Deeoldfart

Great signature for the MFC. PJ has been critical in turning the fortunes of our great Club around. Like all of us, he deserves to share in the spoils of our future success, and it's great to hear him say as much (in his typical under-stated way of course).

Thanks hardtack. Jonah was indeed an outstanding athlete, and his passing at the very young age of 40 is extremely sad.

Tom Bugg as a mid and goal kicker. He's definitely more than a 'depth player', as many have predicted.

Changing our theme song would be sacrilege!

If this turns out to be a bona fide and accurate assessment, then we Demonlanders really have something to get excited about. Time will tell of course, but I can't help having very high hopes for our prospects over the next 5 years or so.

Great work ChaserJ. Thanks!

Vanders is rarely mentioned with the core group of mids who are expected to take the Dees to the next level (Jones, Viney, Brayshaw, Salem, Tyson and Petracca) but I think his name sits very comfortably with that lot. Our team is on the rise, and Vanders will be an important part of the journey!

Baked beans on toast for dinner tonight!

Exciting times indeed 'Froggy' ...... and what fills me with anticipation is that I can see it building again now. I know I'm just a silly and optimistic old fart who's been besotted by this footy club for 60+ years, but I have a gut feel that we could be something special in the next 3 to 5 years, for exactly the reasons in the bolded sentence above.

Mrs oldfart has already put her once a year bet on Trip to Paris. "Why" I asked ........"because its colors are red and blue of course". I should have known.

Very good debut season from Nibbler, and his upside is obvious to me. I can see him and his best mate Billy urging each other to greater heights for the red and blue for many years to come.

On the one hand I agree with you bin, but on the other, a decision not to renew his contract would indicate to me that our Footy Dept. has confidence that it can improve our list by cutting him free and replacing him with someone new. I'll stick fat with the Footy Dept. on that one.

I sort of understand where you are coming from with that question DD, but Terlich did run third in a 'Bluey' around that time. Clearly, with the benefit of hindsight, two years would have been more pragmatic.

Definitely, even down to his flaxen locks. If we do draft him, and he turns out to be another 'stinger', all of us here (including the perennial 'Demonland doubters') will be over the moon!

Neita made a pretty good fist of it.

Mine too 'bub, not 'prongs' but nails. The umps inspected them before every game to ensure that the stops weren't worn down with the nail heads protruding. You could inflict a nice flesh wound with a pair of well worn stops.

Nah. The way I read it is the Hawks were paying us back from when we took Matt Jones off the Box Hill list.

All part of the 'master plan'. Right now I couldn't be happier with my footy club!

Renewing my Redlegs membership immediately! Brilliant work MFC!

I'm loving this! Almost as good as beating Geelong at the Cattery and the Filth at the 'G'.

I think Josh Mahoney may now be owed a few apologies!

I sincerely hope not! Not that it will help, but my fingers will be firmly crossed that we wouldn't be so stupid.

Howe vs Kennedy ........ a tale of two horses Howe is a show pony, who prances around and has a genuine go when it suits him. Kennedy is a work-horse, who has a red-hot go whenever the opportunity presents. I know who I want wearing red and blue!

...... but we back ourselves to turn him into an AFL standard player. I like it!

If you really feel that our Footy Department are contemplating recruitment of players because "they think they have to do something" then you are naive (and that's being very generous!). Maybe their selections will work out, and maybe they won't, but to suggest that players would be recruited for the sake of appearances and not because they are expected to improve our team, is being disrespectful towards our recruiters who have an excellent record in their player selections over the last couple of years.