Deeoldfart

Agree, it's pathetic. When similar nonsence occurred last year and the year before, I wrote to the AFL and the fta TV station expressing my frustration at this lunacy. Guess what? ...... no replies on either occasion! Hopeless!

Utterly disrespectful to our great club.

Which one??

Well said jcb. You and I don't always see 'eye to eye', but we certainly do on this one!!!

As an aside, one of the commentators on Fox said that Skull lost 3kg when he had his wisdom teeth out during the break.

Spot on 32. The comments of some around here truely demonstrate their ignorance about the game, and where the Melbourne Footy team is currently at in this competition. We are all disappionted that we didn't give a yelp in the last, but geez .....

We didn't have a consistent forward target all day, but were still hanging around. We had to try something different to kick some goals, and IMO Jamar was definitely worth a punt. OK, it didn't come off, but the Russian can't ruck all day anyway ...... and if Bails hadn't tried it, plenty like you would have been accusing him of lack of flexibility and imagination in his coaching.

6. Trengove 5. McKenzie 4. Frawley 3. Moloney 2. Dunn 1. Green

This is paramount!!

They are now saying broken leg. Sad to see!

Martin Flanagan at his very best ......... and he has penned some beauties about our great Club and great people over the last couple of years. This one provided some new insights for me about the Stynes / McLardy relationship. Our Club is in great hands.

The inclusion of Spence may mean that the Russian will spend a bit more time up forward. That will give the Saints a bit more to think about, especially if Bennell,Jetta and Flash play forward, as named.

A few of points Redleg 24. They relate generally to the importance of AFL players being of sound character, and not specifically to the young player under discussion. - these days all AFL clubs do comprehensive character checks on players before they are drafted. That suggests to me that they regard having the right 'character' as important, wouldn't you agree? - 'playing football well' is indeed a key part of being a good AFL footballer ....... but so too is having the right disciplines to prepare and train as a professional, to play team football, and to follow team rules, etc. I'm sure we can all recall plenty Melbourne players who could 'play football well' but did not tick some of the other boxes, and consequently failed to realise their potential; - off-field incidents are becoming more and more frowned upon by the AFL and clubs, and rightly so. They can tarnish the image of the game and they can cost sponsorship $s. Important issues as far as the Melbourne Footy Club don't you think? I sincerely hope you do 'give a stuff' about these considerations.

I frequently ask myself 'what has happened to the hours in the day?' Stupid question ....... the answer is simple really! Thanks to Andy and the crew, Demonland has become a great institution for Demon tragics like me.

6. Bate 5. Frawley 4. Dunn 3. Grimes 2. Garland 1. Scully Oh, the sheer agony selecting the best of a pitiful lot!

Reads like a commitment to the Dees to me. He's going nowhere!

Very important signing for the Melbourne Footy Club. Well done 'Rush'. Work rate this season has been nothing short of outstanding.

I can relate to that sentiment only too well 'old dee', but as my three Demon-mad kids keep telling me, they havn't even savoured their first metaphorical 'drink' yet.

Apparently there's already a cartoon doing the rounds ..... Hall's body with Julia' head.

Agree with that 4jacks. Also, it's probably not much more than 12 months ago that some around here were arguing that Chip was a waste of an early draft pick. Certainly, his potential was rarely (if ever) acknowledged in the media, and I suspect many in the wider football community would have known of him more as Spud's nephew than as a young / developing Melbourne player.

I hate saying this 45, but, "fair enough"........ Bring on the footy!

Fair call I guess, but how many outside MFC are 'in the know'? ...... and anyway, in my book, a similar statement could be made about the Russian.

I know I am biased, but I would have Chip in there at #5.

........ and Martin, who has a long, long way to go, but is still well ahead of PJ IMO, based on his relative youth and far greater versatility.

It was interesting listening to ABC radio yesterday afternoon, when Stan Alves and Chris Grant rated teams on a scale of E to A on their season so far, compared to what their expectations had been at the start of the year. A rating of 'C' was the pass mark. Stan rated Melbourne as B+ and Chris rated us B. Not surprisingly, both praised our back-half and midfield, but commented that our forward set-up (primarily meaning Jack Watts) is still a couple of years away. No mention was made of the current forward line absentees, LJ or Ricky Petterd.