Geejazzer

Hi... intra club practice match on Friday morning at Casey Fields.. but time not confirmed yet... call to Melbourme FC advises best to check on http://www.melbournefc.com.au/season/training-times for updates.. PS Thanks to all who responded to my earlier query... Go Dees!.. it appears (remotely) that pre training is going very well.. Will Dawes sit in the forward line?.. I would like to see him at CHB..the back line is still suspect... needs a big experienced man to help Watts ... and Howe and Clark can feed the goals... Lots of good feeling this season...but would like to see if the basic skills have improved and that the "game plan" has been settled instead of the haphazard efforts of 2102... Geejazzer, Sydney

Hi...coming to Melbourne from Sydney between Friday 15th to Monday 18th...would love to catch a training run.. Can anyone advise when where and at what time they train.. Thanks a lot... Go Dees!!!.....Geejazzer

Have just witnessed ( on TV in Sydney) ..very little happening once again.. a good start but deteriorating as the day progressed .. some good play by Morton and Buckely and, early on Carroll.. but mostly very poor use of handball and terrible basic kicking skills.. we will win very few game this season if our kicking in the foward line idoes not improve.. and if our half back line does not have the will to win the ball.. also McL:ean needs a spell in the reserves.. and Green/Bruce need a damn good talking to!.. the move of Miller to CHF seems better than his effort at CHB.. we lack some one (anyone) of substance in the back line.. it looked very ragged at times having to resort to intermiable handballing that oftern came unstuck.. again, this week happy that I don't pay to watch this lacklustre performance.. Geejazzer, Sydney

As a remote, but ardent Dees supporter since the halcyon sixties it was very sad to see such a rabble yesterday.. my kids and i watched in a mixture of horror and bemusement watching (thankfully not paying) to see such a poor performance. What is amazing to me is that after lacklustre performances last year from the senior players we are still persevering with Adam Yze (who i could not believe is trotting out once again), Cam Bruce ( who, with Brad Green i often thought would be the best half forward line) with Russell as CHF .. but they all lacked the fire to match determined opposition. We desperately lack a good big CHB and FB.. after persevering with Alistair Nicholson ( probably a lovely bloke but not a league footy player) we now seem to rely on Nathan Carrol who just can't cut with a fast big forward as was so easily seen yesterday.. Although I have the greatest respect for David Neitz he is now past it albeit ithat it staggers me to see how poorly the ball is delivered to he and Russell .. the days of contested marks in the goal square are finished.. our team was far to slow..and our kicking to a man was on many occasions far from the pin point accuracy that is required.. and do our players "talk" to each other?.. could anyone have seen that Brock McLean was to be run down and tackled 'cause he was too slow) and maybe yelled out a warning? .. and shepherding.. do our guys know that this means helping your mates? I would love to witness a training session to see what the guys actually do as the basic footy skills ( as well as the "higher order"understandings} seemed to be lacking yesterday Best to blood the new starters and look to the likes of Sylvia, McLean (who i still think has the makings), Bate, Rivers, Johnson and Newton (who has the skill of a league player but lacks winning guts) .. to start off a new breed of Demons.. Hopefully a "serve" from the coach or /and a spell in the "seconds" will "invigorate" the amazingly jaded senior group.. A very poor start to this season.. we can only rise (like a phoenix from the ashes) with enthusiasm and the will to win at any cost. The oppostion looked like a team knowing that they would play in the finals whereas Melbourne appeared to start from where they left off last season.. in the doldrums of defeat.. Geejazzer, Sydney