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Yea but wilson has a massive injury history, one or two knees along with that, you're farked. Really really sad news for the leaping lunatic his season over but he should be able to come up again fitter than ever. it will allow for those knees to have a nice old rest too. He might come back better than ever.. hopefully he'll learn to chase as well.... Get behind him instead of writting him off just yet. As to replacement. I think the ever joyful RR might be spot on Grimey to come back on. Then the use of Holland, and hopefully Maric might be getting close, addition by subtraction along with Newts

whilst i agree with the sentiment aren't ou shooting the wrong bloke... The board puts a coach in place that is suspposed to drive that aspect, on the ground. They can't drive the players it is up to the coaches... Gardner for all of his faults has been the bloke who is moving us, not yet got us there, but is moving us to have a final resting place after how many years in the wilderness aimlessly wandering we will hopefully have a full time admin base/training base in the rectangular complex and summers out at Casey.. Kudos to him no one else has done it. What else does he need to do? Sponsors... which he has bought Macca onboard to help bring to the club...

is that a sympton of the lack of team mates willing to bump or lay a sheperd for the ball holder? His endevour and run whilst one paced are great, it is his kicking like a number of the team that lets him down. As per usual our turn overs looked like they killed us again on the weekend. When will we learn...

I don't think you can pick out a couple from the herd. We have a very very ordinary bunch of footballers in general not just a couple. If you took our best 22 and put it against 16 sides in the comp I could think of very few of our players getting a game, to highlight your pet hates is not helping YM.

kennett about Melb and bottom 4 clubs: "It (melb) needs to do something dramatic if it is to get the financial support and the consumer and sponsorship support. "For the teams in the last four positions (on the ladder) at the end of this year, it is going to be very, very hard to rebuild within the next 10 years. "There is no way Andrew (Demetriou) is going to allow any of the weaker clubs to rebuild through the drafting process through the next 10 years. It's almost going to be impossible with what is proposed, so that makes it hard." Ok soooo he says we should relocate. He thinks we have the weakest position. Yes we do lets deal with that. Can we change it? Not so sure we can. If we can how do we do it? We are still waiting for training bases we are asking for more money from AFL than ever and we have lost more money than we were going to make for the last number of years. are the comments above correct who knows but as a president of anf AFL club he would not be far off. Do we relocate fark no!!!! but the comments above are very worrying. next 10 years...

Demonland how did the night turn out?

Agree, it is so tiring to hear the same comments he makes but then offers sweet fark all to help. Actually offer solution to it Dr or shut up!

did he play??

I love this about as much as I love the whole concept... great idea "We hope to know sometime this week whether or not Casey is keen to negotiate with us," said McNamee, No more [censored] about. Lets get this done if not then lets move on to something else. Macca seems like he is heading, no steaming into the right directions. It has taken us 20 odd years to get to here with no real base now he is putting some very smart balls into play. Heres hoping it works out

S_T Posted Today, 03:39 PM I fess up. I actually left after the first quarter alss, BUT I had a really good excuse. My son was playing in the half-time Auskick game at the Dome. We made sure we boosted the crowd by tunring up for the first quarter but then left. I would of course loved to stay and watched it all, but it was also great seeing my son who is in Prep playing against the older kids on the Dome. He kicked the first goal of his game to boot. We have watched the second half of the Melbourne game twice now. Not quite the same as being there live, but still bloody brilliant. -- Awesome work ST unfortunatley you missed an amazing 2nd half but understandable. Well done to turn up and add a number to the crowd figure. Almost 20 k was a lot better than expected and will be a profit for us. How funny was he?! He had an entire corporate box screaming for him, I had no idea what they were on about until he ambled past, it was gold!

Cheers HBT I have about 5 pics I'll put up of the crowd it was amazing. To many people to have a proper kick but fun none the less. I saw a guy dressed as Gary Pert from Fitzroy. It was unreal he was about 40-45 in an old lions jumper with the old skin tight lions shorts and sox on, he looked hilarious.

Ha ha ha nice one. Was never going to leave, was my last live game for the next two years as I head over seas tomorrow afternoon!!! What a way to sign off!!! Couple of pics

crap? Don't yu mean wicked?! What a great Mothers Day gift! A day at the footy watching the up and comers and a few older MFC players belting around, she'll love it

the best thing about Garland was that he looked a better player than we've seen in the 1st hald when most of the side was battling. Not just when we were making the 2nd greatest come back ever! Millsy was good today hopefully he can keep it going for a long period of time Robbo when he gets delivery does kick goals, still needs to wokr harder off theball Wonna! His chasing and defensive pressure was good too. He chased a bloke and almost ran him down in front of me that lead to a kick out of bounds which we then clearded for a goal and it all started with him putting pressure on the freo player

Not sure it is a hammy.. I thought he played the game out on the ground. He hurt his shoulder early in the game trying to clean Hooper (I think) out, he went off to get it restrapped and played the rest of the game... I think old Yoda has picked up Sheeds Essendon Flu tricks. the whole facilites thing is a funny one i mean what is the actual difference between us and the "thems" with the best facilities. I'm sure we have access to doctors and physios the same as every club. If his body is not right then maybe it is just not right.

hhmmm While it is good to read players talking positive I take it with a grain of salt when a player says: were magnified by players upfield not being prepared to take a calculated gamble and run into space. I thought running into space has bene part of the game for awhile now...

Just to clarify on our ground in the MOPT area a post from Demonology: DeeBruce Posted on Thu 01/05/08 20:32:42 Member # Date joined Posts 2406 25/07/2007 110 Reply To George_on_the_Outer posted 2008-04-30 11:25:53 I have confirmed with my contact at MOPT that we will NOT be sharing the new training oval to be built on the Olympic Park stadium site-- this will be exclusively for Collingw&%$. Rather we will have the oval at Gosch's Paddock... where Coll currently train. The very good news is that this oval will receive a multi-million dollar upgrade for our long term use. And of course we wont have to share facilities, sponsors signage etc with the filth. Btw I just searched the area on Google Maps and our new oval is not far at all from the new stadium site... only negatives being on Punt Road, exposed to the elements and difficult to hold closed sessions. I am unsure whether the upgrade will help address these negatives.

Yea lets wait and see the proof in the pudding deanox. I'm trying to be a believer but i just can't fathom how a group of "professional" can be so badly skilled. Everyone is reading from the same prayer book and is saying exactly the same things from Yoda down to White, Jones, Bruce etc. It sounds like they have bought into it but it looks like they are really bsttling with it. I think we are all waiting to see the signs of the turn around as we have not seen many at the minute. Winning 3 last quarts when the game is shot is so poor it is not funny, bring on Freo!

I think we agree on it all but i want to see the facts before casting aside anything on face value..... Working in business development you have to think outside the square, justify the opportunity you ant to chase then report on the facts whislt staying within your budget. Then report on the outcomes, winner, looser or break even. Lets see the dollars and cents of it. I agree that it is potentially taking away our limited resources from the low hanging fruit but as you said our terrible starts to the year are hindering all membership and lets not give up on something just because we do not like the sound of it.

MELBOURNE just can't shake its bad habits, according to ruckman Jeff White. The Demons are still grappling with new coach Dean Bailey's game plan as their AFL season disintegrates "The most important thing for us is to minimise our skill errors, get this great game plan that Dean's got in place (working) and get some confidence from that," White said yesterday. "It's a really, really good exciting game plan, but we've just got to get it right." He said players were still trying to shake off the strategies engineered by former coach Neale Daniher and it was taking longer than anticipated. "You can get all the training techniques and all the game styles right out on the track but once you get out on the park you tend to go back to your bad habits," White said. "I think that's what's happening but we're excited about learning a new style … so hopefully it's not too far away." With Melbourne the only team yet to taste victory this year, White understood that Demons' supporters were struggling to see the positives. "From people outside it would look that way but from the meetings we're having on the Mondays, we're not far away," he said. "We made a lot of skill errors the last couple of weeks in the second quarter that cost us six or seven goals against Brisbane and Carlton. If we can minimise that a little bit and bring that back to two or three we'll give ourselves an opportunity." Fremantle, which lost to reigning premier Geelong by just one point last week, will be without injured defenders Roger Hayden and Antoni Grover, while Steven Dodd is also in doubt and tough midfielder Josh Carr is serving a three-game suspension. "We'll do our homework on Freo, they played really well the last two weeks against two quality sides and they'll be out to fire up," said White. "They've played really well the last few years at the 'G." AAP

To bad he is usually big hitting the ground... his lack of chase and desire to win a contest besides mark of the year contest is an inditment on Yoda wanting players who play the "right way". White has been ok though, can't wait fro PJ to come back

STRAWB!

Compared to our current ruckman it looks beyond good and his tackling skills are awesome. Imagine Davey, Wonna and him charging round the field laying takles...

Nice post.. I think if you have looked at cacs drafting you can clearly see he was a mid/late round/ rookie listed gem finder but really battled with the top end of drafts. That aside as to the upcoming drafts i find Richmonds presidents comments interesting: "I'd have major concerns. What I'd have major concerns on is that … basically it means a five-to-10-year period, certain clubs, because of having no access to drafts, may be down the bottom for an extended period of time for no fault of their own. And that compromises the competition, and that's the last thing we want to see is a compromised competition. "If you compromise that too much, you get a situation like in the Premier League where only three sides can ever win it. How boring is that competition?"

Well fark me silly... That is outside of the most inside out square i've ever seen. Move to western Sydney for 5 or so years to recharge our batteries.. I'm trying to think of any sporting club in the world that has done that and coming up with nothing. Obviously moving a "franchise" is part and parcel of US sports and has been done here with success but moving for a short period then coming back.. Not my cup of tea, but it might be a world first and a precursor to historic changes to franchise sports world wide.... As to the China experiment.... nothing to back up the negative thoughts as yet? If anyone has any info please pass it along as I think we'd all be keen to see how it has worked or not for us instead of making broad statements without fact on it not working. I also still think we should be targeting immigrant communities with "welcome packs" with details on the city of Melb, the history of the city and where it is going intertwined with how we fit into the city of Melb... I also think our lack of $$$ really hampers our promoting/marketing of the club, from a small marketing dept to a smaller budget than the big clubs. If we go with a China experiment and it doesn't work that is money we can not spend in other areas that other clubs will focus on.