Dee Dee

That’s what I thought! Gee Haileybury get the kids don’t they - notoriously so!!!

?Austin Bradtke is mature age?

Glenn Archer used to stand and beat far taller opponents. He was (I think) 182cm tall but powerful, coordinated and beautifully balanced. On the other hand I can remember 200cm lumbering ruckman who were hopeless. Hard work and ability, hard work and ability.

Any news regarding how our new CEO is going? He’s been in the job for a few weeks now so I thought we’d hear something about how he’s settling in. He has damn big shoes to fill!!!

Just on young Bradtke, I understood he was being chased by a number of clubs before he chose Melbourne. I suppose recruiters saw something in him: ours certainly did?.

Thank you for the excellent photographs 666. As a country lad who can’t get down to the city too often they really bring home to me the atmosphere of training. Well done.

Gee, she is one very smart lady and from a very smart family. Just look at her entry in Wikipedia.

? What’s a Cheque? Is my credit card about to be replaced by new technology?

And dominated by 10 drop in cricket pitches right now. Not to mention the surface grass cut to 12mm length for cricket (24mm for football) making it rather hard. I certainly wish we could but not possible any more.

I suppose I’ve seen it a little too often, the “we got this bloke for peanuts but he’s really good”. However the FD made the decision and I hope it will be the correct one.

I watches 1 match that he played in this year and had trouble finding him on the field. So yes at present Baltic and Viv Michie both come to mind. I wish the lad well but I’m a bit pessimistic.

How things change, a few years ago our full forward was 187cm tall! In fact Allen Jackovich and Russell Robertson were 187 (and probably still are). Yet today they are considered smallish! And Colinjazzknee at 190 is mid sized. I feel an affinity with Charlie Spargo!

Goodonya Bernie, loved ya work. And you got to play 100 games for us as well, please sire plenty of boys, all Dees supporters.

So, another Clarry or Angus to add to our list! Wow, bring it on!

I’m not too sure about TMac down back. But Hogan is versatile enough to play in a number of positions including CHB (where he’s played in his junior days). Keeping Hogan gives us more flexibility than letting him go. At his best the kid’s a beast - a beast with real talent. And they don’t grow on trees. And he could bite us in the bum playing for another team.

Last 2 minutes of game against bummers 2014, Pedo slippers tackle on half back boundary, fires off handball to Jordie McKenzie and ball eventually lands in Salem’s hands, Dee’s win by a couple of points. MAGIC! Thanks Cam, good to have had you on board.

I attended a school in Brighton in the 50’s early 60’s, our football team wore a jumper exactly the same as Melbourne’s (same colours but different design these days). I can remember a few Melbourne players coming down to our ground to train on a couple of occasions, Mithen, Case not sure who else. Of course Melbourne was the absolute power house of the VFL in those days and the really really daggy team was Hawthorn. And just as an aside, one name that doesn’t crop up too often in discussions about the good old days is Brian “Doc” Roet, great sold half back who I believe went and practiced medicine in the UK. Otherwise if you’re looking for John Lord or Bryan Kenneally you’ll find them both working as volunteer tour guides for the MCC.

Agree, just watched the replay of the match, Charlie doesn’t take a backward step! And to all those who said he was too small - phooey! The kid’s fitted in really well, he and Fitsch were really great pickups.

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).

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

See my previous post on this thread. He’s a good 8 cm (or more) taller than Caleb, and at just 18 years old may still be growing a bit.

Too small they said, a bloody midget. I was seated behind the goals during the third quarter. Charlie was being minded by Andrew McGrath and their was very little difference in their height (if at all). This whole discussion about Charlie’s height is a bit silly really. The kid’s going to be very good! Nice debut.

Earlier in this thread I mentioned re joining as an MCC/MFC member, yet I’m still getting emails from the club asking me to re join. Apparently when joining as a MCC member your MCC membership has to be verefied and this takes time. So I’m sure there’s a backlog of memberships to be counted. We could well be over 41k by now (even 42k).

Good move by the club. From my reading of who’s who on the board of the club, they appear to be anything but fools. This whole exercise would have been discussed forensically and at length prior to the announcement. There is no way they would decide to ditch the pokies and afterwards think - gee, what are we going to do now!