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I am really looking forward to this season. I am actually going into it with very few expectations. I think we will be bottom 3 and I will not be surprised if we end up with 6 or 7 wins which unfortunately is no mans land and will stuff our PP in the draft. Very excited to see the developement of Morton, Buckley, Garland, Martin and Grimes this year and the introduction of Watts mid season along with any of our rookies in the early rounds. If I indulge in one expectation it would be that we will not be flogged like a rag doll as we were so consistently last year. The Demon has woken and I expect that he is f*#^$d off!! :angry:

I think you should chnge your name to hazyshadeofwhinger. You come across as a very well educated person H and everyone is entitled to an opinion. However, your angst towards Jim and the current board is just bloody awful and unnecessary. What are you trying to prove? We are Melbourne FFS, and you are not! Keep posting and whinging mate But I will skip every one of `em, I am sick of your negativity. Go you bloody Demons!

I could not agree more. I have watched Marngrook for 2 years and despite its B grade set and appearance, it truly grows on you each time you watch it. They take the [censored] out of each other briefly which at times can be classic, but they move on very quickly to footy matters. I have njoyed Thursday nights in the past starting off with marngrook and then switching to TFS but after Thursdays show, along with most others on this forum, I doubt I will be switching to channel 9 at 930pm any more. TV will be switched off and I will get another hour of guitar in which i otherwise would not! By the way DL I think it is on Channel 31??? Correct me if wrong!

Great to have you on board. I think there is an enormous collective sigh of relief today and Melbourne fans will be forever grateful to this company and whoever the 2nd sponsor turns out to be, more so than any other sponsors in our history. I too am one of the unfortunate ones who bought a new set of tyres 2 months ago otherwise I`d be buying a set for sure. Very exciting day for MFC

Mine took over a month to get to me but who cares. It was always gonna get to us. No need to bag the club JTR. The important thing is you are a member, so good onya! Stickers are on the car already!

Too right. CJ would struggle to get a game with the D`s by midyear if he was still with us anyway. Get over it people. Didnt we get an extra pick out of it in the PSD as a result!!??

I`m wrapt with the win and not concerned at all with the lack of fanfare in the media. No doubt the club will have something on the website this weekend but I am happy with the low profile as it is a practice match afterall. For the ones that matter, ie, the players, coaches , club and fans I think we are all feeln very positive about an exciting year ahead, without a huge amount of expectation, but we are going to see a marked improvement this year. Stuff the media & everyone else!

Great effort mate!

I lived in Cairns for 10 years and the D`s had been up there 3 or 4 times. They went to a few of the local schools and I reckon they would have won a few hearts over the years! BTW Hughes dropped on 114

Great stuff Faulty! Any stand out performers to mention at this stage??

KUW 1 AUS O at 1/2 time Only game I know that is on??

I`ll be on that boat! good idea MB and DD

Sorry to change the topic, AAHHH what was it again? Oh Grimes! I actually mentioned this in my wrap up after the swans match on saturday. Yes N 3000, I agree that he is a massive chance for the Rising Star. I also mentioned some time ago he is a chance for top 5 in the bluey this year. And despite others scoffing at your claims of him beind a future captain, I would not be surprised in the slightest! He is a future L Hayes type as has been mentioned who will be predominantly a midfielder in years to come, just where we need our leader to be IMO, not at Full Forward

I spoke to Bucks yesterday at half time. He said he`s "just been a bit sore" but he will be on the plane to Cairns this week and is a definite starter!! Crowd by the way Calabrese I would say 2 to 2 and a half max. Sounded louder at times in the last quarter!

Me too! Although, this dual sponsorship ``rumour``seems to be gaining momentum and credibility now. The first thing I do these days when i get home from work is jump on this site in the hope that I will see a new thread with the title of ``Sponsorship confirmed`` or something along those lines. I am starting to believe it will happen now!

To be honest he was just rarely sighted. Not sure who he was on to be honest, hopefully not Goodes cos he was possibly their best player.

Ordinary!

Did anyone else notice Col`s rushed behind with about 3 minutes to go with Swans up by 2 points. He clearly hanballed to no one at all straight between the posts. All the D`s put there hands on their heads thinking `` you idiot``. Umpire missed it!

Yeah I kinda agree H he does make a few poor decisions. I just liked what I saw today but as someone else mentioned he is a bloody tease! I want to see todays form and more, on a regular basis, but I will not hold my breath!

Sylvia was good today. Very strong hands. I still feel he has a lot more to give and agree with others that he just refuses to be consistent. You can see that he could be a gamebreaker if he truly wanted to be, but that is just the problem, the ``IF``

Agree with just about all your sentiments here Fuzz. Must admit as a few others have said, I really enjoy the suburban footy feel at Princes Park(I cant keep up with all its name changes) Reminded me of Jacko`s handstand and Lethal`s swinging coathanger on Bruns!) The result was irrelevant but there were some very promising signs today. I have mentioned this several times even late last year. We are building the best backline in the comp within 2 or 3 years. Garland looks like the general that we wanted Rivers to be. He will rarely be beaten this year. Warnock gave Bazza a bath in the 1st half and I think DB wanted to give Frawley a feel of what it is like on a gorilla. He did a resonable job. Barry was off for most if not all of the last 1/4 possibly dragged because he was doing all the usual nigglling things he does when he is getting a towelling (no king hits though!) Stef Martin is going to be a super player! Grimes, clearly uninjured thanks very much! He is ready for a big year. Get on him for Rising Star! Newton, whilst he had another average day at the office there were some positives. He actually chased and harrassed when the ball was being run out of our forwardline and made 1 very good, hard tackle in the 1st quarter. He just needs to learn where to lead to. Still, having been one of his biggest critics, I enjoyed seeing him have a dip albeit just sticking his toes in! Jetta, Move over Flash, we will have a new cult figure very soon. He did some very impressive things today and looks capable of playing a lot of footy this year. Bennell looked very good in the 1st quarter and seemed to get in the right places to get the pill. Bail had a very good last quarter IMO and I heard a few people around me asking who he was! Bell was having a pretty good game. he is possibly the best tackler in the team after Wheels. Shame he got injured, he limped off badly but did shake off the trainer as he approached the boundary although this may have been in sheer frustration as opposed to giving a sign that he was OK. Sylvia can hold his head up after today. He has excellent hands in front of his face at times! I saw him go down when standing next to Mattner but missed the impact by a split second. I am guessing it was a sly corky to the thigh as he hobbled around for 5 mins but seemed to shake it off! As others have mentioned, our forwardline will be our thorn in our side all year. There seems no set plays and no idea at times. I actually think some of our mids fear kicking it in there sometimes cos we would chip it across wing and HFF far too often today. None of our senior players stood out today which I am still unsure if this is a good or bad thing! Good because a lot of the kids are standing up . bad, because who is going to lead them in tight and tense matches. We tackled pretty well today and I would say we were harder at the footy than the Swans today. 2 last things that may interest you. I saw Rivers walking around today and I thought he looked very sore! I hope that is just his walking style but it didnt look right to me! I also had a quick chat to Bucks and asked him whats up? He said he had just been a little sore recently(I didnt ask him to elaborate as he probably is not allowed anyway!). He also said that he will be on the plane to Cairns and will play next weekend for sure!

I think RR just about nailed it on the head. They are a serious chance of making the 8 this year and if they don`t they will be in search of a new coach. We will be bottom 2 or 3 again IMO but certainly a far better outfit than what we were last year. We will still lose a lot of games but I doubt we will cop as many embarrassing pastings as last year. However the Tiges are well advanced in their rebuild compared to us

Please someone say it is`nt true! Is this confirmed?? He is the biggest drawcard for me this year and I will be gutted if he is gone!

Well done RR and MO .Complete domination of this thread! Are we done???

Sorry Paddo, I just do not see any talent in Newton. Media built him up because he took a speccy. He has done nothing else in his ordinary career. Sylvia on the other hand has talent but rarely uses it, however saying that, he is far more likely to give us something than Newton.