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Too far for whom to travel ?? Im sure on 2-300 G a year you can make the effort!! shot spat and stabbed..!!! well as long as we're keeping this realistic !!! <_<

I can see the point being made.. people can make light of the idea its only a cheap pen.. But if so why send the bloody thing.. Also why waste money if we're supposed to be strapped?. There's an old adage...look after the pennies and the pounds look after themselves. we waste 10 grand here.. 10 grand there 15 over there etc.. This money could be going to something that actually has merit instead of down the gurgler. So Rhino..as it doesnt bother you.. I can count on a check to the club to cover all the wastgae ?? B)

So what if its in Cranbourne?? ...many clubs summer train away ..

Id suggest the joke is this comment...tsk tsk.. It concerns SUMMER training !! you did read it I take it ?? So instead of nomadic roaming they would have a training base over summer .. How this is a joke is a little beyond my mortal compehensive abilites !!

Here's the thing...had he turned up when he was supposed to ...no one whould be any the wiser re his personal life. He brings this upon himself !!

Kit...exactly !!

awww.. Poor Col...poooooooor Col...diddums !!! awwww ffs..he supposed to be an elite professional sportman...yeah they have private lives ...but they go on backburners..thats the nature of the beast...dont like it...go !! simple

http://www.realfooty.com.au/news/news/demo...5126012738.html MFC in talks with Casey re a summer training track .... another step in the right direction... )

Its pretty easy for outsiders to bag us..hell we do half the work for them..lol.. but seriously we arent exactly a club without problems. And we know this. We're actually trying to remedy as many as we can, as quick as we can. It's also very easy for the media to sensationalise things. "Melbourne in turmoil" "Dees in Crisis!!" etc etc etc. Its easy to look at some glaringly obvious truth and then colour it to suit an agenda or a preconception. We dont have a CEO..really.. big news huh !! Apparently we just woke up one mornig and he was missing ?? lol. No.. we knew one was going and immediately set in action a plan to get another. This procedure mirrors exactly our approach to a new Coach. we got one..seems a pretty fair get ,but time will tell I suppose. Point being.. it wasnt hurried.. wasnt rushed.. wasnt compromised. To some degree we were able to control the thing as are we with the CEO. A new support was built arround the new footy dept with some ( I think ) very good pick ups.. Connolly.. Wellman.. Mahoney adding to Williams.. and then there's the players. without reeling off name after name we are all pretty familia with some of the talent sitting in waiting to take the club forward.. Ahhhhhh..... FORWARD... I think this is where many of us have very different views as to what may or may not be accomplished..and in what kind of time frame. Lets be realistic here ..truly realistic. We have all but a completely new football dept. we have 25% different players now than this time last year. There is a very real likely hood that another 20-25 % will turn over at the end of this year.. whether its from attrition, delisiting, trading or whatever. Its a reasonable thing to say that inside of 12-13 months half the players will have changed to match the new boys in the back room.. Thats one hell of a major change. Any company , business, association or club really has its work cut out to gell all that together and actually get anything happening' let alone a respectable result come seasons end. Are we plummeting to new depths of oblivion ?? I very much doubt it. Are we sinking in a quagmire of our woes ? I dont think thats the case. Spot fires are presenting and being extinguished not simply by reaction but by pre-determined actions/fixing etc. Do we have our work cut out to be a super competitive and relevent team in the comp ?? you bet; but Rome wasnt built in a day. Training problems are being overcome.. but its not here today..oh woe is us ?? Admin needs attention.. not completely a surprise...but thats in hand. Membership...a perennial bugger. I think we need to realise we probably will never have the number s of other clubs..we never have.. So plans to develope alternative streams wil need to be found. A woe ?? no..a real dillema ? Yes.. something to lose sleep over..? I wont. I dont see this year so much as rebuilding.. again..my view is that the components are here...but we certainly need to refine and tune the machine..and that will again take time. at least this year. I have some personal misgivings about how the club seems to go about some things..and Im not alone.. but I dont see it as any cause to abandon my team of 44 years..I'll just enjoy what wins we have and hopefully see a competitive team form. I dont expect miracles.. nor should you !! GO DEES

Id pick a decent full back ahead of a ruck. You can shark the oppositions if need be. Its nicer with good rucks for sure, but you can play around this ( if need be ) No full back..= you're creamed !!

Well lets all hope he can actually show us what he's promised. Mistakes have consequences.

There is no doubt a 'sort' of positive abou thtis. That its being addressed as opposed to covered. That is good. However it in itslef is only of a spectatorish effort. Its reactive. Th eproblem is still one Colin Sylvia ( and some mates 0 who think they are just a bit clever. They have a "failure to comprehend". They just dont get it. Maybe its a poassing thing. We can only hope. But Sylvia has been in the fold for 5 years now. He's no newbie wet behind the ears. ( nor is Macca) They simply should both know and understand bettter. I agree it will take a while for this to sink in as a club. But this guy gets no more chances for mine. he can go join his mate at Freo for all I care

yep...chucked a sickie...for sure. And i knew it was wrong. I tell ya what..If someone 's working for me and tries that trick and I find out...they are on notice that they are on short plank to a new job. ( moral..dont take the p!ss out of your employer !!) He is employed by the club.. It on him , his onus to front the club and provide himself in the best of form during the period contracted for. Thats what he is paid for. There is NO room in todays pacey game for rogues/larrikins/likely lads who think they (alone ) can still perform whilst going out on the turps to all hours.. that kind of player belongs in some country town. You crack a sickie..and to compound it , go out on the p!ss and fail to do the work Im paying you for... well.... hope you enjoy your next job !! The Club.. Gardner, Bailey, Connolly need to front the group with a very simple message. This isnt tolerated ..not one iota. Anyone flouting this WILL NOT be at Melbourne very long !! Its very simple..VERY !!

I would have thought as part of being a professional in sport that you would need to look after your body as #1....after all its your ONLY asset. Going out in "work time " ( and that is anytime during the paid season) i should have thought was pretty low down on a list of things to do.... unless of course youre an idiot !!!

Am I the only on eto see a similarity between Sylvias contempt for the club and Tarrants for the filth ? I think Collingwood made the right move.. we could do a lot worse than learn from that !!

You say it yourself.. rules are rules. He either is a professional footballer or he can go !! Time for play is the off season... .. youz takes the money...youz play the game !! All that aside...he has let his team mates down...that borders on the unforgivable. Very right he needs to wake up

hold the list... think I have another for the "dont come in 09" !! lol

i suppose a positive is he DOES turn up for training !! lol

how does that thing go about Leopards and spots again ?? <_<

Ccouldnt really care what he does as long as he performs on the footy field !! Strangely thats not happening !!

thats about 99% of it...Im not sure what the other per cent is...but youve pretty well summed it up Bob !!

The most awful aspect of that game really was....that it was so close.. so close you could dare to taste the next game..not just ANY game; but a Grand Final!! it was there...just inches ahead of us.But it was only a phantom, a spectre, a laughing banshee. There it was...GONE !!! in an instant. Am not sure how many pots were downed at the Mountain View, but they didnt work !!!!!!!!!!!! lol cest la vie

Maybe instead of a Demon...our mascot out to be a crab...once they grab hold they don tlet go...bit like some of the dinosaurs running around !!!..Everything has its time.. but the time for some has gone. That some have chosen to stay past their effectiveness to me opens them up for critique. I agree Rhino ( this must hurt...lol ) our clearances are abysmal. No prizes for guessing why. Robbo needs to do more and for more of the game. if he's going to carry another injury for most of the year I wish he'd do it somewhere else. We might get away with requiring respect ( decent defenders) on thses players whilst they do 'something' but the moment the oppo twigs were in deep do-do !! Time to move on..................... Melbourne !!!

All the AFL can do in effect is a bit like the Queen re GG.. You offer up who you want.,., and its rubber stamped. The AFL might mumur should a choice be an absolute fwit.. but as thats not going to happen..their input is about this >< big !!

special assistance...phooey !! The AFL CANT celebrate 150 years without putting us front and centre...after all its US thats 150 not them !! MFC is missing the boat.......again Could you imagine Eddyland letting this happen ?