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My first venture out to see the boys this pre season, and the following are my highlights of the events:

N.Jones, was dominant, classy, prolific, and everything you expect of a leader.

Salem will be a revelation off the half back line.. his silky skills and reading of the play were clearly obvious today. He made difficult passes look simple, and he was creative and impressive.

Garlett will quickly become a fan favourite.. he makes something out of nothing , and his skills are sublime. As Baghdad Bob said earlier, he'll make Malthouse look foolish, which is not a bad thing.

Newton, looked to be coasting but got a lot of the ball and regularly used it well.

Toumpas was neat and efficient, but his gait looks weird, and it's hard to tell if he'll ever be quick enough when the pressure is exerted.

Hogan had little to beat, being matched up against an undersized, top up player, but he has obviously been given the liberty to travel far and wide for his kicks, often marking the ball around the wing area. He is strong, fit and aggressive, though I noticed him pull up from a possible collision with a much smaller opponent for fear of having to attend a funeral the next day. I have no doubt he'd be happy to attend once the season is in progress though.

Gawn looks very fit and actually looks like an athlete rather than a woodcutter. I liked the way he moved around the ground and actually did more impressive stuff below his knees than above his head.

Dunn is a general and is taking his vice captaincy role very seriously.. he was very vocal and extremely instructive

Disappointments from today:

Ball movement was still not as slick as hoped for. It WAS very hot but the day was still and conducive to effective transfer of the ball.

No dominant ruckman who could regularly impose on a game.

Brayshaw appearing to sustain a jaw injury, albeit seemingly not serious.

Senior players, who will remain nameless at this early stage of the season , making the same clangers we've grown to detest.

The umpires, who continued to make game changing decisions against us.

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What a bunch of cry-babies you lot are. He bled for us, we treated him like [censored], he left, he posts on instagram. Go cry yourselves to sleep and worry more about the rest of the rabble we need to clear out!

Mark Neeld is doing a fantastic job.

I almost spat my coffee all over the screen!

Bate

Dunne

Jetta

Morton

Petterd

At a minimum.

Mortons time is up, simple.

Most definitely. Like a few others that have had more than enough time to prove their wares....

Morton should stay in the magoos until he has confidence, is getting physical and is dominating.

...and learns to use the pill.

Scully 8th in his first year. Lift your game son. That'll be the lowest he ever goes in one of these for the rest of his career, injury aside.

Very positive night.

And you'd have to say, however they structured the votes worked beautifully. That's a pretty damn accurate top 10 for the year from the list. Sylvia maybe a spot or two high. Jmac could have gone a few spots higher, Bruce I thought deserved a top 5 spot. But otherwise pretty much dead on.

I think they were on the money for the first 7 at least Tipped 7!

Well done Scully. Great first year...

I'm pretty happy getting the top 7 in order... :D

I would love to see Clark at Melbourne, but in reality I would say it's a 1 in a 100 chance at best... People win lotto every week though so you never know!

PS: Staker did have a good year...

Bate will still make it IMO.

Morton's game reminded me of a game against the Bulldogs at Telstra Dome a year or two ago when he had about 30 possessions and turned it over 29 times.

Gysberts should be much higher! Showed alot with limited opportunities.

I didn't bother ranking players with (who I think) played less than 4 games. All the "Others" are just in age order.

For my own fun I've ranked everyone for the year, taking into account injuries and games available. From BEST (Green) to WORST (Newton). I didn't bother ranking the "Others". Criticise away!

Isn't clean enough? Are you kidding? Has the cleanest pair of hands in the team! At the moment his impact is minimal, but when he does get his hands on the footy he is generally damaging.

I agree with this.

Post fail.

Watts was good and showed some seriously exciting glimpses, but the victory was pretty hollow.

The last quarter ruined what was a good game otherwise.

Maybe one day we'll win 4 quarter

You have low standards.

Good win boys!

Watts must be a good basketballer....

I think you have prety well nailed it this week joeboy.

Green is our best player by the length of the field.

I'm still not convinced by Morton, but he has plenty of time to improve. We have bigger issues than him I guess.

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/brumby-c...90406-9uv3.html

Jesse Mallinder, 24, of Ferntree Gully, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates Court yesterday charged with affray.

Mallinder, who had a black eye, is the son of Paul Mallinder, the man convicted of shooting Kay Nesbit at close range in 1985. Ms Nesbit, who had more than 50 operations to reconstruct her face, became a prominent victims' rights campaigner.

Maggots! Good thing what goes around comes around.....

What a ridiculous thread!

Newton is not AFL standard.

These are our training jumpers, the club isn't going to buy the good jumpers until we have a name to go onto the back of it. These jumpers would be the cheapest they could get to do the job.

Surely we don't have to pay for Jumpers? MFC would surely be paid to wear them by the apparel sponsor (Reebok)?

I guess Reebok could be giving us old stock knowing they have to make a heap of new ones soon when (hopefully) we get a sponsor.

Dees' new clash guernsey unveiled

Would have preferred the MFC monogram as the Demon can be brought back in other ways and the logo really needs a fine outline to make it stand out.

I agree.

Pft, Newton. I'd care if I thought he was in our best 42....

PS: Thanks for the update.

He should have kept his spot FFS!

Trade week = ANOTHER FAIL!

Trade week in it's current format is a joke in itself!