Deeoldfart

Flash won't be with us in 2014. That will help with the green groceries.

Well done Col. Melbourne's best two weeks in a row in my book.

Jack must surely be carrying an injury, but why is he out there if he is?

The umpire should be embarrassed - just wanting to assert authority when he clearly couldn't have seen head high contact. Report will be thrown out .... no case to answer.

Agree. He would have comfortably made my top six if his disposal had been half decent. No excuses for a senior player to be consistently lazy in his delivery.

6. Garland 5. M. Jones 4. N.Jones 3. Evans 2. Frawley 1. Tapscott

Off to hospital sadly, but in that quarter the boys were at least hard at it for him.

Someone (or some people) in authority with the insight, leadership qualities and clout to turn around the awful culture that seems to have permeated our footy club. That, and only that, will be the cornerstone of any success we might enjoy in the future. Is superman available?

If we have a heart and soul right now, it's Nathan Jones (and us diehard supporters, of course!). Edit: added the bit in brackets.

Neither will I, or (I suspect) anyone else on here.

Hopefully we will have one!

The problem for me is that compelling arguments can (and have been) made for giving Neeld his marching orders right now, or waiting until late in the season. I'm just stuffed if I know, mostly because I'm not close enough to the action to make a call which I'm completely comfortable with. I know things need to change, but as many of the learned posters above have indicated, timing is critical. I have splinters in my bum from sitting on the fence, but right now I don't know which way to jump. There may be an abyss on either side, and the viability of my much loved Demons is at stake.

One thing is for certain, our Club wouldn't 'lay down and be walked all over' if David had anything to do with the matter.

It was an outstanding interview imo .... even better than his book, because the emotion was palpable. I loved the Ox as a player, I admire the way he has turned his life around post-football, and I love his honesty as a person. Well done David!

Ron is one of the many 'greats' who played for the Melbourne Football Club back then. I never saw him play, but his record speaks for itself. RIP Ron.

This exercise gets harder by the week. Sadly, the top six on the ground all played for the opposition. 6. Garland 5. Evans 4. Byrnes 3. Sylvia 2. Gawn 1. Tapscott

I hope you are right Demonfan, 'cos if we are in it at 3/4 time, I reckon we will win.

The burden of lies is weighing him down.

Fair point Stu, my post probably should have been more 'balanced', and to be fair, I should have shown a bit more respect to a B&F winner. However, I maintain that Moloney showed the traits I mentioned too often over his career at Melbourne, and in particular, I find it inexcusable that a professional sportsman should 'drop his head' throughout a full season, no matter what the reason.

No! ....... right now that would be paying more than his worth, and rewarding 'average' form. Definitely not the way to build a club culture that will breed success.

"One trick pony" ......"Down-hill skier" ....... not a leaders "bootlace" ...... sullen and self-absorbed. If we are destined to ever have a future that we can be proud of, it sure as hell won't be built around players with those characteristics.

"High performance with high integrity" ...... outstanding ethos but shallow words if you don't live and breathe them. Personally, I find ongoing poor performance difficult to swallow, but I choke on lack of integrity.

I have always preferred to focus on the footy, and leave club politics to others, but I have to say that the off-field situation at the MFC is becoming untenable.

This is probably the first time in my 60 odd years that I regret being such a "rusted-on Demons tragic". If I could let go now I probably would, but sadly, I know that's impossible.

We won't be beaten ....... we can't be beaten! If the players take this mindset into the game, and they are prepared to fight tooth & nail to prove the point, we will win the game and perhaps a modicum of respect.