Demon Disciple

Apparently Wells suffered a knee injury at training yesterday. Just thought it would be worth posting. They don't know the exntent of the damage yet though.

Oh don't worry, Carlton will find a way to lose. They have so much more to lose if they win than we do.

If we could snare Warnock through a trade (doubtful i know), there would be little reason to go after Kreuzer. We do look slow in the mid-field, and with Bartram no doubt going to play in the backline and become the heir apparent of Wrecker, we need to find some pace. Of those names, Cotchin and Ebert possess good speed. I wouldn't mind trying to trade a player and picks to upgrade or get another rather high first rounder (again doubtful) and use it to draft Henderson (he has been injured during this year, so hopefully he might slip down the order a little). At 196cm and 92kg, he could become our CHF or FF and work in tandem with Juice, with the likes of Bate and Dunn rotating through the forward line as well. Given that this draft is being touted as one that's somewhat shallow, maybe other teams might be more willing to trade involving picks.

If winning the spoon means that in '08 we make the pre-lim and 2010 we make the granny (ala 10 years ago), i'd be able to live with it. However, i don't think we will be anywhere remotely near top 4 material next year, or for a few years.

Yep, the 3 teams will definately suffer some mysterious illness. My money is on the Equine Influenza to spread from the stables to the Junction Oval.

Well if Lucas is considered a champion, then Neita should definitely be listed as a champion.

it definitely needs to come under review by the AFL, Carlton are clearly tanking and yet they get away with it. I reckon that the priority system needs to be removed. Surely getting the first pick in draft is enough. Round 22 will be very interesting, although i don't condone it, if Melbourne lose just for the sake of taking away Carlton's priority pick, some part of me will be content in the fact that we stuffed up Carlton's plans big time. Yes, i would take some heart from that

Give it to Junior, he's playing his best footy of his career and he's 30-something. He goes hard at the ball all day. I would still love Neita to be captain, but he needs to let go of the reigns and help the new captain in his last year (presumably) at the club.

I hope the filth get smashed out of the finals in the first week, meaning he will miss the first 3 matches of next year too. That will give him 7 months to realise what a dog he is. :angry:

I saw him at the Sandy game yesterday, in the Grandstand. He was sitting alongside Riley. My greatest moment of him was that Bulldogs match back in '05. Got it on tape, and love the celebrations at the end, particularly that mighty embrace Danners and Fagan gave each other. He loved the place, and had an extremely strong friendship with Danners. New coach, New footy manager, New assistants (???), new captain (???) It is definately the end of an era at the MFC.

Perhaps they're saving it for tomorrow, hopefully with Neita being chaired off the ground after a successful night

They're filth players, i'd expect nothing less

No way!!! The Southern Stand is where all the riff raff sit, that's true footy at it's best. There will be a ratio of 1:10 melbourne to filth supporters there and ohh won't it be fun giving it to them!!!

Thank god the AFL grew some brains and decided to keep the motorcade around the G with all the retiring players, this year's is building up to be quite easily the best.

well if it was to come down to only those two, i wouldn't mind that at all, given Ratten will no doubt coach the Blues next year.

Geez this should be a cracking game. Collingwood playing for their spot in the finals, with the added incentive of doing it for the Malthouse family, Melbourne trying to do it for Neitz. Shall be a cracking game.

Huge hit!!! Good to see him get up straight away too, i know i wouldn't have. love how they pronounce his name too.

well it's been the season from hell, but if we beat Collingwood twice in the 1 year, that's gotta be one of the sweetest things to ever taste!!!

I'm not sure if he deserved it more, but he deserved it just as much as Neita. Robbie Flower was an out and out champion. Deserved a Brownlow and to be premiership captain. Neita deserved to be premiership captain too. Ahh, there's no such things as fairy tales. Not with the MFC anyway. It would be great if the boys got over the line for him, that would be the 'Cinderella story' of the season if we got up for Neita.

And wouldn't be very sweet if we did!!! Perhaps we should bring out the banner "Season Over" if we do beat them.

I think he did, around 4 years ago

That ain't gonna happen. I believe Viney has already put pen on paper to stay at the Hawks for the next few seasons.

Exactly right. Gone are the days where a team gets seriously screwed by the other in a trade. To get quality you need to give quality (quality in the other teams eyes anyway) No point trading for the sake of trading. However, we didn't make one trade last year, and look where we are now. I'm not suggesting that this is because of the lack of involvement in trade week, but their might be some more action on the MFC front come trade week this year.

Hell, just to have that 1m needle thumped into his lung (ala Pulp Fiction, only not his heart) is enough to suggest he's got the courage and guts needed at AFL, and puts some of the MFC players to shame.

I would try and get Warnock from Freo before we try to get Murphy. If we are able to trade one of Bruce, TJ or Green (more likely the first 2) for a mid first round pick, we could draft Henderson with this, who would be 4 years younger than Murphy.