Keepin up with the Joneses

Premiership Midfield Nathan Jones - Shining light Jack Grimes - Needs to be moved to the midfield NOW Jordie McKenzie - Defensive role player. Jack Trengove - desperately needs support Jack Viney - Why oh why can't it be next year already Maybe... but no-where near fit enough Jordan Gysberts - If his attitude was remotely AFL compatible, he'd have played 3 games already this year. Luke Tapscott - Would love to see this bloke running through the middle Sam Blease - Would love his pace breaking the lines Brent Moloney - Quality clearance player - 1 week in 4, don't see him being part of our success Sad to see Davey - Gone Green - Gone Syivia - never here Bate - not a midfielder Morton - not a footballer Sorry to say but we're not winning a flag in 2012! For 2013, we need significant fitness improvement from Gystberts, Tapscott and Blease, + 2 please pretty please don't F$%k this up, 2 quality genuine midfielders.

6 months on and I've learnt 1 thing, [censored] players are still [censored] players

It's taken 9 years, but wifey has finally seen the light and i will be buying her first membership tomorrow. GO DEES!

Maybe our 'high potential' midfield which excelled running forward of the ball didn't run defensively because... they couldn't? cant wait for the fun to start! As i said to a friend yesterday, at least if we're [censored] this year, we'll be fit and [censored]! For the record, i think we'll finish 7th

Respect!

I thought it was a hoax when I logged on this morning! I can't wait to not have to stress about whether we get any value in 5 years time out of pick 12 in a [censored] draft. To all those involved, well done, membership being renewed right now (I always sign, but never early - 16 years straight) And Clark is the exact player we need, and more versatile than a Dawes or Lisle, he can play, bring on 2012

Let' hope the 2011 draft rivals 2003 in quality.

I remember in an afl magazine around draft time that year, there was a phantom draft suggesting we'd take him at 4, and i was like wtf we have to draft Morton, he's going to be the next Adam Goodes!... ah hindsight you beautiful thing!

Agree, anyone remember the impact of losing the experience of James McDonald and Cameron Bruce last year? We don't have room to lose AA team members

Is it for 6 months, we relied on the murmurings of a dishonest selfish 19yr old, and measured our success on our ability to retain him (despite him signing elsewhere almost 12 months earlier) and then blamed the internal turmoil he put our club through in the direction the media sought fit; being CS, CC, etc? just throwing it out there. If we knew then what we knew now, would everyone have been calling for CSs blood? I don't remember ever being this happy with off field structuring at MFC, and I'd much rather have the 2 draft picks than a divisive little ^%&* In the space of 2 weeks, I've transformed from disillusioned to champing at the bit for round 1! Well done MFC, time to deliver on field, and now there are very few excuses to get in the way!

Today is a great day for the Melbourne Football Club. A true leader doesn't sell his soul to the highest bidder. Scully wants to captain GWS? The boy has shown absolutely no leadership whatsoever, and will leave GWS in 6 years time for the next biggest cheque in the market place. As good a footballer as he may be, what he has put our football club through this year is akin to a cancer, and we've been lucky enough to cut it out, and get draft picks in return! Like it or not, we screwed this one at the draft table. A decent psych would have pinned this sort of character flaw from a mile away. I'm going to love watching GWS get belted year in, year out, and what will Scully be doing... looking for his next leg up, making excuses, blaming other people, definitely not standing up and taking responsibility and leading through hard times like real leaders do. You didn't cope very well with the speculation you were a devious lying little underhanded turd all year; now I watch in earnest as you fail to deliver performances that justify your pay packet.

Harsh but extremely fair. You forgot that they will be a bottom age player that will take longer than 5 years.

Rivers Frawley Blease Tapscott Garland Grimes Davey Scully Bail Sylvia Howe Watts Jurrah Green Woennamirri Jamar Moloney Trengove Martin Jones Petterd McKenzie That's the most fun I've had this year!

We follow this club because we know nothing else, and as much as this season hurts, there is light at the end of the tunnel. I posted similar hopeless murmurings after the West Coast debacle earlier in the season, and walked away, and as much as it drives me crazy, I can't help but continually take an interest in what's going on at the MFC, and I can't shake the emotional attachment I've grown to this club over my 30 years of support. Today was the second game I've gone to this season, and the first since declaring I couldn't take this [censored] anymore and would walk away. And today, I left with hope, and resolve. We have players who aren't going to make it. If you can't kick, you have no place on an AFL list. Bartram and Morton, good luck. Bate, Warnock, thanks for the efforts, in another era, you might have been champions, and to the rest, I'm sure they know all to well, come to play and come to play soon, or you'll be looking for work elsewhere. West Coast were a joke last year. Worst disposal in the comp by a long way. Now they have a great game plan, and confidence to match and they are a potential top 4 threat. They are organised... we are miles from it Our game plan; all the hard yards put in over last preseason...the best it can deliver against a top 4 team is an 8 goal loss. Today at least, we had a crack. Any thought that you can carry players with sh1thouse disposal is folly. The names I've names are the obvious; there will be plenty of others to fall by the wayside. and we will come again. A good coach will make a huge impression on this group and club, and it's time we source the best. And when training starts, we'll all be looking for reports on how the kids are getting bigger and better, how anyone could have written off Jack Watts, questioning his #1 status. We'll see how not having Grimes in defence had a huge impact, that it's great to see Aussie running around, Jurrah doing things that he, Cyril, and no-one else can do, and Green, relieved of his captaincy and it's burden, re-invigorated responds to a younger more capable leadership group taking the leadership by the horns and running with it. And to Tom Scully...If you spent as much time trying to get the football and improving your skills and your team, rather than demanding a contract way beyond your current ability and output, you would have my respect. But you don't. 19 yr olds should concentrate on playing football and nothing else. I hope you're successful, but know you won't be because you lack the nous to have never allowed yourself to be put into this position, and this sort of decision making will haunt you until you retire an unfulfilled 'could have been' who held a football club to ransom with the sort of greed that has no place in a successful team, and struggled to deliver anything with a group of young guns who play their hearts out for GWS because that's who drafted them... not who offered them the biggest contract. To Jack Trengove... Respect. Bring on 2012

After 16 consecutive years of membership, tonight is the last game from the MFC I will follow. I can't take this anymore, and tonight is the first time I realised, I don't have to. I have packed up my signed jumpers, membership scarfs, beanies, photo's and my membership card and placed them in a spot that one day, maybe someone might find and wonder who this club was, and what it stood for (nothing) This club has received its last $ from me. I wish you all well. No hard feelings, I've felt your pain, but enough is enough. All the best Jurrah Mancrush

Moving forward, you would think the only way dissect the press is with immaculate foot skills in the back half. The kid is getting better, he might not make it. but no point in panicking just yet I wouldn't have thought. I reckon he might sneak a few games late in the season and be very important for us in 2012

When you think about this logically, I can't see us losing. We are 2 goals better off for Bruce not giving 2 goals away. And we are another 2 goals better off by Bruce giving us those goals by fact we are playing against him! Brilliant!

Yes Please

Couldn't make it to the game because of work so all my thoughts come from the replay Joel Mac had a shocker, must make way for Chip Davey is in trouble, as much as I hope he's not, Gysberts in as the SUB Maric was ok, set up a few goals and I'd be building his confidence now rather than shattering it. Petterd plays all game long, no breaks... ever... I thought Stef Martin was huge and should play instead of Warnock on Hale.

What about Jack Watts for Goodes? Has the height and pace, possibly the strength too. Talk of him missing selection for round (if true) means he isn't considered indispensable in our line-up, I'd rather give him the go over Martin Thoughts?

I have to admit I was disappointed against Essendon when he didn't snag 5 or 6 goals from our 35 inside 50s and tear the game apart. It doesn't matter how hard you try, sometimes you just can't get enough sarcasm across in a post eh?

I think we have enough depth developing on all lines to take a risk, sounds like exactly the sort of player we need, with some mongrel and arrogance. The Leadership group would play a pivotal role, could be a good project for Colin Sylvia to mentor. Learn from my mistakes so to speak. I bet Richmond would love Buddy's arrogance now. Is it possible we over-analyze these things? Carey would have been handy too, and turns out he was a complete toss bag... and 2 time premiership captain

... Sounds like just what we need... can keep the others company! I know nothing, perhaps he comes and becomes the game breaker we've been looking for! Thanks for the quick info Dazzle

When I read the title of the thread, I thought it was regarding ANDREW walker, and I felt dirty. Can you imagine ever letting that happen? The shame!

Wouldn't know him if i saw him on the street. Tell me he is 196cm, strong overhead, a great pack mark, elite endurance and speed and the dockers are letting him go because of salary cap pressure! *Crosses fingers AND toes*