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UPDATE: Thursday's training at Casey Fields will now consist of a skills session at 2pm, with a intra-club match/match simulation session to follow at around 3pm. Details: http://mfcde.es/1zGeeEl

Dees set for intra-club match Melbourne will play an intra-club match at Casey Fields this Thursday. The game will start at 4pm. Come and watch the players in their first practice match of 2015. There will be BBQ at the ground, giveaways, games and activities, membership and merchandise available to purchase.

Does Real Dream Team have an app or is it all web based?

To quote many Demonlanders when referring to the banner he will get his name spelled correctly when he earns it. (Joking obviously) Can I blame auto correct?

Fixed. I blame auto-correct.

Roosy will most likely be included.

I will be taking this into account. Do you know when the leadership group is likely to be named? The purpose of the poll was to get a sense of who the must haves should be and that is why I only allowed one player to vote for.

I just assumed people would comment in the thread in regard to who the other should be.

Fixed.

I am in the process of doing the 2015 Banner and wanted to get a sense of who people would like to see up there. In the end it will be my decision but some guidance and input would be appreciated. I could only list 20 players in the poll so I didn't put any first year demon players/new recruits on the poll. I also left out a few players and left the last option as "other please specify". You can only vote once. This is intentional. Nathan Jones is not listed because he is going up. I also have a poll question on whether you think a first year/new recruit should be up there and then if so who? I will be including Robbie and Jimmy into the banner somehow. Please don't reply that players should earn it because this is a fan site and there are players going up there so deal with it.

This is WJ's report from the ground but he stresses it's not a training report and will make some comments later. THE GAME IS NOT THE SAME by Whispering Jack The doyen of Australian cricket commentators Alan McGilvray often had difficulty coming to terms with the changes in the game as it adapted to the realities of commercialism in the era of colour television. He even wrote a book entitled, "The Game is Not the Same" in the wake of the Packer World Series Cricket circus. I was thinking of him as I made my way to watch Melbourne footballers training this morning on Australia Day, 2015 at Gosch's Paddock. The pre season is already into its third month, having begun in November last year. The NAB Challenge matches are a month away and the premiership season starts in a little over two month's time. In McGilvray's era, the footballers would have been more than a month away from gathering to prepare for the year ahead with the obligatory first up lap or two of the Tan. There would have been a Test Match in session over in Adelaide with players wearing whites and baggy caps instead of the pastel coloured gear they wore at last night's T20 semi-final between the Perth Scorchers and the Melbourne Stars (I can sense Alan turning in his grave). No tennis across the road at Flinders Park; the Open was played at Kooyong and at a different time of the year. As for soccer, you couldn't get two men and a dog to the Showgrounds in mid winter to watch that; never mind tens of thousands for the Asian Cup. Footy training began in earnest late in the Sheffield Shield cricket season with balls flying around the MCG and players avoiding injury by staying away from the cordoned off pitch in the centre of the ground. And you might have heard some of the names of your team's recruits from newspaper despatches but you would rarely put a face to those names unless you turned up in late March to a practice match somewhere in the bush or at the G if it wasn't required by the cricketers. Today, the game is not the same. We know almost everything there is to know about the team thanks to an exponentially expanded media in this electronic age. We've seen you tube action of our favourite players at training, of the new recruits from other clubs and of the fresh faced youngsters. Not only that but we know how fast they can cover 20 metres from a standing start, how they can leap tall buildings in a single bound and the names of their pet cats and dogs. We've read every report from every training session to date, every drill and every movement at training's been covered including those eleven days on camp at Maroochydore, so what brings us to Gosch's Paddock so early on this Australia Day morning to watch them go around? I suppose it's because for all of the marvels and wizardry of the electronic age, the film, the videos and the graphics, the game is not the same when you view it that way and it's still better to witness sport (be it practice or the real thing) in person even when it's raining where you feel more a part of the action and you can better gauge the people and the personalities who you come to watch.

The doyen of Australian cricket commentators Alan McGilvray often had difficulty coming to terms with the changes in the game as it adapted to the realities of commercialism in the era of colour television. He even wrote a book entitled, "The Game is Not the Same" in the wake of the Packer World Series Cricket circus. I was thinking of him as I made my way to watch Melbourne footballers training this morning on Australia Day, 2015 at Gosch's Paddock. The pre season is already into its third month, having begun in November last year. The NAB Challenge matches are a month away and the premiership season starts in a little over two month's time. In McGilvray's era, the footballers would have been more than a month away from gathering to prepare for the year ahead with the obligatory first up lap or two of the Tan. There would have been a Test Match in session over in Adelaide with players wearing whites and baggy caps instead of the pastel coloured gear they wore at last night's T20 semi-final between the Perth Scorchers and the Melbourne Stars (I can sense Alan turning in his grave). No tennis across the road at Flinders Park; the Open was played at Kooyong and at a different time of the year. As for soccer, you couldn't get two men and a dog to the Showgrounds in mid winter to watch that; never mind tens of thousands for the Asian Cup. Footy training began in earnest late in the Sheffield Shield cricket season with balls flying around the MCG and players avoiding injury by staying away from the cordoned off pitch in the centre of the ground. And you might have heard some of the names of your team's recruits from newspaper despatches but you would rarely put a face to those names unless you turned up in late March to a practice match somewhere in the bush or at the G if it wasn't required by the cricketers. Today, the game is not the same. We know almost everything there is to know about the team thanks to an exponentially expanded media in this electronic age. We've seen you tube action of our favourite players at training, of the new recruits from other clubs and of the fresh faced youngsters. Not only that but we know how fast they can cover 20 metres from a standing start, how they can leap tall buildings in a single bound and the names of their pet cats and dogs. We've read every report from every training session to date, every drill and every movement at training's been covered including those eleven days on camp at Maroochydore, so what brings us to Gosch's Paddock so early on this Australia Day morning to watch them go around? I suppose it's because for all of the marvels and wizardry of the electronic age, the film, the videos and the graphics, the game is not the same when you view it that way and it's still better to witness sport (be it practice or the real thing) in person even when it's raining where you feel more a part of the action and you can better gauge the people and the personalities who you come to watch.

Where do we sign up to RealDT?

Yes I was referring to the AFL one. Not sure which one we are using but happy to go either way.

I just signed up for 2015. Have you created the leagues yet and if so what is the DIV 2 league?

Agreed. But I don't need to be a test case for the AFL that want to shut down any such discussion. Please respect that.

Please do not discuss methods of illegally streaming AFL content.

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