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1st Round: Loser mentality 2nd Round: Handout mindset 3rd Round: Player who wants to play for Melbourne entire career and 'anticipates this will be the case'.

Ha Ha. Melbourne have their finest win since beating South in 2010 and the pundits discussing whether to replace the CEO over their lattes...

What about South in 2010?

Scott Thompson, Tom Scully plus Gerard Healey and Jeff Farmer on UTube.

They would only have to flip open Red Fox on just about any page. Smith was ruthless and could be cruel, especially to star players. He didn't even forgive Crompton for leaving his position to kick the winning goal in '64.

Hey, Satyricon, couldn't help but notice your Everton reference. I started following the Dees about 1963. At the beginning of 1965 Everton came to Oz and played Australia at Olympic Park, my father being an Englishman took me to this game. Everton won 8-2! Still have kept an eye on Everton over the years as my favourite English team.

Is anyone watching how he has gone? I rarely see any write-ups on his game performance, saw he was getting a few good stats recently but not really getting in best. Would be interested to hear from anyone who has watched the Greater Western Boys...

Well, for your info. I thought, it was 'Rugoni' but in the spirit of my lyrics you miss the point anyway. Frankly.

Good on the guy for setting himself up for life and I don't begrudge him any success with the GWS but we certainly benefited from his departure in terms of $$$ and recruiting options.HIs loner mentality probably explains why he never fixed up his kicking

ok (edit) back to the drawing board: "You say Schwarta, and I say Schworta, you say Maloney, I say Moloney, Maloney, Moloney, Rigoni "Ragoni" Let's call the whole thing off Let's call the whole thing off" Apologies, George Gershwin and Norm Smith's curse PS The Ox is patient.

PPS I would just like to add that I hadn't noticed you spelt Schwarta in that fashion, and it wouldn't have bothered me anyway. I for one think that spelling is very important and don't know why it gets such bad press on these boards.

PS ... should be 'elitist'.

Barry Bourke on steroids. Parke was a bigger unit who used his body strength to take contested pack marks. Bourke used his agility and spring to play above his height.

The playing list is no better or worse than half the clubs in the competition. The problem is THERE IS NO BUY-IN. Players are playing life AFL-conscripts, check-in, sign-on, train hard get fit, work hard in the pre-season, just go round during the home and aways, don't forget to have a chat and back-slap with the opposition after the game. There is no buy-in, the players don't give more than what is required to be paid. they don't believe they are at a premiership club and play accordingly. HOw many would stay if there was total free-agency, and how much better would half of them play if they were at Sydney, Hawthorn, Carlton, Essendon, Geelong, Collingwood or West Coast? The sad thing is that the end of season hoopla about new systems new fitness new everything was just top-dressing to appease the paying membership. bailey's system probably no better/ worse than neeld's. neild's system probably no better/ worse than Daniher's/ Daniher's probably no better worse than Neil Balme. I saw Balmey's team in the early 90' s clobber a team by over 100 points.

We are of the competition, not in the competition. Since Froggy we have been ghosting in the competition, Simon Eishold scarcely believing he could kick us into a grand final kicking the ball sideways, dropping bundles of consecutive games in our 'good years' ie 19887-1991, champion players leaving or not joining our club (darren jarman, scott thompson, Gerard Healey, Ronald Dale, Jeff Farmer) and now falling away into some ghostland where we have an AFL merchandising sticker attached to our jumpers to prove we are in the 18, but in reality the competition has only six or so members, the others are just drawing direct debits out of followers and leading us along a merry path of bottoming out, tanking, 'renewing' and still getting smashed interstate. This is the ultimate truth of the VFL/AFL competition, it just can't stand 18 competitors so many of them are in name only with secondary fixtures and secondary TV access. This is a path to oblivion, Froggy you should have taken more time with that snap, it was over so fast and the tv stations destroyed the match footage anyway.

You'll never know what Len Smith could have done with at Melbourne, he worked with far inferior lists at Fitzroy than Norm at Melbourne. Oops, yes Norm was the better footballer!

it will be a preliminary hearing; the trial before the trial. kind of like the 48 years after crompton's quick snap.

That was the Ridley firebrand year, remember it very well. Glorious stats first half-season in the Sunday Observer, until the day we rain into Len Thompson and Collingwood on the 'G.

Marngrook is the real deal. dry wit and genuine cameraderie of the panel makes for a relaxed Thursday night. PS Gary Lyons' deflection of Sam's serial wit should be put into an anti-bullying programs and put through the schools. better still, play footy show for the naughty boys.

I am sure if you rang the channel they would help you out with a clip or a link to their show.

Yes, I Utubed Jimmy after watching MGrook and couldn't decide on the title, too hazed out to review your suggestion but I dip my lid to you. I was there in the 60's that's why i can't remember it. Really impressed with how lucid and together jimmy was post-performance, and how at-one he was with the Demons. He should be pushed up to the stratosphere; 1. For being an A-Grade legend of the 60's; 2. For wearing his heart on his sleeve for our colours.

THE MFC is serially ridiculed by prominent media commentators as a blood sport, and this has spilled over into the community mindset, and by extension the club's and players' own self-perceptions. Newman and Champion two typical examples of this 'fit'. This stems from original jealousy of Melbourne's power era which the suburban clubs have never allowed us to forget.. By the end of 1964 we were the superpower of the competition, a juggernaut which infuriated many. unfortunately we let the rival clubs 'have the Anzac Cup' by surrendering our fortress, the MCG and by donating our intellectual property and spirit to rival Carlton.

Did anyone just see the legendary jimmy keays sing the legendary 'Do what you want to do' from Master's Apprentices wearing the Red and Blue scarf on Marngrook just now? He has supported the Dees since 1967. He followed the Red n blue Norwood team in S.A.

As Reported in the HS: http://www.heraldsun.com.au/afl/more-news/manager-says-brent-moloney-could-move-in-search-of-success/story-e6frf9jf-1226350350030 google this title to read...

By definition it is head-high contact, the AFL are either protecting ball players or they are not. if this happened outside of a football ground the offender would be charged with criminal assault. It's not the Tom Wills or the Leigh Matthews era of anything goes.