Loose Men Everywhere

Yes indeed, every player on every list is potentially a premiership player, but that doesn't equate with quality or a certain ability. Many many premiership players would not have been seen as flag quality, until they were. Matt Spangher, Steven Armstrong, Aaron Keating e.g. spring to mind - no-one would have ever picked them as flag quality. They had a job to do in that particular team, and it turned out rather nicely for them. Anyway I am just saying that you can't select teams based on whether or not it contains premiership players, other wise we would only have Lumumba and Dawes running around for us.

Not having a go at you, but if we used that as the criterion for selecting our team then no-one would've gotten a gig for the last decade!

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After reading this thread I’ve decided to sign up, so I suppose maybe it is a case of one soldier goes down and another steps up. Or piling up the clichés… anyway I have been reading this site for a while and enjoy the banter. Saturday made me realise what it takes to be a true supporter. Not the dismal performance of the team, but it was the first game in a long long time that I did not go with my good mate JR. You see, he died shortly before Christmas from Motor Neurone Disease, which is the mongrel thing that Neale Daniher has. Nobody knows how you get it, and there is no cure, it just destroys you from inside. JR was a passionate Melbourne man, a true believer, bordering on MFC OCD. In fact he used sign up and buy memberships for his family if they went or not. His son lives interstate, and hasn’t been to the G for years, but still has a Dad-paid reserved seat next to us! I don’t know how much JR spent supporting the club, but it was a LOT. He would travel to NT to watch us play, and rarely missed a home game. He would always buy merchandise to help the club, and always bought raffle tix. He was thrilled a couple of years ago to win Dudley’s Raffle, but as I explained to him it’s not that big a deal when you buy most of the tickets yourself! Anyway we missed the half of 2014 and all of last season as he became too ill to attend. I used to go round to watch the matches on telly with him. He would drag himself (literally) or be helped out of bed, get into his Melbourne gear and watch “our boys”. Towards the end he could barely breathe or talk but still made the effort to watch, even though it exhausted him. In his younger days he was a tough as nails “back pocket rover’’ (when such a thing existed!) and he deplored the lack of intensity which Dees had made into an artform. He used to tell them about it in his booming voice, and his humorous assessments of our play had everyone around us laughing. It made me very sad on Saturday – not just missing him – but to think what he would have made of that performance, but I still made myself feel a bit better imagining his comments during the game. We would have walked out of the ground vowing that’s it never again…etc but by the time we got home it was: see ya next week. Should auld acquaintance indeed