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6: Gawn 5: Brayshaw 4: Oliver 3: Hogan 2: Salem 1: Fritsch

This article is quite wrong! what King should be saying is “if player X from club X works really hard, then in time he may/ could possibly be club X’s Clayton Oliver.”

I believe the original rules of the game, written in 1859 were the first codified rules of any football code, rugby, association football, American football (oxymoron) etc. included. Can anyone tell me if players recruited to the MFC are given a thorough history lesson concerning the club i.e. do they genuinely understand the significance of the club they represent not just in sport but in the context of the social life of Australia.

Sheesh I hope I’m not too late? 6: Oliver 5:Brayshaw 4: Gawn 3: Salem 2: Fritsch 1: Petracca

Derm gives me the sh*#s. I wish he’d shut up!

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I’m embarrassed to say that’s me. But to baldly state Frost is a much better player is a bit rough (or obvious)! It was the kids first game and naturally Frost with a few seasons behind him knows the ropes somewhat better. Petty looked all at sea and appeared very nervous.. Back to the VFL with him to further learn the craft and probably play in a finals campaign.

I’ve not joined in the discussion before, but you do raise an interesting point there. The first games of football - that which we now call Australian Rules - were played by the Melbourne Football Club in the parkland adjacent to the cricket ground. It is also the parkland where those free for all schoolboy games between Melbourne Grammar, StKilda Grammar and Scotch College were played. So it is very historically important to the club (and to us the followers of the club). I still have my doubts about obtaining a permit to build the facility at Yarra Park, but if it came to pass it would be just as significant as a move back to training on the MCG (and that won’t happen).

From my point of view and having seen all games and watched quite a few replays it’s a B+. My concern is our defence still leaking too many points. Currently by points conceded there are 9 teams better than us, every other team in the 8 plus Hawthorn and GWS IN 9th and 10th spots. The teams attacking game is spectacular but we leak badly down back. The Melbourne Football Club 2018 is still a work in progress, certainly better I believe than last year but still not an A.

He was quite good Queens Birthday last year (just say’n)!

Just now #5 = 1/2 #10

After arriving home from the game last night I thought only 1 player deserved votes. But thinking about the game over night I reckon the 6 below at least tried. As someone above pointed out Max beat Grundy,and my admiration for Fritsch grows every week. 6: Tom McDonald 5: Gawn 4: Fritsch 3: Oliver 2: Brayshaw 1: Lewis

Looks like a walking cadaver, but sh*t he can play.

6: Jetta 5: Hogan 4: Gawn 3: Fitsch 2: Brayshaw 1: McDonald Tom

And he’s still greatly respected back at the Doggies. It’s not just Daniel Cross’s playing/training abilities that made him special but his whole outlook on life. I’m certainly glad we’ve still got him.

I had a quiet laugh to myself when Melksham kicked that goal after a Crow fumble a few cm from our goal line. It reminded me of the sort of things that regularly happened to us in the bad old days, I remember flinching more than once when our ineptitude was exposed in the back half. (Matthew Lloyd and Al Nicholson standing, wrestling with the ball on the goal line and Lloyd nonchalantly pushing it backwards over the line)!

2 changes! out Hunt, Pederson, in Weiderman, Balic.

6: Brayshaw 5: Hogan 4: Jones 3: Lever 2: Neal-Bullen 1: Oliver also Gawn, Fritsch, Milkshake, Hibberd, Vince etc. etc.

I wondered if Nicholson would be considered for the post after reading that PJ was stepping down. And yes I really wasn’t a fan either, stolid or dour are adjectives that come to mind when I remember his time as a player. However champion players don’t always make great administrators and no matter how ordinary Nicholson was as a player (110 games!!!!!) he’s kicked a few goals/made a few runs as an administrator. (Is he the right fit for the MFC: that’s another question).

In a win like this we need a top ten: but, 6: Melksham 5: Brayshaw 4: Jones 3: McDonald T. 2: Lever 1: Gawn

So many good players but: 6. Harmes 5. Brayshaw 4. Oliver 3. Salem 2, Lewis 1. McDonald T. .

After attending the game yesterday, and reading comments in this thread about Tim Watson’s anti Melbourne commentary I was interested to view the replay. What I heard was Watson, Bartel and Taylor praising and criticising both teams when they felt. the teams and players deserved it. Watson certainly praised Oliver, Hogan, Gawn and Brayshaw often enough (the praise for Oliver by all commentators bordered on the effusive). That Watson gave credit to StKilda players from time to time is understandable and necessary. I cannot say I’m a great Tim Watson fan, but anti Melbourne commentary - no!

6: Oliver 5: Gawn 4: Brayshaw 3: Jones 2: Hogan 1: Hibberd

I thought the place kick was regularly used in footy in the early 20th century, at a time when the game was less frenetic. As for the drop kick: I questioned a former AFL coach about its revival and was told it was just too difficult to execute on the run and apparently teams have banned players from using it. Bad luck, because a well executed drop kick is beautiful to behold.

That’s why he should be called “Sparky”!