Gipsy Danger

I care! I lost one that would have easily been 80cm plus on Saturday night. Cut me off diving under a log

It's on the afl website because it was written by the AFLs writers. MFC website content is written by club employees/writers. Occasionally the club will link it later in the week but the afl wrote it and own it so it makes sense that it appears on their websit first.

Ed Morris from our own Casey scorpions would have to be a chance. Currently training with the club and had a pretty good year at Casey. Couldn't hurt to give Tyler Roos a go as well. Certainly had the pedigree.

Rest In Peace Phil Hughes. An excellent cricketer and athlete who had the whole world in front of him and an exceptional young man taken far far too soon. As much as I offer my condolences to the Hughes family I also offer and call for the upmost support for Sean Abbot. I could not imagine how this for kid must be feeling. I only hope he is not forgotten in this tragedy as well. A truly terrible day. Goodbye hughesy, thanks for the memories

#26 to Oscar McDonald. Let the McDonald brothers have consecutive numbers like the febeys did

Mc Oz I hereby copyright the nickname

Still do but cotchin elected not to. Will always be reserved for the captian

I guess that's the beauty of getting picked up at the forgotten end of the draft

I'd have to say Luke Hodge. 3 time premiership player 2 time premiership captain 2 time norm-smith medallist will definitely come down to him and nick riewoldt

No shield logo on it. Logo change to the monogram looks to be gaining traction

Yeah, that's usually the way it goes. Not a lot of tolerance for bad cooking. I'm just saying they weren't good enough to hold at a spot at their first club, so I won't be placing all my bets on them at their new club. If they prove me wrong I'll be the first to say well done. You can even quote me on that.

Remember Tom Gillies?

would love to see ooze back at the club in the near future.

With Michael Evans gone we can put 32 on ice for the arrival of Dangermouse

If we get another dumped VFL quality player then he will just be another dead wood list clogger that everyone will want gone in two years. Rather work on another kid then another VFL player. There's always a reason a player is delisted and usually because they're not good enough.

there we are, everyone got their wish. moving on

Obviously it would be our red on the actual jumper. I'm sure the guy did his best with Photoshop to get it close.

only if Dane Swan goes bald

I actually really like this one, I've wanted a simple reverse of the colours for a long time

Link to training report from the Melbourne Football Club Supporters Page on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/melbournefcsupporterspage?hc_location=timeline "TRAINING REPORT: I hopped off the train at Jolimont not knowing what to expect. All around, Monday was a successful day, players who we want impressing on the track impressing on the track, a very positive reception for the first training report and, most importantly, no injuries and no media trying to lambast us like they always seem to do. This beautiful Wednesday morning, I am hoping, will be n...o different, but also different because I want to see new things that can improve our players and our club. Maybe a scoop or two but that's a long shot. Get there and there is a media guy, dunno who cause I'm standing on the opposite side in the shade instead of basking in the sun (for now) with a new trick - pre-training interviews. Not sure who with but this is a new one. Anyway most of the boys are on the track, including Watts and Riley who weren't there on Monday. The majority WALK laps, except for Tapscott who jogs through the majority of his lap. "Rehab" group seemingly consists of Gawndog, Spencil, Terls and Bernard. They're doing seperate jogs as the rest of the boys head off on their lap around the ground. Compared to Monday it is a noticeably reduced group as about five or six blokes bugger off. Anyway, Dawes leads the way through the lap, and then proceeds to stop and do their stretches. Bernie heads off for a jog in front of me and slots a dribble goal from the pocket, as you would. He still heavily favours his right duke as he's solely picking up the ball with it and not using the left at all. The boys go to the other side of the ground where they perform a new stretch which I've never seen, it also proceeds to freak me out. The boys basically squat and do this kind of brief crab walk thing. Yeah I can't work it out either. Lower leg strength pls Boys do some running exercises and then they go out and start using the footy. Kicking drills initially, where they base it off these short kicks which go now more than 15m, and now they're doing a handball drill (from memory at Mernda they call it four star I think? Will double check) Look on the opposite side of the ground and none other than Robbo having a kick along the boundary line. Meantime just to the right briefly there's a couple of Red Bull girls who proceed to give me wings whilst I actually never talked to them, and then leave. I mention these things because I can. Back to training after that, um, distraction. The four star drill thing has progressed from a handball to a short kick, around 25m, this coming after Roosy has a brief chat. Skills have been decent, and then as I just type that there's a kind of dink kick by a bloke (not sure who) which misses by about 3m. Notice a few of Toump's kicks receive praise from Roosy. In the meantime Roosy has a chat to Watts, imploring him to move towards the target before moving back when he gets the ball, or something like that. Boys split into three groups, one of them is this midfield group which has N Jones, Riley, Cross, Tapscott and Grimes in it. Those last two names interest me in terms of their presence. Another group has Dawes, Watts, Fitzy and a couple of other blokes I can't quite recognise (Garland and Dunn maybe) while there's a group on the farside which is considerably bigger doing boxing and pushups. On the near side, Tyson is doing solo fitness drills. Alright moving on to the long side of the ground now and they're doing a drill that was seen on Monday where the focus is on quick handball to get out of pressure from an "opponent" (ie one of the fitness/coaching staff or something) Boys move on to kicks. Skills are pretty good until N Jones (yep N Jones) drops a relative dolly of a chest mark. The lads split up in those three groups I mentioned before, just doing some different activities this time around. Another drill similar to that they did on Monday. I'll try explain as best I can, bloke marks on the wing, kicks to lead up player on the edge of the centre square then that bloke kicks it to a coach. Did I explain it well enough? Doubt it. Anyway this is an extremely brief drill with groups changing every couple of minutes Collingwood assistants watching us again. Bucks is there too? At the end of this changeover thing you can tell it's NBA season when blokes go in their foshizzle-ma-nizzle voice "ON THA BUZZAAAAAAAAA" just like Tom McDonald did in reference to a mark taken right on Roosy's whistle. Did provide lols. Again boys split up in three groups. I am very very keen to see how Grimes goes if he is seemingly utilised in a midfield role as he is this drill, or whether he forms a half back partnership with Lumumba. We'll find out more next week when he comes back. New drill time, this time it involves picking a rolling ball up, two handballs, then deliver inside 50. I like it. Back to those three groups again. Same thing you know the drill now. The repetitive work gives me a chance to look at the city outline, nearside there's a crane rebuilding an apartment block which was forced about by our methods of training the house down over the last couple of years, surely. Boys are doing four star (again?) by the looks of things on the far side. Moar handballz. This repetitive stuff is doing my head in slightly so I continue looking around, oh, that grass is nice and lush, can I perhaps borrow some for my front lawn? Grass is a bit yellowish atmo. Nylex sign still stands out, it's warm, moar sunscreen, whistle, let's do another drill. Boys heading in the tent, yep, time for some running. The one exception is Cross who continues doing his own drills out on the ground, bit of goal kicking, bit of running, bit of skill work. Professionalism is amazing. I find it interesting that for whatever reason I'm comparing his attitude to Watts' attitude, who's standing on the boundary line chatting to officials. Maybe a tad harsh, maybe over the top but I couldn't help but make that comparo. Meantime the former GWS lads - Tyson and Frost - are running laps together. Righty, the main boys are running up and down the wing with regular intervals, looks like they're going around 80-90% pace atmo with a bit in reserve. I think Ben Newton is in this group, I see somebody who looks like him but it could easily be a Casey bloke too. Anyway back to the running, Tom Mc as always doing it easy, JKH showing pace. Boys working on their continuous running and it is indeed Newton with us leading the way by a few yards from TMac. However, some bad news with JKH pulling up in front of me grabbing at his upper hammy. Hopefully nothing more than cramp, praying that actually. Nonetheless a few of the fitness boys putting him through some stretches. He gets up but he is walking pretty gingerly. Will need to keep a tab on this. JKH says it seems to be an ankle/calf, very ginger walking back to base. Bit of a change up after the running bits, few grapples now before returning to running. Boys are just about to finish up as I head off to Edwin's (starving ok) so I make hay while the sun shines and get some lunch, then post this." Source: Melbourne Football Club Supporters Page PS do the kid the favour and like his page if you have Facebook.. he puts a lot of good stuff on there. https://www.facebook.com/melbournefcsupporterspage?hc_location=timeline

I'm guessing all three thought they were the first

$13 to not make the eight, who do I place my bet with? We will definitely show improvement but we wont be playing finals next year. Its one thing for us to improve, but so does most of the competition and someone still need to come out of that top eight for us to get in.

http://www.melbournefc.com.au/news/2014-11-11/byrnes-gains-new-role-with-melbourne

its not mine, but I think the guy that does them goes by 'All the Jacks' on Demonland. That's why I only put the link up, don't want to take credit for someone else's work...

just read on a Melbourne supporters group facebook page that Tapscott trained with the group today. I guess he could be a chance at a rookie spot