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Agree. Would love to see him playing with Casey while also maintaining a part time mentoring role with Melbourne's young aborigonal players. He's been a great servant of the club.

Ah yes I did forget, McNanara's about 189-190cm isn't he? Is he physically able to play tall, or not quiet there yet?

Yes i'll admit I was one of them, but that was only because of managing him throughout a long first year. On his form today you wouldn't drop him. Still think they should be careful with him however. He will be a gun this guy!

Lets hope so, otherwise if we were to be missing Rivers, Frawley and Garland all next week they'd need to look at including someone like Bell as the 3rd tall. Lets hope bad sprain and a possability to return next week.

Ok I've been doing a bit more research into Princes Park, Victoria Park and other grounds and what the best outcome could be for all clubs, in particular Melbounre, St. Kilda, Western Bulldogs and North Melbourne as far as another venue goes. Princes Park has it's issues because of parking and public transport. Because of this it is why I think the best thing for the AFL to do would be to completely rebuild Victoria Park using Westpac Stadium in Wellington New Zealand www.westpacstadium.co.nz/ as something to model the stadium off (capacity 34,500) to be ready for the start of the 2015 season when only 30 games have to be played at Docklands. Victoria Park is on a train line, parking is an issue however is an issue easier to solve then public transport. The Saints, Roos and Bulldogs could all play half a dozen games there each and Melbourne if need be could play up to 3 games there. Also with Victoria Park being a AFL listed ground can be up and going within 5/6 years rather then waiting 16 years before a brand new stadium can be built.

I agree Casey would work, I think if you were going to go for a suburban area the best bets would be Casey, Frankston, Dandenong or maybe even Williamstown?

I think the way the stadium deal works with Docklands is that after 2014 the minimum amount of games that can be played there is reduced from 44 to 30. If an arrangement is made where a new stadium can be built it would be fantastic if Melbourne in conjunction with say St. Kilda, North Melbourne and Western Bulldogs could have a 30,000 seat stadium built in either the city or inner suburbs and host 3 matches (against interstate clubs) each there. Obviously would need backing from the AFL, government and what not but could be the solution these 4 clubs are looking for.

Sorry Morton2Watts & IWAP, I see you've already raised my point, cheers.

Don't forget the bombers had a 2 year head start on getting high draft picks into their list by finishing bottom 4 in 05 and 06 while we were playing finals. Give ot 2 years and I suspect in 2011 you'll have a very good match between the two sides which I'd like our chances of winning.

Agree, saturday night with the roof closed perfect conditions and we still beat that on a sunday evening at the G in horrible weather. Wonder if the media will get off our backs then for once and instead ask where all the North supporters were.

Agree, the period between now and round 15 are our biggest days of the draw. We can't afford to win many games for our future, cause in the last 7 weeks we have games against North Melbourne, Richmond and Fremantle we are capable of winning. If we don't win any games over the next 9 weeks then we're safe but if we win one or two we'll have some interesting games come later in the year.

Love the passion and I'd love it if we could play all 11 of our home games at the G. The only question is can we? This year we've made some steps in the right direction with sponsors, aliance with MCC, playing performance, members and players. Lets hope we can keep this up and become a force on and off the field in the coming years.

Glad to see Grimes back in the side, the more games he gets this year, the better sted it will put him in for the coming years. Now lets all hope we put up a good showing and go down by about 15-20 points.

Assuming we go with the Johnson/Martin combination on sunday which it looks like we are does anyone know how far off Spencer and Jamar are? I'm assuming Bailey would want Jamar to have at least 2 games with Casey before playing with Melbourne?

Agree, I can't stand Docklands, and the fact you need about 36,000 there to break even is a joke. Also our record there isn't the best. Can't wait till 2025!

I must admit I paid the ultimate sacrifice. I was a member at the start of the year but to get my fiance (who's a saints fan) to also take one out I had to take a saints membership out also. I figured it was worth it, the more members the better!

Ah yes I remember that kick, well and truely a point! But a wins a win. The way I see it if Aussie Jones's out on the full against Brisbane at the dome back in 04 was a point, then Junior's behind this game in 98 was a goal. Think that was the first time I ever saw him play also.

I'm suprised, I thought they'd be going to see them win. I know I hope they win! Only 4 wins please!! hehe.

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After seeing the ins for me it's IN: Cheney, Grimes OUT: Bartram, Meesen

I also remember Nathan Brown's debut out there with long blonde hair back in 98!

So does that mean that Victoria Park (as terrible as that place was) would also be able to host matches if able, seeing as that ground was still in use when Docklands came in?

Agree with what all of you have posted. Some major work needs to be done on both the parking and public transport out there. And I'm not convinced that they'd get more then 12,000 to those sorts of games out there. Makes you think it'd almost be worth their while doing up Casey?

I've been reading up on the whole stadium deals of late and that the main problem appears to be Docklands rather then the MCG as such. What I want to know is if the AFL took a hard stand and moved games that draw a low crowd and moved them to Princes Park (which for Melbourne would be 5 games this year) how many people would actually go? Or would we be betetr off staying at the MCG for these games if only 10,000 would turn up at Princes Park. I for one would still go to Princes Park, and I'd like to think my reserve seat membership I get for the MCG would carry over at PP but would other people also? Or would we be better selling home games to Belrieve Oval Hobart?

Voted. But what a bunch of horse sh*t it all is! We're the third oldest football club in the world, we ain't going nowhere!