John Dee

I hereby add my vote - A big NO!

Confirmed by Paul Williams on SEN Garland in for Bruce.

Interesting, now that the teams have been adusted to differentiate between T and M Johnston something has emerged. BTW thet Tommy, or is that Tomi, Johnston is a right little goer that we could do worse than pick up, but I digress ... Normally you can deduce the Sandy interchange bench based on who is named in the seconds. In this case, however, only Neville, Zarra and Dean are named in the seconds, leaving five on the bench for the seniors. To me, this means a late change in the Melbourne side. Bruce out?

You will find that Harvey was at a club function. As Tarrant and Farmer are club players, there were there too. The two incidents cannot be compared to to Voss' in any more than a superficial nature.

Alan Johnson?

Were you watching the game? It was a real clanger, but, he got back and tied the ball up, resulting in a stopage.

One of CJ's best attributes is his kicking ability. Too many of our players, Ward, Brown, Godfrey, Holland etc, are shocking with their disposal. This alone should get him a run of games, something that Daniher did not give him. Confidence is hard to build, and almost impossible to construct when you are the first one out of the side. I remember seeing a Daniher interview just before the start of the season in which he was asked which Melbourne player was going to have a breakout year; he replied, without hesitation, Chris Johnson. Obviously the club think a lot of him; with our current situation we must play him for the rest of the year.

Poor old Heath Neville, the forgotten man.

Arrogance does not equal intelligence. A great example of a mixed metaphor; the number of cylinders that a motor has is technically independent of the choice of two or four stroke.

First quarter, hands in the back by Lucas on Bizzell, mark payed and goal. Shocking rule, but it is there and should be applied. This rule is a travesty on our game and, if not gone next year, we must all mobilise ourselves to vote in directors who will appoint delegates that get rid of Demitriou, Anderson, Bartlet, Fitzpatrick and anybody else who had a hand in bring in something that was not asked for, was not tried out, was not warranted and is not appreciated.

It must be something to do with the number of games played in the AFL or Sandy firsts. All of the senior Melbourne players named have missed chunks of the season so far. Buckley, Frawley, Neaves and Garland would be inelligible. Nevellie is either injured or stiff; or both.

Where are Bartram and Petterd?

Back in Garry Lyon's time there was a singer going around called Juice Newton. Leigh Newton was on the list at the time and was given the monicker 'Juice'. When Michael Newton arrived, Leigh was, and still is, at the club; 'Juice' was passed on to him.

Loved Greenies game today, but, I think that Greg Parke might take issue with your staement.

Very interesting stuff. I am highly impressed with Steve Harris, and he seems to be doing a great job. This is a well researched and deep article, recommended reading.

In the bad old days of the draft a player did not have to commit to going to a club that drafted him. Benny was from Adelaide and, I believe, completing a graduate course, and declined to go to Fitzroy. The quirky thing is that Fitzroy still had dibs on him and was able to trade them to Richmond who convinced Benny to come over. If you go back to MFC's first draft picks, you will see that we once drafted Darren Jarman who also declined to make the trip over.

Damn those safety switches!

out : Ferguson, Miller, Brown, Ward In: Rivers, Newton, McLean, CJ

We don't have the ability to promote a rookie this year owing to having two declared veterans. For each declared veteran, two maximum, you lose a rookie spot but get a spot on the main list. Last year we had only one declared veteran and so had a spot for Warnock.

With Warnock playing yesterday we have now played 35 out of a possible 40. The ones yet to play are Newton, Buckley, Neville, Frawley and Weetra. Newton, Buckley and Frawley will, in all probabilty, play this year. That has got to be some sort of record.

My count is 32 out of a possible 40. Remember that each declared veteran is outside the list of 38.

There seems to be a theme in the AFL that things must be changed; rules and regulations get changed every year, sometimes with consultation and experiment but mostly at the whim of Anderson and Bartlet et al. This flies in the face of the average supporter who is screaming out for them to leave the bloody game alone. The father son rule is a good one, leave it be. There will always be winners and losers; accept that and move on.

Bell has been our best defender for the season thus far. A lot of people have already marked his cards, so, rather than admit their mistake and re-evaluate him they fall back on their mantra.

Watching the game live and on TV are two completely different things, particularly if you sit in the Southern Stand. I watched the replay last night, something I usually don't do after a loss and I saw it live. I wish I hadn't, as now all I can think of is the image of Moloney in front of the bench being wotked on by a trainer in extreme pain and pointing to his groin.

You Miller bashers never give up! You've been screeming about how he only gets worthless possessions up the ground and never kicks goals. So, on a day where he presented all day and took three strong marks inside the 50 and goaled from all of them he is still a failure?