MyFavouriteMartian

Yes, of course.

I was always on the Trengove wagon after i'd watched him a few times. Scully, I couldn't fathom what the attraction was by most across the footy world. But i thought, what do i know. So I stayed mostly quiet, thinking i must be wrong and missing something with him. Now in hindsight, scully is exactly the mature version I what I imagined he would be, Pre his injury. The one I'm sad about is Trenners. I think we miss handleable his career badly. My other preferences have briefly watched them were Gary Rohan, and Daniel Talia was a standout for me, when I saw him play, one night that season.

I've posted Tingay on this occasion, because so far, Maxy is only 5 out of 10 seasons, in the positive. When we get back to regularly playing games, I think Maxy will continue to play strong footy. https://www.footywire.com/afl/footy/pc-melbourne-demons--max-gawn

Totally dle4e. The Bizz, is the bezz, from Qld.

Sometimes its just experience, to learn to be smarter thinking of how to place the ball , if your skills are not touch perfect. To me, putting the ball to advantage is the most important thing.

Yes, woe is us. But if you look again at the last Qtr, see if you can tell when we lift our foot off the accelerator pedal. IIRC, that was apparent to me during the game. We had a habit of doing it a lot around that period of this list. Don't "watch" the game... bu studiously look for our intensity levels throughout the game, and mostly the last Qtr. We were habitually taking foot off the pedal for years, trying to save our leads... instead of powering offensive pressure, to maintain the scoreboard pressure. Its too late to refire after surrendering healthy leads, due to easing off.

tis a boring time for weekends.

Elvis.?

Jeffrey for mine. Especially in a team of champs. Would keep his head straight. Both had their weak points, Jeff could lose focus & go MIA , Yze could lose desire, from time to time.

Never fear Bbo, CoVid is very susceptible to friction. It cannot handle it. So if in doubt, Bbo, Rub it as hard as you can, its sure to knock that virus on its head. Now, about that doeskin Bbo, does it work well with Leopard print strides.?

Was it the club, being professional in the amateur period. Or was it Checker and Smith, then Barassi, who were being more professional than the rest.? Some would argue that Pre Checker, this club was very amateurish.?

No, It's up to all of us, And my response to your post, is, to all of us, not to you personally, swyl. So it wasn't a high-jack as such, swyl.

We want the cake, and to eat it as well. How can we support our players to be aggressive constantly, when most of us squirm in our seats when things ge really hard and tough. We should relish it... its a game of footy people. But having opposing desires of philosophies, harms our chances always. If we are to help our players become winners we need to shelve our beliefs on game-days and allow ourselves, and, Via that, the support our players need to FREE them up to play with aggression to their utmost. Kids get bullied because they allow it to happen in most part. Well, AFL is no different, and we as supporters can help Our Boys, Or hinder them, with the attitude we bring to the grounds. Get aggressive... At our opposition, fellow Demonlanders. .

Bloody AFL... somehow feel the need to stuff with everything. Stuff being the operative word. Is it time to take the laws of this game back to the beginning of the '90's, and start afresh. Apart from more care for head high attacks.

No Brainer.

Yes. Its a lack of momentum of winning. And more-so the momentum of loss for us with our past 50+Yrs. This effects the players and as they start to overcome the fear, it still remains entrenched in the fans minds. And at games when things are tight and opposition are pressing us hard, that anxiety re-emerges outwardly in the Voice tones of the supporters themselves. For a part of the 2018 season, we were able to be whipped up into a more aggressive mental mindset, and boy, did the players lap that up. Aggression overwhelms fear. It's an antidote to paralysis/anxiety of fear. Except for those who are fearful of aggression, they will remain stifled, without good help to overcome this phobia. The club needs US, to be more aggressive for the players, on match-days. Instead of prim and proper. Get dee-shevelled on game days, Melbourne supporters... Be Proud, and get Loud... with no inhibition. Be Free & be Proud.

Yep. You know... I don't know about you, But imo, these two are clearly ahead of our current defenders, for the same positions. I look back at most of the '87 to '93 era players, and think, which of today's lot would get a look in to those teams, late 80's - early 90's.? ...and then, think of the so called stars we've recently let go. Bracket Watts against Wight. = slaughter in a colosseum. Bracket D.Hughes against Hogan, when playing deep. another slaughter for the old timer. Reverse those match-ups... Hughes on Watts deep, Jack would be hearing steps all game, he would get a break on Hughes, but would be shell-shocked anyway, & so far out. Wight on Hogan, when Hogan roams up-field. Wight, night and day ahead. Some others. Stretch V today's dee wingers AJohnson, again, same story. GLyon, DSchwartz, DNeitz, OK, the big One... Stynes v Gawn? an interesting thought. Ricky Jackson v Salem or who.?

Both would walk into my best Dee team. Of the demons players i've watched and remember well.

This time, I have to go for Sean Wight. Out of two much loved and highly respected warriors for this club. IMO Sean's dynamism wins this, and he was unique with his energy/intensity at the ball.

The model of empathy goes 360*_ 3 dimensional, 'ds'. That model also encompasses Mark Neeld's plight, after being 'thrown to the wolves', as a first time senior AFL coach, with little in the way of support himself. His loved ones hurt, as well as his. It seems to me that most on here are only thinking of, and reacting/responding from a point of hate /anger, so its more about the posters negativeness, mostly.

A sufferer might feel terribly uncomfortable talking to anyone about the issues. The sufferer might be unaware of the issues themselves... But just aware they are struggling for some reason. Sometimes, even the right kind of doctor is too much a step for some. This is why little steps talking to a trusted friend, if there is one, can be the start of finding good help. The sufferer has to first get to the point of acknowledging to themselves, that they would like some help. So talking to someone trusted inside the club; away from the Head Coach, who obviously would be conflicted to a degree, would likely be the correct way. To get things started.

Of course an interest, but Neeld wasn't to be there for the long haul. was he.? He was there to sort out the list and culture quickly, and he had the two desks, the empathy desk, and the direct hard and fast desk. this would give him some feedback on characters. He was there to sort things out, not to smooth things over. And to do what was necessary. He did this. You cannot patch-up a weak and rotten culture with band-aids and love. It has to be like surgery first. Cut out the rotten stuff, and then hit it hard with chemo', and then irradiate it. He cut away, he chemo'd, and then irradiated, to remove the biigest parts of the list, ready to be rebuilt.... and then along came Roos. Tto rebuild and reboot the club and list. He did that job... Roos would not have done that job, of cutting so much, that Neeld did... Roosy wouldn't have taken the job on, IMO, If the list was left as it was, Pre Neeld. The dirty work was mostly done, before Roos agreed to take it on.

Yea, I know. I still struggle to watch '87 prelim, and don't really want to watch the '88 GF.