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Agree 100%: but I had to include Icke and Rhode...

During a bout of insomnia I formulated a side which incorporated a Melbourne side composed solely on Imports: Backs: Fowler May Ingerson Half Backs: Icke Lever Rohde Centers: Langdon Wilson Bizzell Half Forwards: Vardy Moore Crosswell Forwards: Pickett, Brown Shaun. Smith Rucks: White Vince, Coles Bench: Clarkson, Gary Baker, Wayne Gordon ( the Best and Fairest winner the year before he died,) Jarrott, Templeton Emergencies: Cross, Seekamp, Holland, I had to fit three ruckmen into side - Brownlow Moore, Baker and White and Moore played a season or so at Collingwood as a Forward. Ben Brown or Templeton:?Brown because he played in a Premiership side.

I had to play Neitz as Full Forward, hence Lyon CHB where he played some great games.

6: Viney 5: Oliver 4: Grundy 3: McDonald 2: Hunter 1: McVee Unlucky: Rivers, Fritsch, Petracca,

We have many players in common.

Trent Rivers is THE next superstar at Melbourne. Let it be recorded that I wrote that.

I go back to the losing 1958 Grand Final which I watched with my 6 year old and four year old sister. I was 8, knew zilsch anout 'Footy'. As my daughter said not that long ago : Why do you always barrack for losers? Fowler, Tas Johnson, May Brett Lovett, Lyon, Hardeman Alves, Mann, Flower Green, Schwartz, Davey Farmer, Neitz, Petracca Gawn, Barassi, Oliver Whelan, S.Smith, Stynes, Travis Johnstone, Dixon, Wight, Wilson, Moore.

6: Oliver 5: May 4: lever 3: Rivers 2: Langdon 1: Petracca Unlucky: Chandler, Grindy, McVee,

Bowey is not an 'In', and neither should he be!

Talk about hysteria: 'could've killed the bloke'?????Please....

How????You heard of Leigh Matthews? Never killed anyone....

Had it happened to 'ours', what would we be complaining about? Smith played out the rest of the game, got back on his tootsies immediately. Pontius Pilate, where is thine sting??????

You just get off on suspenders...

Viscous? I didn't know Cornes was related to Zelensky, i.e. a Comedian.

Not quite sure what the similarity is. He followed up tp protect and give safe passage tp his team -mate who was heading towards goal. To insinuate that Pickett has a history of attack is almost insane.

This is totally irrelevant: the issue is that it is not an equal system. What Cripps can do, others can't. What Buddy does, ditto. The other aspect which has not been mentioned once - within my demented earshot anyway - is this is not normal Kozzie behavior, in that he has no 'form' in this regard. Had Smith been injured, a suspension might have been suitable, but to ping a player for 2 weeks for a spur of the moment on field decision - especially in the context that I could name two dozen players who have committed far worse crimes yet walked away with not even the sentence of a Hail Mary as penitence, is to put it mildly, sickening.

On the MFC site, saw the clip of 3 of the 4 new players receiving their jumpers. Mc Vee from Brownie, Brodie from Frank Davis, but I couldn't work out who presented Bailey Laurie's jumper? ( Would have loved to see Lachie get his jumper from the Dom...)

Sorry for posting the MOZ quote in January: since then Viney, May, Fritsch, and Salem have gone down, and I know it's all my fault, mean culpa, mea culpa mea maxima culpa.... I hope I don't get a rosary of Hail Mary's as Penance, forgot the words, and prefer Bloody Marys anyhow....

BARASSI B.DIXON H.MANN J.STYNES. R. FLOWER D.SCHWARTZ A.JAKOVICH C.OLIVER G.LYON J.FARMER A.DAVEY. G.HARDEMANN S.ALVES TOMORROW'S LIST, I.E.10 YEARS ON, WILL INCLUDE GAWN, PETRACCA, HOPEFULLY KOZZIE. WHAT'S THIS 5 NUMBER? I BIN WATCHING SINCE THE 1958 GRAND FINAL...

Agree entirely. Love your profile. World Peace? Impossible until a certain warmongering country is 'pacified'. Not likely to happen : its economy depends on war, that's why it gave the rest to China who they now wanna make war on. Never mind the Scomeo/Albo solution, Billions of dosh on subs which won't be ready for twenty years will fix that, spelt with an u instead of I., by which time they'll be absolutely obsolete anyway. Nothing surer than Grapeviney will ban me for months for this , any money?

Yep: post the Broken foot, we were out-Macdonalded. The late season fade-outs due to players not fully fit contributed to that dramatic fade out. Ironically, and I'm only making the comment after watching the replay of the Richmond game, McDonald might well be staring into an exit Edenhope-way, I.E, into the setting sun. BBB is not far behind him, much as I love them both. Then again, we have Van R, Schache, the new order is on its way...

He dropped a few marks, got beaten for every hit out he went for and while I hold him in the highest regard - his absence hurt us immensely last year - I think it's time to blood the Van Man. I wasn't all that impressed by Brown either. I love Chandler but he doesn't do enough at this level.

I've managed to watch the replay of the Richmond match and assuming fitness here are my ins and outs: In: Viney, Fritsch, Hibberd, JVR, Out: Chandler, Laurie, McVee, Brown. McDonald needs to lift, and should Melksham and Smith regain form and fitness they along with Chandler, should be the main door knockers, and Schache, of Course. Salem is the unknown quantity: an essential member when fit.

It was the first game of Aussie Rules I'd seen - my grandmother was one of the first television owners in North Sunshine, paid for it in installments from a lovely mustached Yekke Travelling Salesman called Herr Berger - and, as usual, I hoped the losing side would win. Next year, at Our Lady's Sunshine, a Greek boy asked me who I barracked for. I said, Melbourne. He replied, Wow, they are a great team. The game I'd watched was, of course, the 1958 Grand Final. It took a lot of guts and courage to NOT be a Footscray supporter where I was brought up. Then again, I was always my own man. Paid for it, many Lumpen Prol head punches, the lingua franca of life in Australian working class suburbs in the 50's and 60's. Didn't help being a so-called 'New Australian'....

I saw him play often from 1961 until 1964. He was Mister Football, though, in the outer West, where I was brought up, Footscray supporters thought that title belonged to Ted Whitten. I met him at Acland Cellars in early 2006, before the start of the season. He was buying a bottle to take to Claypots. I couldn't help myself and told him how much I admired him. He paid for his wine, got to the door, turned around and said, Go Dees...