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I'm sorry, but if his motive to donate money was to hopefully get a better pay packet, then screw him. As if you have that mentality. Obviously we can't keep everyone, but if he wanted to be captain of this club, he wouldn't be so influenced by the almighty dollar and he'd have been OK with taking a pay cut in the best interests of the club. Salary cap has nothing to do with the club debt.

I don't think Brock succumbed to money. Afterall, this is the guy who donated so much of his own cash to the club. I think he wanted to be Captain and was told he might struggle to make the leadership group next year. Good luck to him trying to make a name for himself in a team with a superstar midfielder. I suppose he'll be taking the spot of Nick Stevens? Hopefully he ends up like him. He is no longer a Melbourne man. A complete traitor in my eyes. You have to feel pain before you can feel success. I hope him and Judd both bleed like the dogs they are next year.

He seriously reminds of that one kid in high school that is just a trouble maker and attention seeker and just lingers around, trying to make people laugh. And then when you sit next to him in class, you never get in work done because he's knocking your [censored] off your table or throwing stuff around the room. He seriously must have the mentality of a 12 year old.

I think that all the Brownlow talk was a bit of a joke guys.

Yep, too young. Will be eligible next year. I'm assuming GC will pick him up. Whole family is MFC, so would be great to see him in the red and blue. Highly doubt it. Very short also. Not sure of his official height. But he comes in at a good time because of the GC. Otherwise his height may have been an issue. But GC will be picking up anyone and everyone with a bit of talent. That's not to say he wouldn't get drafted if not for the GC, because he's a great footballer. But teams might bulk at his height. Unless he spruces up in 12 months. Has very large hips and legs. Moves a bit like Judd.

Bruce didn't get a vote....

*slap* Dion Prestia

Check out my cousin Dion playing for Calder.

I hate St. Kilda as much as I hate West Coast and Collingwood. Their supporters are feral, although surprisingly optimistic (despite countless wooden spoons and only 1 flag in 100+ years), and I hate Milne and that arrogant POS Riewoldt. I hope Geelong win by 10 goals.

God damn I hope so. Get that abomination of a square logo, derived by a bunch of moronic morons, out of here. We are the "DEMONS", not the "Melbourne fc".

Wow... ...just... ...wow.

CamSchwab - Starting to get serious about the MFC brand. Need to polish our icons. Stay tuned. on 17/Sep/2009 09:31 PM Interesting.

He's made of strawberry marshmallows and pink buttercups.

I saw Brock McLean enjoying a coffee and reading the paper on his own at Lil Kitch on Puckle St. in Moonee Ponds today. Didn't say anything to him - didn't want to disturb him. Thought I'd tell ya'all of my minor-celebrity citing lol

Matthew Bate Matthew was very good and durable. He played 20 games and missed just two for the season. Thanks for that Sean. With all the finals we played and the extra games during the normal 22 game season, I wouldn't have been able to calculate how many games he would have missed had he played only 20 games.

I think bias is going towards Melbourne. Two wooden spoons in a row, the years 1st (2nd?) lowest match attendance for the year, and we're also on life support. At least Port and North have won a flag in the past 5 decades.

Pia for Captain 2010.

Definitely Thompson. No hard feelings that he left, but probably as close to a star player we had. Didn't even hit 1/4 of his potential while at Melbourne. Too young.

I think the OP is making reference to the new crop of leaders, not players who were drafted 8 years ago. None of the players mentioned in the OP has 100% proved themselves as genuine match-winners (excluding Brock in the 06 final against the Saints) and leaders, but they will be.

If there is a God, he loves Collingwood and hates the rest of the world. And I hate him.

I have not been a Melbourne fan for as long as many of you. While I was born into the fold, I never really started going to games until 1994. And what a year it was to start going to the footy. I remember our round 1 demolition of heavily fancied Geelong, and watching The Ox kick 9 goals against Sydney at the SCG on father's day in Round 22 to book us a finals birth. I remember being teased and heckled at school for being a Melbourne supporter, of which was pretty much unheard of in a northern suburbs school infested with Carlton and Collingwood fans. I was only in grade 3, but my knowledge of the game increased tenfold within a few months. Suddenly, I could say my 6x tables for as long as I wanted. No one else in my year level could do that. I knew almost every player on every team and I used to pretend I was Tony Modra, taking species on the corner of my couch. I wasn't just a Melbourne supporter - I was a football fanatic. Heading into the first clash against Carlton, I wasn't confident, but yet I didn't really understand the notion of losing, or "underdog". Melbourne was heavily tipped as the underdog, and given little to no chance of beating the near-invinicble 2nd placed Carlton. All week I got it from my mates, and when everyone in the school had to dress up in their favourite team colours, I was the only one in a school of 500 students to be dressed as a Melbourne fan. That, for me, was my darkest moment as a Melbourne fan. I was teased and heckled. I was made to think that being a Melbourne fan was a curse. The seemingly infinite number of Carlton supporters would lay in to me, making me feel like an outcast. I remember it as one of the worst weeks of my schooling days. Then we beat Carlton by 27 points. I remember the back page of the Herald Sun. Chopper Lovell had taken a screamer in front of the MCC in the last quarter. With the sun beaming in on him and his muscles flexed as he soared over a much larger Carlton player, the image perfectly represented Melbourne's day. It was like the kid being beat up and teased at school had finally worked up the courage to walk up to the bully and punch him right in the nose. Melbourne had no fear that day. For many of you, that day might seem like any other win. I'm sure some of you have seen more memorable wins, like the day at Whitten Oval against the Doggies to put us in the finals, which my dad still says to this day was the greatest day of his life (while overlooking the birth of his own three children...lol). But I understand him. For going on 20 years he had endured pain and suffering. And then finally, at the last hurdle, when everyone thought Melbourne would die like always, they stepped up and said "NO!" and steamrolled their way through their opponent. Another memorable moment for me was in 1998. We had been destroyed by Geelong and St. Kilda in consecutive weeks. The media had started to think that maybe the revival of the MFC - a team that had finished last the year before - was finally over, and that the same old poor MFC we all knew would come back up to light. Heading over to Perth to playing a super hot West Coast. No one, anywhere on the planet, expected Melbourne to win. A team that had lost by 150+ points over two weeks was playing a super hot team on their home soil. We had no chance. Then we won. The MFC has definitely endured pain over the past few years. And we've all experienced it. From going from premiership favourite at the start of 07, to bottoming out in 08. In 07 the sun that we all bathed in from 04-06 was finally starting to set, and in 08, the clock was at 4:30am - the darkest time. In 09 we still went through the night, knowing where we had to go, but not quite sure of how to get there. We were blinded by the darkness. And just like I've experienced in the past, the sun has started to rise on the MFC, just when everyone looks down at us from above. Right now, the clock reads 5:55am. The sun is rising, and soon it will be 6:00am - the dawn of a new day.

I wouldn't kick Liam Jurrah out of bed for farting.

5-10 wins and I'll be happy.

Born.