bush demon

I was totting up the ex-Dees running around in other colours: Moloney, McLean, Scully, Sylvia, Rivers, Pettard and Scott Thompson, and wondering how this compared with other clubs, and how many of these players would get a game in our starting 18 now.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/afl/top-melbourne-draft-picks-christan-salem-jay-kennedyharris-firm-for-round-1-after-intraclub-practice-match/story-fndv8pdq-1226832513877

Supposed to have pulled up with tightness in the calf, acc. to the Herald-Sun.

Undercuts the AFL expansion into rugby states. Why gift so many players to gold coast if triple premiers brisbane are going to fall away like this. gold coast, this is your fate in a few years too.

Don't talk dirty.

Adelaide - An authentic club with good colours, with a genuine tribal following. Having said that, they got through in '98 on false pretences. PS Hope they don't win a flag whilst go-home-factor Scott Thompson is still playing with them. Brisbane - Have some feeling for them with the merging of Fitzroy. Admire their three-peat. Carlton - Old Guard, money buys premiership model, no flag for a long-time now perhaps the Barassi miracle finally wearing off. Collingwood - Admire their back-to-the-walls attitude and their win-interstate mentality. Essendon - Another money club whose 'all-it-takes' mentality sees them flat-lining. Dislike their penchant for on-field violence in September: 1990, 2000. Fremantle - Glad to see them miss out with Lyons shopping around for a September squad. Geelong - Always admired their play, as far back as the days of Farmer, Goggin, Sharrock, Wade etc, great exponents of our code. Should have won a flag in late 80's/90's. Gold Coast - No interest. AFL gifts them an elite team. See how they run when the sand runs out a la Brisbane. GWS - This team should be bought up by McDonalds or Hungry Jacks and become a hamburger outlet. Hawthorn - Dirty deeds done dirt cheap: Matthews, Dippa, Campbell Brown, the guy who took out Bruce .... Guerra... North Melbourne - Admire their no-pokies stance. Hovering on the precipice with a good squad. Coach is a bit smug regarding us, so they can just sit in the middle as far as i am concerned. Port Adelaide - Dudded by the AFL, a proud club with 30 plus SANFL flags, asset-stripped and heritage stripped. Richmond - A trad. dirty team, happy to see them keep missing out. St Kilda - Poor Saints, could have had two flags in recent years. Sydney - Used to hate them in the Gerard Healey era, now I absolutely love them, esp the way they stole the flag off Hawks a couple of years ago. West Coast - Should be taken over by a mining company and re-located to the pilbara. take their jumper colours and song with them. Western Bulldogs - Some compassion, really admire supporters who can stick with a club that has only one one flag, and with no silverware since 1954.

That would be Jake the Peg, with no Larry or Shemp.

Also, Nicole Hayes', "The Whole of my World".

The Tom Wills Biog. 'First Wild Man of Australian Sport" by Greg De Moore is also instructive in this area.

It will be alright. I'm still pining for Aitken, Parke and Dillon to be on the track together, and as Digger would say, "That's a very long time".

Agree with BB. This kind of thread is plain nasty. At least Brent Grgic played AFL and ran out in the red and blue, which is I guess stratospheres above what the poster has done.

Always enjoy your season summaries but the 1974 was a depressing read following our last six years Plus ca change... . I was in Form six in 1974 and had to front up to my classmates justifying the mighty dees performances from the weekend. PS You have been promising the 1956 season for a while, WJ: "Fast virile football of high standard throughout the game thrilled four thousand Melbourne supporters on Saturday. Players produced football of match calibre and on this form the 1955 premiers should again be foremost in league ranks this year". (The Age, Apr 9, 1956)

Many thought that when Ian Ridley took over, when Bobby Skilton took over, when Big Carl came over, when The Messiah frocked up in '81, when John Northey took us to the mountain etc etc... We need to wait until at least the first quarter v. The Saints and get Stan Alves' and his mate's summary to gain a clearer picture. Pre-season is like the night series of the 60's and 70's - seriously misleading.

One also has to factor in his poor disposals and clangers which means he really has to get high stats to have any impact.

Just read the article. My stupidity has nothing to do with Connolly's mis-reporting.

Connolly's assertion that TS is now making headway after 'a few stutters at Melbourne' is just VB inspired commentary. The player continues to stutter and would be expected to improve. The experts at the time were all over him. National AFL draft is still a lottery

Pushing up.

You just haven't thought that one through. It's a classic Aussie expression.

Kellie Underwood on ABC774 gave the old Michael Williamson adage, "Luck's a fortune" a considerable thrashing during the last season. Bad luck had to keep hearing it.

"Lowering the eyes". It's a bit naughty.

The real competition is between the codes. The home and aways, trading, pre-seasons, finals and drafting are the sideshows.

Just want to say i object to this constant name calling ... it's not 'pencil', it's Spencer. Some of these new generation football supporters have no respect. it's a blight on a supporter website, plenty of other posts get dumped for trivial reasons yet we keep seeing these pathetic putowns repeated ad nauseum .... if i was a player it would certainly turn me off the club if i knew these were supporters. In Disgust, BD. PS would these people address the MFC players in these terms at family days, at training sessions or any other public functions?

Even better, if he put on some octopus or squid imagine those eight-arm pack marks.

"Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's packing, he's going to be leaving today. Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's manager is going the heave-ho way. Sylvia's mother says, please don't say nothing to make him start crying and stay..." (Apologies, Dr. Hook)

Public ownership of football a la the 60's, the 70's, the 80's has already been forgotten. Punters are being gently massaged into the new normal all the time. It is a sure thing that the rich and powerful will rule the roost and we will forget it was ever any other way. You only have to listen to BBC World Sport, (EPL) and the commentators only ever mention the power clubs , it's like the others don't exist. And Australia is supposed to be more egalitarian than the poms...