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I think it would be silly to let White leave. We have Jamar and Johnson as our ruck stocks, with Meeson being a waste of a draft pick and Warnock a possibility. But that makes for a very young and fairly inexperienced stick of rucks, with no veteran leadership. I think that if the MFC signed White to a one-year, minimum contract (say, 150k a year) it would be a worthy investment. If they let him go, I think it would do the team more halm than good. Letting Yze go is completely different, as we have Macca, Green and Bruce who all fit his mold in the on-field positioning and leadership. White has probably been the most effective ruckman over the past decade. It would be hard justifying letting him go. I'm sure he would be happy to stick around as a leader and teacher, much like how Macca is.

I would have thought he'd have played up forward from the start. Melbourne have a tendency to play tall, reletively low-skillful players in the backline. I'm not saying Martin doesn't have skills, but he just seems like a forward when he has the ball. It'd be interesting to see him up forward. He has been good down back though, especially for a kid who has only been playing football for a few years.

Before the season I'd let him go, but now, no way. I wouldn't take anything but a pick in the 10-15 range, which we won't get it. Then again, it is a contract year, so he might be pulling his weight to get a bigger contract, get complacent next year and be back to his inconsistent best from next season onwards.

He also needs a few things called "commitment" and "dedication" and "urgency". I'd focus on them before body weight.

No wonder we're a financial powerhouse!!!

Even if Melbourne was trying to tank, they'd still lose at that. We're not tanking at all.

Coke addicts to the rescue!

Neale Daniher.

You do know we'd have to give something up? And I'm not sure I'd be willing too considering EFC will prob ask for big. Unless, of course, he enters the PSD.

They've had their CEO and President on The Footy Show. I had no idea this was a one team town. I really hope this is the beginning of the end of this club. I'm sick of them thinking they own this town. They're victims of their own publicity. I mean, honestly. What really gets me is that there was already SUBSTANTIAL coverage of it BEFORE it was confirmed they lied.

What's the difference between a 6 year old and a Collingwood supporter? A 6 year has about 2 more years of education. B)

This after he said the "league" was more important than the "clubs". Still though, I agree with him. While I'd probably support another team because I love football if Melbourne died, I'd rather them die than move somewhere else and be known as someone else.

Great! Whelan has been one of my favorites. Plays for the jumper and like a real leader. Has been a warrior for the club.

Cameron Bruce? A head of Miller AND Green? I just gagged a little...

I like the Melbourne one, but like the Geelong one even more. That's a really nice guernsey.

1. Fast midfielder. 2. KPP 3. KPP

No. We already have Wonna, Sylvia, Robbo who play small forward. He's overrated and only considering to be such a great player because he plays for the magpies.

You can pretty much assure that we're pulling out of the Olympic Park deal.

Is the Pope Muslim? There's your answer.

It wasn't so much the missed goal that made me laugh, but rather his impression after it. He showed absolutely no emotion, regret or anger. He just kicked it, missed it, and turned around slowly, clearly avoiding a confrontation with Bradshaw who was in the goalsquare awaiting a handball.

I can tell you why we had a higher crowd. 1. Saturday 2. Essendon has more supporters in Melbourne than Geelong and Richmond. 3. MCG 4. Had the Rich-Gee game been at the MCG, add another 10-15k, which would make up for the amount of Demons supporters who would have shown up, had we been in the top 8.

If we can get 50k to a match between two non-finalists on a Saturday, I'm sure we can 35-50k between the decades best team on a Friday night.

Under Daniher, the seasons of 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2007 were shockers. Of those seasons, Melbourne became easy beats half-way through the season and they lost all respect. Even with a talented line-up that would turn things around the following year (except in reference to 2007), they lost confidence as a team and were blown out in every game. Under Bailey, it's been one season, and while the club languishes in last place with only 2 wins, they are hardly "easy beats". They've lost consistently since the start of the year, yet, they've gone from bad to good, considering the inexperience of the cattle on the field. In other words, Daniher couldn't (from my own recollection) lift the team up when they were down. Bailey has done so in a matter of weeks and has created a team of confident youngsters. Instead of getting blown away each week, we've put in solid efforts a majority of the time since round 3. Today was a perfect example. A Daniher team, having lost to an average NM team last week, would have fallen into the Essendon's trap after Lloyd's mark of the year and gone down by 10-11 goals. What we saw was a Bailey team that said, "No...you might be better than us, but we can better you". They almost did. Kudos.

They were bad, but our innocence and inexperience as a team was more obvious than the one-sided effort given by the umps.

Same. I was discussing the draft with a bloke at a party last night, saying about how he'd kill himself if we didn't take Watts in the draft. Yeah, he was a little drunk. Watts would have to be the most logical decision.