Whispering_Jack

@Tim It’s a yes … and no. Stanley Baldwin was the UK prime minister on 1 January 1924 having taken leadership of the Tory government in May 1923 following the resignation of Bonar Law for health reasons. Nothing suspicious there although it’s an excuse often used by politicians when something’s NQR with the way they’re running things. In this case, it was legit because Law passed away six months later of throat cancer. Baldwin called an election in December 1923, which cost the Tories their parliamentary majority allowing after Ramsay MacDonald to form a minority Labour government and he took power on 22 January 1924, holding onto power until the general election of November 1924. Baldwin’s conservatives won that one which allowed him to form his second government so he was British PM both at the start and the end of 1924. Incidentally, Ramsay MacDonald’s full name was James Ramsay MacDonald but as far as I’m aware, he was not related to the future Demon skipper or the future Melbourne Cup winning jockey.

That’s where this is all leading to but in the meantime, the objective is to develop an interest among our fans in the club’s history while, our current team creates more (good) history for our future generations. I’ll discuss this in future posts as we go through this particular season.

I’d like to acknowledge @supermercado and his fabulous site DemonWiki as a superb source on the history of the Melbourne Football Club.

That’s true because he didn’t make the Herald Sun best players either. He did get a mention in the article about “maturing into a player of high quality”.

Just letting you know in advance, tonight’s match report is entitled “Fritta & Turner”. And for that, I make no apologies.😀

The latest draft order here -AFL Draft Order 2024

This article looks at the clubs that could be active in next month’s midseason draft. Melbourne is one because of Angus Brayshaw’s retirement. The 11 AFL clubs who could be active at the 2024 Mid-Season Draft The issue remains however, that the AFL has still to announce the position regarding whether Angus’ contract pay out is going to be included in the club’s salary cap. Now that Collingwood has been placed in a similar position with Nathan Murphy’s retirement, I suppose the AFL will treat the matter with a little more urgency.

It seems that @Demonland has been lurking around in his DMC DeLorean again. I have elicited a promise from him that he won’t get ahead of himself or go back in time for now. We’re back to taking things one week at a time.

I believe the soccer genius you refer to might have been Niall Quinn who played Gaelic football and hurling as a youth in Dublin, including the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Final in Croke aged 16, in 1983. He once captained an Irish GAA youth side on a tour to Australia, and was offered a professional contract to play Australian Rules Football with Melbourne, but opted for professional football, in England where he played with Arsenal, Manchester City and Sunderland, and was ex-chairperson of Sunderland FC. He played for the Republic of Ireland from 1986 to 2002. Quinn was a 193cm striker and I believe that had he chosen to play our football, he might have been a key forward or defender and taken us one step up the ladder in those years in the late 80s and 90s when we came close to challenging for a flag. Needless to say, I remain disappointed that Melbourne has apparently chosen not to test the waters in this arena in recent years. Without the likes of Jimmy Stynes and Sean Wight, the club might well not even be in existence today.

Mark down the name of Jack Behnk, a Casey lister who also plays for St Bedes Mentone Tigers and was nominated as VAFA Mens Rising Star award on the back of a starring 5 goal performance. He has represented Casey this year during the practice match series.

VFL player by player: Which Dees dominated?

The 2024 Mid-Season Rookie Draft will be held on Wednesday, May 29. The AFL Free Agency period commences on Friday, October 4 and will run until Friday, October 11. The 2024 Continental Tyres AFL Trade Period will commence on Monday, October 7 and will run until Wednesday, October 16. AFL confirms dates for 2024 free agency, trade and draft periods

I have for some time, advocated that when developing players are not performing in the VFL then it might be of benefit that they go to an appropriate local suburban competition to work on their skills. I recently cited the case of a Collingwood Category B rookie playing last year or the year before in the VAFA. Now, it seems that Richmond has the same idea with one of its Category B rookies. The player in question is obviously being given time to adapt to the game in a less demanding competition. Unless, there is something happening with KFW that we’re not being told, this would seem a better course than seeing him struggle for kicks on limited time in the VFL. From Herald Sun online

Injuries are injuries but if we look at Richmond’s current injury list, we should definitely not be complaining about our lot.