DeeBruce

Can confirm poor Richie Douglas received a knock that ruptured a teste (just ouch). Lots of swelling and massive pain. Massive. Pain.

I have been wondering how Dunn would go down back for an extended time- now I know - terrible.

There is a slight chance of being viewed this way. But I think publicly it can be explained well enough. Privately I suggest the club makes it known we will target their best players with good cash. Btw Ben - your quote regarding Leigh at the bottom of your posts - did you hear Leigh last night in the post game discussion ( Blues v Hawks) have a little laugh at himself for offering that opinion? Gold.

I heard that Lewis shadowed Keiran Jack all pre season - has bought his fitness to elite levels. I can't help but wonder which of our underperforming players - JB, Morts etc would lift to a surprising level given the same chance.

Loved the way he ran Patton into the ground. Tommy clearly has fantastic endurance and is known as a good trainer. He blew poor Jonno up like a balloon - so much so he needed to be subbed quite early.

Hey LD - there is little medicine offers for a degenerative joint. Cartilage can be harvested and grown in the lab but is only good for repairing relatively small holes. In the future this is where stem cell harvesting will really be beneficial - being able to isolate stem cells from the patients own supply and insert them in to the damaged site. This could eventually make joint replacement surgery (the end stage of degenerative joint disease) a thing of the past. A relatively new treatment is Interleukin 1 Antagonist injections (performed right at the Demons home - Imaging @Olympic Park). This protein is isolated from the patients blood and acts as an anti-inflammatory and stops the progression of the degenerative disease. I presume the club is all over this treatment for Clint. It is certainly possible that with this treatment and correctly managed training loads CB can play again. He won't be in for a long career though - especially with a shrinking interchange bench.

I reckon a thread like the Magner one wouldn't have been deemed worthy of a reply over the road. Some good posters here (where is Hannibal btw?) but I can't cop a gazillion posts using different words to say the same thing.

There is an interesting view from an ex Lions Assistant Coach - they believe Cale is a gun who hasn't been developed properly. He hasn't been played to his strengths and tried to be made to be something he isn't. I think people don't realize the elite endurance Cale has and we know, when he has confidence, he can find the pill. He has more than these two strengths but they are underestimated. Rest assured the new coach will basically start again with Cale - play him to his strengths, give him confidence. I believe it's not too late for him and that with some time he may well flourish.

For Roos to rate Miller, McLean etc - it's just him talking off the top of his head. You are quite right H. He may remember a couple of good games. But for him to rate Jones enough to put Kirk on him- that's not just Roos' opinion. That would have been decided upon by the whole match committee with specific input from the opposition coach (who would have watched at least the preceding Dees match) and the mids coach. But I guess it is possible you know more than the 09/10 Sydney Swans Match Committee.

Roos didn't say he was underrated by the Dees - just underrated in general. He rated him as a very good mid fielder - (as said before) so much so they usually put Kirk on him. That would clearly put him above a C grader and at odds with Hannabal's view.

I'm BD's Dees Mono. Cheers.

Think 'big picture' here people. The club wants to position itself as one of the great sporting clubs of the world- a fantastic aspiration imo. Hopefully one day the MFC itself will become entwined with the actual identity of 'Melbourne the city'. Barcelona FC being one example of this. Think bigger than 'Melbourne'... we needed an iconic Australian symbol on our emblem. Is there a better symbol than the Southern Cross? Uluru? Sydney Harbour Bridge or Opera House anyone?

Scarlett goes ok sometimes too. Loved watching the supporters getting all excited when they got within a kick.

I find comedians with original content a bit funnier Clint. Was actually funny the 1st time I heard it (30 something years ago). Love the snow too.

Coodabeen pre-production meeting... Struggling for material (again)? Check. Demons struggling a bit? Check. Queen's B'day Round? Check. Ski season opening? Check. Dust off jokes from 1976? Check. Not many Dee fans to offend? Check. Great thinking guys! Lets go with that brilliant material again. Do you think our audience will remember that we trotted this out last year? (and the year before...and...) Nahh! Top job guys.. lets go with it...

With all due respect I don't believe you know the nature of the original injury suffered by Sam. Do you actually know the type of fracture it was? I talked to Sam myself at the Draft Function and the fracture itself had fully healed at that time, was NOT intra-articular, was 'only' through the fibula and should present no long-term sequelae. I don't know the nature of his current set-back but my reading says Blease-Superstar knows a fair bit.

Quite right. Bater is someone who needs to be completely matchfit... can't seem to work himself into a game. Will be heaps better within the next 2 weeks.

Besides the miss at goal, loving Jamar's pantsing of Jols.

A question for somebody... What would stop Warnock pricing himself out of a contract with us to get to go to Carlton (his so-called preferred club) then after a year or so there renegotiating a 'reduced' contract? For example he thinks he is worth $350k a year which we can afford. He nominates $450k a year to scare off everyone except Carlton then after a year drops to an amount secretly negotiated with them. He gets his $1.4m over 4 years... just a lot more in his first year.

Amen to that Jared. Welcome back. Im feeling the love.

I have been reading 'land for a few years and thought occo that you knew a little bit. You cannot be serious.. Surely we dont need to talk about how good Judd is and what he could bring to the club. Of course we will have to give up someone and probably someone we dont want to. He will be worth it. I think he may bring his own X factor... just a hunch... Dont disagree about our defence. But Rivers and Bartrum back, and Belly improving, will be good. Our midfield improvement will improve our defence too. More pressure on delivery, getting numbers back etc.

Great point Diablo... Juddy would definitely have been in contact with WC. Say for instance he nominated Collingw&%$ but later it was announced a deal couldnt be done. It doesnt sound right to me. He would know beforehand if it could be accomplished. Having said that I could imagine the filth just saying leave the wheeling an dealing to us then taking it right to the death in trade week and holding WC to ransom... Ughh!

I know from the horses mouth that he wishes to captain the MFC one day.

Saves the club from paying Bomber out... fantastic! I have heard that Matthews rated very highly O'Donnell as an assistant.. maybe thought he wasnt tough enough to make the hard decisions as a senior coach (reminds me of an ex demon coach we all know..).