special robert

When I was a kid my grandfather was asleep in the lounge chair with his head back and mouth open. I dropped a nice big cherry down his hooter.........and then he woke up choking and then, unfortunately, swallowed his false teeth.

To the tune of Waltzing matilda We invented football down in old Yarra park under the shade of a coolibah tree and we sing and we watch and we've waited for a premiership to flamin' long if you flamin' ask me over to you

So bad I want out! Get me out of this competition. I live here in Melbourne because I can go and see the Dees. I'm totally sick of this big money TV thing....I hate it that I can't see them for 7 games. I want out of the AFL.....let's play suburban football....form our own League....The Melb football league. Play every Sat afternoon somewhere in Melb. We started this thing more than 150 yrs ago................Its time to LEAVE AND TAKE OUR TEAM WITH US!!!

What...no big fish..? but like no fish at all.......Haven't we got a bag of dollars? .....how does geelong get 2 or 3 big fish...collingwood one ....carlisle to St k....where's our recruiters.....? where's the A grade midfielder we were PROMISED! I want to talk to P Roos right away.!...I'm not happy! How can we be happy with this?!! If nothing happens tomorrow I will post a really angry blog where I WRITE EVERYTHING IN BIG WRITING LIKE THIS!!!!

This is a photo of Rajneesh followers discussing whether dim sims are ayurvedic.

TSFKA..............Ha......Love it Priceless!

Clearly action is needed. Why doesn't the club get serious and get a real medium, find Norm Smith and APOLOGISE!! Say we're sorry Norm....please we've had enough......it's got to be the whole board, on their knees.

If only I had listened to my father all those years ago. He told me in 1959 that following Melbourne would just be a vale of tears. But I called him an old fool......said that we were a superpower ...that we would go on forever.....forever...! Now..what's left...just a big pile of scarfs....and they're still giving us new ones! Now I know it's all my fault....all of us....the coach has spoken.....our saviour.....Paul Roos , who art in heaven give us this day our daily excuse and forgive us our negativity as we forgive those who trespass and receive the full $5000 fine. Lead us not into sarcasm for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory of the mighty demons forever and ever............

Thanks Earl....there might be bits where I'll want to know what's happened.......it would be good to have someone be able to tell me....you know like......" oh he kicked it into the man on the mark from the kick out "...or "he fell over when he tried to kick it."..etc etc

Abandoned by my family decades ago......I'll go...drag my sad tired old body down the lonely concrete cave ...footsteps echoing in the eerie silence, tumbleweeds blowing by, doing my best to keep my chin up.....no no I can't go on....ahhh etc etc. It is just as well that they have closed level 3 because I was planning to ....JUMP! Now I will sit stoically on level one....but I will sit with my back to the game as a PROTEST!

Newsflash! GWS have announced they are resting the whole team for the last round and will be sending the Paramatta U 17's in their place. I reckon we will have a real chance. Make sure you get to the Docklands early so you can fully experience the eerie abandoned feeling. Pre game entertainment will include tumbleweeds blowing across the playing arena and a carcass and vultures. Level 3 will be closed because the AFL is worried that the 4,612 Melbourne supporters may consider ending it all by jumping en masse "as a statement to get the attention of the club." The playing group will enter the arena to the sound of Handel's Requiem......etc etc etc etc

I may not know much about art.....but i know what I like and deestroy all......this has all the elements of a wonderful logo. A clear 10. Only one suggestion....In the current logo the first rules faintly appear on the shield background. In your greatly improved version an excellent background for Jessie would be....the dragons den from harry potter.?....sacks of gold.......etc.

Hmph....leaving out the hymen....honestly some of the posters here obviously have a very poor squirrel grip on our language.

No doubt this blanket booers are all racists line makes you feel good.....all warm and politically correct...you are good people....all the rest of us who don't like the footballer Adam Goodes are bad racist people....it's a simplistic view. I'm bored with your outrage and juvenile arguments about racist Australians. Ok now over to you.....there will be a prize for the poster who expresses the most hearfelt righteous indignation at my total lack of understanding and cruel racist sentiments.

Yeah well it always going to be what you like. I like British bulldog. That's where this game came from. Rugby ....the school Rugby in England. Wills dad sent him to Rugby and he came back with the idea for our game. I am familiar with the arguments re the indigenous contribution to the development of the game but there is no evidence for it. Blainey dismisses this argument. Of course I accept that these white fellas dismissed anything indigenous and just may be wrong. Back to British bulldog....I like it better when Jessie Hogan rag dolls his opponent than when it goes end to end really fast ...'with men kicking and jumping over each other.'

Thanks BBO..By the way i just got back from Canberra a few days ago. I got picked up be a travelling catholic priest who dropped me off in Darwin by mistake. I decided to hop back to Melb to see how many hops it took to get down the Stuart hwy......364,212 ! (I changed legs at Adelaide.)

I'm still trying to get my license. I've failed the test 92 times since I first tried to get it when I was 19. That's 3 times a year for the last 30 years. Anyway i don't care .....none of youse are going to be allowed a ride when i get my time machine....so there.

How about this. Get your time machine. The Melbournje side of 2015 transported back to 2000. We would have thrashed Essendon in the GF. Despite Essendon being the best side of 2000...our [censored] fight defensive style would have totally befuddled them.

You know the record longest kick for our game was a place kick. It is still permitted under the rules. Kicking for goal outside 50 is so bad why don'y they practice the place kick? No ball drop to stuff up. I can see Razor ray giving Jessie the '15 seconds' as he receives the small tin of dirt from the Melb runner ....makes a neat mound for the ball and begins to carefully place the sherrin on it. Sorry no time for that etc etc

'The free flowing high scoring shoot outs of the 20th C'...by that I mean the80's....yes ok up to about 2003. 1964 and circa were not like that one bit. So I reckon the 23 years we are talking about was the brief bit of our evolution where the skills were high, the grounds good....but no real tactics had been developed. 23 years out of 150.

I ilke the game now. Have a look at the 1964 GF.....the football is awful...skills are bad...no passes to anyone....just get it and boof it down your end...the whole game is like that. In the 50s and 60s the grounds were a quaqmire, so the games were a total slog where you would just kick the ball off the ground to get it forward. Now every ground , even the suburban ones are well drained and no one can remember that it was very wet every winter in Melbourne and the ground were a mess. The golden age of footy...what about 1878? The captains decided how long the match went for and a lot of the rules. Sometimes days.....no positions a huge rolling maul.......the mark was used a lot...often only a metre or two. Tom Wills our first great leader was roundly crticised in this period for playing a game down Geelong way and putting all his team on the backline to prevent the other stronger side from scoring. Flooding was invented in the 1800s. The free flowing high scoring shoot outs of the 20th century were a brief period of our games evolution where the grounds had improved and the skills were improving but coaches had not yet developed tactics. Today we have highly developed tactics...good grounds, high level of skill...much more athleticism. I think Tom wills would absolutely love the game today. I've watched the Hawthorn games this year. Fast ball movement, running, highly skilled.....great to watch. I was at the game last week.......both sides aren't much good....just can't match Hawthorns skill level so you get a low level scrap. Terry Wallace has some very informed views I think on the current evolution of the game.

Hemingway and I remember the old days when we used to stand on the hill at the scoreboard end........I mean all the Melbourne supporters. Not now . Now there are no or few opposition fans at all. Where's the fun in that? I've been going down there nearly every year since 1963. I remember Russell Robertson kicking 5 goals there about a decade ago for a close win. They had a shot at goal from 50 at the very end of the game to win it. I just new they couldn't do it and I sprinted from my seat up to the back of the Grandstand behind the goals. I know there are those escape stairs there right up the back...as the Geelong player was lining up to kick there was dead silence except for me screaming at the top of my lungs...."he's gonna miss......you've lost it....go demons! .....cop that you miserable barnyards....(and he kicked and it didn't even score...) whereupon I yelled 'choked you weak...etc etc....At this point I could see thousands of angry faces had turned towards me ........ and I fled at top speed straight down those stairs ....the perfect escape! The 186 game.......I left.at half time ....at the train station I departed with a bus full of melbourne supporters....(no train) I want to go next week just to watch Jessie Hogan play......he's worth the price of admission....and as we all know we should sign him up for a long time......I mean here is our first gun forward for how long? I would pull out all strops and give him a Buddy Franklin deal asap. Hope for the future........Hogan, McDonald, Brayshaw, Petracca, Salem, Viney, Kent, Vandenburgh, Watts.......?i'm wondering if what Jack needs is both arms covered in Tatts...would that help?

What has happened to Tyson? Made some awful errors and had little impact.

There is much similarity between our game plan of 1865 and our game plan of 2015...Yes the 150th anniversary of everyone on the ball....the rolling maul. Scores around then were similar ..ie 3 goals for an entire match could win you a game......so far this decade the other teams have, sadly, mostly managed more goals than 3 . Roos plan is to exhaust the opposition players by having 100 ball ups. When this game plan doesn't work and we can't get a possession the players become DISCOMBOBULATED. I hope this clears things up for a lot of people.

Reserved seat.....what for.....probably be leaving for Jolimont station at three q time with the other 15000 in red and blue.....this year I just go upstairs to level 3 and don't care........costs nothing. No problem getting a seat there are stacks..........sit as far away from the filth as possible. One word of caution if the 5% comes up and Collingwood are happy to play our game of a rolling maul...packs ....falling over and lots of ball ups....and we win...!!.....don't show any visible sense of joy and remain seated for a good 15 minutes before you go outside. In fact if we lose miserably as expected don't go outside for the mandatory 15 minutes anyway. I was nearly knocked over by one of the thugs who bashed Nathan Jones dad....he was running full pelt at NJ dad from the side while he was being confronted by two of his 'mates' and got him in true sniper fashion.