Jumping Jack Clennett

A three yr old Dee supporter now has become a member!

As an MCC/ MFC premium member ,I am entitled to a membership for a child under 15. I don’ t have anyone to give it to. Please send me a personal message if it’s any use to anyone.

Till this week! He played v. the Hawks. I reckon he's been under-rated. Hawthorn gave him the job on Buddy once! He didn't do a bad job.

Multiplies the mystery and confusion by 4/3.

I forgot to add that continued success might increase our chances of becoming a “destination club”.We did well to attract Lever. Gaff looks a possibility. Could Jack V. persuade his mate Ollie to jump on the band-wagon?

At last the Demons seem to have unearthed some genuine AFL stars,and are playing attractive, successful football. If we can continue in this vein I can see several ways that our success will feed on itself, and we could develop into a big, successful club again. 1. If we can keep going late into September, it will bring back many thousands of previously lukewarm supporters to become members again. With our MCG/MCC connections,60,000 should not be unattainable in a couple of years. 2.Continued success increases our chances of Fri night games, which helps greatly with attracting sponsors. 3. More sponsors ease the financial pressures, and we can stop selling games interstate, which has always put us at a huge disadvantage. 4. Continued success will bring more Demon supporters to our games, At present, at our home games on the MCG against Richmond, Collingwood, Essendon, Carlton, Hawthorn, Geelong....even North and Sydney sometimes, we are outnumbered by opposition supporters. When we play interstate clubs on the MCG, the crowds are small, and there isn’t the “ cauldron of hatred “ for the opposition that Geelong,Adelaide and Perth clubs benefit from. It’s obvious that umpires are swayed by crowds containing supporters of one club only. We are often adversely affected by this. It all depends on the Demons becoming a strong, successful team, and this Monday we can continue this upward trend. I can’t wait, and I’m confident our boys will give it a red hot go, and clean up the Mudpies!

Of course another factor is the frees that AREN’T paid,which cannot be easily analysed statistically. If it could, it would show even greater advantage to WCE. St K coach, Richardson, calls it the “ noise of affirmation”, in Perth, where possible frees to WCE are met with a roar from the crowd, whereas a similar incident with a StK player occurs in a vacuum of silence,so no free is paid. It is similar with deliberateOOB and running too far. The stats on recent StK/WCE games were quoted,revealing enormous pro WCE bias. I’d be surprised if it wasn’t worse for Melbourne.

We haven't played at the MCG much in the last 6 weeks, and I think the Membership booth there is the best place to attract new members. I'm hoping for a big sign-up outside gate three next Monday. There has been a lot of publicity about what a great style of footy we play, and how we're likely to play deep into September. Surely that will attract a few late joiners.

It’s trachoma they’re trying to eradicate, and Demon supporter, Prof Hugh Taylor, is at the forefront of Melbourne’s input, using indigenous AFL Demons to advise the people from surrounding areas.

Is Kieran Byers the son of former Demon, Garry?

Thanks

On TV?

He's been in superb form in the two's.

We got 6 goals from kick ins. Were they Bernie’s kick ins? He definitely have one away.

Garlett was brilliant in the Alice last year v the Suns

Did you have a good day.? I sure did,and it only took me 10 min to get there,! You deserved it, coming down from PNG,! ut

On SEN this morning, Gerard Whately said he thinks they should.

Paul McNamee???!!!, Steve Harris????

Geelong seemed pretty "pumped" during their premiership years under "Bomber"

Oscar has beaten Hawkins, Roughead, , Riewoldt, and Daniher in succession. I've forgotten who he beat at Brisbane; they tried several on him. I thought he was good last season, and he has improved. A.A. in the near future.

There will be enormous pressure on the umps , with 70000 Tiger fans screaming “ baaaaallll” every time,immediately before we take possession. Also the umps will be influenced by them on deliberate OOB decisions. Last year they got a huge armchair ride in Q1, despite never having the ball.

As usual....rain forecast for our big home game. Bloody Watts!

2 Hannam errors cost goal.

Thx...... see you there!

How astute is Nat Edwards. IQ 100X Hayden Kennedy's.