bush demon

to read the article paste the address into google...

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/melbourne-stumbles-from-crisis-to-crises/story-e6frg7mf-1226319607662 Patrick Smith guilty of exaggeration, in my opinion.

"Melbourne - greatest ever exponents of perfection football" "Melbourne - Masters Of The MCG" More: The Australia v England Test Series in England The VW Beetle - 'highest selling car under one thousand (pounds). Sunball - guessing where the football is in a 'photoshopped' picture Video Village with Danny Webb 4.00pm Channel 7, My Favourite Martian, League Replay, The Tarax Show. Ron Barassi

things i cast my mind back to include: Sonny Liston The Beatles Sing For Shell Ron Barassi boots with ankle bone pads ABC 2's scrolling score sheet Melbourne / Collingwood rivalry how many can you add/ remember?

he got a very very lot of leather in the fourth quarter, if only he had played like that earlier when the game was on the line.

There was an article in The Age today setting out St Kilda's poor top ten draft selections over the last several years, and they were only two heartbeats from two premierships. i think the period mentioned was 2003 to 2009.

This is my considered response to saturday (after posting a de-posted post in the early hours of this morning: We were seated near the MFC interchange bench on Saturday and I was quite amazed at the distressed state of players when they came off for a spell. This was not last quarter i am talking about, this was ten minutes into the first quarter. Unless you are close up you don't appreciate just how much running and work players do, all in the name of 'structure'. i would put down our last half fade out to much of this pointless running to fit in with the utopia of the coaching bench. on the other hand, the guys who had the ball *(brisbane) weren't getting tired, they were just zipping the ball round with hand and foot. so my request is , just occasionally let the players 'play'. let them off the leash and create some unpredictability within the minds of the opposition. the current obsessions are robbing teams, notably ours of one of the greatest assets on the ground, the football brain, aka 'footy smarts'.

Just got home after spending the day sucking vomit through my teeth. to make matters worse, someone stole two hundred dollars out of my wallet outside the ground (i think it was an mfc membership volunteer). the true sickness of this match is that there seems nowhere to improve from it, matters can only get worse. lowly brisbane treated us like witches hats, they ran and sprinted and shared and sparked for most of the game like they truly enjoyed playing football. all we got was a summer of 'elite compliance'. too much talk i feel, and too much cheap talk. what is aaron on? half a mil? doesn't dive low into packs, tries to pinch the easier ball and ends up with thin air. look at brisbane, they employed a 360 degree circle when dishing the ball out, we in turn were so pedestrian and predictable, inching the ball forward like we hated the code. trouble is, i have seen this stench before, always hankered for the year, the decade when it would get better. truth is, since barassi's walk-out the team has been the-ghost-that-walks. even shanked the 87 grand final with eishold's mad-eyed choke and let essendon punch us up when we threatened parity early in 2000. ps well done jack watts

In the spirit of your post I would have both Ross Dillon and Greg Parke well and truly on the list for their contested pack marking in our gloomy late 60's early 70's phase.

From Scully's perspective he made a good choice. The guy's rating was unwarranted - he is ineffective at this level - and he took advantage of KS's payback obsession to secure himself some control over his life. Melbourne did not lose by losing ts.

Jim Stynes you now lie in peace, a true great of this club. R.I.P.

My theory on Jack Watts is that he needs to be spoon fed until he is ready to take us to premiership glory. If Peter McKenna had to get his own ball he wouldn't have dominated the forward position the way he did. Watts' dilemna is not unlike that of Riewoldt who is also suffering under the modern game plan. Once Watts has developed confidence players will seek him out not leave him high and dry chasing fresh air. in the meantime shove him down the backline so he can re-bound and use his footy nous to set up play.

yes i know that, i also remember successive re-builds pre-dating the messiah's return. imo there has been too much talk pre-season, not unlike the situation back in the sunny days of 1981. everything will be better in the morning. the mfc press release beckons.

do you mean the re-build after barass left in '64? norm smith had a huge turn-out pre-season '66 and the hope was that the club would quickly re-generate. i wonder where my old blue radio is now? sure as hell ain't listening to that game on internet radio...

At the end of three years ND's boys were playing off for the premiership. (also 1998 prelim)

HEy RC, i will back you on both o'Brien and Baker. i think he about number one for marks in the league around this time. unf. the team wasn't good enough for crosswell he kept arguing all the time. i think he had some kind of learning disability, called team-mates 'tiger' because he couldn't remember their names at training.

o'brien was definitely NBT.

Saw the replay earlier tonight, looks like he came down on concrete... no give in the ground at all. That is one unsafe workplace: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/bulldog-williams-out-for-four-months-20120307-1uj5k.html

Not in our zone, I think. (Red Fox)

Excellent in heavy traffic a gun player for melbourne and a playmaker when he was on. offloaded to saints and paid us back by kicking a bag and beating us off his own boot.

As one who rode the mighty wave of '87 I can't all these years down the track blame Jimmy's crossing the line for the loss that day. Instead I thank Ron Barassi for his foresight in bringing such a man to Melbourne. Who but a man like jimmy would be so driven to make the club his life-force and keep us alive with hope in the new century? We panicked no doubt in the last quarter, and the succession of easy misses reflected our lack of ultimate belief. That the team 'shoulda' won the flag i have no doubt, we just didn't believe it enough that when hawthorn finally got rollling we weren't prepared to - as john kennedy famously lamented, 'pay the price'. don't forget one-armed bandit robbie was there in the goalsquare ready to close the deal and give us the match we so badly wanted against carlton, a team we have consistently flogged in finals matches for nearly fifty years.

Also throw in Neil Crompton, No 5.

No 31 Ray Groom missed the '64 gf through injury. A very good player, later became Tassie Premier. Also, wasn't Ross Dillon 24? and "Peter" Townsend! Great job and an enjoyable read.

Kelvin Osbourne?

if gws can have leap of (considerable) faith with one of our ex-players, then we are no less obliged to see-em-and-raise-em, and anoint our young gun jt to the captaincy. we can can't keep on appointing leaders based on years served and loyalty.