in-sport-and-welfare-20100702-zu4n.html?skin=text-only To think there are turds in here that want to spew bile on a man who simply tried to do his best, but was found wanting.

At this time of the year, for many years, I have been optimistic and excited about the season ahead, only to have these hopes dashed early in the season. My hopes this year are equally optimistic, but are laced this time with more than a trace of realism, given the huge off field advances made in the past few months. I was initially wary of Peter Jackson, given his history at Essendon, though based not on his results, rather his passion for that club. I am now convinced that his appointment was a stroke of genius. Would Paul Roos and AHG be on board without him? My wife is having trouble understanding why my usual glum expression has been replaced with a huge smile. Long may it last!

You know things are looking up when you spot Old Dee liking a post that exudes confidence about how we're being run.

Of course I had a chat to Nev, Club wants him to continue to train, couldn't tell me much else, told me he was fine with the situation

Like I have said before, there won't be enough bronze in the world for the size statue PJ will deserve at the end of his tenure. Great effort and great momentum.

This is in no way aimed at us. As we sought approval from the AFL to fly Scharenberg over for testing and for the AFL to fund said testing and provide all other clubs with the medical reports if needed. We sought their permission before acting, asked for them to pay. So it seems we played well and truly by the rules.

I'm gunna hold off buying a new car for a little while, buy some AHG shares with the few dollars I currently own, wait for the share value to skyrocket on the back of the MFC sponsorship and buy a new car with the dividends.

Melbourne announces new major partner

Do we know if the boss of this AHG posts stuff on Facebook?

Mate I am way more confident in life than you may think. When it comes to the MFC there has been bugger all to be positive about either on or off the field over recent times. I think the results show that my pessimism has been justified. It looks different this November and I very happy to see it.

geezus , this is a whole different place now isnt it !! Its looking like a footy club that has a list that looks like a footy team. Its got people at the helm who seem ( at last ) more interested in the furthering of the club ( than any t her agendas ) . Its getting people interested in hopping aboard the bus both commercially and from a following's perspective. We've got Coach and staff who talk the club up and head the nuff nuff's of the nong-estate off at the pass before they can get a biased question out. I am at the right place.......this is Melbourne....it is isnt it ?? If all this off filed overhauling doesnt filter through to game-spirit, then nothing ever will. Go Dees

I get the feeling that MFC will go for someone like Blake Acres or Luke Dunstan, they seemed pretty damn confident that the player they wanted @ 9 would still be there, and to me that suggests that it's a player who hasn't been in the spotlight as much as others have been. First time in years that most people don't really have a clue of the order for this draft. Boyd @ 1, Kelly @ 2 and McDonald @ 8 seem to be the only definites... every other one still has a fair amount of speculation... BTW, I have no idea and have no sauces etc... but it feels like they have planned offloading pick 2 for a player (Dom Tyson in this case) and dropping down to a later pick has been orchestrated very carefully. MFC for the first time in a long time give me a sense that everything is being carefully planned. I don't think Jason Taylor or Viney are expecting to be suprised on Draft day.

I thought someone posted about AHG almost a week ago....

This is all starting to feel very, very strong. I will wait and see how it translates onto the field, but our great club no longer feels like a rabble. It is beginning to feel professional, tight, focused and low key with no star ex-players hanging around. Only one step to go for the whole structure to be in place - the lead assistant who will take over from Roos. At this stage I have a sneaky suspicion it might end up being Rawlings. But for today, our jumper is set for 2014 and I feel good. Well done Bartlett, Jackson and Roos.

Exactly the reason I asked the question. I was interested whether that $1m & $0.45m was all we were getting in AFL handouts after reading the article in today's HUN -The AFL will be transparent over its financial aid to clubs.It cites a total figure of $30.6 million distributed in 2012 to the 18 clubs from the club future fund. In other words, the average per club was $1.7m last year, an amount in excess of that total $1.45m grant we received recently from the AFL. Even if this grant was on top of the normal distribution (which I suspect is the case), I would like to know what the other clubs are receiving given that so many officials from other clubs were shaking their heads in apparent disbelief when we made our application for assistance. I'm willing to bet that GWS quietly gets a suitcase load more than we do to finance their extravagances and that if they haven't done so already Brisbane and St. Kilda will also put their hands out for more given their dire financial situations. Not to mention assistance regularly paid out to the Doggies and the Roos (the team not the coach). I look forward to some transparency from the AFL on this issue. It would make a nice change.

That is a fantastic achievement for where we are on the ladder and the economy generally.

One of the things I loved about the press conference was when a journo asked about AD's plan to be an open and transparent organisation and detail AFL assistance packages as though it would be a problem PJ just reeled off the numbers. No need to wait for the AFL, these are the numbers boys no problem there. Pretty open and transparent I would think.

Acres is very green.

actually, i think he meant to click "report"

what is a mouse?

I dont have a problem with supporters or critics of Don. I do have a problem with ugly vitriol ( and the same goes with the bile directed at CS and MN). Whether these guy have a handful of supporters of a plethora of critics I think it should be understood that no one comes into a job with us ( paid or unpaid) with the intention of inflicting damage on our club. Therefore critique away - state that CS or DM werent up to the job - no problem - but put away the abuse ( it probably says more about you than them anyway)

His mouse slipped.

$2m a year and $6 Million in total. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/jackson-confident-dees-can-return-to-the-black-20131118-2xq28.html?eid=email:nnn-13omn604-ret_newsl-membereng:nnn-04/11/2013-real_footy-dom-sport-nnn-age-u&campaign_code=13ISP006&promote_channel=edmail&mbnr=MzQ4NDk4Nw

See questions are easier Gawn was in the "rehab" group forgot him, asked Tappy, he was vague, so didn't push it, probably as sick of being in rehab group as we are at seeing him there...didn't seem restricted whatsoever, from what I can gather, they are trying to ensure everybody is cherry ripe to go after Xmas...they are not flogging them......had more than one player and no I won't name names tell me they were flogged too hard pre xmas last year

Paul Roos will be worth every cent we are paying him, if in fact he is not already. I would suggest that if he had not been appointed as the coach our new sponsor (AHG) would not be on board. It is also unlikely that some of our 'recruits' would not have joined us without the prospect of being coached by PR.

I think that is it in terms of Major Sponsors. And define 'unaided' - in 2012 we were given approximately $12.6m... Collingwood was given $12.5m. This is from the AFL Annual Report. No club is 'unaided.'

Slightly off topic but why do people care about the stars and the collar? Is it just a Schwab thing? I couldnt give a rats. However on topic, this is fantastic news and great not just financially but it gives players like Frawley the feeling that the club is moving forward and there is light at the end if the tunnel. A financially secure and stable club will definately impact on his desicion whether to re-sign or bail.

Can we please get a leak of the dollars involved? Anyone?

Sponsors smaller in number, better in quality and dollars invested. Also, PJ recognises that our sponsors need to be better serviced and supported by the MFC. Something that was sadly lacking in recent times. Agree 100% that the worth of PJ to this footy club is incalculable. [edit] as is Glen Bartlett.

gotta keep our standards up, eh Hoges! Yassir, don't let up on the vigilance front.. An uncle of mine worked with a fella who served in the First World War, in the desert in North Africa at one stage. Walking along chatting to another digger who'd been a dentist before joining up, my uncle's mate Albert was complaining of terrible tooth ache he'd been having. "Don't let the army dentists at you," advised the dentist, "wait till you get home; then get the whole lot out and get falsies like the rest of us." So Albert trudged on, and they walked through an old battle-field with skeletons poking up through the sand. One skull had a perfect set of teeth, and Albert remarked on this, and they stopped to admire them. "Do you reckon I could take out those teeth, and get them made up into a set for meself?" Albert asked the dentist. The dentist thought this might be possible, so they set to work with bayonets and prised all the teeth out of the skull, and put them in a tobacco tin, and then resumed their march. Albert forgot all about them. After the war was over, and Albert was back in peaceful Western Australia in a train going home to see his wife and two small children, his thoughts turned to the idea of wrapping his arms around his wife, who he hadn't seen for some years; and he thought about the children standing there too, and he hardly knew them and they'd be looking at him, and no doubt a bit unsure... and all he wanted was to get his arms round his wife. What to do? He pictured them all together on the platform, and all he could think of was his wife. As he thought about it, Albert hit upon the scheme of giving the children the presents he'd brought home for them, and while they were occupied opening them he could give his wife the hug he'd been dreaming of. That would surely work... So Albert fished around in his kit-bag, to find the presents for the kids and put them at the top, and in doing so his hand closed on a tobacco tin. "What's this?" he thought, and opening it saw the dead man's teeth. Albert told my uncle that he almost vomited on the spot, and hurled them tin and all out the window and sat there shaking uncontrollably. What had seemed a perfectly reasonable and even clever idea in the context of the war, suddenly - in peaceful country Australia with a wife and children waiting for him, whom he would smile at and kiss, daily for the rest of his life - Albert wondered what sort of a monster he'd become while in that war zone. Albert was a real nice bloke, according to my uncle. Getting Liam back into Melbourne, surrounded with his other life, and supported by people who rate him and who reinforce his identity as a magician on the footy field, part of a team that is not divided and dangerous but rather supportive and focused on forming character and teamwork and achieving positive goals - it could close the door on what he did in a previous life. We who were not there as part of the other world he has lived in, we cannot have any idea - but surely we can recognise that not everyone who did terrible things in a war zone is an unredeemable monster. Let him return to a place he apparently would prefer to be in! And shuttup pretending you have never strayed to the dumb side of the harmless little situations you've found yourself in!

Don McLardy put a whole heap of his OWN money in to the club, which is more than I can say for some of the crass morons that criticise him. Mclardy was responsible for Jimmy coming back to the club and without him there probably wouldn't be a club. It's assholes that never put their hand up, or do anything and never put their own money in, that usually scream the loudest.

How anyone - let alone anyone that calls themselves a demons supporter could bag Neita is beyond me. People saying he is Arrogant, Selfish, etc obviously havnt spent more then 1 second with the guy. I've been at the Childrens Hospital many times when my brother was in there for 6 months and he was the most frequent visitor out of any football player I noticed. He would rock up after training sessions still in his training gear and play video games with kids and sit and talk with parents, bring in signed gear for kids. No TV cameras or Jurnos around documenting any of this just out of his on good will. As for on the football feild, he arguably could be considered to be one of the most courageous captians of his era. He would lead from the front, stand up for team mates and would have a crack 100% of the time even if it meant he would get layed out. Sure he didnt kick as many goals as Lloyd, didnt have the polish or number of brownlow votes as Vossy, Hird, or Bucks. But he bled RED AND BLUE and you knew if he was anywhere near a contest he would try his best to make an impact for his team. As for compairing Neita and Hogan. If he can play over 300 games, Kick over 600 Goals and lead from the front like #9 did then i think we should count our lucky stars. With there being less then 70 players in the 300 games club and only 53 players in the 500 + Goals Club I think we should tone down the expectations on the kid. Let him play without the weight of expectation and If he only manages 150 games and 300 goals he will still go down as a success.

We only need to pick him once.

I don't know if anyone else caught the interview (I don't know if there is a link on the SEN site and 'm on my iPhone so can't post link sorry), but I have to say what a nice bloke and passionate supporter our man Don is. To recap, they discussed briefly: - said that when Jim passed, the club tried to show a strong and united front but it was a really difficult period for everyone; - The tanking scenario, which he highlighted went as long as the Bombers supplement investigation; and - Ox pointed out that also the Energy watch fiasco also. Things they didn't discuss but what he had to deal with as a President: - He had Schwab as a CEO. - He had to go on his knees to the AFL asking for money. - Liam Jurrah incident. - Neeld as coach and our shocking run on the field. Bloody hell, what a mess to deal with. To finish off and the thing I loved the most about the interview was his passion for the club and optimism for our future. Good on ya Don!!!!

They said it's within their existing budget, so no new money required by them.

Any time the logo isn't in a box looks good to me.

edited that quickly

Hey guys, First time poster but I thought it was necessary The old man knows one of the guys high up in AHG and tomorrow's announcement will be them sponsoring us for what is thought to be 2 years! Great news considering we just lost Fujitsu to the bombers Go dees!

Paul Roos having second thoughts due to obvious dangerous insanity among supporter groups. Apparently someone gave him the link to demonland.

Jesse Hogan convinced to sign a 5-year contract, but only on the provision that PJ and PR did likewise? One can dream can't they!?!?

Great bloke Shocking President

Here's a comparison... AFL Games: Neitz - 306 Hogan - 0 I'm excited as anyone, but let's let the kid play.