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I am working with disadvantaged indigenous youth here in Alice Springs and had sent an invite to the club to see if any players could come and chat with them. It was a late invite, yet the club found the time to spend just over an hour with these kids. Angus Brayshaw and Liam Hullet came out, sat down and talked with these kids about a range of issues. Despite them probably not seeing it, it was a great thrill for these kids. Liam and Angus were very well spoken and generous with their time. As I will write to the club, I can't thank them enough. They gave these kids a real thrill and by sharing their stories they have helped to reinforce a lot of the work that has been and will continue to be done to help these disengaged youth.

Another 3 years, what a pick up!

While we are all celebrating another awesome re-signing, it might be a good time to offer thanks, and acknowledge the great work of our current list management team. Josh Mahoney, and whoever else is involved, well done to all. You are doing a fantastic job. faulty

Thought I should post this, most will see it on the MFC site but these are incredible.... http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2016-05-26/jones-overwhelmed-by-painted-boots

I think I've heard this story before. Wasn't our day supposed to be coming about five years ago after we snapped up all those early draft picks around 2008/9?

top of ladder 2015 to bottom of ladder 2016 without a single win.... if this isn't tanking i'll go hee.................why aren't the media all over it lyon has publicly stated their season is shot (after only 9 games) and they'll focus on "development" players a.k.a. they are after the #1 draft pick come hell or high water. they are even cracking connolly style jokes and the media giggle and even draw up graphics on how they can "list manage" the season out for the #1 pick. hypocrites all.

Very good article. Conveniently written the week we're playing Port, the old pump up our tires and then watch us self deflate trick. Lets not fall for that and smash Port this weekend!

Good news worth celebrating! Man I'm going to have search hard for a good one when Hogan re-signs.

Garlett signs to new deal Great news! It is all coming together nicely! Today Roos said he would be 'staggered' if Tom Mc didn't re-sign Just need to add Jetta, Watts and a couple of others OOC this year to keep our merry band together!

Congratulations, you've just won Brian Taylor Bingo!

Next you will be blaming the humidity! We have turned the corner, we have won twice this year when I wasn't wearing my lucky red socks!

I'm from Melbourne and lived 5 years in Freo. I get the pull of both. What I don't get is the whole "home thing." Of course family's important, but there's a thing called skype nowadays and ya mum's gonna hug you as hard whether it's once a year or every day. He's a grown man and there's a world out there to grab by the throat and a life of premiership glory to write. Get it done big fella!

Thought I'd post the pic up from the clubs Facebook page. So great to hear the story from RGRS.

God Carlton supporters must just spew everytime this guy kicks a bag....well, keep spewing then.

Was this intended to come across as some secret note from a Cold War spy thriller?

Meanwhile....talking about Prestia Who heads the queue for Dion Prestia's signature? some snippets..... "IF DION Prestia decides to leave Gold Coast, it is becoming increasingly clear he will join a Melbourne-based club that can offer him on-field success in the short-term and for the long-term. " "After six mostly success-starved seasons at Gold Coast, it's believed Prestia would not leave the Suns to join a team that is a few years away from contending. "As such, he would probably be wary of joining any team he perceived to be near the end of its premiership window. North Melbourne is widely thought to be in this position, while even Hawthorn seems to be finally feeling the effects of Father Time. " Welcome Dion your locker is over there >>>>>>

I have said this before but over the last decade it was obvious that our list was VFL standard. I keep saying and I knew we were going nowhere fast until we made substantial changes to the list. Now people saw that as negative i saw it as reality. Substantial change has happened and while we still have holes we now have a list that is AFL standard. My feeling is we are currently a mid ladder team. We have a list that is capable most weeks of taking the fight to the opposition. Now that is a hell of improvement on 2012.

old dee, I could never have imagined this kind of optimism from you!

Oh god not these kind of articles. Its all downhill from here folks

Best and most concise description of that game that I've read.

poor bastard

Yeah, me at the back right there. normally we work with anything from 5 to 20, those in this photo are a good bunch.

Great news. He has been an insanely good pickup. Traded a late nothing pick and got a bonfire live wire goal sneak who we'll get 5-6 years out of.

I sometimes wonder whether one of the KPIs used to measure Paul Roos' performance is the degree of optimism espoused by Old Dee.

Denham said that T Mac is close to signing a long-term deal and "hopefully, Jesse Hogan next". Geez, how things can get lost in translation.

on sen about 5 minutes ago petraccattack.

Herald [censored] sun pay wall.

Plapp racked up a season-high 25 "really's" in the VFL report this week to go with a solid half a dozen "pleased's". As a key promotion indicator, expect a few to come in.

Is this your young group RGRS ? Taken form the club website, twitter feed. Hope you and the youth you work with get to see the game on Saturday and hope you all see us win. I echo previous thoughts and a shout out to you and folks like you that help underprivileged kids around the country.

I'm outraged! Viv should be captain, Frost should be booting OMac into tomorrow and Spence should be first ruck to let Gawn have a snooze in the forward line. I just blew up my membership card. Does that help?

Anything happen yet??

Hogan will re-sign in his own good time under manager guidance of course. Guaranteed. I posted that Howe was done & gone way before it happened. It happened. Jesse's building strong relationships within the playing group & staff, is settled in Melbourne & going to be a keeper. I'll back this one in.

Loved the boots Garlett wore last year so great to see the players and clubs get behind his initiative and the whole team have them this year. Also, this from the article: “Nev [Jetta] gave a great presentation to the players the other day and it highlighted the great contribution made by Indigenous players,” he (Jones) said. These show the great (deserved) respect by our team being shown to their indigenous teammates and their culture. Just hope Jetta follows Jeff and signs up again soon!

Players like Garlett kick goals in finals. They love to run with crowd energy The Wizard had it too

What an absolute steal! and to think Richmond picked Taylor Hunt over this bloke as well! Feel like he has embraced melbourne more then he ever did at Carlton.

Hey. Quit all this Heaven talk We are the Mighty Demons We all live Downstairs and it is going to be one Hell of a Party when we win the next Batch of Cups...

not even sure there was a glass

Found these great articles as well. Exciting times ahead! http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/copy-cats-20100425-tlpw.html http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/from-flogged-to-flag-in-quick-time/story-e6frf9jf-1225902478811 http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/brisbane-coach-michael-voss-wary-of-superpower-demons/story-e6frf9jf-1225897595909

This is an interesting stat form the article: What makes Melbourne’s scoring even more impressive is their spread of goalkickers — they currently rank No. 1 the AFL with an average of nine individual contributors a game. If I recall correctly we are in the top 5 for scores kicked this year. Not bad for a team that in the last few years struggled to kick more than 60-70pts and regularly thrashed by 10 goals!!

Still waiting for the Melbourne v Richmond GF that was meant to happen in 2014 EDIT: I did enjoy the article though, love reading positive things about the Demons

Screwed.

With all this positive media again... we are screwed this week.

Cam Mooney had similar things to say yesterday on SEN. It's on the audio page of their website.

Copy the address in dazzle's post and paste it into google search and away you go. Works for me anyway and it's been used by others before.

Who in their right mind would want to go to a club that just announced they'd pretty much purposely farked their own list to appease their simple minded fans?

The ANB spray is one of the all time best! Gave him an absolute bath

FMD! We were rumoured (by nearly everyone) to have paid Mitch Clark between $500 and $600k about 4 years ago and WTF did that get us? I'd give TMac at least $550k for 4 years without a problem. By the end of the 4 years that will be close to the AFL average. Of course, like everyone here, I have no idea of the contract mix at the club so it's purely speculating. He has deficiencies which he is obviously working on, but IMO he will only get better.

The average AFL salary these days is around the 350k mark. 400k is unders for Tom McDonald. Get a grip.

Shocking call. Seeing as the average player now receives about $340000 (?) PA, he deserves more than that for sure. He's our number one tall defender and players like Tom aren't easy to find.