Deeoldfart

Great news ..... and great to have a (rare) positive thread on Demonland. Go DEES

God this is exasperating! No professionalism. No pride in the jumper. No respect for team-mates and their code of conduct. No .... No .... No ......

Definitely has more talented "cattle" .... I guess we'll find out whether or not they are better over the next few seasons. Lets keep on hoping JJC!!

HEAR! ... HEAR!

Thoroughly enjoying the nostalgia in these posts. Thanks fellow Demonlanders. I recall that '87 was the year that the Club's membership promotion read something like "Give Robbie (Flower) one last chance to play finals football" and by God, we gave it a red hot go. I think we won something like eight on end to scrape into the finals, and then we walloped the Roos and Swans in weeks one and two respectively, only to have our hearts broken in week three. If Bails can instill that sort of passion and belief into the 2008 Dees, then we are definitely on the way up.

Ditto

He's had his best pre-season to date, and has featured amongst better players in each of the NAB and Challenge games. He's definitely no hack, and if he remains relatively injury free he'll have a big year .... probably spending a fair bit of the time in the midfield.

Goodonya! We mightn't entirely agree on the interpretation of the article, but we BOTH hope I'm right.

I'd prefer to put a positive spin on it. It confirms (to me at least) that we are heading in the right direction. The future looks bright under the new regime.

I only recently discovered DEMONLAND and regret that I didn't come across it years ago. You guys are doing a great job ... keep up the good work! $$ on the way.

......... and if I were a potential sponsor of an AFL club, I would be looking to market my brand through a club whose personnel get mentioned in the media for all the RIGHT reasons ..... not a string of (albeit) 'minor' indescretions.

Yep ...... and Bails has also shown that he intends to instill a bit of much needed discipline around the place. He's also said that 'names' won't matter when it comes to team selection. I reckon he'll be true to his word on this one as well.

A totally appropriate response from he Club .... and if Brock hears and responds appropriately to the 'message' that this should send to him, he will thank them for it sometime down the track. It's all very well being young and free-spirited, but players, and particularly aspiring captains, need to show discipline both on and off the field, regardless of their age. Hopefully for Brock and the MFC, the messages will start to sink in before he oversteps the mark once too often. Bails said from the outset that players could be promoted to, or dropped off the leadership group during the season. It's an honour to be part of the leadership group at such a wonderful club, and Brock needs to demonstrate that he is worthy of such an appointment by keeping his name out of the newspapers for the wrong reasons. If he can do this over a sustained period, the likelihood is that he will one day captain our great club. Go Dees!!

Hopefully this doesn't include those who signed up at the Family Day ..... maybe these are still waiting to be processed or something (he said very optimistically). However, I was there for most of the day, and I certainly don't recall more than a trickle of people lined up at the membership tent. The current figure of 18,581 is an increase of only 404 from the figure that sat on the MFC website for several weeks before the recent update. Come on Dees fans .... get on board!!

Brilliant 'WJ'! And our game is so much the better for the participation of those mentioned, and their brothers in other teams.

Great post Diablo. Many thanks for the effort and insights on behalf of other Demonlanders. Some questions about the contributions of specific players: Bell & Petterd? Where did Flash spend most of his time, forward, midfield, pine? THANKS AGAIN!

Agree. I like him a lot. I can see him playing a similar role to Burton (Adelaide), and if he can be as productive for us, we are on a winner.

Couldn't have said it better! Round 1, or even round 5 will give us a better indication of where we are at. The season hasn't even started and the knockers have us dead and buried. I'm still optomistic.

Totally agree. Just a sensational effort guys. Thanks!!

Nice to read some fact combined with a good measure of common sense. If we could select our list based on hindsight, we'd have the best 40 in the land, and be premiers every year!

That's great D77. The best news I've heard for ages. Many thanks for the post!!

Well done Mousey! I wish there were more like you amongst our 'fair weather' supporters. I have lived in Canberra for the last 38 years and I'm a Platinum Member of the mighty MFC. I was lucky enough to live through the glory years of the 1950's and early 1960's and I can tell you its a great feeling. I hope its not too long before you experience it first hand! Go Dees!1

Its a pity such a wonderful servant of the Club that has been a key member of its golden success could be subject to some of the vitriol and condemnation by supporters.

Totally agree ..... great servants, but they probably havn't lived up to the very high expectations we put on them in their early years. Unfortunately, we have lacked true champions for far too long, and we havn't had enough 'great servants' to adequately fill the breach.

Yep..... But still no Neitz, Bartram, Mclean, Rivers, Wheatley, Whelan and Dunn who havn't had a serious hitout so far this pre-season, as well as Buckley, White, Robbo who all had a run at the cattery. Hopefully a large part of this is just about player management before the start of the season proper.