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I have faith but the expectations are high enough. And we are Melbourne supporters...

I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Chris Lamb. I remember a number of people were adamant that Lamb was the future of our backline if only Daniher could be persuaded. He wasn't and he wasn't.

That's ok. Emulation is flattering, really.

My avatar is a paintshop job. The actual one was without the blue IIRC. It didn't look too bad and I am expecting something similar for our next corporate logo.

I know I am one of the more arrogant posters on here but this would have to be up there with some of the 'best' stuff I have written. Wow.

It will not happen. It's a massive risk to a player we paid a high price for. And we didn't draft him to be a part-time ruck.

Well I don't think it is first and foremost. But, secondly, I don't care that the AFL link doesn't look great.

Should we care about how it looks on those things. Or should we care about how it looks when we have a massive crest made for the offices at Olympic Park and Casey. If you can't see it properly small, then I guess people are just going to have to make it big... Too much going on... We ain't selling cereal...

Talent is in the eye of the beholder, E25. It's a good point, crankypants.

The southern cross is nod to the indigenous influence on the game and the club. I couldn't think of any other way of illustrating the influence of the first Australians other than the star formation that their ancestors would have looked up and seen 80,000 years ago. Collingwood has the Australian flag the arrogant sh!ts. We have what the Australian flag should be, and probably will be - the southern cross.

Watts could do it, but as an opposition coach I would get my bloke to get his knees and absolutely destroy him. All it would cost is a free, and we lose our CHF. Riewoldt doesn't do it, but there is something wrong with Watts because he doesn't do it? Please...

He'd be an angry lover... Was that inappropriate?

Hey!

To be honest, I think you are stuck in this "PR, advertising, message-driven" mindset that pervades our society. This isn't the Gruen Transfer, we are not selling something - we are trying to build something to buy into. Building a club isn't about product positioning - it's about honouring the past, making the most of the present, and looking to the future. We sent the entire club to China. The entire club. And invited past greats. We turned an exhibition game into a 'footy club' trip. The only journo on board is the club journo - Matt Burgan. This expensive sojourn isn't selling the MFC, it's creating an environment at the club for people to admire. And our song, ripped off the Americans as it may be, talks of an emblem of the team we love. What emblem? A figurative one? Left for the imagination? Schwab and Stynes said "Frack it, let's design an emblem that the club stands for." It wasn't meant to look good. It was meant to look busy and arrogant and proud. We will have the one-dimensional demon logos come and go but none will have the meaning and resonance that the emblem has. I stand by it, and I hope that boards for decades to come stand by it.

The flame is representative of those that died at war. Our b+f honours them, our emblem should too. Overkill is an unfortunate irony... The emblem will be around, assuming future boards respect what schwab and stynes are trying to achieve, for a very long period and we have the various demon logos that will come and go. Yeah, it's busy, but the club's had a busy life. It doesn't work as a corporate logo? Too fracking right; we aren't a corporation.

You realise that old55 was talking about the point of the thread don't you? Not me? I mean, I know you want to be clever but get the context right.

You'd be surprised. Surprised how little there is to do in Canberra.

PJ must be your illegitimate son, honestly... Noises about Newton, huh? We'll see...

The FD don't make decisions on players after one exhibition game. I cannot believe I have been put in a position where I have posted that about 5 times this week... For shame, Demonland!

As I am going for laughs again - can old55 please tell what the hell is the point of this? Tall players come later in a BA drafting process? Jurrah is hard to place? The spelling of players names is improving? Making a list is an important skill?

Is it? Or do the 'regulars' on here like a statement to be backed up with a decent argument? I hardly think we are guilty of 'groupthink'... I can't stand the opinions of half the people on here...

You know what, I was wondering about that first line myself but I stuck to gut reaction. I would like to think I let a lot go off my back and under the bridge but some things just rile. I remember this time last year I was just trying to get laughs and didn't take anything seriously at all which led one prominent poster to call me 'unreadable.' But this place in general is unreadable at this time of year. The boys are in China and we are off with the fairies. That's it, I'm going for laughs again.

My view that it is misguided for Newton to be retained for a year to be resurrected into a KPD, is my risk averse mentality at play? I don't think it is worth our time.

Of course, but it doesn't mean Cameron Schwab has to get out his chequebook.

His goal against the Dogs in the wet was one of the finest peices of play I have seen at the footy. I hope he continues to develop. Can go missing for long periods.