dazzledavey36

the melbournefc can go and get pharked!!

the bloke that wrote the articles is a passionate melbourne supporter! and i agree on everything he said. also love how in the spreading word article, bode, petterd and bell played an xbox competition with bails! hahah

and thats why we love him

buckley is named on the wing

this is the first time i have seen davey named rover!! wow i hope he kills it. two players that need to stamp there name are brad miller and adam yze. playing forward line will hopefully see em take there chances with both hands and kick a few C'MON DEES!!

good to hear about bartram and rivers!!! wonder wa is the matter with wheels??

any results? game would be finished by now wouldn't it??

dean bailey is doing evrything right!! its the players that need to pull there fingers out of there ass!

screw this losing [censored]!! couldn't even win one bloody game

i thought aussie was good yesterday with his defencing pressure! him and davy tearing it up in the forward line! gold. mcnamara was great and zomer impressed me with his ability to lead straight and hard with pace aswell. maric has a leathel boot. meesen was awsome! he was like a rover at one stage and got a few clearences, got him mixed up with newton a fair bit. bode needs to lift. i didn't see cheney get a kick. weetra is quick and nippy. was chasing hard all day. i actually thought warnock was pretty impressive! spoiled well and marked strongly. i didn't relise how quick he was. bell was a bit up and go.. sylvia was good. if simon buckley can continue his form from yesterday we have a more harder quicker! and passionate player to fill travis johnstone spot. very impressive. jamar was ok but i wish he wouldn't hanball the bloody thing! stefanie martin was pretty impressive too i thought. will play afl for sure. valenti is an out an out gun!! needs to be elevated quick asap. other then that im not worried at all! sandy will enjoy our young kids!! go dees!

trent zomer is a 197cm 95 kg tall powerful forward. played for easten rangers last year as a ruckman but was moved forward and kicked bags of goals. won their leading goal kicking. very quick on the lead and a strong mark with good skills. a bit like stef martin with his basketball background.. apperently he has been pretty impressive at training to.

a fit and firing colin sylvia is 10 times better then luke hodge! the guy is seriously a devestating player but just needs to get himself right

His Under 18 coach likened him to Mark Ricciuto. Is the football world at last about to see the true talent of Colin Sylvia? A DEVIL OF A FOOTBALLER by Ben Casanelia - Inside Football No sane person in football would question the talent of Colin Sylvia. At 186cm and 87kg, the Melbourne Demon is blessed with football’s triple crown of talent – speed, strength and smarts. Former teammate Nathan Brown put it best. “[censored] he can play, no question,” Brown said. “His teammates know it, they just want to see what he can do when he gets himself right because it will be pretty damn special.” From a statistical standpoint, Sylvia’s 52 games in four years since being drafted with selection No.3 at the 2003 draft are anything but special. An average 11.7 disposals and 0.6 goals per game is hardly a noteworthy return from a top-five draft pick. What is noteworthy is that it’s been achieved under extreme physical duress courtesy of a debilitating groin injury and very little pre-season work in any of the four years. A player of lesser talent would have been lucky to play 20 games, and probably be lost to the AFL. Even with his prodigious talent, Sylvia knows the time has come for his body to put up or shut up. On the eve of Saturday’s NAB Cup opener against Geelong, the 22-year-old says season 2008 will shape the rest of his football career. “It could make or break me. I think,” was Sylvia’s assessment of the year ahead. “My career’s on the line here. If I can’t figure it out and get to the bottom of what my injury is then who’s going to want a guy who’s out of contract at 23, can’t get his body right and had all the opportunities in the world? “It’s staring me straight in the eye. That’s something I’ve got to take on board and do something about.” Sylvia and the Melbourne medical staff have searched far and wide for answers. Specialist after specialist, surgeon after surgeon has given their opinion as to what it is draining Sylvia’s power through his core, causing severe pain in his lower back pain and glutes. “It’s more than just osteitis pubis,” he said. “It’s been ongoing for a long time and I just hope we have got to the bottom of it all, or close to it, because time does run out eventually.” For the first time since arriving at the club, Sylvia has completed a full, if modified, pre-season. He says a “strategic taping” regime of applying supportive tape to regions around his pelvis has helped significantly. “I started the taping last year and for about eight weeks there it was the best I’ve felt since I came to the club,” he said. “My pelvis is pretty loose so the tape gives some support and I now use it every time I do basically anything out on the ground.” While describing the time taken to “tape up” as “a pain in the arse”, the former Bendigo Pioneer best and fairest finally feels as though he is winning the battle. “It’s been a long road for me and it’s been trying … we’ve almost tried everything in the book to find out exactly what my problem is and what to do to fix it. “It took some time and I knew it wouldn’t happen overnight. Right now I’d like to think I was 100 per cent right but I’m not. In saying that though everything is heading in the right direction and that’s the main thing.” Brown says what Sylvia has achieved in 52 games is testament to his talent, and disagrees a player as blessed as his former teammate faces a make-or-break year at 22 years of age. He rates Sylvia as captaincy material. “He’s a strong character, all he needs is to get his body right and play a bit of footy,” Brown said. “It’s a hard enough game when you’ve done the work let alone when you haven’t.” Having been teased, Melbourne fans are happy to wait. At times during his career Sylvia has lived up to the comparisons being made by others prior to joining the AFL ranks. On the eve of the 03 draft, former Bendigo Pioneers coach Rod Macpherson described the then 18-year-old as “a Ricciuto-type player who is powerful and exceptionally strong” Macpherson went on: “He’s very powerful in the upper body and is a great aerialist. Most of the staff around here, and I’ve been here four years, say they’ve never seen a player have such a dominant year as he’s had.” While Sylvia hopes to open his 2008 campaign in Saturday’s NAB Cup opener against Geelong, he says the medical staff as much as the football department will have the final say. “It’s definitely been the best pre-season I’ve had,” he said. “I just feel as though I’ve got so much room for improvement. “I’m probably a bit disappointed that things haven’t gone the direction I had hoped from the beginning but I’ve still got it all in front and of me now and there’s an enormous opportunity going forward. “I haven’t set the world on fire and I’ve got a long way to go in my footy career.” Having played all his junior footy as a midfielder/ part-time forward, Sylvia says he has no idea what new coach Dean Bailey has in store. His priority is fitness. Most agree if fully fit he can be a lethal weapon in any part of the ground. Brown has no doubt where the No. 12 will end up. “In time he’ll be a midfielder and hopefully for his and the footy club’s sake that time is now,” Brown said. Sylvia, in combination with Brock McLean, Cameron Bruce, Nathan Jones, James McDonald, Brent Moloney and Brad Green through midfield gives Bailey plenty to work with. Just to have the option would be heart warming for Melbourne fans, not to mention Sylvia. “There’s no other way to say it than I just can’t wait to put the boots on and get out there and play,” he said. “It’s got to be my year.” Thoughts?

wow trent zomer! didn't see that coming.. 3 rookie list players intresting? what happened to jake 'big dick' spencer?? colin sylvia!! u lil beauty

haha the snake! i like it!

http://australianetwork.com/nexus/stories/s2076000.htm its also and interview with him and by hearing him talk u can just tell he wants to succeed to the fullest

seems to be the most talked about youngster on our list atm. has been burning it up in pre season and i dont mean to put any pressure on himbut i dont even think aaron davey had this much hyped about before he started. i hope he kills it nab cup! this is a boy who would give everything to play an afl game! has the right head on his shoulders and he would help us a bit and free up aaron davey into the midfield. just watched a footage of him and he is soodarn impressive! thoughts?

the reason for brock mclean on the sideline is becoz he twisted his knee on monday. how did trent zomer go??

How did Austin Wonaeamirri train?

Just saw the melbournefc website and noticed that the new recruits have already had there pictures taken but the rest haven't. Jake Spencer looks like a geek

I think these two players are among the most interesting players on our list atm. Weetra struggled a bit last year due to injury and by the sound of things is having a brilliant pre season while Aussie is already use to playing with men and is already talked about playing NAB cup and follow daveys pathway. They both sound very good players but whats everyones thoughts on these blokes?

anyone notice how really hard and cpmetitive he went in that game! tim watson compared him to scotty thompson.. a half forward midfielder type

that brad gilder goes alright! played against him in under 16s playing for bushies. very strong player and a hard nut

great work fork!! in the first photo does anyone notice one the far left u will see garland and see how bloody massive he looks! they all look fit

that photo was taken at the sydney airport when he was making his debut game.. so its old