stevenDEMON

offer him a one year contract, with bonuses for not falling over during games

Des headland

Nick Davis

I think they had the go home factor.

With ricky out for the year you would think his contract would become priority (after rehab) I mean it's not like he can use the excuse of " i just want to focus on my footy, we will discuss my contract at the end of the year" I cannot see the reason for him not trying to get signed up other then he wants more cash/years or he wants a GC mega bucks deal.

Sign Ricky and i will shout you lap dances for your life ala Lebron james style negotiations

Addictions are REAL. Some are consumed by them, others are battling them. Those who have overcome them are the strong ones. That doesn't mean those that are battling are weak.

Yes addictions are real. i just think the ones i said are not. Just my opinion.

Anyway if the dees can get more pokies i say go for it. If members don't like it they can write into the club and voice there concerns, I then think they should give a few examples of ways that the club can make the money that they will lose if we don't have the pokie revenue..

if people are Dumb enough to throw more money away then they can afford then #@$% em

My opinion is there is no such thing as Pokie addiction, Sex addiction, Food addiction, people who claim to have these problems are looking for an easy way out.

Generation Y signing out

So far in there short short careers NicNat owns Watts so please be nice when bagging a player

Pettard's manager is doing the right thing for Ricky, if he can squeeze an extra 40 to 50 grand a year then he bloody well should.

I know it might not mean alot to a few of the boys playing for our club, but maybe just before we run onto the field someone could hold up the Melbourne jumper and say.

THIS IS WHAT WE PLAY FOR, NOT THE MONEY,NOT THE FAME BUT FOR THE HISTORY!

If any player cant get up and put a solid effort in after that then at least we will know what they are worth.

The important thing is that nobody has overreacted and hit the panic button after one game.

yes just the one game, i forgot about the last 2 spoons.

I do not mind any supporter putting the blowtorch on the coach, i know people are saying give him time, but how much bloody time.

well said

2 other, more experienced sides lost by 9 goals playing lesser opponents than Hawthorn this week. It happens.

I have never understood our own supporters' tendency to exaggerate how shizen we are

Sorry i forgot we won the last 2 spoons and are likely bottom 3 this year.

I think its good to show some passion, too many people sit back and say " oh well, we are a young side" or other rubbish. For once i would like to see people fire up, half the people who write on this site are sheep and follow what others say.

Maybe its the supporters who need to show the team how to act.. so GET SOME BALLS PEOPLE AND STOP SITTING ON THE FENCE

So Dermie is saying Al Clarkson pulled Bailey's pants down.

We played better in the the last Quarter because the Hawks had slowed up, not because we improved.

Its a tough question to ask, Do we handball or kick to a player and hope he beats his opponent (sometimes 2). I just hate seeing a player mark the ball, turn around, handball to the closest player only to see them have to side step out of trouble. A player sometimes has to way up his options. Our switching of play was horrible.

I heard on the footy show this morning that DB was offered the extension to his contract as reward for doing what had to be done at the end of last season (tanking?) This is not acceptable in my opinion.

I know we are all [censored] off at the moment, but please show improvement Melbourne.

We pay our money each year so we deserve more.

Does anyone remember the movie Eddie with Whoopi Goldberg? If so i thought after all our bad performances and our poor coach we could pick someone from the crowd to coach a game.

Positives: more people come to the game in hope they may get picked

Anyone can coach a losing side so its know big loss

We could unearth a mastermind

it create a media frenzy around our club

Negatives: We may win and have egg on our face when Dean Bailey takes charge again

well thats about it

I'm sorry for this thread i just feel embarrassed at the moment. The least the Mfc board could do is make the boys where a pink jumper as they are embarrassing and putting to shame what so many before have done for this jumper.

Peace out!

What makes me sad is when opposition supporters clap us when we get a goal. It really was sad.

there are so many holes i dont know where to start

I think all that exercise shows is that due either to injury or youth we have a significant amount of players in the senior side that don't provide a great deal to be excited about. Unfortunately much the same can be said for the "other team".

The side for this week:

J.Bennell, M.Warnock, J.Rivers

J.Grimes, J.Frawley, J.MacDonald

A. Davey, C.Bruce, N.Jones

J.McDonald, M.Bate, R.Petterd

B.Green, B.Miller, J.Trengove

M. Jamar, L.Dunn, B.Moloney

IJ.Strauss, J.Spencer, J.McKenzie, T.Scully

If we're being honest that side is full of mediocrity and worse, and only a few players we can hope will have a real future.

Warnock, Jones, Miller, Spencer, Jamar, Dunn, Moloney, Bruce, McDonald, Rivers don't strike me as the driving forces of future success for one reason or the other.

Bennell, MacDonald,Petterd, McKenzie it's still too early to tell.

For me that leaves Scully, Trengove, Strauss, Grimes, Frawley playing this week that we can have genuine hope about taking us somewhere. But for the most part it's only hope at this stage.

As for the "other" side I'd take Garland, Gysberts, Morton, Blease, Watss, Jurrah, Sylvia. Again, most of that is 'hope'.

We can carry a fair share of mediocre players - every good team does, but I'm not excited about our 'depth'. It's all up to a handful of players either playing this week or not to make this club something. It's going to be a fair while before we can tell if they'll come through as needed though.

Until we figure out if we have a solid group of A graders, depth is meaningless.

Wow, i wish there was an ignore button

Of course he is in our best 22. Jurrah and Wonaeamirri together in the same forward line, it's a recipe for magic.

The new Dumbledor and Potter?

Once a leg is broken like his was, that's it.

The game is too fast now you only have to talk to Nathan Brown.

Goose maybe excellent coach material down the line though. He was highly respected at linton st.

Dont tell sam blease that

Although it seems certain that we will grab both, i am a little scared that we may miss jack. Personally i would do that facepalm thing that captain kirk does in that picture if that were to happen.

scott harding delisted? I thought he was an above avg player

If ball falls through, they have my blessing to pick this bloke up

I have an extremely respectable collection of movies. Luke is welcome to come over and watch them, I even have THE GOONIES (yep, the goonies)

HEY YOU GUYS!!

With no certainty.

I certainly am not kncoking the approach. But its a gamble that has a short term window with LT repercusssions.

Who is to say that our youth players are a certainty.

Recruiting and drafting is a gamble. I think voss is doing the right thing for his club.

Yeh fair enough, I just think Scully deserves the #1 pick ATM. He comes across as a level-headed kid anyway, doesn't party, hasn't had a drop of alcohol for four years or something. Probably being Victorian would give him the edge.

And anyway the Advertiser is always going to be biased towards the SA player. Shocking newspaper.

Im glad he got off the booze at 14

True, but it would have been hard for Jolly to wait it out till Jeff White retired or slowed up.

The real problem was that White had so much stamina, he rarely needed a rest thus not really letting another ruckmen settle or cement a spot.

How old is Jolly by the way?

Melbourne should offer pick 50 for C Wood.

This is getting a little scary ATM.

If this is because of the coach, then surely the players can go over his head and talk to the president and sort something out, or get some reassurances.

I just cant understand why he wants to leave, it cant be because he thinks he may not get a run in the midfield, as it stands we don't really have one. Then to got to a club like carlton which has one of the best and probably one of the hardest to crack into just does not sit with me.

I will cop it for this, but..... We may need to review the coaching position

Please take Mcleans photo from the main page, he does not deserve a spot amongst the gods...

If anyone sees any Demon players on the street, please sneeze on them in hope they may catch a cold or get the flu.